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Over the years we have built many award winning layouts and work is currently in progress on those listed below.
Click on the layout name for photographs and additional details.
Dewsbury Midland (00 gauge)
Our stunning layout, Dewsbury
Midland was shown for the first time at our Millenium Exhibition
and it is still well worth seeing. It is set in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, has won several awards at the exhibitions
it has attended and has appeared regularly in the model railway
press.
Although you may think that the layout is complete there is still
a lot of detail to be added, with signals being the current project. To give a flavour of the research
and commitment that has gone into the layout you
are advised to read the Model Railway Journal numbers 165 & 166. Layout size 25 feet by 11 feet.
Hazelwood Junction (N gauge)
The N Gauge Group was formed after the "afternoon"
gathering decided to involve themselves with a project. It was
decided that an N Gauge layout would fill a slot missing from
the MMRS and a simple, smallish layout would be built which would
allow members to run models "straight from the box".
Baseboards have been constructed and the complete layout is 12
feet long by 2 feet 8 inches wide. Trackwork is Peco finescale and the
layout is based around Hazel Grove.
Mason Dixon (7mm scale, 16.5mm gauge)
At the end of 2007 Nigel Tansley spotted that there was a bit of unused space which would just fit a 6' by 3' layout. The first two meetings have taken place with the next one scheduled for Wednesday 11th June at 8pm. Word is that one half of the layout will follow USA practice and the other half will be based on a Welsh slate quarry. It sounds impossible to me but Nigel regularly makes the impossible look simple. Join in to see how it is done.
Mersey Division (0 gauge)
With a continuous run the Mersey
Division regularly plays host to many members' models which are given the chance to stretch their legs and show what they can do. Its 3 foot wide baseboards run around the outside of the 41 foot 6 inch by 24 foot upper floor of Dean
Hall and it has appeared at our Annual Exhibition.
The main through station, Cornbrook, is now being supplemented by the development of a terminus
station which has Templot designed trackwork.
Peak Forest (00 gauge)
Using most of the space vacated by our 2mm finescale Chee Tor layout
which has gone to a new home in Canada, a 4mm scale 00 gauge modern image (present day) layout is being constructed. If you want to improve but are not sure how to develop your stock and scenery from the excellent quality items now being offered by the major manufacturers, this may be the layout for you. If you are interested in joining the team at Dean Hall on alternate Monday evenings, contact Andy Cooper, exhibition.manager<at>mmrs.co.uk.
Slattocks Junction (4mm scale, 18.83mm
gauge)
This layout is a replacement for the MMRS's popular Bradwell
but rather than it being an end to end this has a continuous
run with a through station (just off scene) and yard. The layout
is fictional but based on the Calder Valley route in the Middleton
to Castleton area.
Trackwork has been completed and electrics, using DCC for loco
control, are all but completed. A start has been made on the extensive
scenery that will make this layout a little bit different from
most P4 layouts. Including the scenic extension Slattocks measures 18 feet by 13 feet.
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