Newark - Lincoln Model Rail Club General Exhibition

Norman Colliery was born out of a need to have somewhere to shove wagons about with my growing collection of early design diesel shunters. The baseboards where originally mad for a OO continuous run 12' x 8' layout that never materalised. They were converted to a | 16' x 2' scenic layout with a 72' exchange yard. The premise is that the colliery is at the end of its life with the lower screens closing down and only the top screens in use. The only problem is that feeder road to the upper screens has been closed by subsidence so a link line had to be made to the lower line. This gave me the multi-level layout that you do not often see in O gauge. The engines are all kit built from various manufacturers except one 03 from Brassworks. The wagons are all kits, mainly Parkside Dundas with a couple of Slaters and Piercy. The colliery buildings are all scratchbuilt from foamboard with brick and stonework from Slaters and window frames from Highland castings. The track is all Peco, the point motors are from Conrad.

WELBY LANE R.T.CTRACTION AND ROLLING STOCK MAINTENANCE DEPOTPRESENTED BY MARK PEARSON - MEMBER OF SDEGWith the continuing development in the 1970s of the Railway Technical Centre at Derby itwas decided that minor repairs and servicing could be managed at the site of the Test trackwithout the need for a return to Derby or Toton.Welby Lane lies just off the Old Dalby test track at the Asfordby end, in fact, the spur stillexists into the Asfordby Business Park, originally part of the Great Northern Line north andseveral quarries in the area. The R.T.C decided that the spur provided an excellent area tobuild a maintenance facility and with the nearby quarry reception sidings gained additionalstorage space whilst still giving access to the main test track and main line.The scale is OO, using fine-scale and peco code 75 track and points. In fact, the layout wasbuilt in two halves and then also an extension was added sometime later! The original shed areais much older and was built as a small test bed for DCC and code 75 track, The newer 'exreception sidings area' was built some years after with the scrapyard extension being recentlybuilt. The overall length is now just over 20 feet in length by 2 feet wide maximum. Controlis by Lenz DCC, using an express net to enable more than one operator to use the layout. Slowaction point motors are Cobolt, Traintronics, or Fulgrex. Lights and accessories are fromvarious propriety suppliers and sources.All the locomotives are sound-fitted fitted giving an extra dimension, especially to some of the oddclasses of diesels that sadly are no longer around, Due to the diversity of the R.T.C constantlyexperimenting and developing, some items of stock seen on Welby Lane may only be correctfor 'that one day in time', and due to the secrecy and lack of photographic evidence ofcertain prototypes, some items have had to be modeled as such from what we can see/know.Some of the buildings on the layout are based on actual structures on the Mickleover and OldDalby test tracks - even down to the guard dog compound at Mickleover. The office blockand A.P.T testing house are inspired by the structures at Old Dalby,and have been eitherscratch built or by modifying kits to suit.

The aim is to portray in model form, most of the functions of a railway that served a community, in the days before road transport took over. Myton is located a few miles down a branch off a main line. The location is fictitious but based on personal experience of post nationalisation operations.

Kleine Rundfahrt is set in the Thuringia region of the former East Germany, the layout features stock from both DB and DR companies. The numerous transport museums in the area run excursions featuring preserved items