Barry and Penarth Model Railway Club

Club Layouts

The club currently has the following fixed layouts on display in the clubrooms:
Layout 1: Holton General
An extensive fixed OO gauge (4mm:ft) layout

Layout 2: Cadoc Bluffs
A fixed American HO gauge (3.5mm:ft) layout
This layout has been dismantled to allow access for window replacement. An entirely new concept and trackplan for its replacement have been designed. However, in the meantime, the baseboards have been erected and a large dog-bone type test track has been installed, linked to the setting up tacks and capable of either DC or DCC operation.

Layout 3: Tafsil
A large part fixed, part portable O gauge (7mm:ft) layout
A number of the tank engines of South Wales origin seen on Tafsil are illustrated on suplementary pages
The fixed parts of this layout have now been dismantled to allow the rooms to be developed for a new double track tail chaser layout. The portable boards have been placed in storage, but are available for exhibition if required.

Layout 4: Machynlleth
An extensive N Gauge (2mm:ft) scale model of this mid-Wales station as it was in the 1950's
Additionly, the club owns the following portable exhibition layouts:
Layout 6: Penthar Bay
A portable OO gauge (4mm:ft) layout

Layout 9: Porthiain
A portable O gauge (7mm:ft) shunting layout
This layout has been stripped back to the baseboard and track and has been rebuilt, with the existing trackwork, but motorised points and new scenery. It remains a shunting puzzle layout.

Layout 13: Addersleigh Junction
The new club OO gauge (4mm:ft) exhibition tail chaser
Pictures of Addersleigh Junction taken at the South Wales Model Show in Tylorstown, January 2009.

Layout 14: Walker's Ridge
American/Canadian HO 3.5mm scale
Brian's Scoulding's memorial to Bill Walker, donated to the club on Brian's death. Now extended with an additional board, incorporating a typical american 'wye' formation, and replacement fiddle yard/turntable. It operates to a timetable and is designed essentially as a shunting layout.

The Kingswell Fairground
An extensive model fairground and street scene which was a generous gift from the late Ray Kingswell. Although not strictly a model railway, this model is available for exhibition. It has been promised for the 2010 South Wales Model Show.

The following layout is deemed surplus to requirements and is up for sale as seen, without stock or controllers - buyer removes from the clubrooms in Barry.

Layout 12: White River Pass
A small portable american N gauge (2mm:ft) tail chaser


A section devoted to the club's member's individual layouts is available here.

A section devoted to former club and/or members layouts is available here.