An end-to-end shunting layout conceived and built to fit on top of bookcases to demonstrate what can be achieved in 7mm scale in a relatively small space.
Notionally set in the late-1940s/early-1950s, Wordsley Wharf is a fictitious industrial layout very loosely based on the glassworks industry in the Brierley Hill/Stourbridge area of the Black Country. It includes a canal/rail interchange where goods and materials were loaded from barges to trains and vice versa. It is a representation of how the works might have combined canal-based transport of goods and materials with the more efficient railway. The structure of the wharf interchange building draws inspiration from the building at the former GWR Bilston Basin that was located a few miles from Wordsley. The original Wordsley glass works (now Stourbridge Glass Museum) with its remaining glass cone still sits alongside the Stourbridge & Dudley Canal but was never served by the railway.
The layout uses DCC operation and control with a mix of ready-to-run and kit-built stock. Buildings are a mix of scratchbuilt and modified kits.