Green Gates Retired
Finally, the layout that I bought as Greengate from Colin Kennington at Narrow Gauge South West in 2011 and featured in the 7mm NGA Small Layouts Handbook, has now been retired.This is the layout at the aforementioned show, with Colin and the lovely Mrs Kennington I presume. Photo credit of Mick Thornton, Roving Reporter of the 009 Society, is gratefully acknowledged.
The simple truth is that the layout had insufficient operational interest and any attempt to modify it was going to be a major rebuild. In short, it would be easier to start from scratch. It had already been converted from analogue to digital control, which was easier that putting sections into the layout.
All of the track has been lifted for recycling, as have Colin’s excellent buildings. They may well make an appearance on another layout which is in the embryonic stages of discussion with Tim Horn …