4mm scale, 16.5mm gauge

John Dilnot & David Kirby

Calderwood is our interpretation of a wayside station on the L&Y main line circa 1910 in the west riding of Yorkshire, with the LNWR having running powers for their goods traffic to Bradford.

The inspiration for it was a photograph of HIPPERHOLME station, but built as an island platform with a small goods yard and a chemicals factory with private siding access.

The model you see before you has taken us 10 years, All the track work and points are C&L using their plastic sleepers and chairs, the ballasting uses genuine L&Y ash from the Cleckheaton branch. All the buildings are constructed from aircraft ply and faced with plasticard or in the case of brickwork all bricks are individually set on. Locomotives are mainly etched brass kits from the late George Norton or London Road models. Rolling stock is from a variety of sources, David Geen, D&S and Slaters being the majority. Our signalling is operational by a memory wire system on low voltage power, we have made the operating units for the individual signals ourselves.

We have modelled all the point rodding and signal wiring to the respective signal boxes and ground frame. The signal box on the up line is Calderwood station box, the one by the goods loops is Calderwood East which is modelled on Lightcliffe, and the ground frame is based on Rochdale up platform ground frame.

Please feel free to ask us any questions were always happy to oblige.