Steeple Bumpleigh

Steeple Bumpleigh - EM Gauge

  • Q1 class shunting a brake van back into a siding

    BR Western Region in EM

    Steeple Bumpleigh is a small essay in EM gauge, where the track spacing is 18.2mm as opposed to the 16.5mm of OO gauge.

    The Layout represents a small station and goods yard on a truncated branch somewhere in the Western Region of British Railways, in the 1960s. A small cement works provides an additional source of traffic.

  • LNER J70 on loan brings in a small branch freight for shunting.

    Layout Information

    Layout Size - 9’ by 2’

    Gauge/Scale - EM gauge / 1:76th

    Control - DCC (Sound)

    Features -

    Flickering fire, Working gate, Hand painted back scene, Kadee Couplers.

    Publications -

    BRM Magazine (June 2025)

Exhibition Manger's Notes