Exhibition Layouts For 2025

N Gauge Layouts

Ambleton Vale

A totally fictitious layout set around the 1950/60s.
With its large livestock market and its horse racing track you will find lots of livestock and human interest and let’s not forget the trains :-)The layout has also been voted Best In Show on several occasions and has appeared in both the Model Rail magazine and the Hornby magazine.

Just Four

Lower Station consists of a DMU bay and parcel bay. The road through the town is the main high street with buildings which I purchased and were modified by Fred Johnson. I have incorporated a small town market which was built by Mike Tooth.

OO9 Gauge Layouts

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OOn3 Gauge Layouts

Glenties

Glenties was the final station on the Finn Valley branch of the 3ft gauge County Donegal Railway 24 miles west of Stranorlar. It served sparsely populated country from 1895 to 1952. Traffic is mostly by railcars, with loco hauled excursions and freight.

HOe Gauge Layouts

Kaninchenbau

Kaninchenbau is set in the rolling Alpine foothills and was designed using the 'rabbit warren' principles for fully automated running using iTrain. The layout runs 5 trains continuously within the 22.5m of track. Fundamentally the design uses two interconnected levels that operate independently yet facilitate trains swapping between levels.

3mm Gauge Layouts

Uppingham

Uppingham is a model of an actual single line of 3.5 miles which was a spur from Seaton Junction in Rutland, and closed in 1960s. The model is to a scale of 3mm to ft and is not to be confused with TT120 which is not the same.

TT120 Gauge Layouts

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OO Gauge Layouts

Amberdale

Originally built to a brief from BRM and serialised by them, it was intended to Iii into a' 10 feet by 8 feet shed hence the name of the series 'The Layout in the Shed'.
Amberdale depicts a single through line with station and small goods yard built by the Midland Railway somewhere in the north Derbyshire peak district.

Kimbolton

A "to scale" model of Kimbolton Station on the Huntingdon to Kettering line 1866-1964 in 00 using C&L track components. Train formations and operations are based on those seen in the last decade before closure. This layout has been completed and operated by members of St Neots Model Railway Club.

Providence Colliery

Based on a fictional Forest of Dean coal working in the late 1950s. You can see where the full coal ‘tubs’ emerge from the mine entrance tunnel, before the coal is transferred onto standard gauge British Railways (WR) wagons.

We are expecting to have around 30 layouts at our exhibition this November.

Nearly all the layouts for the show are now confirmed.

Please ensure you come back regularly as details are added.