Statfold Model Railway Event

Beddgelert Junction is a village station situated in Snowdonia. North Wales. The layout is a sort of 'What if". that being 'What if the Welsh Highland Rail-way had been a success & lasted into the 1950's & Ws' The track plan is loosely based on the station as it was in the 1920's with the addition of a bay platform to serve trains coming down from the fictional Llantrevelyn branch. Stock is a mix of kit built, scratch built & R-T-R depicting mainly Welsh Highland but also the odd Ffestiniog service. Buildings are all scratch built & based on real structures.

1/12 scale seaside miniature railway based on the Fairbourne miniature rail-way. set in modern times running from the main station past the engine sheds and turntable to the other end of the line featuring a long tunnel on the ballon loop before arriving at the beach station in amongst the beach

Breydon is imagined to be a small community named after a large expanse of water near Great Yarmouth. Its imaginary location is on a branch line leaving the main line somewhere between Breydon Junction and Berney Arms station. It is set in the late fifties/early sixties. The back scene has been painted to give the impression of the marshes surrounding the Yar-mouth area. Traffic consists of coal. fertilizer. seed and animal feed which are brought into the private siding of J.H.Bunn Ltd which is a local company. Most of these are conveyed in vans and open wagons. Passenger workings consist of tank and tender engines plus a single coach, sometimes with a single van. parcels van or milk tanker attached on the rear. Diesel Multiple Units and single diesel units may be seen in the area. Wednesday and Sat-urday see a more intensified service as these are market days in Great Yar-mouth and the attached van would be used to carry locally grown produce to market there.

The model is of the passenger station and the first few sidings of the goods yard. The scenic break is provided by the. long gone. Barrow Road bridge which has been moved closer to the station than it was in real life. The track used is Peco code 75. Control is entirely DCC. This includes the locos. points and the turntable.

The layout was inspired by visits to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway. This model is of a fictitious 18' gauge line built to the west of the standard gauge main line that would have been the destination for loaded sand trains. The railway is shared between the sand company and the preservation society with sand trains still running the entire length of the railway but the preser-vation society's passenger trains terminate at Derwent Road. The base-boards are built from 6mm ply. Derwent Road is controlled using a Digitrax DCC system: track is Peco 009 with Cobalt IP digital point motors. The con-trol system, lights and sound are built into the two boards: this reduces the layout setup time. The photographic backdrop was produced by a com-mercial printing firm from a panorama of 6 images. The rolling stock is a mixture of kits and scratch built

Stand An Fair TMiddLin A 4mm scale '00' gauge layout set in an industrial area of the North of England during the 1950's/6o's. A fictional based diorama set around the town of Eckerslike and also the underground coal mine of Appen Colliery. Eckerslike and Appen Colliery are two separate modules which can be ex-hibited together or on their own. Eckerslike is a town dominated by a viaduct and substantial industrial red brick buildings constructed in the Victorian era. The railway station was originally an intermediate station on the Fair to Middlin line. The railway Line was, however, truncated at Eckerslike following closure of the mine at Mid-dlin during the 1930's. The railway nowadays is a branch tine from Fair providing a regular passenger service between the two towns. There is also a busy goods shed serving local people and industry and a private siding to the large engineering works adjacent to the station with an active coal yard. BR steam tank locos usually provide the motive power. Appen Colliery lies between Fair and Eckerslike. It is a deep underground mine now controlled by the National Coal Board (NCB) following nationalization of the coal in-dustry in 1947. There are two headstocks providing ventilation and access to the coal face as well as screens to sort the coal before it is loaded into railway mineral wagons. The wagons are then shunted by the NCB's own locomotives to the exchange sidings before collection by BR steam tender locos and taken to the marshalling yard at Fair for distribution throughout the UK or to a nearby port for the coal to be exported by sea. The extension of Fair TMiddlin to include Appen Colliery has a new fiddle yard which has a traverser and can rotate 360 degrees. It also has eight tracks which can accommodate eight trains including passenger trains with three coaches and a tender locomotive.

When the warehouses and industrial area was built by the local Landowner and MP, Sir Jedidiah Mortlake, the nearby river was a convenient source for the movement of goods. However. over time the river began to silt up making transport of said goods more difficult. Conveniently at this time the local mainline railway company proposed to build a branch line to a nearby town. Sir Jedidiah studying the proposed route realised that by a smalt change of route his industrial area could be connected to the mainline. but the railway company refused his suggestion. Outraged and determined to keep his business profitable and out of spite he decided to build his own industrial railway from Fenn Street down to the branch line, operated by his own locomotives. Fen St yard as depicted in the layout is now coming towards the end of its useful life. Sir Jedidiah is long gone. and accountants have taken over. For them the railway is not profitable so it will be run down so that they have a convenient excuse to transfer any business left to road transport. In reality the layout has been built to show that you don't need masses of room to have an absorbing model railway in 0 gauge. The original layout builder has moved on to another layout and Fenn Street Yard was acquired. This is our second layout available on the exhibition circuit and among our small circle of friends two more are under construction!

Glenadam Distillery is a oo gauge micro layout based on a fictitious whisky distillery in Scotland. The Layout has been built by its operator Adam Miles, who was inspired by the Scotch whisky rail traffic of the early ig6os to cre-ate this bygone era in a small shunting layout with a scenic area. See Scot-tish allocated British Railway locomotives deliver wagon loads of coal, casks & grain to the distillery for the distillery's own locomotives to Marshall

Asmalt quarry line in North Wales with an upper loop line passing a slatemine and station or dropping down to the main station and goods depotwith a GWR sidings for collecting or dropping off goods for the narrow-gauge line. Also the station at Nant Gwrtheyrn you can board a passengertrain for a trip up the line.

Oakhurst Town is a mythical station on the South Eastern Railway, set in theKent area in the 1880's. The idea is to convey the atmosphere and generalappearance of the railway at that period. All except one building are over 20years old, having been rescued from a previous larger layout. and the main-ly scratch-built stock has been built over a period of 30 years or so, withsome items now available as kits. Operation of locos and turnouts is DCC.Alex Jackson couplings are Operated by permanent magnets, and thewhole layout plus two operators fits into a Skoda Octavia estate car. We arehappy to answer questions where we can

Built by Great Model Railway Challenge judge Kathy Millatt. Port Dinorwic.,as seen on Hornby - A Modet World on the Yesterday TV channel. this lay-out is now in the care of the Bala Lake Railway. Port Dinorwic is the slatewharf where the products of the giant Dinorwic state quarry were sent viathe 4 gauge Padarn railway and from there shipped around the world. 1103/4" gauge slate wagons were carried on 4 gauge transporter wagonsfrom Gilfach Odu to Penscoins, from where they were lowered down to PortDinorwic on an incline. The model shows a small part of the port where theincline finishes in a tunnel behind the buildings in the middle. in addition tothe narrow gauge lines (009), there is also a standard gauge branch line (00)to the port running through the middle of the layout.

Quarry end is a small village set somewhere in Wales where most of the people work at the local slateimine. Questions are welcome at all times.

Ruston & Hornsby were general engineers and engine builders. locomotive andboiler manufacturers. By WWII while the Lincoln Boultham works were pro-during narrow and standard gauge locomotives, the sheaf ironworks on thewaterside were producing a huge range of engines. from small stationaryengines through to large marine engines. primarily for minesweepers, land-ing craft, patrol boats, and submarines. Ruston & Hornsby were alsoequipped for the production of all the Matilda, Cavalier, and Crusader Tanks.The layout depicts a part of the Ruston & Hornsby Sheaf Ironworks in Lin-coln during the early 1940s, where the mainline railway from Lincolnbrought supplies in & out.

San Clemente is set in the late 1950s and portrays a branch line operation in Southern California. It is served by the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads. Traffic is mainly agricultural products in reefers (refrigerated cars).

Sutton Bank TMD modern small depot layout with 3 sidings shed road and low-level siding. Stock ranging from Early 2000s to present day

The “Titfield Station & Film Set” layout is inspired by the Ealing Studios filmcomedy, “TheTitheld Thunderbolt”. Filmed on location in June and July of 1952.the movie was shot in various parts of Somerset. Gloucestershire, Oxfordshireand London. as well as in the Studio. The completed film was premiered inMarch 1953 (HM Queen's Coronation Year). Since the layout’s last exhibitionappearance, when it used kit and scratch built rolling stock, with DC control. ithas been modified and extended to bring it up to modern standards. After theintroduction of the Rapido Trains “Titfield Thunderbolt Deluxe Train Pack”. thelayout is now operating with full sound and DCC digital control. Voice extracts,taken from the film soundtrack. can be heard to match the action you can see infront of you. The layout itself combines together some of the features and loca-tions found in the movie but brought together in one place. Look out for thecrowds waving from the bridge. the squire’s Bullnose Morris Cowley car, thesteam roller. the water-tower (a studio built prop.) and Pearse & Crump's bus.The film crews are on hand with their cameras, flood-lights and recording geartogether with the production personnel and studio mini bus.

Torreycombe is a fictional station set in North Devon, The line is now freightonly before kept open for the dairy that is situated on the station site. Thedairy itself has been extended since the station closed to passengers andnow occupies much of the goods yards. It’s is set in mid to late 50's/Early60's and can see traffic from both Weston and southern regions.

This ‘00' gauge layout models a fictional section of the West Coast MainLine north of Crewe alongside a busy cement terminal. The double trackmain line features overhead catenary as well as a goods loop which seesfreight trains pause to allow expresses to overtake.The layout was built by the Hornby Magazine team in 2018 and now makesoccasional exhibition appearances - its last being in 2022. Highlights of thelayout include Peco concrete sleeper code 75 track, Peco overhead cate-nary, a modified Walthers Valley Cement works plastic kit as the backdropas well as a scratchbuilt loading dock. New additions for the Statfold showincluding a WCML relay room from the Key Model World Shop collection,3D printed axle counters and repopulation of the trees on the approach tothe storage yard after the level crossing. The entire layout is DCC controlledand features privatisation era locomotives and rolling stock spanning from2000 to the present day.