Scale / Gauge	4mm Scale, P4 Gauge
Location / Era	Ex LYR branch line / mid 1920’s
Owner	Gavin and Helen Clarke

Kerrinhead represents an imaginary, slightly atypical, single track ex LYR branch line in the mid 1920’s, somewhere in the hills that cover the eastern edge of Lancashire and the western edge of Yorkshire.

Traffic consists of local passenger and goods services, an occasional excursion or express, and coal and gasworks traffic which arrives and then is taken back out along an imaginary spur to the colliery and gasworks.

The baseboards are generally constructed as a jigsaw, with baseboard edges along scenic boundaries. The baseboards also needed to be a reasonably small size to facilitate getting them in and out of the railway room at home.

Stone walls have been produced in a number of different ways – embossed plasticard, carved plasticard and carved DAS. All were painted using enamel paints

The layout is controlled entirely using DCC, including all pointwork, signals, uncouplers and the turntable. The control panel uses the Society lever frame, and all control goes along, in this case, the NCE CAB Bus from the panel to the layout. MERG kits have been used for feedback from the layout to the control panel for route indicators.

The layout is exhibited with the help of friends in the local Scalefour Society Area Group, also known as the Marches Finescale Group, in Shropshire.

Despite the layout being entirely the owner’s responsibility, there have been invaluable suggestions and help from other members of the Group, in particular Geoff Taylor who made some of the buildings, and the late John Bailey, who was influential in getting the trackwork built in time for its first exhibition in 2015, and whose LNWR locos are amongst those used on the layout.

Others including Jim Roberts, Tim Lewis, Tudor Watkins, David Beale, Jeff George, David Sutton and Simon Bolton have contributed and are among members of the operating team along with my family.