Cheshire Railway Modellers

On-line Model Railway Club

Members' Layouts - John Rodway

John is a member of the Romiley Methodist Railway Modellers. This group has a very different approach to model railway shows, they encourage young (and not so young) visitors to join in and operate the layouts. This always proves to be a popular feature of the Romiley exhibition each September and whenever the group take a guest layout to other shows around the Stockport area.

Gillan & Brown

Gillan & Brown

Gillan & Brown

Gillan and Brown is an industrial complex with private sidings serving different departments. The O scale layout is 12 feet long with the scenic area covering the entire frontage. Gillan and Brown's public debut will be at the Romiley Methodist Railway Modellers' exhibition on September 8th. Photographs will be published here after the event but for a preview see the September edition of Railway Modeller magazine.

Gillan & Brown

Gillan & Brown

Hump Shunt

 

The O scale hump shunt layout shows how gravity was used for sorting wagons in marshalling yards when Britain's railways still had a large volume of wagon-load traffic which required shunting from one train to another en-route.

Visitors at shows are encouraged to operate the points and sort the wagons as the loco slowly pushes the train over the hump.

 

Gilead Yard

The yard is a Tymesaver shunting puzzle where exhibition visitors of all ages are asked to place the cars at the correct spots in as few moves as possible. Scenery on the HO scale layout is confined to the backdrop as the attraction is in solving the puzzle.

The group have several similar layouts, all designed to get the visitor involved.

Please use this link to contact the layout owner with exhibition enquiries.
 

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