Bacup Miscellany: 2nd: Prose and Verse by Local Writers Past and Present

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There is another 10" deep scenic board that will be attached to the end, the frame of which is just poking into the photo. Slightly out of the town centre, buildings such as Fearns Hall, which dates back to 1696, and Stubbylee Hall, situated in the towns beautiful Stubbylee Park, from the 18 th Century add to the historical interest of our quaint little mill town. Next, I purchased the required quantity of birch ply for the baseboard tops, although I have yet to tackle them. The photos were processed by a company in Fulwood, near Preston, and took over a month to be cleaned and scanned.

I also located a large enough length of flat board to enable me to begin construction of the pointwork for the station throat and began soldering.Left out are the junction to the Rochdale line (assumed to be off-stage and still present, even though the period modelled is after the line closed), the engine shed and most of the sidings in the goods yard. This is very much a side-project to relieve the monotony of turnout / terraced house construction and as such, may take some time to complete.

Now this may seem a bit of an odd thing to do (after all, why put all this effort into the track, etc.years later and after the untimely demise of my previous layout due to me stupidly using sundeala, and I decided to have a go at modelling a representation of Bacup. Bacup is the second largest town in the Rossendale Valley, and arguably the oldest, and has a long and varied history dating back to the Neolithic era.

To be honest, the hardest parts of the whole process were getting the check rails right and working out how to gap / wire up the 3 way turnout (the most complex one I have built so far). The baseboards are in an 'L' shape, the longest leg being 13' x 3' and the shorter (fiddle yard area) 11' x 2'. All the environs outside of the railway land are ficticious but designed to give the impression of a town nestled in the Pennines. You can change your cookie preferences at any time and find out more about our cookie policy by following this link.As such (and as I am about to embark on firing up the jigsaw and visiting the woodyard for a supply of timber), with a few offcuts of wood and some old chipboard that I had laying around, I thought I would mock up the scenics a bit, with the trackbed raised, just to make sure it would look as I had hoped and also to work out the best location for the houses I've constructed so far. Star Academies is one of the UK’s leading education providers with primary and secondary schools across the country. It shows a run-down and much-reduced in stature station a few months before closure (1966) with a Cravens DMU departing whilst a Black Five shunts the yard in a grotty mill town where most of the mills have closed. In my weird way of thinking and planning, having houses both at the front and rear of the layout (and therefore hemming the station in) will add to the urban feeling of the layout; it leaves the viewer under no false illusion that it is anything but a station in a town.