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C L E C K H E A T O N M O D E L R A I L W A Y

E X H I B I T I O N

3rdand 4th May

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WHITCLIFFE

SPORTS CENTRE Sat 10:00 – 17.00 & Sun 10:00 - 16:00pm

BRADFORD MODEL RAILWAY CLUB

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Grassington

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DubMill Sidings)

Picture courtesy

Kirkby Stephen West

Picture courtesy

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Titheridge Junction Bradford MRC

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Bradford Model Railway Club

Trade

Aspire Gifts and Models www.aspiregiftsandmodels.co.uk Tel:01300 345355

B & C Transport C. Hobson; Sheffield. 0777 8614395

Elmet Images www.elmetimages.co.uk 07564 249 029

Direct Trains Spares Burnley 07561 179117 or 01282 438083

www.directtrainspares-burnley.co.uk See separate AD

Going Loco www.railway-models.com/ 01924 824748

Grosmont bookshop ; www.grosmontbookshop.co.uk/ 01947-895170 See

separate AD

Hobby Holidays www.hobbyholidays.co.uk/ 01427 848979

The Shunters Yard Hoyles Models Chorley 07583 757772

www.hoylesmodelrailways.co.uk/

Keiths Model Railways 0116 2778634 Quality second hand railways

Kits unlimited John Taylor Trade and Demo

Mad about trains 102 Trinity Street, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire DN21 1HS

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M A and D pictures email burrowsdave@live.co.uk 01756 749833.

Model roads and tramways www.modelroadsandtramways.co.uk Ron Boxhall

Smart Models www.smartmodels.co.uk/ Downloadable buildings and Demo

The Model Tree shop www.themodeltreeshop.co.uk 01890 819 021

Nick Tozer Books www.railwaybook.com Huddersfield, 01484 518159 -

Railbus Gavin Bairstow; Halifax 01422 249961 Transport books, videos, models

Road and Rail Collectables 07763 001243 See separate AD

Todmorden Model Supplies www.todmordenmodelsupplies.co.uk 01706 812871

Demonstrations and Displays Bob Dawson will be demonstrating model building construction .

Modellers Workshop Bob and Garath Rowlands will be demonstrating how build

a model railway. Our work have been featured on television, in magazines and

exhibitions. We can also show you how to make buildings from photos.

Neil Moxham will be demonstrating 2mm scale modelling;

AZG (ALTE- ZEIT - GRUPPE) Historical German Railway Society

Peter Goss Model figure painting demo and a display of model buildings

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society www.lyrs.org.uk/

Middleton Railway Trust http://middletonrailway.org.uk/

NER Autocar trust www.electricautocar.co.uk/index.html

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FORWARD

Hello and a very warm welcome to our exhibition for 2014 at a new venue

which will hopefully live up to our customers’ expectations.

This year we have a special treat with no less than 4 “showcase layouts”

which have been featured in HORNBY Magazine as well as our new N gauge

layout Titheridge Junction.

Light refreshments are kindly provided by Whitcliff centre on the 1st floor.

We again have a selection of trade stands providing everything you may

need for constructing your model railway.

The demo team will be showing their skills and as usual chatting and

consuming vast amounts of tea!

Please visit the club sales and Tombola stands and on your way out don’t

forget to hand in your voting slip to pick out your favourite layout and add

any comments you may have regarding the show.

Thank you for supporting us and hope to see you again next year.

Exhibition teame VISITORS AND EXHIBITORS INFORMATION

Please help us to leave it in the condition we found it.

A strict no smoking policy operates within the building.

Please do not drive or park on the grass.

In the event of a fire the alarm will sound continuously and

please leave the building by the nearest exit.

If you require First Aid please contact a club member wearing a

BMRC badge.

Refreshments are provided by Whitclife Centre on the first floor.

Toilets are adjacent to the Ground Floor entrance.

If you wish to take photographs or videos please ask first.

Sorry no pets (except guide dogs).

Awards (Don’t forget to vote).

The Ray Pennock cup will be awarded to the layout voted by the public as best

in show. Last year’s winner was Cromford and High Peak from John Holroyd

The Arthur Towers’s shield (Chairman's choice) will be awarded to the best

layout as judged by our Chairman Ian Atkinson.

Last year’s winner was LLanfair Caereinion from Blackburn MRS www.belmrs.org

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Layouts (A-Z order)

Anjst-lesspork 1.8m by 0.9m 009 (4mm =1ft) see www.hnorwood.co.uk/files/angst.htm

Hugh Norwood's layout is

a tribute to the

"Discworld" books of Terry

Pratchett and to a certain

city on a certain flat world

travelling through space on

the backs of four elephants,

which in turn, stand on the

back of a giant turtle.

The scene is urban with a

tidal river to the front.

Buildings are predominately timber framed, and there are no internal

combustion vehicles.

You may be able to find the Alchemists’ Guildhall (complete with stuffed

alligator), one of the many Watch houses, and of course Mad Lord Snapcase’s

Cruet set. The Librarian appears occasionally. The dwarfs come from the war

gaming fraternity. This is my first railway layout.

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ROAD & RAIL

COLLECTABLES

Model Railways and old toys always wanted Hornby Bachman, Dapol, Lima, Hornby-Dublo, Triang

ALL GAUGES O, OO,and N

TOP PRICES PAID Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox 1:75, Spot-On, Budgie, Britains, Solido

CORGI OOO and , EFE buses also British Corgi Classics, any Oxford Diecasts,

ANYTHING CONSIDERED Singe Items or Whole Collections

TEL 07763 001243

Hungry? Why not visit Whitcliffe Mount

café located on the 1st Floor

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Toms Sidings 00 (Martin Gajos) 6' 6" by 1' 6" 60-80's era

“Toms Sidings” portrays a three road siding the centre road of which is formed

from a truncated branch line, which is visible through the bridge on the left

hand side of the layout. There is also a disused trackless engine shed. The time

setting is

roughly the

nineteen

sixties/seventi

es/eighties.

The time

period

facilitates the display of a variety of Steam, BR blue and green era diesel

locomotives. The backdrop is a panoramic photograph and some of the scenery

are photographs forming “flats” or “wings”. (The concept of the layout

borrows from theatre stage design.) Although minimal the layout facilitates a

range of shunting and loco movements with a variety of rolling stock.

Photographs of “Toms Shed” and other of our current and past exhibition and

older layouts are on flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/85298810@N07/sets/

Wändedor N Germany 1930’s (Neil Moxham/ AZG) 4ft x 18"

Wändedorf is a fictitious branch terminus set in the foothills of the Bavarian

Alps. It was originally a through station, but a number of landslides and a

tunnel collapse have meant that the line has been cut back to this station.

The layout is set in the early 1930’s, a period when Bavaria had some

autonomy over the livery of its locos and rolling stock, but the new State

Railway liveries were slowly being introduced.

The locos and rolling stock are a mixture of Fleischmann, Minitrix and

Arnold, trackwork is all Fleischmann, and the buildings are all Faller kits. The

scenic dressings are mainly Green Scene, trees are The Model Tree Shop and

Ceynix products, and the figures are a mixture of Preiser, Langley and Noch.

If you have any questions please ask and I will endeavour to answer them.

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Black Road O gauge LIVE Steam 8'x6' (Brian Cayton) First time out

My main interest in the model railway field lies in designing and making fine

scale live steam locos in the smaller gauges from 9mm to 0 gauge

Several years ago I devised a

way of making remotely

controllable small industrial

locos on gauge 0 (7mm scale)

which are able to perform

shunting operations in a fairly

confined space.

The prototype Avonside B3 0-

6-0 can be seen on the layout.

The locos are gas fired and are

powered by a very small twin

cylinder oscillating engine geared to the axle and located between the frames. A

12V controller feeds 12V dc to the rails and then to a servo operated a steam

valve on the locos. The success of the locos has encouraged me to make a

presentable layout on which they could perform shunting operations as well as

haul trains. Black Road is the name from a long gone colliery railway in Leeds

close to where I lived as a child. Please feel free to ask any questions as I enjoy

talking about steam engines as much as I enjoy making them.

Chestnut Road 00 modern DCC sound 16' by 10'

Chestnut Road is a fictitious Midlands location set in the present era. It is based

on a medium sized container site with depot and fuelling facilities in an

industrial location with passing freight and passenger services. Locos comprise

Classes 08 to 67

and the odd DMU

from all the main

manufacturers.

Freight varies from

containers, china

clay, engineers and

Network Rail test

trains, and more.

All the scenery and

buildings are all off

the shelf items from

Bachmann, Hornby, and Woodland Scenics. The fiddle yard can hold

approximately seven trains so there is plenty of variety.

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Chard Creamery O gauge 8' by 2' (Richard and Sue Andrews)

After years of growing up and being woken up by milk churn lorries at 7.45 am,

living in a small village which had the S and D Railway to Basinbridge Milk

Factory, with the River Brue running past it, memories are made that have

lasted a lifetime.

So, when it came time to build a

new layout thoughts turned back

to those boyhood memories, and

as I love small shunting layouts I

decided to see if I could build a O

Gauge layout representing a milk

factory with either a river or as it

turns out a canal running beside it

in a 4 ft. x22 inch wide board.

Mock ups were made and I decided

that I could put three tracks down

without points to give me a

loading/unloading bay for the milk,

a centre road which coal and other

goods could be shunted to the back of the site, and a front siding which went

to another loading/unloading bay for dry goods, butter, cheese, etc. which was

manufactured at the

creamery. As I did not wish

to copy Basinbridge as it had

only one siding with the

branch line passing in front of

it, I chose to make the

building freelance of similar

design.

The name Chard was chosen

as there used to be a canal

from Taunton to Chard, now

long defunct, and I had a Skytrex barge which I built and painted needed a

home to put it, so this was the ideal situation

Some use has been made of the Skytrex Flat Buildings but all the main buildings

are scratch built by myself out of card with Slater's brick overlay. The

corrugated building at the back corner was built to sit where the pub is now

but as it did not look right so eventually it got relegated to the back and the

pub scene was built to replace it as it helps blocks the view to fiddle yard.

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Tinsley South 00 18ft by 18inch' (Steve Saxby Sheffield MRS)

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Sheffield 1970 era mixed 1500V Electric and Diesel Layout based on a suburban

station on the GC Sheffield – Rotherham line on what is now the Supertram

line near

Meadowhall.

It assumes

that this line

was

developed

and retains a passenger service. For exhibitions/added operating interest, trains

are often diverted from the Midland Line due to engineering works.

Features 1500v ‘Woodhead’ style overhead line electrification. Featured in

Modern Railway Modelling Issue 2. Capable of operating on either DC or DCC.

Has working colour light signals interlocked with point setting. Track is SMP

with hand-built points operated by SEEP motors.

See inside the rear cover of this guide for a colour picture

Titheridge Junc BMRC First time out 16' by 8' featured

Our new N gauge BR diesel era layout named after the late DB Schenker driver

Steve Titheridge. It featured points controlled by MERG Cbus system utilising

Seep point motors with route setting.

It

usually represents the BR Western Region period 1970 1977 although the

layout is fairly timeless and other era’s can be run.

When running in Western diesels era locos include Western, Hymeck, Class

22, Class121 and 122 DMU's from Dapol with Warships, Class 14, 20, 24, 25,

31, 37, 47 as well s Class 101, 108 DMU;s from Bachmann.

All locos have been renumbered, and super detailed. Stock is lightly weathered

and fitted with close couplings.

Scenery is from Woodland scenics with track from Peco and many proprietary

buildings, vehicles and figures.

Signals are from CR signals operated by Hong Kong sourced timers triggered

by IR sensors under the track.

See inside the rear cover of this guide for a colour picture

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Rose Cove 7mm NG (Dave Burrows Skipton MRS 5' by 2' 6" http://www.skiptonrailsoc.org.uk.

A continuous loop 7mm = 1ft Narrow gauge layout running on OO track. The

location is fictitious and incorporates a Harbour wall, Station and Blacksmith

shop. Stock includes Locos from heavily modified Hornby 4 wheelers and a

bogie coach made from an etched brass kit.

Melrose End 00 4.3m X 0.6m www.rainhillmrc.org.uk/

Melrose End has been designed for both exhibitions and for use at home.

For continuity of

movement the

layout is split

into two

operating

sections, a goods yard which consists of a run round loop, and 3 long sidings

The branch line has a bay platform and a

main platform which has a run round loop

Other facilities are an Engineering

company private siding, a two road LNWR

shed, with facilities for coal and watering.

The buildings are both scratch and kit

built, with interiors and bits and pieces

added. Stock is mostly ready to run or kit

built; with loads added to wagons. The

period being portrayed is 1930's - 40's

where the LMS and LNER had joint

running rights. The storage area uses a

cassette system.

Pick Purse Halt O gauge 9' by 2' (Richard and Sue Andrews) The layout portrays a wayside halt along a

GWR Country branch.In front of the halt

there is a two road goods depot, for

agricultural goods , etc. The layout is set in the

mid-1930s and you will see Steam

Railmotor and Auto Coaches running

along the branch, with small Pannier Tanks bringing in the Goods Wagons. The

idea of the layout was to see how small I could build an O Gauge layout, so I

could run my coaching stock and also have some goods traffic as well.

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Dubmill Sidings (O gauge) 40' x 3' featured

Steve Thompson's model of non-passenger

operations in the North West of England.

Even though it is set in England {just} there are

various reasons which we have made up so we can

operate Scottish classes of locomotive as well as

English based ones.

The chosen era is 1967 to 1970 - Green and Blue

diesels, grey brown, blue and white freight stock and

maroon and corporate blue parcels stock.

It has two, independent fiddle yards at the rear one

being used as the 'main-line' and the other as 'the

branch' leading to a harbour a few miles away. Trains

are worked into the sidings and are either dispatched

down the branch or signalled into one of the storage

sidings.

Parcel and van trains also work into the Goods

Depot for loading /unloading.

A small stabling point and maintenance shed are

provided together with a refuelling point. This gives

us the excuse of having plenty of light engine moves

in and out of the fiddle yards.

Baseboards are constructed from 9mm plywood.

Visible track and point work are from C&L flexi track

with most points being built in situ. The double slip is

a Marcway product".

Ballast is Greenscene 4mm Ash ballast. Track in the

fiddle yards is PECO, including the two entrance

points.

Control is DCC using Gaugemaster Prodigy wireless

controllers with points operated from panel mounted

switches with Cobalt and Traintonics motors.

Rolling Stock is a mix of RTR, kit and kit bashed

items.

All stock and scenery is weathered.

lf you have any questions or comments please feel

free to ask.

See inside the front cover of this guide for a colour picture

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Grassington OO (BMRC) featured

Our version of Grassington as it could have been along

with a display of Grassington memorabilia from

Peter huff.

It is a layout constructed by Bradford MRC members

and is based on Grassington and Threshfield the

terminal station of the Midland railway branch from

Skipton.

When the Midland built the Grassington Branch in 1900

from Embsay Junction, their intention was to carry on

right through to Wensleydale to link the North

Eastern's cross country line from Garsdale on the

Settle-Carlisle to Northallerton on the East Coast main

line. However, the branch never got further than

Grassington (that is until Bradford M.R.C. got involved!),

so here is the Grassington Branch Extension as it might

have been in the late 40's to early 60's. It is interesting

that even though it was a terminal station it was

constructed as a through station with 2 platforms and a

trailing rather than facing crossover for the loco run-

round.

The real branch opened in 1900. A bus service to

Skipton put paid to the timetabled passenger services in

1932 but traffic to the quarry (under the wooden

bridge) ; goods and excursion traffic survived until 1969.

Local people may recognise many of the features and

hopefully enjoy the atmosphere of the area. The shop

opposite the station entrance still survives as well as the

3 arch bridge.

Our layout after some years in store where it suffered

some vandalism was refurbished for the 2010

Grassington Festival. It is constructed on 6 boards which

box up into pairs for transport. Scenery is mainly from

Woodland Scenic's with mostly scratch built buildings.

The Level crossing gates feature working lights and are

driven by an RC servo motor.

Future items include working lights and signals.

See inside the front cover of this guide for a colour picture

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Midsomer Mardy Z gauge 4' by 2' (Kevin & Angela Smith)

The layout packs a lot of detail and operating interest into just a 4ft by 2ft 6inch

and features an entire village bought from car boot sales and charity shops.

The buildings are resin cast cottages sold as collectors’ items including 'Tetley

Tea folk' houses. They are to slightly varying scales and are used to "force the

perspective" on the layout by using the larger ones at the front and smaller

ones at the back to increase perception of depth.

The most any of these buildings has cost is £1.50. The station buildings and

other railway structures are scratch built in plasticard based on Midland

Railway and L and Y prototypes. There is a small harbour which serves Mardy

Frozen Foods warehouse and Mardy marine ship’s handlers.

Three trains can run simultaneously two on the lower track and one on the

high level branch line. The track is a mix of Marklin/ Peco and all points are

electrically operated. The lower tracks are fitted with overhead catenary.

Rolling stock is a mixture of diesel, electric and steam based on Marklin chassis

and includes class 47s,56s,90s and HSTs. Steam includes LNER A3s & A4s.

Rolling stock is a mix of scratch built and repainted Marklin items.

Hidden on the layout (and very small indeed) the good folk of Midsomer Mardy

are up to their favourite pastime, murder!

Midsomer Murders is a popular TV detective show in England set in a sleepy

village full of thatched roofed houses. See if you can spot the murders that have

or are about to happen.

The layout uses the same exhibition plinth and lighting rig that our previous

Mardy model Railway Club and Mardy Engineers layouts used.

The layout is quite ground breaking in representing the U.K rail scene in Z.

Any questions from the public are always welcome.

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Kirkby Stephen West 00 22' by 10' Huddersfield MRS

featured see http://huddsrailwaymodellers.co.uk/

Based on the Midland railway Kirkby Stephen Station on the

Settle and Carlisle railway this layout was built by club

members Ian Macdonald and Martin Wright. The Station

buildings were made by Dave Garner and the Goods shed

by Jim Porter.

The layout measures 6.6m by 3m and is operated from the

central area.

The layout was 'LAYOUT OF THE MONTH ' in the

November 2003 issue of RAILWAY MODELLER. It also featured in HORNBY Magazine No 5, November

2007 and again Railway Modeller November 2012 issue.

See inside the front cover of this guide for a colour picture

Levisham N 10ft by 2ft Richard Pratt Harrogate MRC

Welcome to our representation of Levisham Station on the North Yorkshire

Moors Railway.

The track plan is based

on the current layout of

the station and allows us

to run a variety of locos

and rolling stock that are

in preservation. This includes anything from the regular passenger services

through to the demonstration freight train and en the odd mainline locomotive.

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Haarse End 00 First time out 11ft by 15inches (Roger Epps)

Set in the in the northern part of the home counties commuter belt, Haase End

is a small dormitory town whose main purpose in life is to send the bowler hat

brigade to London every day.

The Haase End and Nowhere Railway was proposed in the late nineteenth

century and the railway was soon built as far as Haase End but the money soon

ran out and the line to Nowhere was never built, and onward travel was by

road. Most of the rail traffic on the line is passenger trains with commuter

trains morning and evening and a push pull shuttle during the day. A limited

amount of freight traffic also runs.

Track is Peco

code75 which has

been painted

suitably weathered

and ballasted with

Peco fine ballast.

Peco point motors have been used and control is by an H & M walkabout

controller, Buildings are from Bachmann and Hornby and have been weathered.

Scenics are all from commercially available sources such as Woodland Scenics

and Greenscene.

Please if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask and we will do our best

to answer them.

Harrison Ford (American HO) 23' by 6' (Graham Harrison)

An imaginary town in the Rockies built around a switchback in the railroad.

The railroad brings timber and minerals from higher up the mountains to the

town which is developing

on the edge of the Prairies.

The layout depicts the

steam era with typical

backwoods locomotives

and rolling stock. The

complex trackwork

provides for interesting

operation but it is not

based on any real location.

The original fording point

has been bridged by the

railway.

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Heron Lane 00 modern 14’ X 2’ (Scarbrough MRS) http://sdrmweb.co.uk

Heron Lane depicts a locomotive servicing depot owned by English, Welsh and

Scottish Railways (EWS) shortly after the company was formed in 1995,

amalgamating four of the five freight sectors.

The Depot is set in a city

suburb and is responsible

for servicing some of the

locomotives purchased

by the company

following a huge £750M

investment.

This includes the recently acquired Class 66 and Class 67 locomotives, as well

as those inherited when the company was formed. Locomotives are fuelled on

arrival; the depot’s huge appetite for fuel is supplied by rail. Locos requiring

examinations enter the two road maintenance shed; which is capable of

carrying out examinations up to level C.

Locomotive

washing

facilities are

provided as

EWS have

quickly

realised that

other

fledgling

operators

have no

servicing

facilities of

their own so

frequent

visits are

made to the

depot by

other operators’ locomotives.

High above the depot, various types of Diesel Multiple Unit shuttle back and

forth on an elevated branch line. The layout is both Analogue and DCC

controlled and utilises Peco track and point work

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Tel. 01427-811040.

http://www.madabouttrains.co.uk/

Email: sales@madabouttrains.co.uk

Modelling Advice - Service Repairs - DCC Decoder Fitting - Limited Edition

Models.

DCC specialist we fit and supply sound chips. We stock a large selection of

accessories and scenic materials together with electric components.

If you are building a layout we cater for all your needs. We also build

layouts from N gauge to O gauge. Good honest and reliable advice is

always available. We aim to please rather than fill the till. We carry a

selection of locos and rolling stock. We buy and sell 2nd hand as well as

new railway. Give us a try you will not be disappointed.

We build many kinds of dioramas and scratch built buildings. Should you

require something different?

If it can be done we will try to do it for you.

We also do repaint, renumbering and weathering as well as a repair service.

Opening Hours:

Sunday Closed

Monday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Tuesday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Wednesday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Thursday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday 9:00am - 5:00pm

We can be open out of hours by appointment

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STOCKPORT

EXHIBITION Presented by Stockport & District Railway Modellers

10th & 11th May 2014

Sat: 10:00-17:00 Sun: 10:00-16:00

Stockport Grammar School

Buxton Road (A6), Stockport, SK2 7AQ

Layouts in all popular scales; Wide range of Traders; Free car park;

Level access throughout; Quality refreshments at reasonable prices

Adults: £5.00 Concessions: £4.50

Accompanied children under 16: FREE

Website: www.sdrm.co.uk e-mail: exhibition@sdrm.co.uk

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New Books Other Products Railways Second-hand books

Natural history Arts Local history Crafts Childrens Miscellaneous

Other subjects Second hand book lists

Grosmont Bookshop (Next to NYMR Station) Front Street

Grosmont YO22 5QE Telephone 01947-895170

www.grosmontbookshop.co.uk

We are manufacturers of high quality products at affordable prices. We currently manufacture rolling road cradle units in

various gauges (N, 0 and 00) with other gauges to follow very soon. We also manufacture NEM 652 DCC decoder socket wiring

harnesses.

As a keen model railway enthusiast myself and with previous aerospace engineering experience I understand the importance of

offering products made to a high standard and easy to use whilst keeping prices low.

I also use the NEM 652 DCC harnesses to convert my older OO gauge trains to DCC for my own layout. I find that when

converting old trains to DCC using the harnesses, it is easier when the train is mounted on a rolling road system to ensure everything

is running correctly before using on my layout.

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