Board Meeting

The boards have been completed in short order

Hull Model Railway Show 7th & 8th November 2015

We are please to announce that we have been asked to put on a display of our plans for Lockwood Street at the forthcoming Hull Model Railway Show on 7th & 8th November 2015.

We hope to have the more or less complete baseboards, and maybe the first few buildings and trackwork components.

If you want to see how we are progressing or if you have any memories of the railways of Hull, please come along and see us, we will be pleased to talk to you!

Highlights among the other 16 layouts on show will be 'The World End' - Peter Goss's new layout, 'Boot' from Peter Kaser showing the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in original 3ft gauge form, 'Eaton Gommery' - Pre Grouping railways from Wigan Railway Modellers and Lego Trains for the younger visitors!

Timber...

Having worked out what we want to include on the layout and how it could be arranged, we have settled on three scenic boards of 4ft x 2ft 6in; the end two being rectangular, the middle angled at one end.

Thanks, particularly to the enthusiasm of one recent recruit to the team, the basic boards have been completed in under a month.

The boards are a plywood box structure (6mm thick for the sides and top, 12mm for the ends) with 1x1 softwood battens along the joins.

The odd shaped centre board. - The 'easy' square ones are complete and standing in the corner.