00 Gauge                Private Engineering Works (various between 1985 & 2005)

Devonport Road locomotive works was set up on the site of an old BR engineers depot in the early 1990’s as an independent works for the repair and maintenance of standard and narrow gauge railway locomotives up to the size of 1000BHP; shunters to you and me, up to the size of a Class 20!

The railway connected part of the works consists of two sheds, a two road general maintenance shed and a single road shed for more specialised work.  All manner of shunting locomotives can be seen ranging from ex BR types to purely industrial ones in both standard and narrow gauge.

The layout itself is a micro layout and its long, thin design (100 x 15 cm) is due to it actually forming the front piece to my one of the fiddle yards on my larger layout “Devonport Road”. Thus in reality the Locomotive Works is a layout within a layout!