Saneham Tey Update

   It has been decided to retire Saneham from the exhibition circuit, the layout requires significant amount of work not only in updating the scenery, which is now looking very tired and dated, but also a major rewire which had been started pre covid, obviously covid prevented any further work being undertaken. The layout is to be kept by myself for and on behalf of the group, i can hopefully complete the rewire just so we are able to play trains in a home setting.

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Saneham Tey is a small station on the former Great Eastern Liverpool Street to Norwich line, with a branch junction still in operation. In steam times, this branch was RA5, with some additional classes permitted and carried a moderate cross-country passenger service to Cambridge, with a few mainly summer only services to further afield, and freight to intermediate stations as well as through trains to and from March (Whitemoor).Today, the branch still has a local passenger service but the through connection was closed and trains only run as far as Saneham Market. This service may be changed to a ’Community’ railway with ‘heritage’ stock, or even preserved locos running the service

 The main line station sees express loco hauled services, a stopping service, through freight, and possesses a fairly large sand siding complex on the ‘up ’side of the formation served by dedicated daily block trains. There are also up and down passing loops, mainly used, as in steam days, to allow faster passenger trains to overtake slower freight trains.

 

This is the second layout to be built by the members of Suffolk and North Essex N gauge group. ‘Saneham Market’, our first layout, was also the first that many of the group had built, or at least completed. This, though only 4’x2’ in size, gave us a fairly complicated operating potential, due to its hidden reversing loop. It was also used as a ’learning’ layout, both in building it and then exhibiting it. We learned about carpentry in making the boards (Stuart); laying track to give reliable operation; wiring; and finally the landscaping and scenic work in which we hoped to give the flavour of East Anglia. But it was a small layout, designed initially as a ‘working diorama’, and after the N-Gauge 35th anniversary exhibition, we sold it off in order to help fund a bigger layout.

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James St

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 James St now has its own  dedicated website, the address is:-

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https://dwanddrc.wixsite.com/james-street

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There will be no more updates through this site, any enquiries should be made through the above website.