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This layout was formerly owned by late member, Alistair George, and is now exhibited by other club members in his memory.
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Treloar Sidings depicts the terminus of one of the branches that wound their way around the clay producing area north of St Austell in Cornwall, generally ending in remote and barren places. The facilities comprise a loading dock for the standard open clay wagons and a couple of Nissen huts for storing bagged, high quality clay, and a run round loop. The clay loaded here came from old, small dries that the branches did not directly serve. The loaded wagons were then worked down to St Blazey yard and sent on to the local ports of Fowey and Par, or sent by long distance goods services to other parts of the country. The balancing workings took empty wagons back up to the dries for loading. Other workings bring coal for the furnaces at the dries, general goods for the public loading wharves, permanent way wagons, and an inspection saloon. The local tool van also makes the occasional trip down the branch as the track and sidings were not maintained to main line standards. The locomotives for the clay branches were supplied by St Blazey shed that held the standard and lighter classes of pannier tanks and prairie tanks of the 45xx class. The most famous clay branch locos were the LSWR Beattie well tanks, so occasionally the layout is run with one of these locos, and the GWR panniers and prairies are kept out of sight.
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