ARA Club Layouts
Below are links to detail pages on layouts built and operated by the different groups within the Association.
Barnwell NEW
00 gauge. DCC, Era 5
32 feet x 2 feet overall, 20 feet viewable.
As Barnwell station’s architecture might suggest, the layout is imagined to be somewhere originally operated by the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and later by the LMS and BR Midland Region,
Hassell Harbour Bridge 0 Gauge
Lawton Hey 00 Gauge
Lawton Hey is a small market town.
Its fictional location is such that it benefits from multi-regional railway connections, and even now, in the 1960s, facilities have been upgraded to accommodate diesel locomotives as they gain a foothold over steam.
Fredstone Lane N Gauge
The layout consists of 6 4x4ft boards which will be packed into pairs for transportation. It incorporates a double track main line & a freight avoiding line complete with loops to allow diverted stock to pass.
N Gauge DCC only
Smalldale is a small village situated between Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith just east of Dove Holes. The quarry is now a popular rock climbing area, but it was once part of the ICI Buxton lime operations.
NEW
Beginners Group Modelling in 00 Gauge
A small hands on model railway featuring Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
Even the very youngest can have a go.
NEW
The Potteries Loop Line
The group is in the process of building models of various Loop Line stations, all of which can be run together.
To run together the are built to a modular standard.
They are operated by Digital Command Control (DCC).
There is now one fiddle yard. The whole layout is now configured as a round and round layout with the former seperate fiddle yards combined to make one.
So far we have
BURSLEM operational and new buildings and scenery being developed.
Two generic scenic boards, one depicting the Cobridge tunnel portal. The other a generic representative scene of the Potteries.
COBRIDGE complete (in storage)
