Sitting on the beach, on one of those always sunny days. Suddenly, the silence is shattered as a former LMS pacific speeds past on a Scotland bound train. The West Coast Main Line at the end of the steam era and before the overhead electrification are the images we have attempted to recreate in model form.

Arrowmouth is a seaside town on the North West Coast and is close to Hest Bank which is between Lancaster and Carnforth. The layout is based on the former London North Western Railway main line. The era is somewhere between 1963 and 1968 when steam was in its 'Indian Summer' in this part of the country.

The scale is 4mm using OO gauge track and all the buildings on the layout are scratch built, mainly using thick card for the basic structure. These are then covered with either brick papers or plasticard to represent stone or brick finishes. Various grades of sand papers have also been used to represent concrete rending which is so often found at seaside towns.