New Project
The next project for Elham Valley Model Railway Club is to build a series of small layouts, all of the same size and using the same infrastructure.
Watch here for more details as they become available.
Elham Valley Industrial Limeworks.
The quarry layout is complete.
The Elham Valley MRC has developed an 009 chalk quarry layout on a 4' by 3' board. This may form one of a number of small layouts on different themes but all using a number of common features and all built in a 4' by 3' space. As we develop and commit to the ideas we will let people know.
None of the group had worked in 009 before and one of the aims of this project was to broaden individuals' skills.
The name for the layout is the Elham Valley Industrial Limeworks. The layout is presented as if viewed from within a quarry hut which provides a theatre style presentation arch. The standard gauge transfer siding has been built to operate to an automated light controlled sequence. The quarry buildings are bespoke.
The photos below show the layout during construction.
Elham
The first phase of the project to build a 4mm model of a small section the Elham Valley Railway is now complete.This is centred on Elham station.
Elham has suffered the indignity of being turned into a terminus but later it will be part of a larger line. As the station was on the outskirts of the village and underwent no significant changes; apart for the 1930 singling of the track; it is possible to run stock from any period of the lines history without it looking out of place.
Initially the layout shows the line coming from Folkestone with the section between Lickpot Bridge to Elham station modelled. Later we intend to extend the line and allow trains to operate arriving from Canterbury as well.
Two station buildings and signal boxes have been completed so the layout can reflect different eras.
Lickpot Road Bridge
The bridge over the railway at Lickpot Road undergoing scenic development. The original was demolished when the line was lifted. The culverts shown below have been fitted onto this board.
Shepley
Shepley is a small rural station built to 'N' gauge. It started life as a child's layout built by Bev Sheppard who donated the layout to the club.
It is being slowly upgraded with added detail to the scenery.
The club took its 'N' gauge layout 'Shepley' to the show in Deal on 2nd August 2015 at the Astor Theatre.
