Model Railway Club

An N Gauge layout currently under construction by the Warrington Model Railway Club.

A model of one of our local stations, now sadly little more than a bus shelter. In the fifties the goods yard was still open, as was the branch to Wigan. At that time the line was largely worked by ex LMS locomotives plus DMUs, rolling stock for a slightly earlier period provides greater variety being largely ex LNER and GC in particular. Grand National day gives a license to run almost anything!

Traffic was generally heavy, with trains to and from Stockport and Wigan passing through and crossing the paths of those on the main line from Manchester to Liverpool.

The station area and yard are being modelled to scale, to make the layout easily transportable, the west junction area has been selectively compressed. Although a relatively small station the prototype track plan managed to include both single and double slip points!