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Alston has been developed over a number of years and has now come to the limit of space available at home.
We have expanded the period covered to include a dash of diesel but only just, so look out for the occasional green machines.
The station at Lambley together with it’s 100 ft high viaduct have been created from scale drawings, showing what can be achieved structures in “N” gauge.
We hope you enjoy watching the trains, just looking at the railway or having a natter with us.
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BODMIN GWR 1930’s presented by Ray Slack and Ian Hibbert. A representation of the workings of a line used for the carriage of china clay from Wenford Bridge Branch reversing at Bodmin and onto the docks at Fowey via the main line junction at Bodmin Road. This together with intensive passenger workings daily & local pickups resulted in continual activity at Bodmin Station. Bodmin Station and platform still exist today as part of a preserved line.
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Chaudes-Aigues is a fictitious layout set in the centre of France south of Clermont-Ferrand. The town actually exists, but not in the form depicted by the layout. It is not served by the real railway, which passes it by in the next valley a few kilometres away. We have imagined a single-track line serving it, with a small station on the edge of town.
In real life, it would only have had a few trains a day in each direction, but our imaginary line is much busier, with railcars providing the bulk of the passenger services, and occasional freight trains.
We run two separate time-periods – the early 1960s with steam still active, or else much later in the 1980/1990s with more modern stock and diesel traction. Fortunately, this part of “La France profonde” has hardly changed in 50 years.
The control of the locomotives is digital, but the points are changed by steel rods beneath the baseboard. Track is Peco code 55 throughout, and point polarity is changed with micro-switches at the back. A small 3-road fiddle yard behind the backscene represents the rest of France beyond the station.
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The First Public Showing of Coed-Y-Bleddiau / Wood of the Wolves. Coed-Y-Bleddiau / Wood of the Wolves is a real area of Wales, it is a curve on the Ffestiniogg Railway. My layout is a work of fiction based on a branchline in Flintshire.
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The layout is loosely based around South Devon, the name being derived from the towns of Dawlish and Paignton. A mainline station, diesel depot and canal are all included. Full length trains are operated and the aim is to always have something moving on the layout.
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Digital control is nothing new - these models were digitally powered from 1957! Please ask for a demonstration and we will flex our muscles to oblige!
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A fictional location set somewhere in the East Midlands / North East area. The endeavour is to run trains prototypically with trains, liveries that would be seen in the area, and scale lengths with correct formations.
Motive power is prepresentative of the period being operated, ranging from 37's and 57's to state of the art 60's, 66's and 67's. Other haulage is provided by the likes of classes 150, 153, 156, 158 and 170. Watch out for the Royal Train, EWS Executive Train and a number of visitors.
Rolling stock comprises mainly ready-to-run items from Bachmann / Dapol, although they may have been modified slightly to make them look different. The working colour light signals are by Roger Murray.
The layout is operated with stock from the present day, with its multitude of liveries.
We hope you enjoy watching Dragonby as much as we enjoy playing trains. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask; the operators may not know the answers but they will know a man who does!
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British ‘N’Gauge. The layout represents a fictitious small depot on a branch line, somewhere in the north of England. The small platform being used solely by railwaymen to access the depot. The shed itself has been demolished but the depot remains open to water steam loco’s and provide a stabling point for them and a small fleet of class 76 Woodhead electrics. Passenger services along the branch are in the hands of DMU’s and a class 506 EMU. Most of the surrounding houses are uninhabited as the depot fights off total closure. All is not lost though as an embryo scrap merchants has set up business in the dept sidings.
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The layout is set in the Fife area of Scotland just before the demise of Railfrieght in 1991.Modellers license places Glenrothes on the Edinburgh- Dundee line with the Fife Circle/Perth and Thornton Yard route leaving it north of the station. The old steam sheds have been replaced by Fife Handling freight terminal which receives a wide variety of traffic tripped down from Thornton Yard .
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A simple terminus at the end of the Nivverwas Valley Tramway,
deep in the Pennines.
Two short freight trains visit – a pick-up goods and a sheep train.
Passenger trains include stock “borrowed” from all over the country.
Younger viewers might be invited to operate, and successful
operators get a certificate.
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The layout was built as two 4’ modules, compatible with the NGS Berkshire Area Group’s modular layout.
The layout consists of four running lines and a loop providing access to the oil terminal and the locomotive depot. All operating independently, up to five trains can be moving at one time.
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Magna Park N Gauge
Lutterworth N Gauge Group
This is the second layout produced by the group since it was formed, Magna Park is a fictional location. They layout was started last year and six members of the group have worked hard to get it to an almost finished state in under two years. The railway is a typical midlands station, and mainline intermediate station with a junction to a branch line and a freight yard in accordance with a small town that it serves together with a small loco shed. The era is the 1950's and 60's at the end of steam on BR and about the time of the introduction of the diesel locos. The layout was manufactured and paid for by the 'N' gauge group and the stock is wholly owned by the members.
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Marsh Chipping is a fictional Cotswold town on the Oxford to Worcester main line set in the early 1960's. The track plan is based on Chipping Campden and the goods shed on the one at Moreton in Marsh, hence the name.
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MELTON MOWBRAY (NORTH)
presented by John Spence and Steve Weston
The line was built by the GN and LNW railway companies. Traffic
was diverse, coal and ironstone being the two major minerals
conveyed. After WWII, the line fell into decline, local passenger
trains terminating in 1953 but excursions to the east coast resorts
continued at weekends until closure in 1964.
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MILLFIELDS, presented by Pauline McKenna & Steve Titheridge
Millfields is a fictitious layout and is not based on any particular area which allows us to run anything in the period from 1968 to present (modern image). It features a four track mainline, 2 fast for passenger and 2 slow for freight trains. We run scale length trains. The idea of the layout is to keep trains running all the time, with plenty of interest to keep you entertained.
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Modular German Layout by the N-Club-international-Modul-Group
"European High Speed Trains"
The Club’s modular layout is designed to be build in different shapes and sizes. It enables us to join with international partner clubs to create huge layouts – the biggest we did up to now reached 520m length. Every layout is individually designed for each exhibition.
The layout shown here shows different scenes along a typical modern German main line for high speed trains such as fields and rivers or - not so typical - a rock concert.
There will be different European high speed passenger trains as well as fast cargo trains in use.
The concept is an end to end traffic with a fiddle yard at one's end. Nominal radius is 3 meters. The fiddle yard is designed to hold 20 trains.
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On the right of the River Rhein in Germany lies the pretty wine town of Niederfell. Although not rail connected, I have used a little "modellers licence" and put Niederfell on the Rail Map. The imaginary line runs from Koblenz and crosses the Rhein at Niederfell to Lehmen
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Mid 1930’s – Early 1960s. Steam and early Diesels
Norgate is a main line set in rolling countryside in the 1930s-60s, the location being witness to a wide variety of rolling stock from any of the ‘big four’ in either the pre-Nationalisation or early BR eras.
It has roughly 1.75 mile double track looped figure of eight, and a 1.1mile single track branch line. There is one through station with three platforms and capacity for ten coach trains with a small goods yard. There are two fiddle yards each with eight tracks from front to back, which can each hold two or three shorter trains if required. The main fiddle yard is on both the figure of eight and the oval, so that three of the tracks are used for running, leaving five for storage.
The second fiddle yard is only on the branch line so has one running track and seven storage tracks. Several of the tracks in the second fiddle yard are eight feet long, to enable us to run some very long trains.
The junctions allow trains to reach any part of the layout, in either direction, and allow operation to be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.
The layout can provide for a variety of passenger and goods traffic and has the capacity to run fifteen coach express trains and fifty wagon coal trains
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The layout is based in the USA with a "switchboard" leading to a high-level mine, at one end with a depot and feed mill at the other end. Control is by Digitrax DCC. A variety of short freight and passenger stock is run.
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Polpendra is based in North Cornwall around 1960 and you will be able to see a range of typical trains in a Cornish setting. We run detailed and weathered Western, Southern and Br stock as well as steam and diesels. Look out for a lot of small cameos and details.
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A classic “Minories” layout with goods yard, designed to allow a terminus station to be operated for fun.
Control is by Lenz DCC including points and semaphore signals, track is Kato Unitrack ballasted and weathered.
Baseboards are Woodland Scenics foam.
Pontdefad will be mainly green diesel this weekend for reliability.
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Sand Well County, an N gauge layout from Warley MRC.
In 1870 a railroad was pushed through the rocks one side of the Canyon. The railroad survived as a back water until it became a useful bridge road, so useful that a parallel trail was pushed through to expand capacity and improve timings. The two tracks are bi-directional and are used by the GN, UP and SP.
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The 2mm Scale Association - 2mm scale is the smallest practical finescale modelling standard and allows you to create realistic models in a moderate space. The Association provides the support, kits, components and special products to make the scale practical. Recent developments include plastic based “Easitrac” and drop-in replacement diesel wheelsets.
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DEMU – DIESEL and ELECTRIC MODELLERS UNITED
DEMU caters for the modellers of the 1955 era of British Railway Modelling.
For more information see our website or stand at the show.
www.demu.co.uk or membership@demu.co.uk
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Nearly 5,000 members who receive free bi-monthly journal, access exclusive kits, mail order shop, area groups. Instant membership available from stand, introductory pack from 17 Toll Bar Road, Chistleton, Chester, CH3 5QU
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WorldWide is a Group of the NGS to encourage and promote overseas
modeling. We hold an annual Convention but communicate mainly through our regular, excellent, magazines. The bi-monthly Globe and monthly Supplement is also available to non NGS members by e-mail.
The group has its own website at www.ngauge-wwg.org.uk.
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The layout measures 11'6 x 2'6 and consists of two circuits, based on British Outline Modern era from 1970's to present day. We hope you enjoy watching the trains go by.
Please feel free to ask any questions.
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Temple Falls attempts to recreate all aspects of the world renowned Japanese Railway systems. Colourful Commuter, Express and specialist Freight trains in J.R and Private liveries run on Kato Unit rack that incorporates automatic L/C and signalling. Shinkansons (Bullet Trains) run on a dedicated Tomix Finescale slab rail track.
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Temple Valley is a Japanese end to end layout using Kato and Tomix track systems. Commuter trains run overhead of a busy Locomotive Maintenance Depot and into a terminus station. Two further tracks serve a Fishing Port and a terminus platform.
Operation of the layout is completely automated using Heathcote Electronic systems.
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TENNIS COURT SIDINGS, The Bus Rally Layout by Ken Jones. Ken has been building layouts in suitcases, box files etc since 1999 and in Tennis Court Sidings, he saw an opportunity to show his collection of more than 70 x N Gauge buses. Tennis Court Sidings is a British N Gauge layout set in the present somewhere in south west England where a bus rally is being held and the railway is open. The layout is being built during 2010 and will make its first appearance at the event; the layout is 91cm x 61cm and consists of an oval track, but it’s the buses that make this layout different as some of the kits have not been produced for years and it’s not certain which buses will turn up to the event, just like a bus rally. A further attraction is that other buses have been sourced from the USA, Germany and the Far East and are not often seen in the UK. There are also the really unique models special to this layout such as the tree lopping bus converted from a Lesney / Matchbox model.
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THE WORKS which is only 20cm x 12cm and built in a double video case – it depicts part of a Unit 12 in a chemical works. It has recently appeared on East Midlands local TV and the goal of this layout is to show people that you don’t always need a large space to enjoy the hobby.
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Waterstock is some 20ft long and comprised of 6 ( 4' x 2' ) boards as the main "scenic" model with 4 ( 4'x 1' ) boards for the rear fiddle yard. The track plan is an amalgam of Hatton Junction and Yeovil Pen Mill. In this instance Hatton has been moved southwards to rest between Oxford ( Tiddington ) and Thame, and became part of the GWR/GCR joint improvement/expansion of 1897. This saw a better/faster/shorter line for the GWR to Birmingham and access to Marylebone avoiding the Metropolitanline for the GCR. The layout is placed in the 1950's/early 60's period allowing for both steam and early diesel traction to be used, along with a degree of inter regional traffic for variety.
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