Meacham is a fictitious layout based on a small town in Derbyshire.

It consists of a through station, a branch line, a goods yard and a factory siding. It has been designed and built by the N gauge members of the Leamington & Warwick MRC over the last five years.

While originally built to reflect the last days of steam the varied collection of stock and interests of members has meant that we have tried to design it so that it would not be out of place in any period from the 50s to the early 90s.

We like to operate it with changes of locos and stock as the day progresses reflecting the passing of time and try to make appropriate changes where possible in the infrastructure, especially of vehicles. One future plan is to develop the goods yard into a supermarket by dropping a building over the existing tracks as we move into the late 60s.

One interesting feature of the layout is the large number of houses (over 100), giving a good impression of terraced housing, built close to the station and the main factory complex. Mos of the buildings are made from Metcalfe card kits improved using ‘Staters’ plastic roof sheets. Some buildings are scratch built and good use is made of the Lyttle End range.

Four separate controllers are used so there is ample variety to be found in operating the layout. Two control the main lines, one is available for shunting operations in the yard and the last controls the branch line and factory unit.

Stock is ‘ready to run’ mainly from Farish and Dapol ranges.

If you would like to have Meacham at your exhibtion please use the contact information at the bottom of the page.