Stoney
Middleton - North
Derbyshire Light Railway.
Video clips of Stoney Middleton layout
can now be seen on "You Tube" - click on link below.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7b48Csieg
AWARD
WINNING LAYOUT
"Best
small layout" winning The Llanmarth Cup at the West of England Model
Railway Exhibition in Redruth March 2006.
http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/rmrc/thewestofenglandmodelrailwayexhibition2002/index.html
Voted
best visiting layout by exhibitors, traders and members of the Astolat MRC at their exhibition at Guildford on
January 15th 2005.
www.astolatmrc.co.uk
Best layout in show at 7mm Narrow Gauge
Association convention at Loughborough on May 12th 2001 .
http://www.the7mmnga.org.uk/
Malcolm Hine.
7mm Narrow Gauge
This
is a private layout belonging to Malcolm who for many years was the
exhibition manager for the Ely and District Model Railway Club. Although he now lives in Oxfordshire he remains a good friend
and honorary member and we still see him socially and at exhibitions.
After
many years modelling in 009 firstly with his own layout “The Llyfni
Valley Railway” and more recently with the Ely club's “Abbots Dale”,
Malcolm felt the need for a change to a larger scale.
The layout plan is based on Wantage from Iain Rice's inspirational
book Light Railway Layout Designs, and was initially produced as a small
scale cardboard mock-up.
Malcolm
decided to set the layout in his favourite location of North Derbyshire.
In his imagination the line runs from an interchange with the
Midland Railway at Bakewell via Baslow to Stoney Middleton (6 miles), the
operational headquarters of the line. The mineral extension crosses through the main street and
wends its way up the one in thirty-five gradients through Middleton Dale
to the quarries at Farnsley, which are the main reason for the lines
existence.
Track
plan
click
on thumbnails to view fullsize
http://www.the7mmnga.org.uk/
Interested in narrow gauge railways visit
the
Virtual Narrow Gauge Model Railway Exhibition
http://www.ngrail.co.uk/
