4mm/OO Gauge
Presented by Malcolm Briggs
The North Cornwall Brewery is a fictitious industrial line situated near Camelford in Cornwall and feeding off the line to Padstow. It is set in the 1960s, not long before the North Cornwall line was closed, leaving this part of the country without any railways at all.
The brewery is in full production with both bitters and lagers being shipped in kegs, barrels and bottles on both rail and road transport.
The layout was built specifically as an exhibition layout and is transported in substantial wheeled containers and has been on the circuit since 2021, winning the ‘Best in Show’ award at Model Rail Scotland 2023 in Glasgow. It is to 4mm scale on Peco Code 75 track, although as virtually all of it is inset, it is difficult to see anything but the rail head.
All of the buildings are scratch-built and include both the factory complex and the adjoining village of Knights Hill. They are all based on real examples from around the country.
It featured in Hornby Magazine in January and March 2021, Railway Modeller in December 2024 and BRM in November 2025. The builder will normally be found out the front, talking to the visitors, so do please ask for an explanation of any of the techniques used. If you really want to know about the remote uncouplers, you may even get taken around the back of the layout!
But the real question that everyone wants to know the answer to, is why the Police stopped that Land Rover? Only one person has ever guessed the correct answer!