An extensive pre-group North-Eastern Railway layout built in the 1970's, depicting the East Coast Main Line somewhere north of Harrogate in about 1905. This allows double track mainline running along with shunting in the numerous sidings

The layout forms a  circuit with an extensive fiddle yard to the rear, and is scenically modelled to a high standard. This layout is available on Open Days to run members' and visitors' stock

The layout is ostensibly controlled from it's original central panel, but has been proven to allow the use of DCC on the main lines to broaden it's horizons

A compact O Gauge layout with lots going on. The attention to detail is impressive and it also incorporates modern materials and technologies including battery powered locomotive control

Hope Street was featured in the January 2020 edition of Railway Modeller

Coverdale is a layout which can be joined with Ravensbeck increasing the scenic section or run independently. Had the early railway companies had their way, there would have been a line from Colne to Teeside, via Wharfedale and Coverdale. This layout supposes that these early proposals were successful and that the line was built. Modelled in the early 1900's, the layout runs Midland, L&Y and North-Eastern stock.

Built a few years ago the layout has recently undergone a redesign and refurbishment to bring it into the 21st Century. Any one wishing to have a try with 7mm will be welcomed by the team taking up this challenge

Set in 1940's the layout depicts that section of the Denver & Rio Grande Western route from Gunnison to Montrose which ran through the Black Canyon. Modelled in American On3 to give a true scale 3' gauge, it features DCC sound equipped locos, a night/day light sequence and a storm with both thunder and lightning

The rolling stock is mostly kit-built and weathered whilst the locos are a mixture of hand built brass imports and MMI R-T-R. Currently, only the front section of the layout has scenery, but there are plans to extend this at both ends to include the curves to the fiddle yard

The Black Canyon route now lies under the waters of the Blue Mesa reservoir, but a loco and caboose are preserved on a section of bridge near Cimarron, at the head of the canyon.  Echoes of the Black Canyon layout has featured in multi-page article in the July 2020 edition of the ‘Continental Modeller’.

It is the 1940’s and a hot summer’s day. The Redwood Logging Company continues its operations to fell timber in the high country North of San Diego and bring it down to the coastal sawmill to be processed into lumber. The site is located by a creek but it isn't navigable by ships and the finished lumber has to be transported by rail to the nearest port. Consequently, there is constant activity as the RLC's Shays and Climax locomotives bring tree trunks into the camp, and take staked planks away. There is also other activity in the shape of goods and equipment being moved via a loading dock, where local businesses can bring and collect deliveries. Mail is also brought into the remote area by rail for collection from the small depot

Passenger traffic is sparse, but some workers at the camp are brought and taken home by train each day. Much of the equipment is second-hand and is starting to show its age, some of the cars still displaying traces of their former owners

 The layout is 9 feet long and 18" wide, with a folding fiddle yard to the rear. It was originally build by Roger Nicholls from Wakefield MRC and was purchased by its current owner in 2012

It has a new LED lighting gantry, revised fiddle yard arrangements and new locomotives. the rolling stock is mostly Bachmann, weathered appropriately, and the layout now features DCC sound

This small pre-grouping shunting layout (9' x 1'9") demonstrates that you don't need to have enormous amounts of space to model in 0 gauge. The attention to detail is impressive and it incorporates modern materials and technologies including battery powered locomotive control

Whilst Pucklechurch never gained a railway connection this layout is based on the possibility of a former Midland Railway branch on the Gloucestershire/Somerset border around 1960 which has become part or the Western region of British Railways. The layout features both ex-GWR & LMS locos working a variety of typical branch services