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Leicester South
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Leicester South (GC)
4mm OO Finescale
Leicester South (GC) is a new 4mm scale OO gauge layout being built by the team that produced the multi-award winning ‘Tebay’, with help from new members.
The layout will model an actual location a few hundred yards south from Leicester Central station as it was in British Railway days between 1948 and 1963.
The layout measures 30 feet x 14 feet, based on the ex Great Central route a few hundred yards south of Leicester Central station in the period 1948 to 1963 so BR and ex LNER, LMS, SR and GWR stock will be seen along with the two named trains, the Master Cutler and the South Yorkshireman. As a result of our research we intend to model 50 trains, so extensive storage sidings are required to hold these trains for realistic timetable operation.
We are delighted to be awarded a grant from Awards for All and this will enable members to construct the main control panel, to purchase point motors for the storage sidings and to install fluorescent lighting units.
Buildings and infrastructure
- Double track main line & parallel double track goods loops (on a rising gradient facing north)
- Carriage shed and sidings
- A large goods yard and goods shed
- Line leading into the engine shed (but not the shed itself)
- Four bridges over a river (and the river!)
- Houses and commercial buildings
Trains
- Express trains including Master Cutler and South Yorkshireman
- Semi-fast and local trains
- Empty coaching stock
- Parcel trains
- Fish trains, such as the combined Hull and Grimsby-Plymouth service headed by Standard Class 7 Britannia 70044 'Earl Haigh'.
- Freights including the famous high speed Annesley-Woodford ‘Runners’
- The twice weekly Newcastle - Park Royal Brewery Guiness train
- Trip freights
- Light engine movements to and from the engine shed
- Extensive shunting in the goods yard
Rolling Stock
Because the time period chosen covers both Eastern Region ownership (up to 1958) and London Midland ownership, and because of inter-regional trains, coaches of BR, Southern, LMS, LNER and a few GWR origin ran through with a good mix of goods and parcels stock.Locomotives were also very varied and included the BR standard 9F, Britannia pacifics, standard class 5, A3 pacifics such as 60052 Prince Palatine (seen above passing under the Midland Railway Leicester-Burton upon Trent line at Bridge 379 with a London Marylebone to Manchester London Road express), V2 2-6-2s, B1 and B16 4-6-0s, K3 2-6-0s, Ol 2-8-0s , the LMS Jubilees, Black 5s, Royal Scots, DMU’s and lots more.
Photographs can be found at
http://shipleymodelrailwaysociety.fotopic.net
The development of this layout has been extensively featured in British Railway Modelling, with aricles appearing in the November 2001, May 2002, March April October 2003, October 2004, September 2006, September 2007, March and October 2009 issues; as well as the June 2003 issue of Railway Modeller
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