1. Abbey Road - 4mm London tube based layout
2. Arrowmouth - 4mm 1960's West Coast main line
3. Calardo Bluff, Harrison District - 3.5mm American Railroad
4. Lochnagar - 4mm 1970's / 1980's Scottish Station
5. Overkill - 7mm American narrow gauge
6. Stabling Point - 7mm locomotive stabling point
7. Stodmarsh - 7mm station set in the second World War
8. Sutton Folly - 4mm layout that you the visitors can operate
9. Toddington - 4mm layout of the Heritage railway station of the same name
10. Wiveliscombe - 4mm British Railways Western Region 1948-1966 prototype station
11. Upper Norton - 4mm narrow gauge layout based in Worcestershire

Others being confirmed........

Abbey Road consists of 4 baseboards constructed from 12mm/6mm plywood each measuring 5ft width x 18 inches in depth. These boards are bolted together to form a layout 20 feet in length consisting of a central 10 foot scenic section and a 5 foot section at each end housing the hidden fiddle yards. The boards were built by David Pye who is a carpenter friend. All trackwork is Peco Code 75 Finescale. This has been glued to a plywood track base and then ballasted using Woodland Scenics 'N' scale ballast. The ballast has been painted with various shades of brown modellers enamel paint. Conductor rails and insulators/chairs are also from the Peco range. The tailored blue front cloth drape was made by my (ex) sister in law, Andrea! The grass is made from salvaged & used carpet underlay - the old hessian backed fibre type. This has been glued down using white wood adhesive and then sprayed using various colours of green/brown aerosol auto paints. Trees and bushes are generally Peco. Buildings are a mixture of kits and scratch-built. The station building and transformer chamber were made using plastic sheet, clear plastic and brick paper whilst the signal cabin is a modified Street level Models kit. The 'Argos' offices/warehouses were made using old Airfix garage kit parts together with additional scratch-built items. The trackside retaining walls and tunnel mouths are from the Exactoscale range of embossed blue brick paper. All other weathered brick surfaces were produced on photographic quality paper using a PC and ink jet printer. The graffiti was home made, being created from colour images downloaded from the internet! These were then printed onto clear and rub off decal paper and applied to the retaining walls. The line-side cable posts are from the Harrow Model Shop range whilst the line-side section switch cabinets, the station name signs & seats are by Metromodels. The modern rolling stock is from the Metromodels range of ready to run tube trains. These are hand built in Sri Lanka from 0.5mm etched brass sheet. The engineering stock is mainly built and owned by Roger Tuke & consists of locos from the ex Harrow Model Shop range together with Roger's own adapted/scratch-built rolling stock. The Heritage Trains of 1938 & 1959 tube stock are motorised and modified EFE models. All trains are powered using Tenshodo SPUD motors & are fitted with Metromodels bogies & pinpoint axles/wheels. Each section of track is powered separately on a CAB control basis allowing trains to be isolated as required. Generally a single train will run in each direction on each level. At busy periods trains are held in section awaiting the passage of a preceding train. Point motors are mainly Peco operated by push to make switches. The colour light signals are prototypical LU signals and they will eventually be made fully operational. They are hand made by Roger Murray Signals & are a mixture of semi automatic, automatic and junction types. Each has unique signal number, including a cabin code, based on LU practice.   

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 were 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. 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 the goods yard area with a new track layout and completely new scenery on both corners of the layout.

The line you see today was closed by the mainline railroad company several years ago, much to the local residents' dismay.  More recently, the line was taken over and reopened by the town and a private company with a view to save the local freight and commuter services. Also, at the time of reinstatement, a heritage transport museum was set up in a local railroad workshop, and the company was allowed to use sections of the line.  Nowadays, there is more and more freight and passenger  traffic appearing on the line from many of the major railroad companies as well as stock movements to and from the museum, so who knows what may appear next!

Lochnagar is a model of a fictious fishing port in the North Eastern part of Scotland. The line and station have escaped the the 1960's Beaching Axe and is well in the corporate blue era of the late 1970’s and Early 1980’s . All the locomotives and rolling stock are in liveries of that era and operate trains that would be typical of that time. There is a wide variety of locomotives that work at Lochnagor that range from a Class 08 shunter as the station pilot  throughto locomotives that were typical of the time for Scotland of class 24’s,25’s and 26’s. Occasionally these locomotives are supplemented by class 20 and class 37 locomotives. 

The inspiration for this exhibit came from a book describing the part played by the port of Southampton in the D-Day Landings of 1944 (codename "Overlord" - hence the title). It also provided an opportunity to combine the interests of railway, military and nautical modelling. The layout is meant to represent the hectic preparations for the invasion at a dockside somewhere on the South coast of England. Much of the variety and confusion of the moment are displayed. The tanks awaiting loading to the landing craft; an American Infantry column searching for its embarkation point; the specialist vehicles such as bridge layers, rocket launchers, mine clearers and amphibious tanks needed to ensure the success of the landings. There is the vital naval support of escorting destroyers, launches and torpedo boats preparing to put to sea. And finally there are the tea-ladies of the NAAFI, providing a continuous supply of drinks to the nervous troops. The buildings and cranes are loosely based on prototypes at Southampton, Liverpool and Sharpness Docks, and are constructed from mounting card and plasticard. The vehicles (over eighty of them at the last count) are mostly standard Airfix and Matchbox kits although the more unusual tanks etc come from war gaming specialists.

Not for the first time I have built this layout to suit a baseboard rather than the other way around which is the norm. A friend had a surplus baseboard which was not the usual rectangular shape and I thought I could fit a small diesel stabling point on it. As you will see, the design is very simple and only includes one point. I wanted to operate it from the front, having done this on two occasions in the past and found it worked well. It also gives easier contact with the viewing public. The board folds in half horizontally but, as it fits into my current car in one piece, I do not currently use that facility. It is quickly set up and dismantled at exhibitions and the fact that it is a small layout means that I do not have to take a lot of locomotives.  The Stabling Point is fed from a small cassette area and it is very relaxing to shuffle the locos around the layout. I have tried to add as much scenic detail as I can as I enjoy that side of our hobby. There is probably more I can do in that direction.  

This layout is based on a proposed but never completed, extension to the East Kent Railway. owned by colonel Stephens, the proposed line would have run from Wingham to Canterbury west via Stodmarsh, a distance of seven and a half miles.  Construction began at Wingham in 1919 but, in 1931, owing to the General Strike, followed by the Depression and the untimely death of the aforementioned Colonel, work on the line was cancelled. Construction of the line terminated at Stodmarsh due to financial pressures and a decline in both goods and passenger transport. The Southern Railway closed the line in 1940 but was forced to reopen it 3 years later to help with the war Effort during the preparations for D-Day. lt was used to transport men, munitions and machinery to the south coast embarkation ports. You join us on a day of total chaos. The American and British forces are on manoeuvres. The yanks are on the bridge giving everyone the wrong directions and the local residents are running for cover as the Luftwaffe has dropped some incendiary bombs. The National Fire Service has just managed to extinguish the grass fire caused by the incendiaries whilst captain Mainwaring s Home Guard have captured a shot down German airman. walker has released someone's chickens wire acquiring some eggs and most of the British Army men have decided to brew up as their lorry has broken down. Occasionally during the melee, you should see a train working in the station. This layout was originally created by the late Les Spratt, one of life's gentlemen. Whilst retaining the original track plan and buildings, its scenic features have been reworked by Kevin. Let's hope Les would have approved ! Although the layout is intended to amuse, it is dedicated to the heroes of  WW11, both home and abroad, without whom we might not be here today.  

This layout has been constructed to allow scale length trains to run at scale speeds and to encourage audience participation from people of all ages. It represents a stretch of mainline somewhere in the Midlands with long holding loops on the up and down slow lines. Because of the nature of the layout universal standards are used throughout, with strength and simplicity of operation being important considerations. Most buildings are kit built and everything on the layout could be built by a determined newcomer to the hobby. Sutton Folly has been on the exhibition circuit since 1997 and many children and adults have enjoyed operating the layout. YOU OUR VISITORS are invited to drive the trains, change the points and signals and indulge in some gentle shunting. This gives the operators plenty of time to discuss railways in general and modelling in particular, so come and have a go at driving your favourite locomotive on a scale length train and feel free to ask any questions about the layout or the hobby in general.  

The layout is as near as possible a replica of Toddington station on the GWSR heritage line in Gloucestershire. The era depicted is present day so there are always changes being made from one exhibition to another . For instance at the time of going to press water cranes were being erected at the end of each platform on the actual railway, so therefore before this particular exhibition a modification will be required. The rivet counters will no doubt notice many discrepancies but if the overall appearance looks correct then a reasonable amount of satisfaction is gained. The layout in its present form just fits into the car which makes it easy to transport to exhibitions. It is of scale length so can handle the normal six coach train that generally operates when the GWSR is fully operational. This consists of three boards 1200 x 600 mm, a rather long [by necessity] fiddle yard of 2400 x 300 mm plus a small hidden traverser at the Broadway end of the layout. Track and points are Peco code 75 throughout. Signals are scratch built made up from Ratio odds and ends and various components collected from previous layouts. All buildings are scratch built by necessity as nothing even remotely representative is available on the present day market. Trees and shrubs are always changing so I make no excuse if these are not exactly correct but the time of year is May/June so that we do have some colour in the station environs. The locomotive stock is that which is available to run on the railway at any given time but like the real thing visiting engines do appear.  

Wiveliscombe the one-time Somerset rural market town lies 12 miles west of Taunton on the former Taunton to Barnstaple branch. The station and goods yard are set in undulating countryside, typical of this area of Somerset. The line was a victim of the Beeching axe and was closed on 1st October 1966. Wiveliscombe was chosen for family interests and the simple track layout. Somewhat unusually, the station was on a large curve and this was ideally suited to show the layout from it's best aspect. Great Western track plans were also available. The station building and the goods shed remain in use as an office and storage facility for a local building contractor. This enabled us to survey the area and obtain many useful measurements and photographs for use in the construction of the layout. Motive power was principally 43XX class moguls. However, many other classes were used at times, particularly Summer Saturdays, for North Devon holiday destinations or diversions for the main Taunton to Exeter line.  Therefore many of the different classes of locomotive operating during this period can be seen on our layout. Basically,  the plywood track bed, the only level part of the baseboards, was built on a raised base with the land rising and falling away as in the prototype. The landscape was formed using wire-netting, covered with emulsion painted cloth. Buildings were scratch-built from thick card, plasticard and many of the proprietary accessories from the local  model shop. The back-scene is hand painted, on to which pictures of trees, bushes and buildings were superimposed to create a collage. This helped to give an impression of distance behind the layout. The track is nickel silver flexi-track with Peco streamline points and point motors. Semaphore Signals are mostly hand made from wood and metal and operate by slow moving motors from our control panel. The layout operates from a central control panel through two, hand-held Gaugemaster controllers. At the rear there is a full length fiddle yard with 12 through roads for an end-to-end operation and 4 sidings enabling us to run many different sequences. The Rolling Stock is mainly of ready-to-run origin, but much of it has been further detailed, painted and weathered to match the period.

Upper Norton is the half-way station on the Norton Heights Light Railway built to a gauge of 2' 3". It served the agricultural area. of north Worcestershire, The local mill and brewery have sidings and the disused quarry now forms the goods yard. The line was always run on a "shoe-string", all stock being second hand. Passenger trains just about pay their way and freight make a small profit. This layout depicts Upper Norton any time between 1950 and 1999. Track is Peco Crazy Track laid on cork. Locomotives and stock are kit built and modified in some way, as are the buildings. Control is by Gaugemaster.