Exhibition Layouts For 2025

OO9 Gauge Layout

Pentrefan

 

Porthllecen

A “rabbit warren” layout set in North Wales around the middle of the 20th century.
It depicts a slate quarry and its connecting narrow gauge railway to the tidal quayside where the slate is exported by sea.

 

OOn3 Gauge Layout

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 Layout

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 Layout

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.

 

HO Gauge Layouts

Donnersbachkogel

Donnersbachkogel is a freelance Austrian layout, located somewhere in the pre-alpine area. The old station building at Donnersbachkogelis also the terminus of a narrow-gauge line, HOe, which was in the past used to get minerals from a remote mine to the mainline. Today the mine is only running as a show mine and instead of minerals, mainly tourists are transported up the line. At the station is also a connection a single track electrified main line.

Maunch Chunk

Mauch Chunk (pronounced McChunk) is a town on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania, USA. Its name means ‘Bear Mountain’ in the local Indian dialect.
The model is set in the1940s and 50s when the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) carried commuters, longer distance travellers, freight and coal between stations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

 

OO/OO9 Gauge Layout

Lower Hanworth

Lower Hanworth is a small village on the edge of the Cotswolds.
The Stone cutting works are served by from the adjacent limestone quarries narrow gauge railway.

 

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.

Brief Encounter

Dawn Quest has created this monochrome layout in homage to the era of black and white films, recreating many of the elements of the film that were important to its director, David Lean. Individual shops include Boots the Chemist where Celia Johnson’s character went to return her library book on the day she met Alec Harvey played by Trevor Howard.

Clayton End Signalmen

Mainly front operated, box-theatre style layout depicting a fictitious, out-of-town railway location in the Peak District. The layout title has tenuous links with the ghost story "The Signalman" (by Charles Dickens, 1866), which may have been loosely based around the Clayton Tunnel disaster in 1861.

Deeping Road MPD

A preservation era loco depot layout which allows any loco of any era to appear on the layout. Modelled elements include an engine shed, water tower, coal loading tower, diesel fuelling, workshops, storage roads and a working turntable.

Fen Marsh Depot

Fen Marsh Depot is loosely based on March TMD a British Rail Depot situated near March, England.
March TMD is basically a 3-road version of the Finsbury Park Shed with similar architectural features.

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.

Mill Road Trams

 

Natford TMD

The layout was built in early 2023 and features in Key Model World's Building a Diesel Depot video series.
The depot building can hold eight locomotives under cover but do look through the windows for extra details including locomotives on jacks, interior details and more.

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.

Sanside Quarry

This layout is inspired by the now closed Sandside Quarry at Storth, Cumbria on the River Kent estuary near Arnside. Limestone was mined and used for roadstone or agricultural use, with some processed in the Spencer kiln to make Lime. In later years there was a plant in the quarry that made Tarmac for road use.

Welby Lane R.T.C.

Welby Lane can be seen here on a busy testing day with many of the department’s strange and odd-looking vehicles being used on various test trains. Many items are adapted RTR, kit or scratch built.
Many of the buildings and structures on the layout are representations of actual ones on both the Mickleover and Old Dalby test tracks and also at the Derby .

 

S Gauge Layout

Blakey Rigg

Blakey Rigg was a junction on the NER's Rosedale Branch that took the railway up an incline and across the North Yorkshire Moors to the very productive ironstone mines in Rosedale and Farndale.
The line was open until 1928 and much of it can still be traced amongst beautiful countryside, the ironstone mining long gone.

NG7 Gauge Layout

SMRC work in progress

Spalding Model Railway Club are pleased to display our new NG7 shunting layout project, which is currently under construction.
This is a static display with parts of the layout at various stages of completion.

 

O Gauge Layouts

Frittenden Road

A pre-WW1 layout based on the Colonel Stephens’ Kent & East Sussex Light Railway, which features a typical hop garden and oast house. Most of the hops being sent to the Guness brewery in London.

ShagBats

Set one day in 1943 at Shoreham on Sea harbour this layout represents the return of an RAF SAR Walrus after rescuing a downed USAAF B17 crew.
The events depicted are real although the setting and support infrastructure are imagined. The harbour is served by the Southern Railway, The War Department and the Shoreham Harbour and Docks Board.

Warren Hill

Small ex Eastern Counties Railway Station under British Railways auspices circa 1948/62.  It appears to be the end of the line but in fact trains are reversed here to continue to the end of the branch.  Most buildings and rolling stock are kit or scratch built.

Wolfe Lowe

Wolfe Lowe is a small terminus station located somewhere in Staffordshire Moorlands. The era is LMS pre-grouping but ambiguous as to which constituent company in order to allow the layout to accommodate Midland, LNW and North Stafford stock.The layout incorporates a small sandstone quarry and iron ore mine