Dixon Green/Saed-Y-Parc

Presented by members of the Yorkshire Group of the 16mm Association with both live-steam and battery powered radio controlled locos. The layout is 12 x 7 metres, and uses a different configuration to many exhibition layouts, with a reversing loop at each end of a single track; as trains move in opposing directions, there can be challenging situations to avoid a head-on collision !! Absolutely not to be missed are the many working features spread around the layout; a skip wagon emerges from a drift mine to tip its contents into a waiting wagon; a mine cage ascends from the depths, and is then lowered down its shaft; a beam engine drives the pumps rods that clear water from the mine; smoke rises from a hole in the roof of an explosives shed; a canal bridge occasionally lifts and brings trains to a halt the product from the drift mine is tipped into a waiting boat using one of two lifters; rapeseed is brought from the fields and tipped onto an elevator to carry it into the biofuel factory; a tower crane lifts lumps of biofuel onto waiting wagons; and smoke rises from various chimneys. These features work in many ways: clever electronics, linear actuators, servos, slow-running electric motors, switches, radio-control, lengths of string and weights. The team are happy to let younger visitors to the show ‘have a go’ at driving a battery-electric locomotive and/or control one of the working features mentioned above – provided this is under the supervision of a family member. Careful operators will be encouraged to stay and help for a while, but beware anyone who is not careful – the controller will be removed from you !!