Drws y Nant is a passing station on the GWR Ruabon to Barmouth route, situated between Bala and Dolgellau in a wooded valley in Mid-Wales. As the only building left now is the station master’s house, the layout was built using many archive photographs as well as site visits to get the general lie of the land. The layout is almost to scale length in an effort to match the prototype wherever information is available.
The track is built to 2FS standards using the 2mm Association Easi-Trac plastic base for plain track and soldered PCB sleepers with etched chairplates for all the pointwork. The offset scissor crossing next to the level crossing was a unique bit of trackwork that gives the station a bit more interest than a simple passing loop. Point rodding is completed from 2mmSA parts and stock is a mix of scratch-built, kit built and modified RTR all with wheels to 2FS standard. The raised banking allows this to be shown to good effect. We have stock to cover 1930s and 1950s periods and attempt to run formations that were noted on that route.
A Magnorail system animates the road vehicles and servos control most of the movements for points, signals and level crossing, all operated via a Digitrax DCC system.
More information is shown on the boards at the front of the layout and we will be happy to answer other questions not addressed on these.