Gorcott Introduction

This layout is no longer available for exhibition as it the subject of a total rebuild with parts of existing layout being used to create a new layout called Oakenshaw

Exhibition Manager Details 

It is the early 1960’s. Normal main line steam traction is about to end as the new diesel era takes hold. We are on the Settle to Carlisle railway line. The route is about to lose the named express services together with most of the other through traffic. The images we have attempted to recreate are of a line very much in decline. Gorcott is a station close to Staniforth on the Settle to Carlisle railway line and is situated between Settle Junction and Horton in Ribblesdale. The station is very much based on Midland Railway practice. 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 plasticard to replicate stone or brick finishes. The structures have then been painted and weathered to represent the prototypes from the area. The layout has recently benefited from a much larger fiddle yard, which is now twice the original size. The sixteen available roads now mean an even larger variety of stock and locomotives can be used. Normally this means there are around 24 separate trains on show

Exhibition Details

Layout Owner : The Redditch Model Railway Club

Number of operators required: 5

Layout size : 18ft x 9ft – 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.

Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the May 1997 edition of Railway Modeller

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