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('EM')Scale: 4mm/ft. Gauge: 18.2mm top of page

PEN-Y-MADOC: Owner: Steve Farrow, Size: 16ft by 2ft (4.8m x 0.6m) (plus operator space), Operators: Three. Transport: Van hire. A 1938 North Wales might have been, the layout represents the terminus of a branch off the Cambrian Coast line. Ref: Railway Modeller April 2008.

('00')Scale: 4mm/ft. Gauge: 16.5mm top of page.

BASIN STREET: Owner: G Wilson & N Porter, Size: 16ft by 3ft (4.8m x 1m) (plus operator space), Operators: Two. Transport: TBA. Two layouts in one, the upper level depicts an Ex L.M.S. goods depot comprising a bonded warehouse and a mineral yard. The lower layout is modelled as a L.N.E.R. canal basin with exchange sidings. The layout is set shortly after Nationalisation in 1948.

BRANCASTER: Owner. Hull MRS. Size: 16ft x 2ft (4.8m x 0.6m) (plus operator space) Operators: Three. Transport: Two cars. A station that might have been in Brancaster, the town from which the layout gets its name. Featured in Railway Modelling Explored (1999) as the "layout you can build" although now brought upto date by Hull MRS.

COCKSHUTE: Owner: Allan Freer.  Size: 3.2m x 0.5m (10'5" x 1'8") plus operator space.  Operators: Two. Transport: One car. Cockshute is based on the DMU, Wash/Carriage sheds and diesel stabling point that existed until 1993 north of Stoke on Trent station. It is set in the mid1970's when steam has finished and BR was introducing blue livery and TOPS numbering.

HEDON ROAD YARD: Owner. John Robinson. Size: 12ft 6ins x 1ft 4ins (3.8m x 0.5m) (plus operator space) Operators: Two. Transport: One car. The layout represents a goods yard in the city of Kingston upon Hull complete with a stone loading tower and oil terminal. Spans the era 1988 - 2004.

LADYCROSS: Owner: Hull MRS, Size: 20ft by 12ft.(6.8m x 3.6m) (plus operator space) Operators: Six. Transport: Van hire + one car. A 1960s BR Southern Region Steam era layout based in the area of the New Forrest, depicting a local station. Ref: Railway Modeller July 2020.

WARDWOOD: Owner: Ian Woodward   Size: 16ft x 2ft  (4.88 x 0.6 m) plus operator space. Operators: Four. Transport: 2 cars
Wardwood is a fictitious location in the old West Riding of Yorkshire between Barnsley and Wakefield. It is set between 1968 and 1972, Steam has finished and British Railways is in the process of changing its corporate livery to Blue and Grey.

('H0') Scale: 3.5mm/ft. Gauge 16.5mm top of page

('009')Scale: 4mm/ft. Gauge: 9mm top of page

AXEBRIDGE: Owner.Paul Windle. Size: 6ft x 2ft (1.8m x 0.6m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two. Transport: One car. A 1930s narrow gauge line based in Cumbria showing a railway used for taking 'road stone' from a local quarry to a standard gauge line some distance away.

BARROWFLEET: Owner: Hull M.R.S. Size: 14ft x 2ft (4.2m x 0.6m) (plus operator space). Operators: Four. Transport: Two cars. Narrow gauge operation in the thriving brick/tile manufacturing industry of the Humber Estuary in the early 1970s. Ref: Railway Modeller Feb 1993 & April 1995, Model Railways Illustrated Jan 1995.

HIGH STAMLEY: Owner: Paul Windle. Size:7ft x 2ft (2.1m x 0.6m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two. Transport: One Car. The last years of a stone carrying Pennine narrow gauge railway. Ref: Railway Modeller May 2014.

MOORTON BOTTOM YARD: Owner: Paul Windle. Size: 5ft x 1ft 8ins (1.5m x 0.5m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two. Transport: One car. The layout is based on the cramped little goods yards that were once a common feature of urban railways, it is set in the mid 1930's with traffic from various warehouses in the area. A wagon lift is a feature of the layout to allow wagons to reach the warehouses at street level. Ref: Railway Modeller May 2007.

('N')Scale: 2mm/ft. Gauge: 9mm top of page .

ALDERGROVE: Owner: Martin Austin. Size: 8ft x 15ins (2.4m x 0.4m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two. Transport: One car. What could have been a typical small-town station. Formally a through station it became a terminus when the line beyond closed in the Dr Beeching era.

COAL HILL WEST: Owner: Chris Berry. Size: 4ft x 4ft (1.2m x 1.2m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two. Transport: One car. Coal Hill West is a small ex Great Western branch line station on the fictional Cheddar Valley Railway based in Somerset which serves the small market town of Coal Hill. It has a small mainline halt that serves First Great Western Services coming from and going to Bristol Temple Meads and Yatton.

LOCKWOOD STREET: Owner. Hull MRS. Size: 16ft x 8ft (5m x 2.4m) (icludes operator space). Operators: Four. Transport: Two Cars. An Urban Secondary Terminus Station inspired by the former Hull and Barnsley Railway's Terminus at Cannon Street in Hull. The layout is set in the 1955-65 'Transition' era. Unlike the real Cannon Street, it is assumed that some local passenger services continued to use the station as well as Parcels, Perishables and Coal traffic.

HOGLINGTON:   Owner: Ray Hogben. Size: 15ft x 10ft [4.6M x 3.0M]  (includes operator space) Operators: Four.  Transport: Two cars. A fictitious seaside town somewhere on the East Coast of England, based in the early sixties so that both steam and diesel is seen. Ref: Railway Modeller March 2009.

MARTINI JUNCTION: Owner: Hull MRS. Size: 12ft x 3ft 2ins (3.6m x 0.9m) (plus operator space). Operators: Four. Transport: Two cars.  Originally designed as layout to engage newer Society Members in the art of railway modelling, this layout is progressing into a full scale exhibition layout completed in 2012.  It is an entirely fictitious location and can represent most periods of the 20th century.  This enables any Club member to run his preference of stock and still be in keeping with the general “feel” of the layout.  The name is derived from an old vermouth advert which stated “Any Time, Any Place, Anywhere”!

RED WHARF BAY: Owner: Paul Derrick. Size: 10ft by 2ft (3.0m x 0.7m) (plus operator space). Operators: Two (for larger shows an additional operator may be required). Transport: One (or two) cars. 'Red Wharf Bay and Benllech' Station was the terminus of a 6.75 mile branch line which left the anglesey Central Railway at Holland Arms. The model portrays the station as it would have been through most of its existence. Services operated are as would have been seen on branch in the late 1920s. Ref. British Railway Modelling April 2003.

('O')Scale: 7mm/ft. Gauge: 32mm(SG) top of page

EAST END: Owner: Hull MRS, Size: 24ft x 11ft (7.4m x 3.4m) (plus operator space) Operators: Three. Transport: Member's van. A through branch station with goods yard, coal yard and cattle dock set around 1950 in a rural area of Derbyshire.

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