Imagine my surprise as I entered the Train Room expecting to see Carlisle in my face and there staring at me was the town of Jamestown, half way between Gladstone and Peterborough.
Like me, Steve is finally taking the plunge to come home. He has redesigned his layout from the ‘once planned but never built South Penn’ to his real passion ‘Gladstone’. As luck would have it, his layout design facilitates a section of the standard gauge line that ran from Broken Hill to Port Pirie, intersecting with the narrow gauges at Gladstone , to Wilmington, and at Peterborough, to Quorn and of course the Broad Gauge to Adelaide. His Staging conveniently acts as Port Pirie, Adelaide and Broken Hill.
The modelled section commences in Peterborough (formerly Bedford) with the Narrow Gauge Branches to Quorn (Narrow) and Adelaide (Broad) up through Yongala (formerly………), Bellalie North (formerly Summit), to Jamestown ( formerly Carlisle), down through Caltowie (formerly…….. ) to Gladstone with its Branches to Wilmington (Narrow) and Adelaide (Broad). Jamestown has a Branch to Bundaleer North (formerly Pine …..) for the extensive logging traffic to Port Pirie.
Welcome home Steve.
With all the station names changes, one will need a guide. ( preferably a brunette)
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