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Chapel End (OO Gauge)

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Chapel End is a 20ft * 2ft layout which started life as a branch line from Queens Cross to cover the fiddle yard of that layout.  Its original concept was that it could become a freestanding layout.  When Queens Cross went to the scrap heap Chapel End was retained and a separate fiddle yard was built for it.  With the fiddle yard on the end it is 24ft * 2ft.

The exit from the fiddle yard climbs through a tunnel before emerging into a cutting adjacent to the line to the local dairy.  The branch levels out as it passes a bracket signal and small loco shed before arriving at Chapel End station.  This boasts a small goods yard and access to the dairy at the other end of the layout.

Run mostly as a Great Western branch (because that's what the usual operators have stock of) although occasionally may be LNER or LMS or even BR.