Caldershaw.
Great new progress pictures of this new P4 layout available for the Exhibition Circuit.
| Scale 4mm 18.83 P4 Finescale. DCC Sound | Late 1960s Lancashire/Yorkshire |
| 26ft x 10ft incl operating space, tables & access. | Travels in 3 cars with 6 staff |
| Members layout representing the Club. | Currently two day shows only. |
Please note that this layout is currently only available for two+ day shows
Exhibition Manager’s information sheet at bottom of page.
Caldershaw started as a small layout and just grew bigger. It now has 6 boards, each 4ft by 2 ft, with a traverser at the rear at each end, so that 4ft long trains can run up and down at the back, on a double track secondary line. There is a goods loop, and a line down to a headshunt which serves as an exchange with the industries and the private line below that. The period is late 1960s, so there are steam engines and green/blue diesels, and the location is definitely up north, somewhere Pennine, maybe Lancashire or Yorkshire, or a bit of both. I like to keep things deliberately vague, so that no-one can say ‘it wasn’t like that’.
The track is P4 built from C&L components, and can be run with DC or DCC with sound. There is a wide variety of stock from the Midland and Eastern Regions, from off-the-shelf to kit-built, but always detailed where possible, and extensively weathered. There will be fully working semaphore signals, powered by Tortoise motors, as are all the points. 4 operators can be kept busy, and the layout will fit in 3 cars for exhibitions.
Cardershaw latest running session
