A rotating O gauge layout.

[lakeview770]

Hi can anyone help me with the name of I believe an O gauge layout that was the same scene that rotated through 4 seasons and time periods?

 

Andy

[ELTEL]

I think it was either a Sutton Coldfield club or Members layout.

 

I also think it is at the Great Central Railway

 

Terry 

[Ohmisterporter]

I remember one on the exhibition circuit, IIRC it was a GER scene and one of the locos was a tram engine (a.k.a Toby the tram engine). Cannot remember the name though. 

[Kickstart]

One I can remember was at a show (in the hmrs  section) at the Midland Railway Butterley
 

All the best

 

Katy

Edited February 12, 2021 by Kickstart

[LBRJ]

I saw it at "a show" quite a long time ago, most likely at somewhere in the north Midlands or near Manchester.

It was based on the Wisbech and Upwell.

It was like a big drum they turned to show the different eras, and I think that each era was also in a different season.

The also had a couple of rows of seats laid out for the audience.

 

After all that, I still can't recall what it was actually called though!!

Edited February 12, 2021 by LBRJ

[laurenceb]

It was at Derby at least once, Mike Bellamy Might know

[AY Mod]

34 minutes ago, Kickstart said:

One I can remember was at a show (in the hmrs  section) at the Midland Railway Butterley

 

It was still in the ground floor of the HMRS a couple of years ago.

[woodenhead]

Here's an idea - if you had a rotating model railway - i.e the board rotated, then you wouldn't have to power the trains - simply have bars across the layout at key points, the bar would have a ring on it that could slide from end to end and a piece of fine thread hanging down with a hook at the bottom.  Hook the thread to a loco and then rotate  the boards - the train would appear to move along, swap tracks even and traverse through the scenes - no wiring other than to rotate the board.

 

No trains would pass of course as they are literally all stationary with the board below moving, but if you had a train unhooked it could be passed by one that is hooked.

 

No attraction apart from noveltly and not a solution to anything more than a rotating diorama.

[CloggyDog]

Outwell Basin? Nope... 

 

Definitely Wisbech and Upwell, fiddle to fiddle via a nice simple plan, repeated 4 times to allow the 4 seasons and also 4 eras, from memory spring was 1900 GER, summer 1925 early LNER, autumn 1940s wartime LNER and winter 1950 transition  to closure. 

 

I saw it a couple of times on the show circuit and thought it a very clever design, superbly executed and one of those instantly inspirational layouts. 

 

Edit

 

Elmwell, was mentioned on here a while back

BRM April & May 2000, must hunt those issues down. 

Edited February 13, 2021 by CloggyDog

[Andrew1974]

The description in the OP reminds me of Elmwell Village Depot

 

Edited February 13, 2021 by Andrew1974

[Mike Bellamy]

 

Confirmed Elmwell Village Depot. As Laurence mentioned above, seen at Derby Assembly Rooms some years ago but I don't have copies of the show guides at home so I did a search for HMRS at Butterley and found a copy of the Midland Railex show guide from 2014 which lists the layouts on display at the HMRS Museum.

 

A very detailed description on pages 27 and 28 here (and a photo) - and guess where I found that - here on RMweb !!

 

Midland Railex Show Guide Click Here

 

Mike

 

[MarcD]

It's part of the HMRS collection. It can be viewed at the centre once all this covid stuff is out of the way.

Marc