Like many modellers MIKE WILD has been making the most of extra time at home during the recent lockdown to push forward with the Diversion Route on Topley Dale, but will our mammoth project ever be really finished?
Above: Aspinall ‘1008’ 2-4-2T 50725 crosses the four-arch viaduct after passing through the new rock cutting on Topley Dale with a three-coach ‘stopper’. The fencing around the field is Woodland Scenics’ new board fencing.
BEING at home is a good thing, certainly from my point of view. Over the past few months I’ve been able to put more time into Topley Dale than normal. Our usual annual schedule of exhibitions and layout builds has often meant the office test track has to take a backseat while other projects capture the limelight, but the lockdowns of 2020 and early 2021 have provided opportunities to push Topley Dale to the top of the list and the result is that the landscape around this main line scene is looking better than I could have hoped when I started the project back in 2018.
Above: Woodland Scenics Hydrocal rock castings have been used to make the imposing cutting at the end of the scene.
It’s been a fun, rewarding and enjoyable journey over the past few months working on the Div…
