Wrye seen at the club rooms a couple of weeks before our exhibition. The new track layout has now been added to allow shunting operations to take place without stopping the main line traffic as used to be the case in the past.

The new trackwork being tested with a J39 and a couple of suburban coaches.

A new model built from a Brass Kit by Howard Moutray. Howard is a keen "N" gauge modeller but he has been bitten by the "0" gauge bug. This is his first model in this gauge but no doubt more will now follow?

With the much larger model size that is produced using "0" gauge you can get down to very fine detail. This is the "Cab view" of Howards model.

One of the houses built by Howard Moutray for the extension board on Wrye. The houses are made of 3/8 th Balsa sheet and Slaters Plasticard. If it wasn't for the real door seen to the left of the model it could almost be a genuine house !!

The new Station building now completed by Howard Moutray to replace the old existing building. This new one includes illumination which obtains its power from the locating dowels when the building is placed in position on the platform. Photograph by Howard Moutray

The new runaround at the station end instead of the cassette based fiddle yard system has made a massive improvement to this model. It has made the appearance at this end much more attractive and has also improved the operating procedure.

The new signal box constructed by Howard Moutray which has plenty of detail within it. This fine detail incudes the lever frames and even documents on the tables. It is seen here with temporary wires to show the lighting and has not yet been fixed in position. The fine detail lever frame that is fitted inside the signal box.

0-8-2 Tank locomotive purchased second hand by one of the club members (Bill Turner). It is in working order but Bill will be doing some renovation work on it to bring it up to prime condition.

This picture was taken while the layout was setup in the club rooms just after it had returned from being exhibited. In the foreground is 78022 a standard class 2 loco and behind that is a class J39. Both are waiting in the station ready to depart with coaching stock.

The same loco's and coaching stock as described above but this time looking from the front. Note the fine detail that is visable within the cab of the J39.

Wrye is a 7mm "O" gauge layout based on a fictitious location and depicting a preserved branch line terminus. It is currently 45ft in length and is unlikely to be extended any further as it is now impossible to erect all of it in the club rooms. The layout has been to many exhibitions in the past and has invites to future ones.

We did think that Wrye was at the end of its life and had indeed considered pensioning it off, especialy now that we have the larger round and round O gauge model "Sandy Lane" that we inherited from the ex Todmorden Railway Society. However It still keeps getting invites to exhibitions and as a result has been further upgraded along with new fiddle yard sections.

This page updated 24th February 2008