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Aimford End This is a fictitious line in the Cotswolds around the 1950’s and 1960’s on the Western Region. Part of this layout was built 40 plus years ago by my father.
I received it in 2019 as a Christmas present from my Grandfather who got it working for me. When I started working on it, it was only track, bridge and a platform. There are details such as a river, discontinues line with workshops in the arches, a farm and hand painted backgrounds. This layout has been exhibited multiple times. |   | |
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The layout is based on Binegar station on the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The station opened in 1874 and closed for goods in June 1963 and passengers in March 1966. The period I have modelled is 1960 to 1966. The baseboards are constructed from both plywood 6mm and 9mm thick. The track is N gauge code 55, control is DCC using the Digitrax Zypher system. Point motors are Hoffmann worked with +12/-12 volts. All buildings on the layout are scratch built working from any pictures I could find. Stock is Graham Farish, Dapol and Union Mills, some goods wagons are N gauge Society kits. Landscaping has been done using Woodlands Scenic static grass, tree kits and fine ballast. The various people and animals that you can see are from the Scenecraft range. This is my first proper attempt at a full size working layout, I hope you like it. | |
Bristol St Philips In 1870, the Midland Railway opened a small single platform passenger terminus in a corner of its extensive St Philips goods yard, in order to relieve pressure on the facilities it shared with the GWR at Temple Meads. For the next 80 years, Bristol (St Philips) was used almost exclusively for local passenger services via Mangotsfield to Bath (Queens Square), or Green Park as it later became. Passenger traffic survived until 1953, the station becoming, like many others, increasingly dilapidated after bomb damage during the war, while the goods yard remained open until 1967 � featuring in the excellent 1957 British Transport Films production �Fully Fitted Freight�, which is viewable on YouTube. The model is of the passenger station and the first few sidings of the goods yard. The scenic break is provided by Barrow Road bridge. long gone, which using modelers' license we have moved about half a mile closer to the station than it was in real life. The model works on the premise that passenger traffic was sufficient to maintain services until the goods yard closed in the early sixties. As in reality, the local passenger service is in the hands of a variety of tank engines, ex-LMS or BR standards, while goods traffic utilizes a wide range of large and small locos based on the nature of the train, but all appropriate to the period and local shed allocations. Early diesels also make an appearance. Control is entirely DCC. This includes not only the locos but also the points and the turntable. Our friendly operators will be delighted to explain (or complain about) the intricacies of DCC, but preferably not while they are trying to navigate the �macro� which controls the double slip at the entrance to the station area! |   | |
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This layout was first envisaged as a diorama. The location is fictitious and based on the theory that the East Gloucestershire Railway was completed to Cheltenham as was first planned. However traffic was never to the volume that was expected. The line was eventually terminated at Honeycomb Leaze which is a hamlet between Quenington and Maisey Hampton. Besides providing a passenger service it also provided a goods service for the local farming community. It was also the rail head for a local factory which produced a wide range of both water pumps and windmills. | |
Hanbid Sidings Hanbid sidings is a typical backwater exchange sidings set in the rural areas typical to the Southern and Western regions. The timeline on the layout can be varied from the 1930’s to the 1980’s (by changing a few interchangeable time specific scenic features) in order to run a variety of stock. This approach was taken as my interests vary from the 1930’s Southern, to the 1970’s or 1980’s BR blue years that I grew up in. Those of you who may have seen some of my other layouts (Courtover Town, Severnside Steel, etc) will be familiar with the usual gritty urban style I model, but this small layout was built to give a total change of scenery to a more idyllic quiet countryside without the stark backgrounds of retaining walls and factories that usually frame my layouts ! The layout is switchable from DCC to DC control and many of the locomotives also possess the ability to be switched between the two formats, which, along with the unspecific time period, country scenics and removable features mean the layout is completely flexible to suit whatever is being run. It also illustrates how a fun and realistic looking O gauge layout can be modelled in a small space. |   | |
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Melton Park Crossing |   | |
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Mollbury is an N Gauge Great Western Railway Layout. Based around the time period of 1935 to 1945. Built to fit in a particular space in the house and shows that you can fit a lot in a small area. Layout measures 5 feet by 1 foot. | |
Northfield Harbor of the harbour wall. The rest of the harbour wall was built with Wills flint effect plastic sheet. The sea was painted using various shades of blue, yellow and grey acrylics and water colours on foamboard with a couple of coats of PVA brushed over to finish. Northfield Harbor is set in the north east of the USA in New York State on the edge of Lake Erie, somewhere near Watertown, a real place. The period is the 1980’s. The layout is just 56 inches long and includes an integrated fiddle yard which is partly hidden behind a low relief warehouse. The baseboard is only 8 inches wide, made of balsa offcuts sandwiched between two layers of cardboard packaging, it is light, fairly robust, and is in two pull apart sections for easy dismantling and transportation. Two narrow add on pieces sit at the front representing a sea wall and strip of water. This brings the total size to 56 inches by 11 inches.
Salts Seafoods is a low relief factory from Model Railway Scenery and sits on a scratch built loading platform. Ahab Marine is the free low relief warehouse from Scalescenes. Both are generic enough not to look out of place on an American scene. These industries are supplemented by an outdoor gear shop, which is another downloaded printable kit, this time from Clever Models. The warehouse with its adjoining wall and bridge sits in front of the fiddle yard and fits into the baseboard surface by means of wooden pegs. Similarly, the factory fits down into the rear baseboard edge by means of a thin plywood tab and slot arrangement. This means that both buildings can be easily lifted off to protect them during storage or transportation. The background wall and bridge helping to hide the fiddle yard are scratch built using card and Superquick building paper, as was most |   | |
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Paynestown is a fictional small Western Region terminus set somewhere in the South Wales mining area. Construction is fairly standard Peco code 100 track and points. Buildings are scratch built and control is through Digitrax DCC. | |
Portskerra Portskerra is the terminus of a ficticious Highland Railway branch line on the north coast of Scotland. Although a branch to Portskerra was proposed as a Light Railway in 1898, and some surveying work carried out, the line never progressed beyond that. The model uses buildings of typical Highland style and the track layout has features of other Highland termini incorporated. The time period is spring 1915, the increase in traffic due to the Great War bringing many wagons from 'foreign' companies to this normally quiet line. The layout is constructed to 4mm scale, but uses E.M. gauge track for greater accuracy, plain track being C&L with hand built pointwork. Buildings are constructed from plasticard or wood. Grassland uses Noch electrostatic fibres to give a rougher look, while the leafless trees are made from twisted wire covered with filler. Locomotives are kit built from a variety of sources, rolling stock is kit built, modified or scratchbuilt from drawings available from the Highland Railway Society. |   | |
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This layout portrays the 2 foot narrow gauge railway at Rhyd Ddu, the southern terminus of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways' line from Dinas. As exhibited today it is viewed from the West looking towards Snowdon summit. As with my earlier Dinas layout, the intention has always been to model everything virtually from scratch. The track is spiked to wooden sleepers in the prototypical manner, the ballast being produced from crushed slate. The locomotives operated on the layout are constructed from nickel silver and brass, based on the manufacturers' original drawings. Coaches and wagons are constructed from wood, nickel silver or plasticard on brass/nickel silver underframes. Stonework on the buildings has been produced by building up layers of Polyfilla onto a scribed plaster base, the resulting textured finished being painted in water colours. The corrugated iron for the sheds and roofs was produced from Slater's sheet, suitably trimmed and pinned. The backscene is from a panoramic photograph taken at Rhyd Ddu station in 2017. | |
St Luke's Road |   | |
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We would like to thank Trevor Hallam for looking after the Thomas Layout for many years at our exhibitions and also for refurbishing it at his expense. Unfortunately because of ill health Trevor is no longer able to continue so it was decided to offer Thomas free of charge to Hucclecote Railway Modellers on condition they bring it to all of our future exhibitions. This is the model railway where Children can become Engine Drivers on the Island of Sodor and has of course been inspired by the Reverend Audrey books. Our Thomas and Friends layout has been built for ten years now and in that time we hope it has encouraged many new railway enthusiasts to build a train set of their own. Originally it was intended as a space filler at shows so needed to be small, easy to transport and have a simple track plan, easy for small children to operate. After its first appearance it was clear this model railway would have to be included at all our exhibitions. It incorporates a tunnel, station, level crossing together with locomotive and goods facilities. Train drivers should look out for many of the popular characters; Henry, Percy, Toby, Cranky, the Troublesome Trucks, not forgetting the Sir Topham Hatt better known as the Fat Controller. The famous anthropomorphised rolling stock is mostly from the Thomas range and we are sure most of the adults and all the kids will love it. Happy Driving, but please observe the track speed limits. | |
| Displays | ||
Travel 2000 Ltd | Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway WEBSITE | |
Return to the rails | Wednor Halt | |
Joint Harrier Strike Force WEBSITE | End of the line | |
Colchester Bus Stn mid 60s | ||
| Modelling Demonstrations | ||
| Jamie Thomas | Mark Begley | |
| Steve Harrod | Trevor Hale | |
| Trade | ||
| Five Valley Models WEBSITE | Hereford Model Centre WEBSITE | |
| Penduke Models WEBSITE | ||
