LMRG are showing our Stonesby Magna Layout at the Soar Valley Model Railway Club's "Heart of the Midlands" model railway exhibition at Loughborough Grammar School on the 17th and 18th of August.

This is a fictitious layout with West Midlands roots, bordering GWR territory, during the late 1940s to early 1950s.

Set in a transfer era between the grouping of the "Big Four" railway operating companies and nationalization, this layout depicts an edge-of-town Station that borders cement works and a small yard.

A feature of the works is a small ore and supply narrow gauge line that crests the adjacent hill from the tunnel up to the cement works.  Goods and local passenger traffic can be observed travelling through the tunnel portal to the station and works yard.

The illuminated yard and engine shed show locomotives and freight stock shunted in preparation for transport on the Main Line.

The layout is DCC Controlled using an NCE PowerCab ^TM with a ProCab ^TM additional handset, and the points are servo-controlled using the MegaPoints ^TM system.  The OO-9 Quarry feature is controlled automatically using the EX-RAIL Automation features of the Arduino-based DCC-EX ^TM Command Station, demonstrating random locomotive sounds and varying time delays at each end ranging from 7 to 20 seconds.  Two line-tracking sensors are used detect the arrival of the locomotive at each end of the journey.  The locomotive can also be controlled manually using the Android Engine Driver App or iPhone Wi-throttle App.  Details of the code used are available on request.