Tigley Yard

Owner: David Evans

 

Club: March & District Model Railway Club

 

Type of layout: O Gauge 7mm DCC operation with sound chips fitted to all locomotives

 

Layout size: 13ft long x 2ft wide. Overall space required is 15ft long x 5ft wide

 

Operators: 2

 

Power: 1 x 13amp socket

 

Other: 2 chairs and a table for stock required

 

Description:

The village of Tigley lies between Totnes and Plymouth on the Western Region close to the foothills of Dartmoor. It is assumed that the village expanded in the late 19th century and was of sufficient size for the Great Western Railway to warrant building a station on the main line. A small goods depot, close to the village, lies at the end of a short spur and wagons are tripped to the yard from the station area. The yard survived the Beeching cuts in the 1960’s and is still in existence in the early 1970’s, before the TOPS numbering system came into use. This is the period depicted by the layout.