Show & Tell

The place to share your projects with the Model Rail community.

Old school layout Alan Roberts

I now live in Dorset but was born in Neath and went to school by train. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that my layout is based in South Wales. I lived in a village four miles north of Neath called Bryncoch (Red Hill in English). I have upgraded the village to a fictitious town served by an equally fictitious canal and railway. From the terminus, two branch lines lead to Neath to join the Swansea-london Paddington line, and Ammanford to join the Central Wales line.

Main line master work David Butler

Further to your editorial in the May edition of Model Rail, in which you invited us to send in images of our main line layouts, you may be interested in some photos of my Southern Region ‘Main Line’. This is a continuous circuit with a fiddleyard on which I run various train formations, from Bullied expresses to unfitted freights. On a branch from the main circuit there is a third rail ‘electrified’ coastal terminus that hosts Southern electric units from the 1950s and 1960s. The track formation is based on the ‘Minories’ layout design by the late C.J. Freezer.

Brick by brick Gavin Rose

Patience is a virtue and a quality that all modellers possess. My layout ‘Trinity Dock Street Bridge’ is based on the lines that ran around the old town docks in Hull. I mention patience as the model track has been laid into approximately 48,000 individually painted granite setts. It also took 43 hours of picking out each stone with a slightly different colour, and the Yorkshire paving slabs have also been treated in the same way. All the stonework was painted using artist’s acrylics, which gives the stones a dull shine. I’m not bothered about this though as I have set the layout on a cold, dank morning in February in 1939, so the cobbles look as though they have just been rained on.