WARDWOOD Scale: 4mm - 1ft. Gauge 16.5m ('00') by Ian Woodward
Size: 16ft x 2ft (4.88m x 0.6m) (plus operator space), Operators: Four, Transport: Two 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 are in the process of changing its corporate livery from Green to Blue and Grey.
Wardwood is a busy market town, with through carriages joining with London trains at Wakefield. It has local services to towns in west and South Yorkshire and via tha Calder Valley route to Manchester and the North West. Freight trains can be seen heading for the Marshalling Yards at Healey Mills and Wath. the local warehouse still receives rail traffic with the loading bay recently upgraded with a covered shed.
A wide variety of Diesel Locomotives and Diesel Multiple Units, that would have been seen in this area, can be seen operating the services that have been described.
Contact WARDWOOD using Wardwood as the subject; to book the layout for your Show or for further details.
REF: Railway Modeller November 2020
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Class 103 and 104 DMUs await departure on trains to the North West |
Recently built class 47, D1959 awaits departure, while a class 31 on coal empties |
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A class 105 Cravens DMU awaits its next duty |
A class 25 on a Covhop freight heading towards the through line |
This layout can be seen at the following Model Railway Shows:
page updated 29th May 2022