Owner – Ian Smith
Gauge – 2mm finescale
Layout Size – 10x2ft
In my imagination, the South Devon Railway built the Exeter to Plymouth line to their initial plans as a single track line built to Brunel’s Broad Gauge, and along with other stations along the line provided a two platform passing place at Modbury. After the South Devon was absorbed into the GWR in the 1870’s, the latter company built the more direct Newton Abbot to Plymouth line skirting the southern reaches of Dartmoor leaving my imaginary route as little more than cross country branch. It is assumed that the original South Devon line would have been built as Brunel’s Baulk Road, which would have been “narrowed” along with the rest of the remaining Broad Gauge on that fateful weekend in May 1892. My model is set some 14 years after the gauge conversion, and it is in that narrowed form that I am modelling my track work
