Shipley Model Railway Society
Past Layouts
1st September 1978

Photos of Shipley Model Railway Society layouts, more details at www.shipleymrs.co.uk

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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Running down the back of the shed were the North exchange and engineers sidings. Seventy one houses were built for railway employees alongside the line and some of these could be seen overlooking the station. In quiet periods a closer look at the houses would spot the railwayman who had slept in.
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 Tebay OO finescale layout. A banking loco buffers up to a frieight on the River Lune bridge.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout sold in 2004. Fowler tank no.42379 heads for Ulverston with a special train for convalescent miners.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no.44020 passing through Tebay with an unfitted freight.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Tebay was built to a scale of 4mm to 1’ and ran on hand built OO track using SMP rail and copper clad sleepers. All structures were built as accurately was possible using for reference whatever plans and/or photographs turned up in our research. The overall size was 30’ x 13’. In order to include in a model of this size all the features described above it was necessary to compromise by shortening the length of the locations and buildings, hopefully in a structured way, that still captured the overall prototypical appearance.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004, Duchess 4-6-2 no.46257 gets to grips with Shap bank heading the Down Special Travelling Post Office. Over 40 trains ran on the layout, all individually researched and modelled as running in our chosen time period. Some individual locomotives were not necessarily those which ran through Tebay at the time but were representative of their class. We were criticised for running trains too fast for visitors to see properly and for running too slow on occasions! Express trains ran down Shap and through Tebay at up to 90mph and Northbound passenger trains not requiring a banker were also moving quickly to get a run at the bank. In order to try to please as many people as possible some trains were ran at (our interpretation of) scale speed assuming a clear line while others slowed for signals!.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Ex-works Jubliee 4-6-0 no.45711 Courageous pulls away from Tebay with a Warrington-Carlisle train.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Princess Royal 4-6-2 no.46208 Princess Helena Victoria crossing the River Lune.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. A Durham-Furness coke train arrives at Tebay having travelled over the North Eastern branch. It was fascinating to watch passenger train movements here as all trains changed engines and many Newcastle and Durham-Blackpool trains were joined into one train at Tebay with the reverse happening in the opposite direction.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. A turntable could also be seen alongside the branch line. The locomotive sidings were still used for servicing locomotives using the branch. The goods sidings at the other side of the branch running lines handled a small amount of interchange traffic and were used on occasion for storing freight trains changing engines at Tebay.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. G2 0-8-0 no.49449 crossing the River Lune.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Unnamed Patriot 4-6-0 no.45517 tackles Shap bank, its mixed freight being assisted by a banker at the rear. A video production Classic Model Railway Layouts No.1 Tebay , featuring the layouts' operation in conjunction with archive footage, is marketed by British Railway Modelling magazine.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no.44459 brings an unfitted freight past some of the houses built for railway employees.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Patriot 4-6-0 no.45517 passing through Tebay.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. 71000 Duke of Gloucester hurries the The Mid-Day Scot past Tebay No.1 signal box. After crossing the Lune on a stone built viaduct the 5 mile plus climb to Shap started. Trains requiring a banker give three crows on the whistle when approaching No.1 box then stopped opposite the indicating post restarting when the banker had come on and whistled.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. A Crab hauled train of steel pipes from Glasgow runs through Tebay station.
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Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004.
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 Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004.
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 Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. Between 1848 and 1902, the York and North Midland, later the N.E.R, developed a system between Harrogate, Church Fenton and Leeds with a triangular junction at Wetherby.
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 Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005
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Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. The old Wetherby station at the Church Fenton corner was superseded by a new one at the Leeds corner of the junction, serving both Harrogate and Church Fenton.
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 Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. In addition to normal passenger and goods, this new station handled traffic from across the county for the local horse races, a perfect excuse for modellers licence!
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 Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. The scenery was 95 percent scratch built with all buildings and structures based on the original prototypes
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 Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. Trackwork was Peco OO gauge.
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