FORTHSIDE
00 Gauge
Basic details.
Overall layout size is 33-00 feet long x 11-00 feet wide (10.00 x 3.40 metres)
Internal operating well is 28-00 feet long x 4-00 feet wide (8.50 x 1 20 metres)
An additional 2-00 feet (0.60 metres) is required front, back and each end for access and barriers.
A single 220/240 volts x 13 amp power supply is required. Display lighting is provided along with the layout.
The layout is a continuous circuit on solid top baseboards with the scenic parts accommodated on the front and end sections with an extensive fiddle yard occupying the rear.
Guide description
Forthside is an OO gauge layout depicting a fictional urban location in Central Scotland and has been created and extended to reach its present form as a representation of the railway scene as may have existed from the latter years of the 20th century right up to the present time. The model features a large through station serving main and secondary routes carrying both freight and passenger traffic.
Associated infrastructure such as Motive Power Depot/fuelling point, signalling centre, colour light signals and track work forming loops and sidings have all been included.
At exhibitions, the layout may be presented differently each day by exclusively utilising rolling stock applicable to specific era’s such as green diesels, corporate blue, sectorisation, pre-privatisation and the current scene.
“HARVIESTOUN with GLEN OCHIL”
“O” GAUGE EXHIBIT
Basic details
Overall layout size is 26’ 0” long x 16’0” wide (8.00 metres x 5.00 metres)
Please refer to the layout plan and note the “handing” of this layout
An additional 2’ 0” (0.60 metres) is required as necessary to accommodate barriers, which are available if so required.
Operators are positioned within the footprint of the layout. No extra floor space is required.
A single 220/240 volt x 13 amp power supply is necessary. Display lighting is provided along with the layout.
The layout is horse shoe shaped and is right handed when viewed from the front which section is approximately 18’ 0” (5.50 metres) long and leads at the right hand end into the curved viaduct section which projects a further 8’ 0” (2.50 metres) x 16’ 0” (5.00 metres) wide. A shorter scenic board 6’ 0” long (1.80 metres) and a 12’ 0” long (3.70 metres) fiddle yard complete the opposite side. Viewing is welcome on all three sides. Actual area of the layout excluding the operating well is approx 52’ 0” sq ft (14.00 square metres”
Guide description
As a result of the continuing interest in 7mm to 1ft “O” Gauge railway models and the increasing skill levels of it’s members, Stirling and Clackmannan District MRC made the decision to extend its existing, much admired layout “Harviestoun” .
The basic idea for the extension arose from a desire to further the illusion of trains actually arriving from or travelling to a more distant part of the UK rail network. Additionally, members wished to create a major engineering structure, which would also serve as an eye catching viewpoint for the variety of stock running on the layout.
The result is now displayed in the shape of “Harviestoun” with “Glen Ochil Viaduct”. Whilst the layout overall remains representative of the Hillfoots area of Forth Valley, those visitors acquainted with Scotland’s major railway structures shall have no difficulty in identifying the inspiration behind this new viaduct.
The layout depicts this part of Scotland’s railway in the period around the mid sixties when rail still served such rural parts of the country. The variety of rolling stock and steam/diesel motive power is typical of this period.
You are invited to linger a while by the line side and enjoy the trains running by, whether to simply watch or to photograph, we trust you derive as much pleasure from the presentation as our members.