Statfold Model Railway Event
Featuring layouts.
Arley, Burlish Road, Caroline Concrete, Duxbury, Fairlie Syniad Da, Gresty Bridge, Hackworth (Jutland St), Halland, Heanor South, Karolina Falls, Knowles Hill Colliery, Medway Quay, Merstone and Ventnor, Middle Elmton, Quorn Magna, Rush Green Colliery, Sixpenny Handley, Southgate Park, Tan-Y-Bwlch, Tramline, Tryffan Ddu, Ulvyard
The arrival of Bachmann's new 'OOg' narrow gauge model of the Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0Ts was all the catalyst the Hornby Magazine team needed to build a narrow gauge layout.. Having previous built a termi- nus station in 'OOg' this time we set out sights on a more ambitious project to create a continuous run scene in an 8ft x 2ft 6in footprint which encom- passes a main line run, passing loop station, a goods yard and a locomotive shed. The result is Fairlie Syniad Da - a Fairlie Good Idea translated from Welsh to English. The layout was built for features in Hornby Magazine and online through both KeyModelWorld and its associated YouTube channel where the team illustrates the build in words, pictures and video from start to finish.
Heanor South represents a real Great Northern branch line terminus that opened in 1891. As can be seen from the track layout the line was intended to carry on further but lack of finance prevented this. Our version represents the line had it survived intact until the British Railways era. Much research was done to model the line although some compression has taken place on the layout to allow some features to be included.
Knowles Hill Colliery is a fictitious colliery set as a tribute to the many collieries in the Nottinghamshire Coal Field. It represents what was, for well over a hundred years, an everyday occurrence of mined coal being brought to the surface then moved to sidings to be picked up and distributed around the Country by rail. This ended in 2015 with the closure of Thoresby - seeing the ending of coal mining in Nottinghamshire after 174 years.
