Meyrick Road

Meyrick Road is a 16 foot by eight continuous run layout representing a fictional country junction station on a twin track secondary main line, somewhere south of Birmingham. It was initially set between 1955 and 1965, British Rail. It was envisaged that stock would be mainly exGWR or exLMS. It is to 4mm scale using OO gauge track powered by DCC (Lenz) or analogue (Gaugemaster).

It was commenced by a group of modellers wanting to upgrade their skills with support from the club and intended to provide the club with a new running layout, it was exhibited at our show in 2019 as a work in progress. Having been started prior to the pandemic, both the group and it’s construction were disrupted. Post pandemic the original group, for various reasons, disbanded. It was sufficiently advanced for the club to decide to complete it, involving many club members. The layout continued to be exhibited attending St John’s show in Stoke 2023, and ours in Stafford 2024.

Exhibiting highlighted a number of issues, including difficulty of transport, damage in transit and operator/stock availability. Thus at our 2024 AGM it was decided to return it to its original intended role as club running layout. It is now permanently set up in our club room.