OAKLEIGH

Scale 7mm/ft

Gauge 32mm

O

Frank Ashton

This is a first attempt at 7mm scale modelling after a lifetime of layout building in the smaller scales. Inspired by the railways of Colonel Stephens, the layout tries to show what can be achieved in 7mm scale in a small space. Stock is mainly 1930’s LMS using the increasing number of readily available kits, although the LNWR Railmotor was completely scratchbuilt by Brian Foster. Trackwork is Peco, ballasted with budgie grit. All the buildings are scratchbuilt from card and plastikard with everything else being a mixture of kit and scratchbuilt items. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

BRILSDEN

Scale 4mm/ft

Gauge 18.2mm

EM

The Brill Group

It is June 1937, high summer in the Yorkshire Pennines and the mill and mining town of Brilsden basks in the sun. The station lies at the end of a six-mile branch off the L & Y Ramsfield to Penistone line, an attempt to reach the coalfield of Barnsley that railway politics and geography halted. The transport needs of the textile mills and Royd colliery form a large part of the freight traffic augmented by the needs of a small town. Passenger trains comprise a two coach set working from Ramfield and the Railmotor which works down to Brilsden Junction to connect with Halifax / Penistone and Bradford / Penistone trains. A daily through coach from London is accompanied by the Palethorpe’s Sausage van.

MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT

Scale 4mm/ft

Gauge various

OO

Robin Brogden

This is a fictitious Museum of Transport situated in the former dockland of a large town in England. The concept was born from a desire to create a layout where virtually all types of model may be displayed together with a single theme. There are standard and narrow gauge railways, buses, trams, trolleybuses, cars and commercial vehicles as well as aircraft and maritime displays. The front part of the layout offers an area for varied displays - bus rallies, car rallies, military vehicle displays, etc., as well as a home for a Lancaster bomber for the aircraft enthusiasts. The station for the miniature railway is nearby. Railway exhibits are housed in a purpose built Railway Gallery where locomotives, carriages, signals, models and other railway artefacts can be found.

CADELEIGH

Scale 3mm / ft

Gauge 14.2mm

TT

Brian Foster

Cadeleigh has been built to demonstrate the possibilities of 3mm finescale modelling; as much as possible has been obtained from outside sources. All locomotives and rolling stock are from kits, Trackwork uses rail from the 3mm Society, chairs from another 3mm Society member, and plastikard sleepers built on C+L Finescale templates. Signals and some accessories are from the 3mm Society, others are from 3mm Scale Model Railways of Buckingham. Buildings have had to be scatchbuilt, working from photos and drawings; scenery is the usual mix of commercial products on polystyrene tiles.

MOPPINIS BROW

Scale 2.06mm/ft

Gauge 9mm

British N

Don Westerman

This is Don’s first attempt a layout building. It was originally designed to be operated from the front because it was intended to live in the lounge. The rolling stock is a mixture of ready to run and kit built, available from the N Gauge Society. The track plan is a mirror image of Warrington Dallam Coal yard in 1888, suitable modified to fit the baseboard.

WEST BRENT

Scale 2.06mm/ft

Gauge 9mm

British N

Alastair Knox

West Brent is a branch terminus loosely based on Somerset and Dorset practice and was built to fit in the back of an estate car. Locomotives and stock are all fitted with DG couplings for hands off uncoupling during shunting and are a mixture of modified proprietary and kit built. Buildings are Ratio kits or scratchbuilt.

BENTON FLATS MT

Scale 2mm/ft

Gauge 9mm

N

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The layout is situated in Montana and Benton Flats is an important junction on the route to Fort Benton. Though the layout is basically Great Northern, stock from other companies that formed the mergers in 1970 and 1995 can be seen. These are mainly Burlington Northern and Santa Fe. The aim is to increase the Great Northern stock so that a closed time period can be depicted. Locomotives and stock are from a number of manufacturers, but couplings have been changed to “Magne-Matic” by Micro Trains, operated by magnets between the rails. This eliminates the “hand from the sky” (Hopefully). Structures, which are kits kit-bashed and scratchbuilt are typical of this type of town, especially the grain silo, a prominent landmark in almost all communities in this type of location.

WODDCLIFF YARD

Scale 3.5mm/ft

Gauge 16.5mm

HO

David Woodward

It is springtime in the early 1960s on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia. The two long-time rivals for the New York to Florida traffic, the Seaboard Air line (SAL) and the Atlantic Coast line (ACL), have started talks about a possible merger. For the time being, however, they still use separate freight yards in Richmond, the SAL having its own Hermiatage Yard, whilst the ACL uses the RFP’s Acca Yard. In reality the two yards were almost adjacent, but for modelling purposes it is assumed they were on opposite sides of the city, thereby giving rise to a number of transfer workings. This allows relatively short trains to be run and a lot of switching is available due to the number of industries by the lineside.

PRINCES STREET GARDENS

Scale 2mm / ft

Gauge 9mm

N

Bob Rowlands

Princes Street Gardens is our first attempt at building an exhibition layout in N Gauge. The model is based on the gardens situated west of Waverley station in Edinburgh, through which the railway runs. It comprises a four track main line with a tunnel each end and a castle as a backdrop. The period modelled is between 1980 and 1990, before the line was electrified. The majority of the rolling stock is Graham Farish, most have been modified and / or repainted. Scenery id made from polystyrene carved to shape, covered with plaster bandage and finished with Green Scene or Woodland Scenics foliage.

VICOSOPRANO

Scale 1.5mm /ft

Gauge 6.5mm

Z

Ian Pidcock

Vicosoprano is a two level layout modelled on a location in the Swiss alps near the Italian border, with the lower level located in the Maira valley at the junction with the river Albigna. The upper level sees the railway climb the mountains towards St. Moritz with the obvious necessity to cross the terrain by bridges and tunnels to gain height. This layout is an attempt to show off the excellent running qualities, reliability, compact size and portability that can be achieved with Z scale.

WESTON ROAD

Scale 4mm/ft

Gauge 16.5mm

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G. S. Bucknell

The layout portrays a small loco servicing facility and mini container depot operated by Freightliner. The basis for the model is the Freightliner installation at Crewe Basford Hall, opened in the years since privatisation. The layout is set in the year 2000, as the venerable Class 47s were gradually replaced by the modern Class 66s. The adjacent Basford Hall yard switched operation from EWS after rebuilding, so you can see Freightliner locos shunting EWS stock. Track is hand built using Peco Individulay components and Code 75 rail. Points are Code 75 Peco Streamline. The structures are mostly scratchbuilt to represent those in and around the Crewe area. Locomotives and rolling stock are repainted and detailed to represent those running in 2000.

CLEGGWORTH

Scale 2.06mm/ft

Gauge 9mm

British N

Bolton and District MRC

The layout is set in the Pennines in “Last of the Summer Wine” country. Inspiration came from the Holmfirth branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The layout is operated using locos and rolling stock of the 1950s and 1960s, and whilst the majority of workings are by LM region stock, as befits a former L & Y branch, visiting locos from the E and NE regions make frequent appearances on freight and passenger trains. The track plan, station buildings and goods shed are all modelled on the originals at Holmfirth. Amongst the general population, some of the more well-known locals can be seen, notably an infamous old lady with wrinkly stockings and a trio of aged gentlemen getting into mischief!

BOWERGROVE TRAMWAYS

Scale 7mm/ft

Gauge 32mm

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Mark Brailsford and Bob Wardle

The track is almost all constructed using N gauge rail soldered upside down for the tread and right way up for the check rail alongside. The overhead is live, in the traditional tramway manner. The wire is copper, as available in domestic multi-strand wire, stretched in order to un-kink it, and hung using brass etched fittings or simple brass shim soldered to the span wires. It has to be compatible with trolleys and bows, and is also quite robust to survive frequent moves, as it stays in place when the boards are shifted. Overhead pointwork is in a multitude of different styles, from simple part frogs, through solid soldered and filed-out crossings to pull-frogs with moveable tongues – not yet activated by electric motors. Tramcars from Manchester, Stockport, and Bolton are predominant, but visiting cars from as far afield as London and Glasgow can be seen.

BRIDPORT

Scale 4mm/ft

Gauge 16.5mm

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Stockport Grammar School (Grammarail)

Bridport is an end-to-end layout served by two traversers. It represents the station at Bridport, Dorset, in later British Railways days just prior to closure. We have taken a few liberties with the locomotives and rolling stock, which are more varied than would ever have been seen working to or from West Bay. All stock is drawn from members’ own collections, the vast majority of which will be commercial products with the odd kit-built vehicle. Trackwork is Peco Code 75; we decided to move away from SMP and copperclad pointwork for simplicity’s sake regarding wiring. Turnouts are operated purely mechanically with rodding and levers beneath board level. The scenery reflects the aspirations of our teenage membership, many of whom have embarked upon railway modelling within the last two years from the age of 12.