0 Gauge (7mm) Layouts

Ravensbeck

A pre-group North-Eastern Railway layout, depicting the East Coast Main Line somewhere north of Harrogate in about 1905.  The layout forms a circuit with an extensive fiddle yard to the rear, and in scenically modelled to a high standard.  This layout is available on Open Days to run members' and vistors' stock.

Runswick Bay

Again, pre-group North-Eastern, this circular layout represents a coastal town north of Whitby and features a scratch-built viaduct modelled on that at Sandsend.  A scenic tour de force, the layout took 5 years to build and has been exhibited internationally.

Water Street Sidings

Again pre-group, this small shunting layout (9'x1'9") demonstrates that you don't need to have enormous amounts of space to model in 0 gauge!

Hellifield Shed

The clue's in the name!  Modelled in 1930's - 1960's, the trackplan is authentic (if truncated a little) and features the shed, turntable and coaling stage.  Hellifield is used to showcase the locomotive builder's skills.

Pucklechurch

Is based on 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.

Mill Street

Another branch line layout of modest size, depicting the steam/diesel transition years.

Coverdale

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.

Foston Mills

The North Holderness Light Railway running from Beverley to North Froidingham in E.Yorkshire was a "very nearly built" railway.  Contemporary tile maps, such as that at York, show the projected route.  The layout shows a possible branch from North Frodingham to to Foston-on-the-Wolds, where there was a brewery and a large water turbine driven flour mill.  The location and buildings, or their remains, still exist although unfortunately never served by rail (photo courtesy of Railway Modeller).