N Gauge Layouts
Edprom
Edrom is an N gauge layout based on the real Edrom station, situated on the (now closed) Berwickshire line in the Scottish Borders between Chirnside and Duns.
Greenwood Garden
A table top garden railway that lives in the garage and is brought out for running sessions when the weather is suitable. A great compromise for those wanting to have a railway that can be run outdoors without all the extra maintenance demands of an outdoor layout.
Lisworth Bay
Lisworth Bay was originally designed as a home layout. This included the station
approach and town area with a covered corner board and attached storage yard.
Lockwood Street
An Urban Secondary Terminus Station, inspired by the former Hull and Barnsley Railway’s Terminus at Cannon Street in Hull. Cannon Street station was built in 1885 and was intended to be a goods depot - the original intention was that much grander passenger facilities would be located in the centre of town at Kingston Square, however this was abandoned because of the cost involved, and the carriage sheds located at Cannon Street were converted into the terminus station.
Low Fell
This layout depicts a rural station on a fictitious heritage railway, based on the outskirts of a town which could be at the foothill of Low Fell in the Lake District.
Newvaddon Parkway
Newvaddon Parkway is set two miles to the south of Tolvaddon a fast growing town in the
heart of the Cornish countryside. The station has two branch lines one via a flyover to the
west, that takes the line to the south coast line of Farlyn, and the other to the east, that
goes to the north coast town of Portwell, both branch lines see some freight. The station
complex is flanked to the north fuel point, desiel depot, wash point and DMU depot.
North Colton
Modern image inspired by the East Coast Main Line.
TT120 Gauge Layout
Llanwyddyn
Llanwyddyn is a fictional town set somewhere in Mid Wales during the early 1990s.
The layout takes inspiration from Llwydd Town, originally built by the late George Woodcock around 2004, and has been named Llanwyddyn as it contains all the letters from Llwydd.
OO/OO9 Gauge Layout
A Cold Front
A COLD FRONT is an OO9 scale WWI themed supplies / medical trench layout. The layout took three years to build, and is to be featured in Model Rail Magazine.
The layout is set in a fictional location somewhere in the France during the winter in WWI. The layout depicts a small but busy supply yard which can be seen delivering supplies and moving injured soldiers.
Michell Junction
Mitchell Junction is a Modern Image continuous run layout, that has been designed to be operated by children visiting the show. It has a mainline through station, and a steel stockholders’ yard.
There is also a narrow-gauge steam heritage railway that also operates from the station. All the trains are fitted with sound, and are operated using DCC control through an ECoS control console and mobile phones. Up to four children can be driving trains at the same time. The station also features working departure boards and station announcements.
OO Gauge Layouts
Attlynn
Attlynn Station, completed in Autumn 1982, addressed the closure of South Lynn Station in named through a public competition, it offers routes to Norwich and Peterborough, easing traffic on the A47 and providing an alternative to the X1 bus service.
In 2009, East Midlands Trains modernised the station, adding a platform canopy, expanding the car park, and adding a glass atrium. The biggest change, completed the following year, was a refuelling depot and yard for DMUs.
Bred Albin
Bred Albin is set ‘somewhere in the Highlands of West Perthshire’ in the 1960’s.
The station building is based upon the former station at Killin. The combined signal box and signalman’s cottage is reminiscent of the one which stood at Drumvaich passing loop on the now closed line which ran between Dunblane and Callander.
Daisy Lane
‘Daisy Lane TMD’ is a diesel depot set in East Anglia in the late 1980’s / early 1990’s. The facility provides a loco refuelling and a crew signing on point as well as maintenance and stabling of locomotives. A wide variety of loco classes and liveries visit ‘Daisy Lane TMD’ including class 08’s, 20’s, 31’s, 37’s, 45’s, 47’s, 50’s, 56’s and 60’s all of which are in a variety of liveries including Network SouthEast, British Rail Blue, Railfreight and one-off special liveries.
East Coast Cement
Eastgate Harbour
A layout of a fictional port located in Kent and iInspired by Folkestone Harbour Station. Despite being set around 946/47 there is still a military presence in the area.
Fairwood Junction
Five Mile House
1930s LNER layout based on a real location called Five mile house from the 1930s. The station its self was situated on the Lincoln to Boston line. It served the village of Fiskerton from the 1858 till the 1960s.
Horncastle
The short branch line from Woodhall Junction to Horncastle opened in 1855 and was an instant success. Freight traffic would have predominantly been with agricultural services, in the form of grain, fertiliser, sugar beet(seasonal) and other agricultural bi-products. Most of the freight would have been local trip workings from Lincoln or Peterborough.
Passenger services would be in the hands of LN allocated 105 or 114 DMU's, connecting with Lincoln to Boston services at Woodhall Junction.
Milo Mill
Silverbury
“Silverbury” is located at the edge of both Network South-East (BR blue) and Chiltern Railways (Network Rail) so a variety of services would terminate at this point. It is also a mainline for long distance and Cross-Country Passenger, and through freight trains. This provides interest for both operators and viewers.
NG7 Gauge Layout
Falding Halt
A 7mm Narrow gauge layout which was developed to see the feasibility of building a folding layout that could be easily transportable.
Falding Halt is a small oval diorama set somewhere in the Lincolnshire Wolds handling local freight, passenger services, and a coal yard also basic maintenance and repairs for local engines and rolling stock.
O Gauge Layouts
Barley End
Barley End is a rural country halt. The main employment is the warehouse which receives barley by rail and transferred to road to deliver to the mill.
Marshside
Marshside is an O gauge 1930s period LMS layout that represents a fictitious branch terminus
serving a small town on the southern shore of the Ribble estuary in Lancashire. The line is
assumed to have been constructed by the West Lancashire Railway, which, in real life, ran
between Preston and Southport, and was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in
1897, subsequently becoming part of the LMS at the grouping in 1923.
Napier Road
Napier Road is a factious layout set in the early 1960s in the North Eastern Region of British Railways.
With the demise of steam, new diesel locos were appearing on the nation's railways.
This makes the layout quite distinctive, as we run only 'green diesel era' locos.
The Yard
Built to 7 mm scale with track gauges of 32 mm and 16.5 mm, The Yard is an entirely freelance industrial type railway, featuring standard and narrow gauge trains fitted with sound, radio-controlled gantry crane and radio-controlled lorries.
Stock is either kit built, scratch built or modified RTR. All the buildings are scratch built from MDF, cut on a laser cutter.
1:35th Gauge Layout
Gants Hill
Gants Hill was inspired by the wartime underground Plessey Company’s factory between Gants Hill and Wanstead on the unfinished Central Line Tunnels in East London.
A narrow gauge railway was constructed using Battery Electric locomotives by Wingrove and Rogers. Using OO track in a simple circuit with a passing loop at the rear, the gauge represents about 18 to 20 inches. 3 cameo scenes can be viewed on 3 sides showing various scenes based on the photos available.