M & J Brewery Sidings

Lockdown proved helpful in encouraging railway modelling. Here is yet another example: Mike Pottage’s delightful M&J Brewery Sidings, a standard gauge micro-layout in 00 scale. A small industrial dream come true!

Text and illustrations: Mike Pottage

François Fontana: Hello Mike, here is a fine layout, small but packed with charm. Can you tell us how it happened? Mike Pottage: in the field of railway modelling, I am a beginner, and have been working on a fixed layout for the past 5 years. Previously, all I had was a simple oval of track in my childhood. During lockdown, I decided to build a box layout in 00, working on it whenever I had time. I wanted to experiment with various techniques while being able to shunt a few wagons around with small industrial locomotives. FF: The trackplan is fairly simple? MP: It fits into an A4 format archive box. A single turnout gives access to one siding at the rear, and is operated manually. Two small fiddleyards…

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