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Arrowmouth
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EXHIBITION MANAGER GUIDE
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Sitting on the beach, on one of those always sunny summer
days. Suddenly the silence is shattered as a former LMS pacific speeds past on a Scotland bound
train. These are the images we have attempted to recreate in model form. The West Coast Main
Line at the end of the steam era and before the overhead electrification marched northwards to
Scotland. Arrowmouth is a seaside town on the North West Coast and is
close to Hest Bank, which is between Lancaster and Carnforth. The layout is based on the former
London North Western Railway main line. The era is somewhere between 1963 and 1968 when steam
was in its Indian Summer, in this part of the world. The scale is 4mm using "OO" gauge
track. All the buildings on the layout are scratch built, mainly using thick card for the basic
structure. These were covered with either brick papers or plasticard to represent stone or brick
finishes. Various grades of sand papers have also been used to represent concrete rendering
which, is so often found at seaside towns. The layout has been created as a package of not just the
layout but also correctly formed trains for the era portrayed. This does not mean detailed
locomotives pulling out of the box ready to run stock. More recently the layout has undergone a major refurbishment to bring it up to the standards of
the Club's newer layouts. This has included totally a re-modelled the goods yard
area with a new track layout and completely new scenery on both corners of the
layout.
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LAYOUT
EXHIBITION DETAILS
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| Layout Owner :
The Redditch Model
Railway Club
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| Number of operators required: 5/6
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| Layout size : 22ft x 8ft – The layout is operated
from the central well and has scenery on three of the four sides |
| Layout Expenses:
We would expect reimbursement for out of pocket expenses for
members and or The Club following the exhibition of this layout. The transport for this layout
would involve the hire of short wheel base Transit type van.
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| Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the
May 1995 edition of British
Railway Modelling and the third Edition (August/September 2007) of Hornby
Magazine
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page was last updated
11 May 2008
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