After a long period of absence from railway modelling, I returned to the hobby about 22 years ago. I was mainly encouraged back by the possibility of creating a model railway in a small space. After initially investigating n gauge, the better looking track of 2mm Finescale finally persuaded me to follow this path.
I have wanted to create a model of a real location and Chipping Ongar seems to me to be the ideal location for several reasons.
- It is close to where I live, so research can be carried out first hand. The station building is part of the Epping Ongar Railway.
- It was part of the Great Eastern Railway, and then became part of the London Transport network.
- It was part of the Central Line until is the branch closed in September 1994.
- It was a interesting goods yard with lots of modelling possibility.
Lots of planning has taken place, but it is only recently that there has been time to create a track plan using Templot. Templot is a program for creating templates for building model railway track.
Below is my version of the Ongar track plan..
