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Gorcott Introduction
Layout Details
Gorcott was
set in 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
Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the May 1997 edition of Railway Modeller
What has happened to the layout
Between May 1995 and April 2009 Gorcott attended a total of 25 exhibitions. The first being the 16th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition and the last was the 47th York Model Railway Exhibition over the Easter weekend in April 2009. During December 2009 the layout was totally dismantled. All of the baseboards were life expired and were scrapped. We have saved all of the buildings plus some of the scenic items. Many of the building will be used on our new Oakenshaw layout