Shenston Road
Shenston Road’ is a BR Western Region EM gauge layout based in the Black Country in the late-’60s early-’70s. The project started in 1999, by building a 30ft by 10ft purpose-built brick shed with help from my brother and friends.
The layout is all-round scenic with hidden circuits underneath, including 10 through storage sidings. It comprises a station area with up and down platforms loops, up and down through lines and a branch leading to a steelworks. There is also a small bay platform for parcels traffic and a few sidings for locomotive storage and a cripple siding. The other side of the layout is an extensive steelworks with exchange sidings and an industrial locomotive depot. A low-level main line with passing loops runs in a cutting in front of a long retaining wall below the works.
The layout runs a wide variety of rolling stock of the era. This is a mixture of proprietary, kit and an extensive number of scratch-built stock. All stock is modelled from period-correct photographs and customised and weathered to match the actual vehicles during the era where
