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Stopford Central

This is the current club layout that we can operate and exhibit. Due to building new layouts and space restrictions it has been decided by the members that Stopford should be sold. Layout details and pictures that appear here were taken at the running day in August 04 and it was fully operational at the open day for everyone to see.

Exhibition Managers, if you wish to see the layout fully or invite it to your show please e mail our exhibition manager as the new owner may be planning to exhibit it and we can pass on the details.

Want to see the veiw from on top of the Tunnel? Click here for a short video of a train arriving and another leaving. The file size is 300kb, that's about 2 and a half mins download at 56k dial up or 10 seconds broadband!

SDRM's Stopford Central Station SDRM's Stopford Central. The Turntable

SDRM's Stopford Central. The express on it's way out through the tunnel SDRM's Stopford Central. The Engine Shed

The Story

The layout depicts a Railway Station that may have been built during the Golden Age of railway building and gets it's name from the original name for Stockport.

It is shown, on a possible site for a Station, in an area on the Eastern edge of the town centre of Stopford, selected to provide a railway service to the commuters of Stopford that was as near the town center as possible. It is bounded, at the rear, by the ridge behind St.Marys Parish Church and at the front by Newbridge Lane. A new road at the right hand side passes the station entrance and leads up to the Market Place, an over bridge at the left hand side carries New Zealand Road and there are new factories and buildings at the rear on the hillside.

The proposal included a future extension to the main areas of Cheshire and this was provided for, as can be seen by placing the station buildings on an overbridge. The extension was never built due to a lack of funds!

The Station was built as a joint line between the Great Central Railway (GCR), which later became part of the LNER, and the Midland Railway (MR), which became part of the LMS. As a result of the joint ownership, locomotives of both constituent companies can still be seen operating today under British Railways.

The passenger traffic is comprised of Local Trains that run to Manchester via Reddish and Belle Vue, New Mills via Romiley and Marple and Stalybridge orAshton via Hyde, and Express Trains provide connecting services to Lancashire, Yorkshire, London and Scotland.

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Stopford Central OO Gauge Layout

Built by the Stockport and District Railway Modellers Club to a very high exhibition quality standard.

This is the current club layout that we can operate and exhibit. Due to building new layouts and space restrictions it has been decided by the members that Stopford should be sold.

The layout is in 8 sections which for portability and storage are paired up to make it quite compact for it's size. It is 28 feet long when fully assembled. The baseboards rest on trestle type legs for ease of adjustment on any type of floor. The layout would suit either permanent siting or portable (exhibition) use.

The Layout

The period modelled is post 1948 to mid 1950s and trains are run representative of the Pre and Post BR liveries of the LMS, the LNER and the Midland & Eastern Regions.

The layout, designed on a terminal to fiddle yard configuration, comprises, a 4 platform terminus station with a parcels bay and carriage siding, a 2 road locomotive shed with coaling facility and turntable, and an 8-road fiddle yard on a traverser.

It has fully operative COLOUR LIGHT SIGNALLING with electrical interlocking and arrival route indication in the form of a dot matrix THEATRE INDICATOR.

It is wired for Cab Control with "TOKEN" type switching for the transfer of control of trains to and from the Fiddle Yard. The operators panels, both Main and Loco have illuminated mimic displays showing route settings and operational sections.

Trackwork is constructed from the PECO Fine Scale Code 75 turnouts and Flexitrack, with the turnouts being operated electrically by PECO point motors with slave switches for track and position indication for the Signalling Logic.

The various buildings seen on the layout are either scratch built to drawings and photographs or built from Kits.

There are 18 sets of points all electrically operated, the turntable is fully powered both clockwise and anticlockwise, all the colour light signals, matrix, isolating sections are working. The Loco shed has 2 light dependant resistors which with the street lamp in there tells the operator if there is a loco in the shed on a particular track - loco covers ldr, light on panel goes out. There is an ash pit and a coaling stage. The coal has a 'pin' which pops up when a wagon is at the top to prevent it rolling down the hill. All the uncouplers are B&B style, electrically operated magnets. Stopford was last exhibited at the Chapel en le Frith exhibition in 2004 where it worked fine.

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