HOLMEWORTH

by Kier Hardy

The layout Holmeworth was based on a medium sized town in the conurbation of West Yorkshire, and was set in the early 1980s.

The centrepiece of the layout was a large 5 platform station, which served both Intercity and local services from the Eastern and Midland regions.

The four track main line was host to a large assortment of locomotives and rolling stock.

The layout also featured a goods yard and sidings to a private industry. Here Pete Johnson's scratchbuilt Hudswell Clarke puts in an appearance, albeit slightly out of period.

The layout was a good test bed for baseboard construction, and several ideas were copied over to the subsequent layout 'Wibdenshaw'.

This scratchbuilt ballast cleaner was built by Steve Adcock, and was regularly re-gauged to appear at Holmeworth, when not in 00 gauge on 'Russell Bridge'.

Although the layout has now been dismantled, many parts of it live on elsewhere. A few buildings are now located on Greg Brookes 'Shenston Road' layout, and the inovative storage and fiddle yard is now part of Wibdenshaw / Hornsey Bdy.

Holmeworth attended well over 40 exhibitions during its life, and the grand finale came when it appeared in Utrecht, Holland during November 2000.