Narrow Gauge North

2024

7mm NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY SOCIETY

Display and stand incorporating a narrow gauge layout 4' x 2'. See and buy their range of narrow gauge publications
 

AVALON BRICKWORKS / TOR FARM
7mm Narrow Gauge
Howard Martin
The Avalon Line cast resin kits are a range of locos and rolling stock cast resin kits for 7mm narrow gauge. Steam and diesel locos are available for 9mm gauge (representing 15" gauge) and 16.5mm gauge (representing 2' - 2'6"gauges). All are designed to fit proprietary chassis with little or no modification. There is also a range of kits that can be run on 6.5mm ('Z' gauge) that represents 10 1/4" gauge in 7mm scale. All the range are supplied unpainted and are very simple to assemble.
Tor Farm demonstrates the Avalon Line and Black Dog Mining Co range of 7mm narrow gauge kits; hence most of the the stock is from these ranges. In addition there are a number of kits from the Wrightlines and Roy link ranges and some scratch built Z gauge items. The layout demonstrates that an interesting Narrow Gauge layout can be buil in a 4' x 2' space and a number of different gauges can be used.
Howard is also Chairman of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Railway Society and will be pleased to answer any queries.
 
BARROWFLEET
009/00
Hull Miniature Railway Society
The area of the River Humber once boasted a thriving industry in the manufacture of bricks and tiles.
Barrowfleet attempts to portray the railway activity of the area during the early 1970's.  The narrow gauge layout at the front of the layout carries clay to the brickworks.  At the rear of the layout is a standard gauge line and halt modelled on Barrow Haven.
 
BLACK DOG MINE NO 2
On9 (7mm scale on 9mm gauge)
Steve Bennett
The Black Dog Mining co specialise in small space, detailed cameo layouts. For this year we present something new to entertain you. Having in to take into account that time marches on and with this comes deteriorating eyesight and less nimble fingers than before.. we have moved up to a larger scale to see if the same principles that were used in 09 could be applied to the larger size. By choosing 'G' scale and 16.5mm gauge track we have stayed faithful to our 15inch roots with the main advantage being that the parts are much larger. Again a size suitable for a coffee table or something similar has been chosen, to show that large scale need not mean large space.
 
DDUALLT
009
David and Rob Waller
On the Ffestiniog Railway, Dduallt, wild and remote with it’s unique spiral, is perhaps the most famous station on any of Britain’s narrow gauge railways.
This layout shows Dduallt station as it was in the late 1980's when trains used to pause, and cross, in the station’s passing loop.
All the locomotives on the layout are built from brass and whitemetal kits, many of them altered and improved to show the locomotives as they are running today.
Dduallt is built to a scale of 4mm to the foot and uses a track gauge of 9mm.
Dduallt appeared in the Railway Modeller October 1996.
 

DOLORES
Sn3 (3/16" to 1ft)
Layout representing the former Rio Grande Southern station of Dolores in Colorado in the USA.
 
GRANGE ROAD
009
Paul Titmuss
Grange Road is a narrow gauge railway layout designed to fit into a small space.  It was built with two goals in mind – to construct a layout to completion, and entertain my, then, young son.  Both were achieved after 8 years.
Whilst the railway has no real location there are three railways which have influenced most of the railway stock - the Corris Railway, the Glyn Valley Tramway and the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway.
All the stock is kit built, the scenery and some buildings are scratch built sometimes using slightly unorthodox techniques.  The station building is inspired by that at Aberllefenni on the Corris Railway, which also occupied a narrow site.
The layout is 3" x 2" and with sitting space takes up 5" x 2"
 
MOUNT DOWD
16mm Live Steam
Assoc of 16mm NG Modellers, Yorkshire Group
The Yorkshire groups three track demonstration layout. perhaps the largest collection of steam loco's on any one railway. Unusual and eccentric locos from around the world and from closer to home. No steam layout has more action on it's tracks.
 
NORMANDY
009
Darryl Foxwell
This layout recreates a German defensive position just before D-Day 1944.
The complex is served by a 60cm light railway, and on the shore in front the defensive barricades are being re-enforced.
 
PEN-Y-FFORDD
Scale 7mm to 1 ft
Gauge 16.5mm
Heywood Model Railway Group
Pen-Y-Ffordd is a 7mm scale narrow gauge railway, running on 16.5mm track.
The layout is not based on any particular prototype, but was built to the flavour of the Welsh narrow gauge.
The locos and rolling stock are either kit or scratch built, representing a number narrow gauge prototypes.  All the stock is fitted with KADEE couplings, and automatic uncoupling is effected by strategically placed magnets located under the track.  The track is PECO.
The buildings are scratch built using foam board and SLATERS plasticard.
The layout has been built by three members of Heywood model railway group, (www.hmrg.co.uk) and has taken two years to build.