Layouts Confirmed

SOUTHDALE (00) - ROBIN EDWARDS

End-to-end layout depicting a branch line terminus. Era late 1950's / early 1960's. It incorporates a dairy and a small station goods yard. A wedding gathering is concluding at the local church.

    

BUCKLEBURY LANE (OO) - OMRC

Both steam and diesel traction may be seen on this beautifully detailed end-to-end layout, which has been extended since its first appearance at our Exhibition in 2023

 

LIDDLE TOWN (N) - DAVID SMITH

A freelance model with a mixture of English and German buildings and scenery.

    

QUARRY END (009) - DALE GILLARD 

Quarry End depicts a small village set somewhere in Wales where the majority of the population work in the local slate mine.

email: dalegillard6150@gmail.com

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THREE BRIDGES (N) - DAVID WOODCOCK

An LMS layout featuring a country location with no station.

 

DAISYFIELD YARD (OO) - JACK PALISTER

Daisyfield Yard was a three month project that began after a visit to the Great Electric Train Show at Milton Keynes which refuelled my enthusiasm for model railways and was completed in February 2025. Albeit only a small collection of rolling stock is present, Daisyfield is a mix of a fiction and non-fiction holding sidings setting, based very briefly on the likes of Willesden DCR sidings and Chaddesden Yard, as you may be able to tell from the locomotives present. The holding yard itself has the ability to have locomotives and wagons of all sorts sat around being shunted or stabled for future use. 

The layout is DCC with sound fitted locos.

 

CWM BACH (O) - MARK WILSON

https://cwmbach.z33.web.core.windows.net

Cwm Bach (translation: little valley) is a fictional location, somewhere in the South Wales valleys, nominally a few miles from Pontypridd (but not to be confused with the real Cwmbach near Aberdare). In this 7mm scale/O gauge model, it's presented as a run-down late 1980s single track branch line, with a small platform and a DMU service. The line was once double-tracked and continued through a tunnel but that was closed many years ago and only remains today because it's a reversing point for freight (mostly civil engineering and wagon repairs). There's no space for a run-round loop, which necessitates some shunting and there's generally an 08 or two to be seen. As well as the regular DMU service, Cwm Bach also sees the occasional visitor on a test run from Cathays Works or Cardiff Canton depot. Watch out for a 37, a 33 or a 56 either "light engine" or with some interesting short trains as well as an occasional steam special.

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GRANDAD'S TRAIN SET (HORNBY DUBLO THREE RAIL) - BRIAN WOODCOCK

A Hornby Dublo  Railway. Most items date from the late 1940s to the close of Hornby Dublo a lot of them were mine from a child and made by Meccano , some locos are converted modern made locos , and some wagons are what we call " neverwazzes" , wagons never made by Hornby but what the operators build to what they would have liked made 
Presented by Brian Woodcock a Hornby Railway  Collectors Association member (9364)

 

BILLINGHAM STREET (O) - LES WILLIAMS

A fictitious stabling point in the North-East, serving locos which work in the local marshalling yards. The layout shows what can be achieved in a small space. You will see classes 03, 08, 20, 25, 45 and 55. The track is Peco, the buildings are scratch-built along with the fueling point. The locos are a mixture of Heljan and Bachmann brass. Wagons are a mixture of kits and ready-to-run.  The over-bridge is a ready-made model from Skytrex.​

 

VICTORIA (EM) - DAVE TAILBY

Sidings adjacent to Victoria Station in Central London dealing primarily with parcels traffic. You will see the station pilot loco shunting parcels stock in and out of the platforms, to add to other trains.​​​

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SORRENTO PARK  (AMERICAN TT:120) - ROD SHAW

Sorrento Park is a North American industrial switching layout in TT:120 scale. It uses the recently introduced Peco TT scale track and turnouts. Stock and locos are mostly ready-to-run from European suppliers, while the buildings are scratch-built. All locos are DCC-fitted, one with sound. Sound for the others is produced by two under-baseboard decoder-equipped speakers

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TONY'S FOREST (014 / 7mm Scale Narrow Gauge) - ROBIN EDWARDS

Tony was the owner of this forest in the 1890's and he built a narrow gauge railway to bring timber down to his own saw mill. This was extended during the Great War when there was an increasing need for timber. However it fell out of use afterwards. It saw a new lease of life during World War 2 when parts of it were used to get more timber and quarry stone. This section portrays the line coming up the hillside to a passing loop with the old line forward now disused and overgrown. The line reverses and continues up the hillside while a newer branch leads to a quarry which now supplies Shropshire County Council with road stone. The area is still known as Tony's Forest but the railway remains known only to a few enthusiasts and the local population. There are some rare locomotives still in use and unknown to many enthusiasts. However, this is the late 1950's and modernization is on the way. Who knows how long this little backwater will survive before being noticed by someone in the Council? The future is very uncertain.

 

Emphasis has been placed on scratch-built scenery and structures whilst most of the rolling stock is built from kits. Track is hand-built using PECO nickel silver rail.

Email:    robinglos@outlook.com

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RIDGMONT (N) - 

(Details to follow...)

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