Wakefield Railway Modellers' Society

This, our second cabinet-style layout, was inspired by our visits to Scale Rail, held at the New Lanark Heritage Centre in the Scottish Borders

On our visits, photographs were taken of all of the buildings and once back home suitable ones were selected to model. The models were constructed from card and Das Pronto modellling clay.

Next was the difficult task of arranging the buildings to determine where the track was to be laid, so that the trains could blend with the buildings. This was done on a piece of paper 42" x 20" (the chosen size of the cabinet).

All track is from the Peco range and is glued and pinned to the baseboard. Locos and rolling stock are a mixture of kit and scratch-built items - short wheel-based stock are used to enable it to run around tight curves.

Although the buildings are from Scotland, we have transported them to the West Riding of Yorkshire to create a typical mill community.