Rails to Black Rock

The car park in Borth y gest, the back drop to the station. 

(The station building will be where the cars are parked)

For those who don't know Borth y gest; it is a small village in a crescent shaped bay to the south of Porthmadog. The houses were originally owned by many sea farers involved in the slate trade. There were a number of proposals for an extension of the Ffestiniog Railway in its direction. Under the Croesor and Porthmadog Railway Bill  a coastal railway built via Borth y gest to Black Rocks was proposed. The route of the proposed railway is easily imagined, especially where the village car park is. 

Other modellers have thought the same and there is already a model called Borth y gest built in 4mm fine scale. This model does not specifically model the actual village and its architecture. The model I am building takes the actual location and fits the railway into existing landscape. The intention is to model the actual buildings as faithfully as possible, and to imagine the railway structures taking into account Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland practice.

The seashore will form the front of the layout