Set somewhere in the midlands to the south-east of Nottingham in the mid 1930’s, Oakwell is one of those towns not quite large enough to be on a direct main line route to London, but yet sufficiently important to warrant a medium sized station. The town does enjoy through services to the capital, with trains from Kings Cross splitting at Grantham and those from Marylebone doing the same at Leicester. This allows me to run relatively short trains of corridor stock behind secondary passenger locomotives. The town has a small goods yard with a much larger marshalling yard just ‘Off stage’ thereby leading to plenty of light engine movements. The line was originally built by the Great Northern and Great Central with infrastructure based on the GN. Practice

The model is built to EM standards with points being made using plywood sleepers and rivets while the plain track is C&L. Point operation is by Tortoise motors and the controllers are Guagemaster. The buildings are a mixture of kit built, kit modified and scratch built, while the scenery follows traditional methods using foam covered in plaster bandage. Long grass is represented by carpet underlay and the trees are built from twisted wire. The locomotives are mostly kits with a few scratch built items while the rolling stock also features mainly kits with a few modified proprietary items. Much detail work still needs to be done, but then what layout is ever finished?

For further details of this layout contact:

David Woodward

Tel 01924 251633

Oakwell High Street

Footbridge

Goods Yard

Coaling Stage

Station Approach

Engine Shed

Goods Shed