Wakefield Railway Modellers' Society

Chelthwaite (Mills) is the industrial area on the Chelthwaite & Beccadale Railway as opposed to the more rural setting of the previously exhibited layout (Railway Modeller, February, 1996).

Chelthwaite is on the border of Lancashire and the former West Riding of Yorkshire with the railway serving the Beccadale valley which, even after years of exposure in model form has still to be discovered by more than the determined few - Ordnance Survey mapmakers continue to deny its existence.

With the exception of Peco trackwork, locomotives and rolling stock chassis, everything is scratch built or made from modified kit items. Buildings are made around a base of mounting board covered with either Wills embossed plastic sheet, sandpaper or wallpaper, with individually applied paper roof slates - approximately 15,000 of them! Dry stone walls are small pieces of limestone shale held together with woodworking glue and fences are matchsticks and fusewire or small wooden dowels.

Most of the rolling stock and locomotive power is unique to the Chelthwaite & Beccadale Railway, some may say, that it should remain.