Tony Conlay
New Member
Hi, just to say thanks for allowing me to join Western Thunder.
By way of introduction, my name is Tony Conlay and I live in Cornwall but work pretty much work all over the world. So I have long periods away from home and the workbench.
I have been modelling railways for the last 35 years but moved over to 0 gauge about 15 years ago and my main interest is in the GWR in Cornwall from 1914 to 1922. I am building (very slowly) a portable exhibition layout of the planned but never built terminus (St Mawes) of the Fal Valley Railway. The layout includes a lot of "modeller's licence" wrapped around a proposed railway that was progressing through the design stage and was very nearly built. I have based the layout design using typical GW track formations and buildings from actual stations in Cornwall and Devon - many were built by the same contractors. I have built the trackwork using C&L components. Wiring and point motors are next on the job list!
Along with 5 other friends, we have just exhibited our new 7mm layout, Weatherbury Magna, at the recent Festival of Steam event at Swindon in early September. It is a GWR/ LSWR junction and the trackwork is all built using C&L components with a mixture of scratch built and laser cut buildings. It still has all the signalling to add and it is due to appear at Swindon again in 2019.
In addition I am a member of the Cornwall 0 Gauge Group.
By way of introduction, my name is Tony Conlay and I live in Cornwall but work pretty much work all over the world. So I have long periods away from home and the workbench.
I have been modelling railways for the last 35 years but moved over to 0 gauge about 15 years ago and my main interest is in the GWR in Cornwall from 1914 to 1922. I am building (very slowly) a portable exhibition layout of the planned but never built terminus (St Mawes) of the Fal Valley Railway. The layout includes a lot of "modeller's licence" wrapped around a proposed railway that was progressing through the design stage and was very nearly built. I have based the layout design using typical GW track formations and buildings from actual stations in Cornwall and Devon - many were built by the same contractors. I have built the trackwork using C&L components. Wiring and point motors are next on the job list!
Along with 5 other friends, we have just exhibited our new 7mm layout, Weatherbury Magna, at the recent Festival of Steam event at Swindon in early September. It is a GWR/ LSWR junction and the trackwork is all built using C&L components with a mixture of scratch built and laser cut buildings. It still has all the signalling to add and it is due to appear at Swindon again in 2019.
In addition I am a member of the Cornwall 0 Gauge Group.