Cromwell Road Bridge

Scale 7mm/ft – 0 Gauge

Cromwell Road Bridge is the club’s 0 gauge DCC layout, representing a West London parcels depot, milk depot and wagon serving shed either side of a through diversionary line. The time zone is early British Railways through to the BR Blue livery era. The line is mainly used for freight, but on occasion there is a diverted passenger service heading towards Paddington to the east or working to the west, alongside local passenger services. Locos are a mix of steam and diesel from both Western and Southern regions.

Along the Line

From left to right there is a 12ft fiddle yard including a sector plate and traverer/turntable with storage for 4 trains and numerous locos. This feeds into the goods yard with wooden loading plaform, the dairy and to the platform mainly dealing with parcels traffic. To the right of the goods yard are the arches either side of the over brige. Some of the arches are occupied with traders wheras others are boarded up awaiting a new tenant. The truncated lines under the bridge are now used as sidings. At the rear of the signal box is the milk depot which has regular deliveries and collections. A serving shed can be seen in front of the station platform with it’s own paved sidings. This shed caters for wagons and coaches and services the yards own shunters. on the far right is a disused goods platform and with a warehouse frontage bricked up long ago. Behind that is an 8ft fiddle yard which uses cassettes.