Featured below: “North Level Railway” (O-16.5), “Ingoldsby Yard” (O9), “Noels Walk” (1:16), “Pye Rigg Works” (O9),”Little Ease” (1:16), “Raven Hill” (O9), The Crowfoot Light Railway (16mm scale), “Knights Yard” (1:16) and “Longstone” (Gn15).
NORTH LEVEL RAILWAY (O-16.5)
Owned by Alan Church
The Layout is a small narrow gauge railway station and depot set in the late 40’s/early 50’s somewhere in the North Cambridgeshire Fens. The yard has a small fruit and vegetable depot for local farmers to send their produce to markets near and far. Supplies for the engine shed and coal yard are also required, and a frequent passenger service is also run for the locals. The buildings are mostly scratch built with some scratch aid kits. Rolling stock are again mostly kits, but some are scratch built, or modified ready-to-run. This layout was built by Mr Len Parsons but is now in the safe ownership of Alan, who has added some details. The scenic section is 8ft x 1ft 6″, with the fiddle yard using cassettes to prepare trains.
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INGOLDSBY YARD (O9)
By Chris Seago
A fictitious 15″ gauge railway serving the small goods yard of the Ingoldsby Estate. The layout is based on the “Inglenooks Sidings” shunting puzzle. Locos are scratchbuilt using parts from diecast model tractors and run on Kato tram chassis. The wagons are also scratchbuilt from plasticard and use N gauge wagon chassis. 009 track has been modified to give a “minimum gauge” appearance.
NOEL’S WALK (1:16)
By Bill Knight
This large scale shunting puzzle layout is built in an extremely small space, 2.25 square feet. The locomotives are battery operated and run on adapted Tri-Ang Series 4 track, a scale of 10.25″ gauge. The bodies of the locomotives, rolling stock and buildings are all home made from cardboard and strips of wood, some stock is inspired by very unusual prototypes seen in magazines. The ballast is crushed Perlite, the earth is the contents of used teabags and the vegetation is made from string and pieces from a liner for hanging baskets.
PYE RIGG WORKS (O9)
By Graham & Caroline Watling
The layout is a fictitious representation of the works on a 15″ gauge railway on the edge of the North York Moors. Central to the scene is a two road maintenance shed made from an mdf “OO” scale kit which was perfect for the size of trains in O9 scale. Graham’s wife helps making the scenery and operating the layout at shows.
LITTLE EASE (1:16)
By Bill Knight
This is an economically, but skilfully made shunting puzzle layout built by Bill. It is modelled in 1:16 scale in a very small space (approx 43″ x 27″). The baseboard is made from slats of a venetian blind rescued from a skip with a corrugated cardboard top surface. The track represents 10.25″ gauge using adapted “00” gauge track. The locomotives are battery operated, one is an adapted toy, but all the others together with the rolling stock, track and buildings are made from cardboard and strip wood. “Little Ease” is a deceptively simple shunting puzzle, the object being to make up a train of three wagons from a total of six on the layout.
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DRAWLEY (O9)
By Graham Watling
After Graham had completed his 009 layout “Shortwaite Hill” he decided to change scales to O9 (7mm scale, 15″ gauge). To try out the scale he built a small working diorama in a drawer (from an old cheap chest of drawers). The handle was removed and it was turned on it’s face to present a small scene in a baseboard area of about 20″ x 4.5″. This was ultimately to grasp a new scale and lead on to develop a larger exhibition layout.
RAVEN HILL (O9)
By Graham & Caroline Watling
The layout is based on North Yorkshire Moors scenery and is 7ft 2″ wide x 1ft 8″ deep and portrays a line running along a scenic hillside and into a small village. The station has a passenger platform and loop, a goods siding and a small engine shed siding. Loco kits are resin, 3D prints, and brass. All the wagons are resin kits, and the passenger coaches are either scratch built or use coach sides and ends from a continental kit. Graham’s wife helps with making the scenery and layout operation.
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THE CROWFOOT LIGHT RAILWAY (16mm)
By Andy MacMahon
A freelance 16mm/ft (1:19 scale) model railway by Andy MacMahon using 32mm gauge track permanently set at ground level in the back garden. It is a mainly single track continuous run narrow gauge layout with the two largest stations having long passing loops.
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KNIGHT’S YARD (1:16)
By Bill Knight
Bill would say that much of his modelling over the years has been on a trial and error basis, but after much experimentation he was encouraged by a Club member to try his hand at large scale narrow gauge, so he chose 1:16, running on “0” gauge track. He built a growing collection of small industrial type wagons with chassis made entirely of cardboard, and bodies made from a mixture of cardboard and strip wood. Eventually he built from the same materials his first locomotive after a he was handed a mechanism to use. These items and several more weird and wonderful locos now operate the “Nuttery Vale Light Railway”, which are to be seen on “Knights Yard”.
The locomotives are all home made and run by batteries, one is an adapted toy, and are manually operated up and down the tracks of this shunting layout. It is the headquarters of a narrow gauge railway serving a nearby nursery which always seems short of money. It is a large scale model in a very small space. The scenic section is just under 3ft long with a further head shunt/fiddle yard of 18″.
There are seven sources of traffic at Knights Yard, the rear siding serves a workshop, water tank and store, the middle siding serves a packing shed, and the front siding serves a loading platform, locomotive fuelling point and the kick-back siding complete with chain hoist, is used for permanent way materials etc.
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LONGSTONE (Gn15)
Owned by Barry Weston
This 1:24, 15″ gauge layout (or popularly Gn15) is 5ft 5″ by 3ft 3″ and displayed end-on showing three scenes, a mill, a village scene and a moorland scene. There is a fiddle yard at one end where ordinary Peco 00 track is used, but in the scenic area Peco 0-16.5 Streamline is utilised. The points are powered by Tortoise slow action turnout machines. The buildings are scratch built based around a foam board shell with Slater’s 0 gauge Dressed Stone as a cladding, and card tiles on the roofs. Some of the buildings have York Modelmaking laser cut window frames. The rocks were made of a mix of sawdust, p.v.a, acrylic paint and lightweight filler, and much use was made of floristry materials from a garden centre for the foliage. The locos are all Smallbrook Studio kits, the wagons are by Sidelines and Smallbrook, and the coaches scratch built and Smallbrook.
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