Cheshire Railway Modellers

On-line Model Railway Club

The Grand C.R.M. Wagon Tour

The aim is to clock up as many layout visits as possible for a wagon in CRM livery. Sincere thanks go to all the layout owners for allowing this project to take place by granting track access. CRM members are welcome to create their own wagons and take photos for addition to this gallery, more wagons can be seen on this page. Please remember to include the layout name and the owner's name when submitting photos and don't forget to ask permission before placing wagons on somebody else's layout!

The numbers in the captions are counting the layouts visited so far by each wagon.

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At home.

 

1. Above left - Cotton Lane.   2. Above right - Port Abel.

 
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The Alsager Railway Association's 2006 show, held in Crewe.

The first 'foreign' rails visited...

 

3. Above left - Tontine Street Goods.    4. Above right - Ashgate.

5. Below left - Nether Thorpe (Bash Street).    6. Below right - Howards Bank Maintenance Depot.

 

With thanks to Blackburn and East Lancs MRS, Folkestone MRC, David Ford and Shrewsbury Past and Present MRS for granting track access.
 
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Rainhill show, 2007.

7. Above - Earles Quay. Below - 8. Left, Wainthrop Bridge. 9. Right, Bembury MPD

 

 

Above -  10. Left, Upper Benlech. 11. Right, Chederall.

 

Vintage Hornby Dublo (left 12) and Tri-ang (right 13) layouts.

With thanks to Peter Leyland, Graham Heald, M57 MRG, Doug Pritchard, John Taylor and David Taylor for granting track access.

 
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Stockport show, 2007.

 

14. Above left, Colinton. 15. Above right, Euro Frachtzentrum.

16. Below left, North Leith citadel. 17. Below right, Hughes River Lumber.

 

 

18. Above left, Sumner-Brook. 19. Above right, High Peak Tramway.

20. Below left, Gilead Yard. 21. Below right, St Aidan's Bay.

 

 

23. Above left, Bridport. Finally from Stockport, not the wagon on tour, but a loco on foreign rails. Steve from Romiley Methodist Railway Modellers stopped by to discuss his lovely little O gauge shunter. The model is pictured (above right) on Tai-Fu. It is actually a standard gauge locomotive but is so small that it does not look out of place on the narrow gauge layout.

With thanks to Alastair Dickson and Colin Brown, John Gough, Bob Rowlands, Dave Hewitt, Heywood MRG, Hazel Grove MRC, John Rodway, Stockport and District Railway Modellers and Stockport Grammar School MRC for permitting access to the layouts.

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Home again ...

... and a brief visit to Wright's Wagon Works (24, above) for inspection and maintenance then an oriental jungle safari to Tai-Fu (25, right) before resuming its layout tour.

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Heywood (Trinity Church), 2007.

 

26. Pulpwood Hold Mill (above left), 27. Rochwood (above right) 28. Rossendale 40D (right).

Thanks go to Steve McGrath, Heywood MRG and David Oldham for granting track access.

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RMweb meeting (Mickleover), 2007.

 

29. Above left, Ting Tong Yard. 30. Above right, South Pimlico.

31. Below left, George Armitage Carriage & Wagon Works. 32. Below right, Outwell village.

 

 

33. Above left, Enigma Engineering. 34. Above right, Keyhaven Quay.

35. Below, Junior Junction.

With thanks to the RMweb forum members (Roomey, Colin, Mozzer, Alan, 5050, Andy Y and Josh) for track access.

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Mickleover MRG clubroom.

 

36. Above left, Neverwhere. 37. Above right, Duffield Junction (under construction).

With thanks to St. Johns (Mickleover) MRG for track access.

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Glossop & Dist MRC Exhibition, 2007.

38. Keinenammen. 39. Loddon and Chedgrove.

 

40. Milltown.  41. Nijland.

42. Sowood (despite the scale anomaly).  43. Whitham Town.

With thanks to the layout owners, P.Vernon, M.Peck, A.Beesley, K.Rayworth, N.Hughes and P.Whittaker for track access.