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Arrowmouth - Flagship Club 4mm scale layout
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Abbotswood and Norton Junction - A
new layout of this prototype location
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Auch Ae
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4mm scale Scottish Region locomotive shed
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Avon Bridge Junction
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4mm scale junction station layout
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Bond Lane
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4mm scale Narrow gauge layout
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Burford GWR
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3.5mm scale GWR
branch line station
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Catsbrook
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4mm scale narrow to standard gauge
transhipment layout
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Gracetown Bank Goods Depot
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4mm scale North West based goods yard
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Hackworth Colliery Junction and Blenkinsop Colliery
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4mm scale midlands based layout set in the 1950s/60s
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Hookton Riverside
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7mm scale narrow gauge terminus based in
Dorset
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Lapping Works
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7mm scale industrial layout
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Shallon
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7mm scale minimum space layout
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Temple Bridge
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4mm scale layout based central London in
1950s/60s
Others being
confirmed ..........
Arrowmouth
- presented by
Redditch
Model Railway Club
- 4mm Scale
![](images/Arrowmouth/hornby%205.jpg) 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.
Abbotswood and
Norton Junction -
presented by Phil Bullock
- 4mm Scale
After
a numbers of years we welcome Phil Bullock back
with his new mark II version of Abbotswood
Junction. South Worcestershire is where the
skylarks sing — except when trains are passing!
The layout is set in the late 1960s/early 1970s
— steam has finished locally about 5 years ago
and the diesels hold sway on Cross Country
passenger and freights — mostly diesel electrics
on the Birmingham to Gloucester line, and
hydraulics on the Worcester to London via Oxford
route. Highlights to watch out for are named
passenger trains — although no headboards in
this era — The Cornishman. The Devonian and The
Cathedrals express. and motorail trains
transporting holidaymakers from the North and
Midlands to sunny Devon and Cornwall before the
days of the M5 of course, There are plenty of
freight trains to be seen too including block
oil traffic from South Wales to the Midlands.
coal and steel flows both north and south and
china clay from Cornwall to the Midlands along
with general freight traffic of all types. Steam
might appear if there is a loco travelling from
Ashschurch to an Open Day in Birmingham.... The
layout is DCC controlled with sound fired locos
and working semaphore signalling. Join us for a
while to share in the fun we had watching
passing trains here in the 1960s/70s
Auch Ae
- presented by
Buchanan McInroy
- 4mm Scale
![](images/Auch%20Ae/Latest/H.jpg) Auch
Ae is a 4mm scale Scottish Region locomotive
shed based in the 1960s. It is very much
work in progress but showing it in a part
built state gives the opportunity to see how
a layout is built. All the track work has
been laid using Peco code 75 track and wired
for DCC operation. Buildings on the layout
are scratch built and are based on
prototypes in Scotland. The layout will be
operated with a mixture of steam and diesel
locomotives with many featuring working sound.
Avon Bridge Junction
- presented by
David Boot -
4mm Scale
![](images/Show%20Pictures/2012%20layouts/Charlton.jpg) The
decision to produce smaller layouts that I can
handle in my advancing years, has proved to have
been the correct decision. they can fit in a
Ford Cmax car, or similar, but still open up
into a reasonable sized layout and with a 9’ –
0” scenic area can also fit into a moderate
sized room in the house. In an effort to reduce
the weight without compromising stability I have
used lightweight baseboards marketed by Grainge
and Hodder Ltd of Cradley Heath, who I have
found to be excellent. “Avon Bridge Junction” is
a fictitious location and as the name suggests
is somewhere near the River Avon. As there are
two River Avon’s you can take your pick as to
its possible location There is nothing unusual
about the layout, but it is modelled as a joint
railway either GWR and BRM or GWR and SR or it
can be a Heritage line as for this show. There
is a mixture of types of infrastructure. Its
“theoretical” original location was a Midland
line but rationalisation saw GWR signals
replacing out of date Midland variety. The
layout has code 75 track throughout, Peco
points, Seep Point motors, a mixture of “Scenic”
readymade buildings, plastic constructed signal
box, and scratch build houses. The Signals are
from the Dapol range. The trees, I’m afraid, are
ready made, my enthusiasm still does not run to
trying to replicate Beeches, Cedars and Oaks
these days, My favourite period for modelling is
the 50/60s for which I have plenty of
appropriate stock to run, both steam and early
Diesel, but occasionally you may see the odd
stranger from another region appear, in
particular if run as a Heritage line. I still
use screw link and three link couplings for
authenticities sake as my hand is still steady
enough to handle them.
Bond Lane
- presented by
The Limbrick
Family
- 4mm Scale
Bond
Lane is a layout with several innovations -
not necessarily things that have not been
done before but they are not common place.
The layout uses multiple LCD screens, sound,
and dynamic lighting to bring atmosphere to
the layout. All these elements are
synchronised - including street lights
turning on in the night time scene and light
flashes to help sell the lightning during
the thunderstorm. Behind the scenes the
layout also has several innovations to make
it easier to transport and operate. It has a
double folding design so it can fit in the
boot of the car and store easily. The layout
has an on-scene yard and a loop that allow
some interesting locomotive and stock
movements, although there is no way of
uncoupling on scene. Off scene there are
five loops that can be used for storage, and
this makes it relatively simple to keep
things moving. The loops on the right-hand
side can also be isolated completed via a
switch allowing all three loops to store
stock while moving locomotives in and out of
the on-scene yard. We have not aimed for any
era - instead attempting to go for something
relatively generic that can be influenced by
the addition of different road vehicles and
rolling stock.
Burford GWR
- presented by
Warley MRC
- 3.5mm Scale
This
model of this fictitious Great Western
Railway branch was first constructed by the
late Vernon Woods in the 1930s. It is
modelled as it would have been at the end of
that decade. What makes this model of the
typical Great Western English branch line is
that it is modelled to the scale of 3.5mm to
the foot (HO scale). After the Second World
War the trackwork was upgraded to more
improved product that had become available.
The layout as it now exists was completed
some 25 years later. After Vernon’s death
the layout was donated to the Warley Model
Railway Club and was exhibited several
times. However electrical and running
problems led to the decision to replace the
track with PECO code 75 with SEEP point
motors. The baseboards are the original wood
still o 2x1 frames. Work is continuing to
replace buildings and to restore and improve
scenic elements with modern static grass and
other landscape effects. Coupling are by 4mm
scale DG items with are operated using
magnets. The signals which are well over 50
years old are operated by the wire in tube
method.
Catsbrook
- presented by
Geoff Harper
- 4mm Scale
Based somewhere in Worcestershire, the
layout depicts a transhipment facility
between narrow gauge and standard gauge
railways. When the Midland Railway built
their sidings the original canal basin
became neglected. All the narrow-gauge
locomotives and rolling stock are kit built
and they run on PECO 009 track. Standard
gauge stock is all ready to run and this
section of the layout uses track hand built
using SMP track components including the
points.
Gracetown Bank Goods Depot
- presented by
Graham Morfoot
- 4mm Scale
Gracetown
Bank Goods Depot, is situated in a fictional
north west town. The yard is a British
Railway facility to serve local cotton and
woollen mills and light industry. It also
serves as a transhipment point for
deliveries via rail to the town. It is
connected to the national rail system by a
branch between the mills. There is an
extension to this branch through the yard to
a steel fabrication works where a variety of
steel structures are made and sent via rail
nationwide. Steel is brought into the works
and the finished products sent out by rail.
A mix of goods and raw materials are
received and dispatched for local industry.
A variety of locomotives are used, including
British Railways steam and diesel. The steel
fabrication works have there own diesel
locomotives. A rope hauled incline takes
wagons from the yard to an upper upper level
where there are more industries. The layout
is ‘OO’ scale made using Peco code 100 track
and is DCC control.
Hackworth Colliery Junction and Blenkinsop Colliery
- presented by
Hackworth Model
Railway Group
- 4mm Scale
British
Railways and the National Coal Board had been
created only a few years earlier and the coal
mining area of Hackworth, like the rest of
Britain, was beginning to recover from the
effects of austerity after WW11. Things were
looking up and, on the railway, there was talk
of the new, clean efficient diesels, plus the
new standard BR steam locomotives were just
coming on stream. On the down side the area lost
its regular rail passenger services, only
excursions to places like Mablethorpe and
Skegness plus Sunday diversions remain. Coal,
mineral and general freight traffic was booming,
trains could often be found waiting a path on
the single line section to clear. Blenkinsop
colliery had become a hub for new NCB opencast
mines to the west and deep pits to the east. The
NCB had drafted in several locomotives from
other areas to cope with demand for coal in the
new power stations being built in the Trent
Valley. The local bus companies, Midland General
and Barton, were happy to take the passengers
who had lost their trains. Cars were at a
premium, but a few could be spotted on the
roadways. The railway comprises of a double to
single track branch line which loops off the
ex-Great Central mainline at Annesley and
re-joins it at Staveley. Traffic on the line is
mostly freight with ex GC/LNER 2-8-0 and W.D.
locomotives in abundance but there are
occasional excursion and diverted passenger
trains which punctuate the service. Plus of
course the miner’s Dido. The motive power depot
at Jutland Street, Hackworth primarily has ex
GCR types of J11, O4 and smaller numbers of
mixed traffic and passenger types. The depot’s
function is to provide motive power from the
local colliery’s exchange sidings to Annesley,
Staveley and Beighton yards. The layout features
full sound and lighting plus a working
turntable. All locomotives are DCC Sound fitted
a number of which are weathered. The layout
creates a scene as seen through the eyes of
trainspotters in the 1950s.
Hookton Riverside
- presented by
Mike Bragg
- 7mm Scale
Hookton Riverside is the terminus
station of the Hookton and Lipp Vale
Railway, a narrow-gauge railway in Dorset.
The name Hookton and the almost a river Lipp
were taken from the novel Harlequin by
Bernard Cornwall who kindly gave me
permission to use them. As per usual I have
created an alternate history by using the
characters from Treasure Island by Robert
Louis Stevenson but now set in the late
1940s early 1950s. The Pub/Inn is the
Admiral Benbow, the large Georgian house is
aptly named Trelawney House, there is
Benjamin Gunns cheese shop, L.J. Silver & Son
the friendly butchers, not forgetting B.Pew
Hardware I had thought he might have traded
as an optician. Doctor Livesey, Captain
Smollett, Hawkins maltings and several
others. I really do need to get out more,
although railway modelling has to be fun for
me, the back story being just as important
as the modelling.
Lapping works
- presented by
Matt & Tracy
Stevens
- 7mm Scale
Lapping works is an industrial works on the edge of the Black Country that
is set in 1947 in the last year of the Great
Western Railway before it was nationalised.
Served by mainly GWR with a small amount of
LMS traffic too. The layout features a
mixture of standard and narrow-gauge railway
in an industrial setting The layout is
operated from the rear using DCC control.
Locomotives feature both sound and smoke.
The layout is fully lit using LEDs and some
building feature smoke from the chimneys.
Most of the layout is scratch built out of
foam board with a few commercial kits added.
The Layout makes use of older forms of
modelling techniques plus the use of the
most up-to date forms including 3D Modelling/Printing/Cutting.
Shallon
- presented by
Rob Newman
- 7mm Scale
A minimum space 7mm/ft O Gauge layout
showing part of a small industrial complex
where the emphasis is upon timber processing
and general merchandise. With a very simple
track plan, there are three visible lines
which serve a small engine shed, a goods
shed and a through line along which
occasional short passenger services appear
and use a small halt. The buildings are
mainly scratchbuilt to a common theme. The
layout is an exercise in minimum space
modelling and an excuse to use locomotives
from industrial prototypes
Temple Bridge
- presented by
John Tisi - 4mm Scale
![](images/Temple%20Bridge/Station/B1.jpg) Of the constituent companies of the Southern Railway the
London Brighton & South Coast Railway was the only one
not to cross the river Thames to have a terminus on the
north bank near to the lucrative City of London with its
growing commuter traffic, being content to terminate at
London Bridge. Temple Bridge is a model of a fictitious
station built by the LB&SCR to right this wrong, modelled in the 1950 to 1960s BR(S) period. It is
located between Charring Cross and Blackfriars stations
in the Temple area of the Embankment, roughly where the
present-day Temple District line tube station is located
between Somerset House and the Inner Temple legal office
area. Temple Bridge station occupies the area between
The Strand at the eastern end of the Aldwych and
Victoria Embankment. The station fronts on to The Strand
and has been rebuilt by the Southern Railway in the
1930s in their concrete Art Deco style, the station
buildings and bridge over the Embankment were
reconstructed to modernise the station and of course the
signal box was replaced with a new concrete glass house
style box when the station was re-signalled with colour
light signalling. Below the signal box the Temple Bridge
tube station on the District line has been rebuilt in
the Charles Holden style of the 1930's The station
forecourt has a bus station as well as the normal drop
off and pickup facilities, railway offices, shops and
taxi rank. The station concourse has the remains of its
LB&SCR overall roof, now in the 1950's devoid of its
glass due to bomb damage during WW2 this gives our
passengers access to five platforms. Services are worked
by a variety of third rail EMU's ranging from the
converted steam stock 4SUB through the Southern Railway
2 HAL and BIL units to the latest BR 2 and 4 EPB's &
4CEP units. The river bridge is a 4 arch wrought iron
structure on granite piers carrying three tracks across
to the south bank at Southwark. Just off the South side
is a 2-road locomotive depot providing light servicing
and storage for the locomotives. The arches of the
curving viaduct are home to trades and businesses and
the river side is dominated by an LCC Council block of
flats in the typical hipped roof yellow brick style
common across central London from the 1920's.
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