N(B)MRS Club Exhibition Layouts

Layouts: Complete and Available for Exhibitions

• Carstairs is a large layout depicting the electrified West Coast Main Line in the 1980s. It features authentic, working, near-scale 25kV AC overhead electrification.
  

• Deepcar is another large layout, this time portraying the electrified Woodhead line in the 1960s and 70s. It too features authentic, working, near-scale overhead, but to the 1500V dc system.
  

• Skipley represents a typical ex-Midland Railway line in the West Yorkshire area during the 1960s. The layout is currently on semi-permanent display (it stays there, unless required for exhibition elsewhere) at the Historical Model Railway Society, Midland Railway Centre, Butterley, Derbyshire.

Other club layouts, which are still under construction, include:

• Streatham Mainline, is an imaginary ex-Southern line in south London, in the 1980s-1990s.

• In the early stages of construction is the club's next big project: Trent Lane Junction. This will be a model of the ex-Great Northern junction in east Nottingham and set in the 1950s. Although the layout is still under construction, three of the baseboards were at this year's NOTTINGHAM East Midlands MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION in March, as part of a major feature to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Northern Railway arriving in the City of Nottingham and the opening of its lines into London Road Low Level, as depicted in the model.

  
  The real Trent Lane Junction with an ex-LNER 2-6-0 Class K2 on a Skegness service in the 1950s [Hayden Reed Collection]

  As well as the Trent Lane Junction baseboards, at this year's NOTTINGHAM East Midlands EXHIBITION, there was a high profile book launch of a major new, illustrated, two volume work, 'The Rise and Fall of Nottingham's Railway Network', by Hayden Reed, and published by Book Law Publications. The books chart Nottingham's railway history, and include a great deal of information about the network in this area, together with many previously unpublished photographs. In addition, there was a display of railway artefacts, photographs and information panels. For those with an interest in Nottingham's railways - it's not to be missed !
  

• Ilkeston Town in 00 gauge and set in the 1930s.
  

• Llanbedrog, is currently being built in EM gauge, as a fictional extension of the Cambrian Coast line.
  

• Springfield, in H0 gauge, represents a down-town commercial district of an imaginary east coast US city. This layout is currently in store awaiting refurbishment.

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  There are other layouts, which have been built by and are owned by individual members that are also available for exhibitions. We hope, in due course, to also feature these on our website. So, watch this space !
  
  

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