The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales.
Goods and Mineral Junction Box
I thought you might like to see the last bit of work on the centrepiece of Belle Isle, before we crated the layout to go to Warley. Making blocks of buildings is a useful way of checking shape / space requirements. There is no question that Goods & Mineral Jcn. box will need a fully …read more.
Nov 23, 2016Professionalism Maintained
The layout running settled in very nicely at the Club’s Open Day on 20th November. Gary has devised a very elegant shuttle mechanism for the underground and Richard’s buildings made major progress as he demonstrated today. The main buildings and roads have been given a more convincing colour wash at the south end (which belies …read more.
Nov 20, 2016Work “Ramps Up”on Goods Yard
Quite a lot of recent progress in the King’s Cross yard. The ramp to the Cally Goods & Coal Yard is now blocked out and in red oxide primer. It is red brick anyway, but will need detail cladding in our home made brick plastic. In the short-term it will be weathered in its current …read more.
Nov 14, 2016Layouts on tour – Spring 2016
Our layouts are all designed to be portable, so they can be taken to exhibitions. This spring we are delighted to have been invited to some great shows, including: 20th Feb – Minories (GN) headed into Southern territory at Tonbridge, whilst Happisburgh Goods went in the opposite direction to Biggleswade 12/13th March – Caledonian Goods (aka Mrs …read more.
Feb 7, 2016Progress on Copenhagen Fields
We have had a very productive two days working on the layout. The track plan at the southeastern side of the goods yard, especially at the front, has been finalised and has gone to Keith Armes for turnout manufacture. We have included an extra crossover to allow a twelve-wagon run-round in the goods arrival sidings, …read more.
Nov 5, 2015Copenhagen Fields at KX “Steam Extravaganza”
Well we have certainly had a very different weekend to the normal model railway exhibition! After a hectic few weeks of work with a major re-wire of the front boards (a fall-out from the Preston show 6 months ago) we got the layout moved to the Kings Cross Granary square complex on Friday 9th for …read more.
Oct 15, 2014Via Eboracum and Copenhagen Fields Programme
As promised a photo of VIA EBORACUM. I thought I would take up garden railways. It now needs the road way granite setts and pavements and of course a lot of painting: yellow London stock brick. In the end, I lined all of the arches, as these days digital cameras can get low trackside views …read more.
Jul 15, 2014