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MODEL RAILWAY CLUB

Notes for Exhibition Managers:

Size: 23ft x 7ft 4ins approximately; Operators stand inside layout. Viewing from one side only

Operators: Two

Expenses: Petrol for 2 cars.

Value: £1500

Contact: Barry Clements Tel. 01763 271031

71 Monks Walk, Buntingford Herts. SG9 9DR

Tony Clarke, Tel. 01223 440399.

4 Gunnell Close, Milton, Cambridge. CB24 6ZB.

As a club we have tended recently to build end-to-end layouts, and there was a consensus that we wanted a circular layout so that members could either run their 12 coach Pullman stock at a certain speed through the countryside, or chug along with 30-odd wagons behind a grimy old boiler. Of course it would have to be of a certain size, and cater for the American element in the club (in terms of loading gauge for the main structure on the layout). Soon “Somerton Bridge” was off the drawing board and under construction.

The layout consists of  a double track main line. Along the rear are 2 sets of sidings, 5 roads for each direction, and along the front a gentle curve across the ‘Bridge to produce the desired effect. The board is constructed in an oval configuration, i.e. it is not rectangular in outline.

It is deliberately not targeted at any specific region, or any country for that matter, although we do drive on the left, so some licence may be required when the American trains roll….

Somerton Bridge

© 844pacific aka “Dan”

Viewing side

Placeholder drawing pending track plan being created