Newton Abbot
The Newton Abbot model railway is the current version of Dawlish in OO, which includes Newton Abbot and Kingswear stations as well as the seawall at Dawlish.
A key difference from the real Newton Abbot is that I imagined that the LSWR built a line from Crediton to the Torbay area which intersects with the Moretonhampstead line. This enables me to run the southern stock that I acquired when I was building the Exeter version of Dawlish in OO. To support the extra traffic, Newton Abbot gains an extra Up platform adjacent to what was the Up through line and a bigger station building that looks a bit like the one at Exeter St. David’s (nothing like a bit of recycling!)
A complete track plan for Dawlish in OO is provided below; it’s quite complex so you may wish to view the individual components separately via this page. Alternatively, for a drivers eye view tour of Dawlish in OO, click here.
The layout is really three layouts in one:
- Watch the trains go by along the Dawlish seawall as a continuous run
- Run the Kingswear terminus
- Run the whole railway centred on Newton Abbot
The railway is served by two fiddleyards, one called “Torbay” between Kingswear and Newton Abbot and one representing the rest of the world, i.e. Paddington, Penzance and the North.
The full track plan is shown below. However, the railway is on overlapping layers, so you can access individual elements of the plan via the “Anyrail track plans” sub menu or by clicking here.
HST and IET at Dawlish in OO
This video shows four views of an Arriva Cross Country HST and First Great Western IET passing at Dawlish in OO. The video was recorded as part of testing a new timetable for Dawlish in OO, based upon the real published timetable for May > December 2023. Watch this...
17,000 views of Tour of my Dawlish Model Railway
According to YouTube, 17,315 people have viewed "A Tour of my Dawlish Model Railway" as of 28th March 2024. I'm not sure what I did to suddenly attract so many viewers, but thanks to all those who posted nice comments. These comments included: "I must say, very nice,...
First model railway track plan added
I've added my first model railway track plan to the Track Plans section of the website - Dawlish Warren. To see more information about this practical, fun to operate design, click here.
A tour of Dawlish in OO
Here you can take a tour of Dawlish in OO with a driver's eye view. This was filmed by putting a GoPro camera on a wagon in front of the loco. We start in the main fiddleyard (as if coming from Paddington) and proceed around the back of Newton Abbot, before emerging...
Site under construction
Please bear with me whilst I get this site up and running. Eventually you will be able to see: A full description of Dawlish in OO along with track plans A Dawlish in OO webcam showing trains running live Track plans for a range of other stations