Members Layouts
At IRMA several of our members have layouts that can be exhibited, they are listed in more detail below.
City Road
City Road is built on the principle that there is always room for a model railway.
Set in the late 1950’s, it represents a cramped inner city freight terminus serving a number of warehouses adjacent to a large wholesale market. In addition there is a station to cater for the market workers and the factories shown in the background.
Viewing is from one of the new tower blocks that have been built in a re-developed area. It is planned that the market will eventually move to an out of town site and the whole area, including the railway will be the subject of urban renewal.
Set in the late 1950’s, it represents a cramped inner city freight terminus serving a number of warehouses adjacent to a large wholesale market. In addition there is a station to cater for the market workers and the factories shown in the background.
Viewing is from one of the new tower blocks that have been built in a re-developed area. It is planned that the market will eventually move to an out of town site and the whole area, including the railway will be the subject of urban renewal.
| City Road |
Five Mile Creek
Installed around three walls of the garage at home Five Mile Creek is designed to represent part of the Santa Fe Railroad on the Arizona/ New Mexico border.
The time period is the late 40's/ early 50's during the steam to diesel transition era giving opportunity to run F units and other first generation diesels along with some steam locos, which would have been seen in that general area.
The scenery is designed to show the semi arid scrubby type of landscape typical of the desert south west of the United States, with the only type of farming being the scattered cattle ranches and very little industry apart from some coal mining and mineral extraction.
Five Mile Creek started as a small town beside a creek of the same name and gradually developed with an industrial area now operating on the opposite side of the tracks from the original town, the main line like so many in the USA is single track which adds to the operating and scenic interest, with further along the line a small yard dealing with local, coal, livestock, oil grain and perishable traffic.
The time period is the late 40's/ early 50's during the steam to diesel transition era giving opportunity to run F units and other first generation diesels along with some steam locos, which would have been seen in that general area.
The scenery is designed to show the semi arid scrubby type of landscape typical of the desert south west of the United States, with the only type of farming being the scattered cattle ranches and very little industry apart from some coal mining and mineral extraction.
Five Mile Creek started as a small town beside a creek of the same name and gradually developed with an industrial area now operating on the opposite side of the tracks from the original town, the main line like so many in the USA is single track which adds to the operating and scenic interest, with further along the line a small yard dealing with local, coal, livestock, oil grain and perishable traffic.
The Assington Branch
From member Iain Taylor: this is my new N gauge layout.
The baseboards were made before the 2020 lockdown began so it became my Covid home project as obviously I had plenty of time on my hands. First of all I must say that the name has nothing to do with the real Assington on the Suffolk/Essex border. I just felt the name had a nice ring to it.
Due to space restrictions I decided to create a terminus to fiddle yard (which has worked out very well), so now it is 8 feet by 18 inches. Each board is 4 feet long (I know that this size fits in my car), one board has full scenery and half of the other is fiddle yard.
My scenario is that this is a branch off the old LSWR main line on the borders of Surrey & Hampshire passing through a number of small towns and set in the late 1950s.
Assington generates agricultural products plus at the other end of the town is a woollen weaving company, it was founded in the early 19th century using water power from the local river. The possibility of the towns on the route expanding with new commuter developments/new industry in this post war period means that the line will survive into the future.
NB at the moment the Assington Branch is not ready for exhibition.
The baseboards were made before the 2020 lockdown began so it became my Covid home project as obviously I had plenty of time on my hands. First of all I must say that the name has nothing to do with the real Assington on the Suffolk/Essex border. I just felt the name had a nice ring to it.
Due to space restrictions I decided to create a terminus to fiddle yard (which has worked out very well), so now it is 8 feet by 18 inches. Each board is 4 feet long (I know that this size fits in my car), one board has full scenery and half of the other is fiddle yard.
My scenario is that this is a branch off the old LSWR main line on the borders of Surrey & Hampshire passing through a number of small towns and set in the late 1950s.
Assington generates agricultural products plus at the other end of the town is a woollen weaving company, it was founded in the early 19th century using water power from the local river. The possibility of the towns on the route expanding with new commuter developments/new industry in this post war period means that the line will survive into the future.
NB at the moment the Assington Branch is not ready for exhibition.
