Millom Railway & Scale Modellers

The Site for COPELAND'S Railway Modellers

MR&SM Layout Details

The club has a number of layouts in many scales.  We also have a number of new layouts about to be started.  Click on the relevant links to see pictures of each layout.

Millom - N Gauge 2mm:1ft

Set in the 1950's / 1960's Millom Station has been scratchbuilt by our members.

http://www.freewebs.com/millommodellers/millomngaugelmslmr.htm

Dalton-in-Furness - N Gauge 2mm:1ft

N Gauge layout depicting Dalton and Furness Abbey in 1950's.

http://www.freewebs.com/millommodellers/daltonngauge.htm

Turner Quays - OO Gauge 4mm:1ft

A fictitous layout, named in fond memory of Ralph Turner, a gentleman, good modeller & electrician and a most well liked member of our club.

http://www.freewebs.com/millommodellers/turnerquaysoogauge.htm

Woodside - O Gauge Layout 7mm:1ft

Award winning layout by club member, Vic Simpson.  This layout won the best in exhibition (voted for by the paying public) at Millom Railway & Scale Modellers 2006 Model Railway exhibition.  Sadly Vic died in 2008 but Margaret Simpson and the family kindly donated the layout to Peter Chesher.  We have just started to strip down the layout and relaying some sections of track which were damaged.  It is our intention to restore Woodside to exhibition standard in time for our show in September 2010.  A number of the O gauge locomotives will also be stripped down and repainted in time for 2010.

The award for best in exhibition was renamed the "Vic Simpson Memorial Shield" for our 2008 show and was won by Kevin Smith of Askam with Midsomer Mardy in Z Gauge.  It's our intention to try to win it back with the revamped Woodside layout!

See photos of Woodside and ongoing restoration works here:- 

http://www.freewebs.com/millommodellers/woodsideogauge.htm

New Layout - TT Gauge 3mm:1ft

 As yet to be named, Millom Railway & Scale Modellers have recently become the grateful custodians of this 3mm gauge setup and are aiming to build an exhibition standard layout shortly.

The Garden Railway - G Gauge

The club has purchased an LGB G Gauge starter set and some additional track.  The aim is to provide a garden railway outside the club where members can sip tea (or something stronger!) on a summers evening and enjoy a chat.  Members will bring their own locos along, in addition to running the club steam engine.  Building is likely to begin when the weather improves.

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New Layout - Broughton - in - Furness OO Gauge Finescale

Broughton in Furness is situated on the now closed Coniston Branch.  The line ran from a junction at nearby Foxfield on the Cumbria Coast Line.  The new layout is to be constructed using Peco Code 75 finescale track and will feature all new rolling stock.

Uncoupling will be automatic using electromagnets and Kaydee couplers on the rolling stock. Points are live frog to aid slow shunting manoeuvres in Broughton 'yard'.  Signalling will be scratchbuilt, prototypical and operated using servo's (as used in remote control cars) and electronics from MERG.  The signals will even be programmed (via a laptop PC) to give the prototypical 'bounce' as they return to Danger!

Maurice Chapelhow is in charge of constructing the buildings at Broughton.