stow on the wold model railway exhibition sunday 18th may 2014 st

TRADE & DEMONSTRATORS
Keith Price
Modelling materials, locomotives
and stock
Harvey Faulkner-Aston
Quality pre-owned railway items
Mark Begley
Diesel and Electric Modellers United
STOW ON THE WOLD
MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION
SUNDAY 18TH MAY 2014
ST EDWARDS HALL
Sponsors:
O’Brien & Price Cheltenham, Structural Engineers
Jenny Holmes, Lloyds TSB
William Hinton, Chartered Accountants
Hayman Joyce, Estate Agents
Tayler & Fletcher, Chartered Surveyors, Estate Agents
RICS Registered Valuers and Auctioneers
Spectus Construction, Worcester
Kendall & Davies, Solicitors
Rob Edwards, Macauley Edwards Independent
Financial Consultants Ltd, Cheltenham
Nathan Clarke Building Contractors
Mike Honour Windows
SMALLCOMBE BY E M OLNEY
4mm Scale “00” Gauge LMS 1930s
Smallcombe is a busy terminus at the end of a single line branch located
‘somewhere’ on the Central division of the LMS, set in the mid 1930’s. The area is
presumed to have a significant demand for frequent passenger services and a
considerable requirement for all kinds of goods traffic. Smallcombe is the terminus
of the branch line, and is reached via the country town of Bishopsmead.
The layout portrays Smallcombe station and its industry, comprising
dairy/creamery, warehouse, and gasworks, in addition to the normal goods
facilities, together with a short length of the line from the tunnel. The ‘Fiddle Yard’
represents the branch line and the connection to the LMS network.
Notwithstanding the fictitious location, an operating sequence has been
developed and is run which although intense, is both plausible and (we hope!)
more or less correct.
The rolling stock on the layout is a mixture of predominantly kit, modified kit or
scratch built items together with a few items of extensively modified proprietary
items. The stock is generally in both the early and later pre-war livery styles.
Buildings are mostly scratch built but include kits/modified kits where these are
appropriate, and the scenery uses all the usual Woodland Scenics materials and
the like.
TWO SISTER’ FARM BY PETER MARSHALL
1/32 scale narrow gauge farm estate railway
The layout depicts a fictitious two foot narrow gauge light railway serving a
large agricultural estate in the Lincolnshire fens in the late 1950s. It is very
loosely based on a similar railway that actually existed from the 1920s until
the late 1960s and was some 22 miles long in total. It was originally
powered by horses but in later years steam, petrol and diesel locomotives
were employed. The light railway was used to transport the crops (mainly
potatoes, both early and main crop) but also wheat and sugar beet from
the fields to either a standard gauge railhead interchange or to be loaded
onto lorries for transport to market.
The model features the small terminus at Two Sister' Farm, the largest of
several farms that make up the estate. There is a small engine shed with
minimal facilities for coaling, watering and servicing the small but varied
fleet of locomotives and rail trucks. There is also a workshop where tractors
and implements are serviced and repaired.
The main crop grown on the estate is potatoes but the need for crop
rotation and the varying soils mean that a variety of other crops are also
grown. In addition to arable farming cattle, sheep and pigs are also reared
to give diversity. There is a small area of woodland which provides the
estate with all its timber needs and allows the breeding game birds for the
occasional shooting party. To the rear of the woodland is a quarry which
provides road stone for both the estate and the local council.
Wagons are pushed into the yard from the outlying fields and trains are
then made up for sending to the standard gauge connection nearby. Rail
trucks are used to ferry seeds and fertiliser to the fields.
The operators are always happy to answer any questions you may have.
ASTON MAGNA Mark Henshaw
GWR 1941
SCALE148:
Ni standard
“
2.06mm to foot / 1:148th scale
Aston Magna started life as an experiment in improved 148th scale track construction.
The track has been built to 9mm or ‘N’; gauge with the check rail and crossing
standards being tighter at 0.96mm rather than the normal N gauge standard of
1.1/1.25mm, this allows the newer generations of (post 2001) out of the box (RTR) N
gauge trains to run on it. The sleeper spacing and pattern is however as 1:148th scale
and UK outline and not as the commonly used overseas scale/pattern. Tolerances
similar to this scenario have been adopted by SCALE148 as the ‘9mm Intermediate’
standard and is titled: Ni.
The layout contains within its 18ft long scenic section three key scenic areas (from left
to right): a War department ‘Buffer Depot’; a through station and goods yard; and a
level crossing and cottages. These may be operated as ‘station only’ or with two or
three sections present; making the layout 12, 18 or 24 feet long.
Aston Magna is set upon a quintessentially country branch line, and although a
fiction;,the model is built as a small and cheaply constructed light railway which during
the grouping period was swallowed up by the Great Western Railway Company. It is
operated in the early 1941 period when the building of nearby airfields and military
establishments has seen an increase in traffic patterns. The railway through Aston
Magna was ‘scheduled for closure’ prior to the outbreak of hostilities and is still being
operated as ‘single engine in steam’ over this section, placing a great strain on the
already dilapidated line. A mixture of steam and diesel railcar hauled trains, work the
route making for a busy and varied scene.
The track-work is code40 bullhead rail soldered directly onto copper-clad sleepers. The
trains are all weathered, detailed and close coupled using a mixture of hybrid, drawbar and three link couplings. All wheels employ 0.5mm low profile flanges, and a
maximum effective flange thickness of 0.55mm. The general back-to-back
measurement is 7.45mm, although variations do apply dependent upon
manufacturer. The layout is analogue DC controlled via a Gaugemaster feed-back
hand-held controller. Shunting is done via automated DG couplings and magnets
beneath the track. The trains are stored in aluminium cassettes on each end. The
buildings are all freelance and scratch built from styrene sheet, aluminium foil and
paper. A variety of commercial etched brass and nickel silver fencing, and detailing
components have been used extensively. The trees are made from 0.3mm florists
binding wire and are covered with various commercial scatters and foliages. As an
experiment all the bushes and tree foliage on Aston are of the same material and
colour to de-emphasise their presence, creating a scenic ‘base’ colour upon which
detailing materials such as scatters may be applied later.
MANNIN MIDDLE BY PETER CULLEN
By the summer of 1964, the Isle of Man Steam Railway was a
shadow of its former self. Tourists had not returned to the island
after the Second World War and the halcyon days of the 1920s and
1930s were now a distant memory. After the boom years, short
trains with few passengers were now the order of the day.
Mannin Middle assumes the Foxdale branch had been extended
southwards to form a junction with the southern line at Ballasalla.
Although passing through a largely rural area which did not
contribute much passenger traffic, the route would have been
useful as a means of travelling from the south to the north of the
island thus avoiding Douglas.
The northern routes from Douglas to Peel and Ramsey closed in
1968. However the southern line remains open and it is still possible
to travel from Douglas to Port Erin through the beautiful rolling Manx
countryside in a wooden bodied coach hauled by a 19th century
steam locomotive.
The layout was originally built by Hugh Freeman of Kenilworth and
was purchased by the present owner in 1999. Following an
extended period of storage the layout has been restored and
renovated to its current condition.
Peter Cullen
Sutton Coldfield Railway Society
MOTLEY SUB-SHED BY ROB NEWMAN
This is a minimum space 7mm/ft 0 Gauge layout occupying 10ft x 2ft floor
space upon which the main scenery is the fleet of locomotives!
The collection of locomotives was once described as a ‘motley’ one, so it
seemed the natural thing to do, when constructing a layout upon which to
display them, to call it ‘Motley’ !
We assume that the seaside town of Motley [“somewhere in the UK”] has a
year-round local passenger traffic and it also has freight trains to and from a
nearby harbour. During the summer months there are special main line trains
from all over the country bringing holidaymakers and day trippers. We do not
see these trains, although there is one line which passes overhead at one end
of the sub-shed yard.
All these engines need somewhere to rest until the time of their return working.
The sub-shed seen here at Motley provides that space. This is not a large
motive power depot, just somewhere to park locomotives between duties and
perhaps replenish the tenders or clean clinker from the firebars. Alongside the
BR engine sidings is one which may be host to a variety of industrial
locomotives which can be seen stabled beside their larger counterparts.
So much for the fiction……….the locomotives themselves occupy most of the
space on this small layout. Upwards of twenty engines can be seen ‘on shed’
at any given time and they will be seen going on and off shed, and being
repositioned to allow others to move. The locomotives are rotated through the
course of an exhibition, to allow different models to be on view.
Most of the locomotives and other scenic items have been hand built from kits,
and we are grateful to Keith Blake, Aidan Houlders and Peter Whyborn for
building these, and to Andy Wilkie who assists with the operation of the layout.
It is possible to operate this layout with locomotives from BR (ScR), BR (LMR), BR
(WR with SR interlopers!) plus a wide variety of industrial types, or a mixture of all
of these……….
The layout is widely used to publicise THE STANIER 8F LOCOMOTIVE SOCIETY LTD,
owners of Stanier 8F locomotive No 48773 [also known as LMS 8233 and
WD307], currently awaiting overhaul and located in the Engine House at
Highley on the Severn Valley Railway
For further details about the locomotive or membership of the Stanier 8F
Locomotive Society please ask one of the operators. Thank you.
PENDLETON PIT BY RON BYBUS
TENNESSEE EXTRACTION BY PAUL DAVIES
Layout Description
An N gauge DCC layout based on
the Salford area of Lancashire with a concept of Pendleton
Colliery, the deepest coal mine in the UK. The period covered
is late 1960’s to mid 1970’s with both diesel and steam locos.
There is twin track main line continuous running as well as both
a colliery three track siding as well as a separate station and
goods yard. The extension will create a longer circuit for one of
the tracks plus a station and sidings.
The layout is operated from the front left hand corner.
The Tennessee Extraction Co is a model of a Tannin extraction plant in
the Blue Ridge Mountains of Tennessee.
The tannin is used in the tanning of leather, so there is also a Tannery.
There are several things to look out for, e.g. the working conveyor, the
fire in the pot room and the working saw mill. Coal chute for loading
wagons, coal chute to take loaded wagons and tip into the barge. This
is actually two 4x2 sections of a modular layout which in its entirety is
56ft in a straight line although its usual configuration is an oblong. All the
modules are owned by members of the OTT subdivision of the Slim
Gauge Circle (a national club for those interested in American Narrow
Gauge.
BAKEWELL STREET BY CHRIS HOPPER
Bakewell Street is my first attempt at a 7mm layout and is something of an
experiment. It is a simple test track laid out as an “Inglenook” or shunting twig and
has been built using Peco track. It is designed to be extended if I wish but is
exhibited today unfinished.
It is loosely based in the early 1960s located on the BR Western Region somewhere in
the Gloucester area although I also have stock associated with the northwest that
also runs on the layout.
The layout is run with a DCC system and many of the locomotives are sound
chipped. The couplings are Sprat & Winkle operated using both fixed and electromagnets.
The locomotives are a mixture of kit built and ready-to-run and the wagons are
mainly kit-built plastic and brass kits from Slater’s, Parkside and Connoisseur.
The operating team is very happy to try to answer any questions but this is the
layout’s first show so please bear with us if we are busy working out how it all
works….