Oakenshaw Introduction

Exhibition Manager Details 

This new exhibition layout is currently under construction. Oakenshaw is a fictitious West Yorkshire mill town set in the the 1960's. Like so many of the Yorkshire mill towns the layout portrays a town in a valley centred around a river crossing. Regional boundary changes in 1957 brought this former Midland Railway Station into the short lived North Eastern Region of British Railways.   The station is very much based on Midland Railway practice and the scale is 4mm using "OO" gauge fine scale code 75 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.  

Exhibition Details

Layout Owner : The Redditch Model Railway Club

Number of operators required: 5

Layout size : 18ft x 9½ ft – 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.

Special Information : The layout is under construction and will not be available until at least September 2012