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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 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 was very much based on Midland
Railway practice. The scale was 4mm using "OO" gauge track.
All the buildings on the layout were scratch built, mainly
using thick card for the basic structure. These were covered
with plasticard to replicate stone or brick finishes. The
structures were then painted and weathered to represent
the prototypes from the area. In latter life the layout
benefited from a much larger fiddle yard, which is now twice
the original size and is now used on our Dagnell End,
Chilcompton and Oakenshaw layouts. The sixteen available roads meant an
even larger variety of stock and locomotives could be used.
Normally this meant there are around 24 separate trains on
show
Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the May 1997 edition of Railway Modeller
Gorcott was seen at the following exhibitions:
16th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 8th & 9th May 1995
Bromsgrove Model Railway Exhibition - 11th November 1995
Stourbridge Model Railway Exhibition - April 1996
17th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 7th & 8th May 1996
Bournville Model Railway Exhibition - 22nd February 1997
Bromsgrove Model Railway Exhibition - 9th November 1996
30th Anniversary Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 17th & 18th May 1997
Cheltenham GWR Modellers Group Exhibition - 25th & 26th October 1997
Derby Model Railway Exhibition - 25th & 26th April 1998
19th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 9th & 10th May 1998
A49 Leominster Group Model Railway Exhibition - 12th & 13th September 1998
Stourbridge Model Railway Exhibition - April 1999
20th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 8th & 9th May 1999
Chippenham Model Railway Exhibition - 23rd & 24th May 1999
Biggleswade Model Railway Exhibition - February 2000
Wakefield Model Railway Exhibition - 24th to 26th November 2000
Ipswich Model Railway Exhibition - 8th & 9th September 2001
Loughborough Model Railway Exhibition - October 2001
25th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 8th & 9th May 2004
Wolverhampton Model Railway Exhibition - 6th & 7th November 2004
Voted best in show by the visitors
Warley National Model Railway Exhibition - 4th & 5th December 2004
40th Anniversary Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 10th & 11th February 2007
Birmingham Model Railway Show - 15th & 16th September 2007
30th Redditch Model Railway Exhibition - 31st January & 1st February 2009
47th York Model Railway Exhibition - 11th to 13th April 2009
The layout has travelled a total of 1976 miles to and from the above exhibitions
(for more information on Gorcott)