This video shows how the Ffarquhar Branch model layout is operated from an operation programme covering a morning's work. In this guide the engines; Thomas, Percy & Toby, operate the movements that are carried out during this programme.
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I had been asked several times from fellow viewers of my layout to do an operational video of it working. But I had never had the time to get one made. However, at the time this video was being filmed, I thought it would be a good time to tick that project off my list of things to get done. Many would ask why Daisy and Mavis are not in this video? The answer is that this operation guide covers the movements in the 1959 guide when the 3 engines worked the line with Duck acting as 'Spare Engine'. A guide to work the two diesels in has been written up but it's quite complex and some of the wagons on the layout can't navigate round various parts of the layout without derailing.
I will do another operation video with Daisy and Mavis, but this will be done on my Ffarquhar MrkII replica which is ATM still a WIP.