Dagnell End

Exhibition Manager Details

It is the 1960’s on British Railway’s Southern Region. Normal main line steam traction is about to end as the new diesel era and the continual spread of electric traction takes hold. Dagnell End was conceived as a fictitious station on the Hounslow loop in south-west London. The line is on the former London and South Western Railway line out of their London Waterloo terminus and our station is located somewhere close to where the real station of Brentford is. The layout was planned as a challenge in building an urban landscape to make a change from building layouts with green fields. All buildings are scratch built with many based on London prototypes, which have been photographed on a number of field visits by club members. The basic structures of the buildings are made from thick card, which were covered with plasticard to replicate stone or brick finishes. The structures have then been painted and weathered to represent the prototypes from the area. To add interest to the layout though not strictly correct for the part of London modelled there is an underground tube line across the front of the layout. The Underground trains are modified and motorised EFE models, which work on an automatic cycle. Main line trains represent the variety that could be seen on the south-west section of the Southern Region in the 1960’s. Virtually all of the southern electric units have been scratch built. Control of the mainline trains uses the NCE DCC system.

Exhibition Details

Layout Owner : The Redditch Model Railway Club

Number of operators required: 6

Layout size : 18ft x 11ft  – 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 long wheel base Transit type van.

Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the April 2010 edition of Hornby Railways magazine.

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Many people ask how we transport the layout to shows - well this picture shows the layout packed in a van on it's way to a model railway exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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