1. Abbotswood and Norton Junction - 4mm scale Model of the Worcestershire Junction
2. Arrowmouth - 4mm scale West Coast main line - celebrating 35 years on the exhibition circit
3. Moors View - 2mm scale layout based in the winter time
4. Newchapel Junction - extensive 7mm finescale GWR based layout

Others being confirmed ..........

After a numbers of years we welcome Phil Bullock back with his new mark II version of Abbotswood Junction. South Worcestershire is where the skylarks sing — except when trains are passing! The layout is set in the late 1960s/early 1970s — steam finished locally about 5 years ago and the diesels hold sway on Cross Country passenger and freights, mostly diesel electrics on the Birmingham to Gloucester line, and hydraulics on the Worcester to London via Oxford route. Highlights to watch out for are named passenger trains — although no headboards in this era — The Cornishman. The Devonian and The Cathedrals express, and motorail trains transporting holidaymakers from the North and Midlands to sunny Devon and Cornwall before the days of the M5 of course. There are plenty of freight trains to be seen too including block oil traffic from South Wales to the Midlands,. coal and steel flows both north and south and china clay from Cornwall to the Midlands along with general freight traffic of all types. Steam might appear if there is a loco travelling from Ashchurch to an Open Day in Birmingham.... The layout is DCC controlled with sound fired locos and working semaphore signalling. Join us for a while to share in the fun we had watching passing trains here in the 1960s/70s.  

Sitting on the beach, on one of those always sunny summer days, suddenly the silence is shattered as a former LMS pacific speeds past on a Scotland bound train. These are the images we have attempted to recreate in model form. The West Coast Main Line at the end of the steam era and before the overhead electrification marched northwards to Scotland. Arrowmouth is a seaside town on the North West Coast and is close to Hest Bank, which is between Lancaster and Carnforth. The layout is based on the former London North Western Railway main line. The era is somewhere between 1963 and 1968 when steam was in its Indian Summer in this part of the world. The scale is 4mm using "OO" gauge track. All the buildings on the layout are scratch built, mainly using thick card for the basic structure. These are covered with either brick papers or plasticard to represent stone or brick finishes. Various grades of sand papers have also been used to represent concrete rendering which is so often found at seaside towns. The layout has been created as a package of not just the layout but also correctly formed trains for the era portrayed. This does not mean detailed locomotives pulling out of the box ready to run stock but detailed and modified locomotives and carriages to recreate authentic rakes . More recently the layout has undergone a major refurbishment to bring it up to the standards of the Club's newer layouts. This has included totally a re-modelled goods yard area with a new track layout and completely new scenery on both corners of the layout.  

Moors View is an N gauge layout based on the ex LSWR (SR) mainline between Exeter & Plymouth. Skirting the northern flanks of Dartmoor, Moors View is a fictional small double line station somewhere between Okehampton & Tavistock and features a curved nine arched viaduct. Using imagination, the line has never closed and due to the sea wall at Dawlish being breached in bad weather, it sees many diverted trains. Making use of over 30 different prototypical loco’s the layout spans the 4 decades from the mid 1950s through to the early 1990s.

Newchapel Junction is a finescale “O” Gauge layout representing the post-grouping period somewhere in the Yeovil area where the SR and the GWR ran together. The layout recreates the operation of a busy railway in its heyday with frequent arrivals and departures from the terminus station Newchapel Junction.  The locomotives vary from main line express passenger and heavy freight engines to small branch line tank engines of both SR and GWR origin.  The train service consists of passenger and van trains, which leave the terminus, complete a few laps of the circle and then return to the terminus for their engines to be turned and run-round for the next trip.  Freight trains pull-out of the yard at Newchapel Town, complete a few laps of the circle and then return to the yard for re-marshalling.  Near-continuous shunting in the large goods yard means that each freight train has many wagons exchanged before it leaves the yard for its next journey. The layout is operated from 4 control panels and is entirely semaphore signalled.  Moves between Newchapel Junction Station and the circles are controlled by block instruments which also convey train description.  All the signals and points are fully interlocked, and those in the main station are controlled by a relay operated push-button entrance-exit panel. Please visit our website at www.newchapeljn.co.uk