MACCLESFIELD HIBEL ROAD
N Gauge Model Railway
Macclesfield Hibel Road is an N gauge model of the main Macclesfield station and goods yard at Hibel Road which closed in 1960. The layout is set in the early 1950s, after nationalisation but with many reminders of its former life as the main LMS station of the town (and before that, as the junction of the LNWR and NSR).
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 Fowler 4MT 2-6-4T 42421 at the north end of the station, June 1959. Photo from Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons |  4F hauling a short load of sand for glassmaking in St Helens. |
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The station was closed in 1960 and all passenger services moved to a new station at Waters Green on the site of the former Central Station. The goods yard held on until 1962. All remaining signs of the station were swept away when the Silk Road dual carriageway was built in the 1980s.
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 George's Snack Bar and the Railway Inn on Hibel Road bridge |  The Plough Inn on the corner of Station and Pearle St high above the Down platform |
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The layout is set in the restricted space between the tunnel under Beech Lane and Hibel Road bridge, behind which used to tower the town gasworks. It is viewed looking west, with the viewer's back to the River Bollin. The main line from Stoke to Manchester (electrified in 1967) remains, as do the houses above the railway on Station Street. The part of the layout nearest the viewer is now occupied by a Tesco carpark.
