Mynydd y Ddraig

By Alan Monk

Scale 4mm/1ft 009 Gauge

Mynydd y Ddraig (Dragon Mountain) is based on Devil’s Bridge, the upper terminus of the Vale of Rheidol narrow gauge railway, in mid-Wales. The layout is set in the mid-1970s, when the line was the last steam operation on BR, with the locomotives and stock in rail blue livery and carrying the “arrows of indecision”.

The baseboard is an Ikea Lack shelf, 110cm x 26cm, with a simple ply display box surround. The track is Peco 009, the points operated via wire-in-the tube through the front fascia and the control is analogue DC.

Scenic items are a mix of kit and scratch built items, Woodland Scenics and 3D printed details. Locos are kit built or 3D printed bodies on modified RTR N gauge chassis, whilst the coaching stock is scratch-built using self designed plasticcard bodies cut on a Silhouette cutter, on Dundas bogies. The P-way stock is from a variety of kit sources.