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Gorcott
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| EXHIBITION MANAGER GUIDE
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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.
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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
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| 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.
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| Magazine Features : The layout was featured in the
May 1997 edition of
Railway Modeller.
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page was last updated
19 July 2008
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