Website last updated 10 Sept. 2009.  
(exhibition details)
visitors since July 2005.
Oldshaw is a small EM gauge model railway built by Andrew Bartlett from Stroud, near Gloucester. The layout depicts a small station and nearby factory and sidings on a Western Region branch line in the late 1970's or early 1980's. Blue diesels and vacuum fitted/ unfitted freight trains are operated. The passenger service is usually provided by a diesel multiple unit.

Oldshaw featured in August 2006 edition


The layout features a strong emphasis on weathering. Goods wagons are a mixture of kit-built and modified ready-to-run stock.


The scenic part of the layout is eight feet in length by eighteen inches wide. Storage sidings in the form of a traverser at one end takes the overall length to twelve feet. It is also possible to attach another set of storage sidings at the other end of the layout thus creating a through station.


33 203 is seen passing the premises of the engineering works at Oldshaw. Behind the fence, unfitted 16ton mineral wagons can be seen in the private siding which is on a slightly lower level than the main running line.

This picture shows a good view of the scenic section. Most of the rolling stock on the layout is fitted with Sprat and Winkle remote delay auto coupling. Despite their appearance they do allow completely hands free shunting and operating to take place as wagons can be uncoupled and then pushed and left anywhere on the layout.

50 014 Warspite at Oldshaw with a train of clayhoods.
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below: A class 47 stands at Oldshaw with a mixed freight. The fiddle yard is situated just the other side of the double arched bridge in the background.
The signal gantry is typical of several which survived in the West Country until the mid 1980's. Like the other signals on the layout it is soldered together using components supplied by Model Signal Engineering.


left: 03 121 rests in the headshunt next to the railway cottages at Oldshaw. This loco was allocated to Bristol Bath Road.
below: A rake of 'clayhood' wagons, headed by 50 014, is seen passing over the canal at Oldshaw. The station building, in the background, is based on the one at Arley on the Severn Valley Railway. All the buildings and structures on the layout are scratchbuilt from plasticard.

The layout has been displayed at several model railway exhibitions including Cheltenham,Kidderminster, Taunton, Shipley and Railex Aylesbury.

Forthcoming Exhibitions
Manchester,
3rd & 4th October 2009.

Trainwest Melksham,
10th & 11th April 2010.

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