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Arcadia
Pennsylvania
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7mm scale American switcher yard
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Arrowmouth - Celebrate
30 years of this 4mm West
Coat Main Line layout in 1960's
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Farbine Road
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A 4mm scale BR Blue era locomotive depot
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Saltdean
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A 7mm layout of the LBSCR is the late 1880's
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Ventnor West
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7mm layout based on the Isle of Wight in the 1940's
Others being
confirmed ..........
Arcadia
Pennsylvania
- presented by
David George
- 7mm Scale
 Arcadia
Pennsylvania is a freelance, box theatre style,
“time-saver” layout, it is depicts a fictitous,
small industrial railroad freight terminal set
in Arcadia, Pennsylvania, Eastern USA, as a
backcloth the declining “Arcadia Steelworks”
blast furnace and coke oven silos but they are
not operationally related. A short line (APT)
serves the location delivering various box cars,
hoppers, flat wagons, gondola, and tank cars to
several local operations. Motive power. Rolling
stock and architecture represents the period
1960s to 1970s but there may be cameos of late
1980s diesels. The fright yards resident
locomotives are leased to Central Railroad of
New Jersey EMD SW9 (to be branded APT). In
addition the route is worked by other motive
power a Pennsylvania RR Alco RS-1, a Louisville
& Nashville EMD SDP35 and (in cameos) an Amtrax
Dash 8-32BHW all three are dual motored. The
layout is mainly front operated with traffic
generated using a 4-track traverser through a
short tunnel into the freight servicing area.
Points are controlled remotely using slow action
motors. All four locomotives are Atlas models
and are DCC sound-enabled. The layout is powered
by an expanded NCE system.
Arrowmouth
- presented by
Redditch
Model Railway Club - 4mm Scale
 It
is fitting that Arrowmouth should be at this
show as this year is the 30th
Anniversary of when this very popular layout was
first exhibited.
Sitting on the beach, on one of those always
sunny summer days. Suddenly the silence is
shattered as a former LMS pacific speeds past on
a Scotland bound train. These are the images we
have attempted to recreate in model form. The
West Coast Main Line at the end of the steam era
and before the overhead electrification marched
northwards to Scotland. Arrowmouth is a seaside
town on the North West Coast and is close to
Hest Bank, which is between Lancaster and Carnforth. The layout is based
on the former London North Western Railway
main line. The era is somewhere between 1963
and 1968 when steam was in its Indian
Summer, in this part of the world. 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 either
brick papers or plasticard to represent
stone or brick finishes. Various grades of
sand papers have also been used to represent
concrete rendering which, is so often found
at seaside towns. The layout has been
created as a package of not just the layout
but also correctly formed trains for the era
portrayed. This does not mean detailed
locomotives pulling out of the box ready to
run stock. More recently the layout has
undergone a major refurbishment to bring it
up to the standards of the Club's newer
layouts. This has included totally a re-modeled
the goods yard area with a new track layout
and completely new scenery on both corners
of the layout.
Farbine Road WRD
- presented by
Neil Woodbine - 4mm Scale
 Farbine
Road Wagon Repair Depot is a fictional depot
loosely set in the Midlands area. There are two
elements to it, the Wagon Repair Depot
along with a small passenger terminus station
which encompass passenger and parcels
operations. The layout can be based anytime from
mid 70s to the late 80s depending on how we feel
on the day! BR blue will be the main colour
seen but other liveries can occasionally appear.
Many different types of civil engineering stock
can be seen on the depot for repair with many
different classes of diesel traction visiting
the depot and station during an operating
session. The main inspiration for Farbine was
memories of trips as a youngster into Birmingham
from Bescot passing Duddeston Wagon Repair
works. Our starting point was the shed building
scratch built by my late father.
Saltdean
- presented by
Peter Smith -
7mm Scale
There
Saltdean is an 0 gauge layout representing
an LBSCR terminus in the Summer of 1888.
Saltdean is a real place but it did not
develop until the 1920's, however I have
imagined it as a Victorian creation with a
branch line being built to serve the new
resort in 1882 from Brighton. I have also
stretched reality by assuming that the line
was used by Brighton Works for running in
newly built and overhauled engines which
means that I can run anything the LBSCR had
at the time. The layout uses DCC control and
all the engines have sound.
Ventnor West
- presented by
Kevin Cartwright -
7mm Scale
We
welcome Kevin Cartwright, a long term
supporter of our exhibition. Kevin was last
exhibiting at a Redditch show in 2015 with
his Brixham Bay layout a 2mm model of the
real station of that name. Ventnor West is
something totally different this time in 7mm
scale. What you see here today is the
product of almost 20 years of research and
the actual building of the layout, taking
into account also that sometimes life
gets in the way!! The buildings, rolling
stock, and road vehicles are all scratch
built. The buildings are all faithful
copies of the prototypes, some of which
still exist today. I have spent a lot of
time on the site of this station
photographing and drawing the buildings. My
wife's cousin lives almost opposite the
station building which was very useful
when I was researching this project. Like
previous layouts I have built I have painted
the back scenes. The layout is DCC
controlled with sound in the locomotives.
The layout is set in the 1940s during the
Second World War when much of the south
coast of England including the Isle of Wight
was given over to the preparations for the D
day landings on the 6th June 1944.
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