Port Solway - England in 1905


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Here are some photographs of the Port Solway layout of the Newcastle & District Model Railway Society in England. The layout is set in Northern England around 1905 and is built to Scalefour standards (1/76; 4mm to foot; 18.83mm gauge). This scale/guage is usually only found in Britain
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The first photo shows a Class E1 loco of the North Eastern Railway shunting (switching) some wagons. The loco and wagons are built by John Thompson, the bridge by Jim Rowbottom using Micro Engineering parts and the scenery by Charlie Miller.
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The next photo shows a North Eastern Railway Class P on a local goods (freight). The loco was built by John Thompson from an etched brass kit.
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The North Eastern Railway Class R was scratch built by John Thompson as was the signal box (interlocking tower). There is a real miniature interlocking frame behind the backscene which controls the points and signals.
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A view of the Class R in color. When I get the hang of Photoshop, I may be able to remove the shadows, joints and edges from the backscene. Yours truly did the wiring, but that doesn't show in the photos!
 
Interesting stuff. I always liked the odd (to me) look of the outside framed British locomotives. I dragged my mother downtown to see the Flying Scotsman when it toured the US in the 1970s.
 
I love it. I would love to do an English countryside type of layout one day but it seems there isn't much availible in that style, seems there's a ton of German stuff though.

Maybe you guys have some suggestions?
 
There is lots of stuff for British outline modeling, most in 00 (1/76) (Runs on H0 track) and some in N (British N is 1/152 but runs on the same track) but obviously it is targeted at the British market. Most British diesels have been covered with ready to run models, and quite a lot of steam locos also, but, similar to the USA, the further back in time you go with your layout, the more work you will need to do.

Kits are available covering a large proportion of the steam locomotives and are usually whitemetal or brass but a lot of these are not straight-forward and it may be worthwhile trying to build one of these first before committing to a layout. Wagons are available in plastic or whitemetal kits with some available ready to run.

As a starting point, have a look at the UK Model Shop Directory to find traders.

http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/

Most ready to run stuff comes from Hornby http://www.hornby.com/ or Bachmann http://www.bachmann.co.uk/

The kits are generally by small suppliers. If you do decide to go down this route, post a question for further information as this can be quite specialized.
 
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