Harton Gill. (Member’s layout)
| Steam Diesel Electric Transition Era, Tyneside Area, Coal Mine Cement Works & Station Halt.: | 4mm Scale,P4 Gauge Finescale, Code 75 track hand built using C&L components |
| Requires 20′ x 9′ total | Requires 3 cars + 5/6 staff. No Van Hire |
Please note that this layout is only available for two day shows.
Download Exhibition Manager’s information sheet at bottom of page
Although everything on the layout should be prototypical for the southern Tyneside area in our chosen time period of the late 1960s, nonetheless Harton Gill is a fictional location. Thus we have in the foreground an overhead-electrified private line connecting the colliery to some imaginary staithes off to the left, just like the real-life Harton Electric Railway.
At the back of the layout, we have a British Railways North-East Region branch to a cement works, with engines and traffic appropriate to such a place. In the middle is a short passenger line terminating at a halt, with a DMU shuttle service, recently electrified with third-rail.
The timescale allows us to run a mixture of steam and early diesels, in both green and blue as well as the dedicated colliery electrics. The latest additions here are a Tyneside Bo-Bo electric operating off the third rail, and the EPB parcels car which ran on Tyneside for a while. The operators would be pleased to hear from anyone who knows anything about this interesting vehicle.
Track is handbuilt entirely from C & L components with a few homemade modifications. The buildings are all scratchbuilt from plasticard (with the exception of the colliery headframe which is a brass Wrightscale kit) to fit their locations amongst the tracks.
