By David Atkinson
Scale 1/50th
Gauge 9mm
Size 90" x 20"

Canalside Ironworks is a purely fictious location, supposedly somewhere in deepest Derbyshire but could be from any industrial location in England around the 1920/30s period.

The actual layout which is modelled in a rather obscure scale for model railways of 1:50th which equates to 6mm = 1 foot of reality.

There are very few commercially produced model railway items available in this scale so virtually everything you see before you has been either kit adapted or scratch-built. The track gauge is 9mm between the rails and the loco motors/chassis are commercial produced ‘N’ mechanisms.

This layout has many operating features such as a working incline, water wheel, pumping beam engine, pithead winding gear and a furnace blast engine plus many more.

If you have any questions or queries about the modelling techniques used please don’t hesitate to ask as we will be only to willing to answer your queries.

Also we have photographs in an album showing the various stages of construction of the layout and the locomotives running upon it, so if you would like to view these please ask and I’ll be only too willing to show you.

Canalside ironworks has also been featured in the April 2018 issue of Railway Modeller.

If you would like to view photographs of this layout you can type into your internet search engine Canalside-Ironworks and a Facebook page should come if encountering any problems you can type in the full address which is : Canalside-Ironworks-806090326233570