Horton 2.jpg Horton N gauge layout. (2) A typical Midland Railway style country station was depicted in both pre and post nationalisation eras. Horton 3.jpg Horton N gauge layout. (3) Set in moorland surroundings were a small goods yard and a limestone quarry served by a private siding. These provided sources of freight traffic. Horton 4.jpg Horton N gauge layout. (4) Passenger services comprised both local passenger and express trains. Tebay A1.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout as exhibited at Wigan. This layout, which was sold in 2004, allowed the observer to pick a lineside spot, imagine that they were in the period between 1948 and 1963 and enjoy watching the trains go by..... From the right came trains heading North and trains from the left were heading South. You would have arrived by train or the A6 - no motorway existed (yet). Tebay is situated in the beautiful but wild and remote Lune valley in the Cumbrian hills. It often rains and the winds frequently blow down Tebay Gorge or down from the high fells. You would have been fortunate, the summers day was fine and visibility good. In between the passing trains and shunting movements all you would have heard is the bleating of sheep. The West coast main line stretched before you in both directions. Looking as far as you could see to the south, the line crossed the river Lune on a girder bridge immediately prior to throwing off a loop on the down line. The loop was well used, principally by goods trains, to avoid delaying following faster freight or passenger trains. Evercreech Jn 4.jpg Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. Following the formation of the society the 4mm Finescale Group constructed a layout of Evercreech Junction on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. Griffin Road.jpg Griffin Road N gauge (now sold) - a modern image layout which represents a fairly busy terminus station at the end of a double track line is set in the early 1990's. A selection of passenger and freight workings can be seen, which were typical of the area. Most stock operating on the layout, including locos, coaches and wagons are detailed ready-to-run items, with majority of coaching stock and multiple units close-coupled to give a more realistic appearance. Tebay A6.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout sold in 2004. Fowler tank no.42379 heads for Ulverston with a special train for convalescent miners. Tebay B5.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Patriot 4-6-0 no.45517 passing through Tebay. Tebay A4.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Foremost in this view is Fowler 4MT 2-6-4T no.42396, a 1933 built variant with a side window cab of this 1927 designed class. The distinctive coaling and ash plants were also new being brought into use in 1956. 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. Tebay A2.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The station was used primarily as an interchange station by passengers using the branchline which ran to Kirkby Stephen, then further east, over Stainmore summit, and eventually to Barnard Castle and beyond. Horton 1.jpg Horton N gauge layout. (1) A freelance layout based on the Settle & Carlisle line and sold in the late 1980s. Wetherby A2.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Rattlesnake 1.jpg Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. This layout represented a fictious railroad built around 1865, the Ogden Northeastern Railroad. Rattlesnake Pass formed a bridging link across Wyoming, originating at Ogden Utah, heading North to the Union Pacific near Kemmerer, Wyoming, crossing the Great Divide through Rattlesnake Pass and on to connect with the Great Northern at Red Lodge, Montana. Rattlesnake 2.jpg Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. In 1931 the Ogden Northeastern was purchased jointly by the Southern Pacific & Great Northern for handling perishable products going to the northeast and Canada and returning with forestry products for the west coast. Rattlesnake 3.jpg Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. Today the 750 mile long line is operated jointly by the Burlington Northern and Southern Pacific / Denver & Rio Grande to expidite container and piggyback traffic around the heavily trafficed Nebraska coal fields where track capacity is a premium. Rattlesnake 4.jpg Rattlesnake Pass - American N gauge layout now dismantled. A wide range of mixed freight operates over this line along with an Amtrak passenger service between Chicago and Los Angeles. There are two major industries at the town. Railroad ballast is provided by the gravel quarry as well as the odd coal load as a coal seam has been broken into. The local farmers co-op is served by the grain silo and during the harvest season grain trains are backed up waiting to ship out the grain to the major cities in surrounding states. The town is also served by local freights dropping off a few cars, and a local switcher is often to be found when traffic is at a minimum. Evercreech Jn 2.jpg Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. A pair of Somerset & Dorset 7F 2-8-0s doublehead the Pines Express through Evercreech Junction. Tebay B.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Princess Royal 4-6-2 no.46208 Princess Helena Victoria crossing the River Lune. Tebay A7.jpg 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. Evercreech Jn 1.jpg Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. The layout was featured in the June and July 1984 issues of Railway Modeller Tebay A3.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The engine shed, code 11D (12H after May 1960), had an allocation of locomotives for banking heavy trains up Shap bank and for local trip freight. The shed building was in good condition having been rebuilt between 1948 and 1950. The 50’ turntable, 53’ with its extension rails in use, was long enough to turn the longest locomotives allocated to the shed, the 2-6-0 lvatt “Mucky Ducks”. Tebay B1.jpg 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. Tebay B2.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. G2 0-8-0 no.49449 crossing the River Lune. Tebay B4.jpg 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. Wetherby A1.jpg 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. Wetherby A3.jpg 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. Wetherby A4.jpg 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! Wetherby A5.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. The scenery was 95 percent scratch built with all buildings and structures based on the original prototypes Wetherby A6.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005. Trackwork was Peco OO gauge. Wetherby A7.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby A8.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B1.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B2.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B3.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B4.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B5.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B6.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B7.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 logo.jpg Wetherby B8.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby B9.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C1.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C2.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Tebay A6b.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Fowler 4F 0-6-0 no.44020 passing through Tebay with an unfitted freight. Evercreech Jn 3.jpg Evercreech Junction 4mm Finescale - sold in 1988. Wetherby C3.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C4.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C5.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C6.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C7.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C8.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby C9.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby D1.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Wetherby D2.jpg Wetherby OO layout sold in 2005 Tebay A5.jpg Tebay OO finescale layout. A banking loco buffers up to a frieight on the River Lune bridge. Tebay A9.jpg 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. Tebay B3.jpg 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. Tebay A8.jpg 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!. Tebay C1.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. A Crab hauled train of steel pipes from Glasgow runs through Tebay station. Tebay C.jpg 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. Tebay C2.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Tebay C3.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. Tebay A3a.jpg Tebay 4mm finescale layout - sold in 2004. The distinctive coaling and ash plants were brought into use in 1956. Tebay A4a.jpg 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. Tebay B1a.jpg 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. fossebridge4.jpg The brewery at Fossebridge fossebridge3.jpg This Great Western branchline has undergone some significant changes over the last few years in order to enhance its operating potential. The layout was originally constructed as an elongated letter J with a shed, turntable and station approaches. This area survives but an extra three boards have been added making the layout 46 feet long. It is 2'6" wide. There is an additional 6 inch wide bolt-on scenic road section which fits in front of the station. Little of the original alignments remain although those who know where to look can see the nostalgic remains of the original tunnel, a plafform face and Brians bridge! The new station complex includes structures from the original layout including the signal box which is based on the one at Fairford station. New structures have been constructed on the platforms that conform to typical Great Western practice and a new carriage shed can be seen behind the up platform. The structure is based on the one at Helston. The larger station has required the signalling arrangement to be altered and amended. GWR pattern lower quadrant signals have been built from the excellent Scale Signal Supply range. fossebridge2.jpg Our Fossebridge station runs to a very busy schedule, far busier of course than would have been the case in those far off days. Likewise locomotive stock represents a far wider range than one would have been likely to see at the time on a branch line! We offer the opportunity to view classes of GWR locomotives examples of which are now lovingly held in preservation hands, but some also that are now extinct! Fossebridge can now accommodate three trains simultaneously, or four with careful planning as well as longer trains than before. The layout has an eight road fiddle yard. fossebridge1.jpg There is a village called Fossebridge. It is a very small village in Gloucestershire, but it was passed by in the railway age and it never had a railway. However as is the want of many modellers we have taken licence, changed history, and given it one! Our Fossebridge is set in the late Twenties, early Thirties and is a thriving market town of some ten thousand people served by a branch line terminus, and supports among other things a dairy, a pub (of course, what else!) with the towns folk going about their daily work in the smithy, on the farms around the town, in the dairy etc Our railway as we see it at Fossebridge represents the Great Western Railway at its zenith, one might argue, and is often the case just before its fall. An organisation which filled the role of common carrier, as indeed did all railways of the day, willing and able to handle any kind of merchandise, raw material, stock; human and otherwise, from milk to coal, explosives to pigeons. The wonderful palmy days of steam, full employment on the railway and a public which could afford to travel and no leaves and no snow. fossebridge5.jpg Fossebridge shed. This layout was sold in 2006.