SWING 2010

Gneiss Farm - Gn15 (G scale on16.5mm gauge)

Exhibited by Gerry Bullock

Last year Gerry shared Secciola Salina with us. This year we are seeing something very different, albeit in the same scale and gauge, but equally enjoyable.

This small layout set in Somerset depicts remote rural farm with access available only via narrow Farm lanes that are only passable by Farm Tractors. The Landowner in the tradition of Heywood has a love of railways and has constructed a Narrow Gauge Rail link to the local Branch line that, by fortune, passes over the land of adjoining Farms that benefit from the link to the nearby Market Town. He also has his own Steam Loco, which is a Replica of Heywood's Effie and is used to transport his mother to the local market.

Goods in include wood for heating, farm materials, empty cider barrels plus empty boxes for fruit produced on the farm. Shopping from local town also delivered by the railway, in fact the wife of the owner of Gneiss Farm had her own Shopping Trolley Loco modelled on a Cuban Sugar Cane Loco (Don’t ask)! Goods out would include full Farmhouse Honey Cider Barrels, boxes of Fruit and from some farms the occasional sheep wagon. Apart from a flock of sheep other animals are kept on Farm but merely to supply family needs.