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' Pending.'  

The Box file Layout

An N gauge layout designed and built by Ken Jones using an A4 box file in 2003, inspired by a 009 layout by Barrie Etter. The staples holding the front panel of the box were carefully removed and the spring and fitting for holding paperwork in the box discarded with. 

The layout is a scene from an industrial heritage site, that some people want to preserve, and others want to demolish and redevelop. Sometimes the developers arrive by helicopter [Revell customised kit] but most days the conservationists have a 0-6-0 working a circular track throughout the site. Normally it is a Farish Austerity in ex works NCB livery or black livery or even a 08 shunter.

There is an abandoned mineral line and the buildings were made from bits and pieces from other models including Kestrel Kits. Everything used to make this layout [except the helicopter] was acquired second hand. The track is actually Peco 009 gauge “crazytrack” as it was impossible to bend N gauge track to fit the box file even by removing several sleepers. The layout appeared in N Bahn Magazin in 2004. The same year the layout made its first public appearance. 

The name “Pending” comes from the fact, like in real life, no decision has been made on the future of the site, or because “Pending” is often put into a box file…

  © Ken Jones 2010

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