Member's Layouts |
In addition to working on the club's layouts many of the club members build their own. Some photographs of these are shown below.
Schmalzberg
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Scale 'HOe' Layout Plan
Built by: Jerry Christie
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Schmalzberg represents a preserved German narrow gauge railway. It has no particular prototype, but is loosely based on lines such as the DEV (Deutscher Eisenbahn-Verein), at Bruchhausen-Vilsen south of Bremen and the Selfkantbahn near Aachen. Some features are taken from other German narrow gauge railways; street running is a feature of the 'Mollibahn' in Bad Doberan near Rostock.
Unlike in Wales where most narrow gauge railways were built to serve a single industry, the German lines are usually secondary railways serving the general traffic of the area like any branch line in this country. Goods traffic is usually handled by loading the standard gauge wagons onto transporter wagons known as 'Rollwagon'.
Aberlady
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Scale 'S'
Built by: Bill Blackwood
The Village of Aberlady lies on the south shore of the River Forth a
few miles to the East of Edinburgh. In the 1890s the Aberlady, Gullane
and North Berwick Railway Company built a branch line from the East
Coast Main Line to the town of Gullane. The line, which never reached North Berwick, passed to the south of the village of Aberlady.
The branch was absorbed by the North British Railway in 1900, lost its
passenger service 0n the 10th September 1932 and finally closed to all traffic on the
15th June 1964.
The model is built in 'S' Scale (3/16" to the foot) and
represents the station in 1924, just after the LNER
takeover. At this date most stock still carried their pre-grouping liveries
Mr. Szandi's Place
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Scale 'S:6.5'
Built by: Bill Blackwood
For those who are unsure of the difference between a model railway and a miniature railway this layout is designed to turn doubt into total confusion. It is both, that is to say it is a model of a miniature railway. The layout is built in 'S' scale (1:64) on 'Z' gauge track representing a 405mm (16 inch) gauge line.
