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 circuit
3. Chilcompton - 4mm scale SDJR based layout
4. Daisy Lane TMD - 4mm scale layout of 1980s /1990s locomotive depot
5. Lob Ghyll - 4mm scale layout based in West Yorkshire in the 1950s
6. Moors View - 2mm scale layout based in the winter time
7. Motley Sub Shed - 7mm scale locomotive Shed
8. 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.  

With the death in June 2026 of our Club President and fonder member Mick Clements we thought an appropriate tribute to him would be the exhibition of the Chilcompton layout that he was very instrumental in the construction of. Chilcompton is the latest of a number of Somerset & Dorset based exhibition layouts we have built. It is based on the prototype station of the same name, which was situated on the main line between Midsomer Norton and Evercreech Junction. The era is set sometime between 1950 and 1955 and all the stock used represents what would actually have run over the real line at this time. The scale is 4mm using "OO" gauge track. The whole of the station and goods yard area is modelled to scale. However some artistic licence has had to be taken so as to curve the track formation at each end into the fiddle yard. The fiddle yard features sixteen roads and is capable of holding 24 separate trains. All the buildings on the layout are scratch built, mainly using thick card for the basic structure. These are covered with plasticard to represent stone or brick finishes.

Daisy Lane TMD is a diesel depot set in East Anglia in the late 1980s / early 1990s. The facility provides a loco re-fuelling 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 08s, 20s, 31s, 37s, 45s, 47s, 50s, 56’s and 60s all of which are in a variety of liveries including Network South East, British Rail Blue, Railfreight and one-off special liveries. The locomotives are mainly ready to run from the major manufactures including Bachmann, Hornby and Heljan with the occasional visit of some older modified Lima models. The majority of the locomotives have been weathered using various methods to give the feeling of grimy run-down locos which was a typical feel of the railways during this era. The layout is DCC controlled with several of the locomotives fitted with sound.

Lob Ghyll was formed as the rushing torrent of a beck cut through the soft shale on its way to join the River Wharfe near Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales. After many false hopes of a railway up Wharfedale, the Midland and the North Eastern railways decided jointly to build a line to Ilkley. Later the Midland wished to extend further to connect with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Skipton and eventually to the Settle and Carlisle for a link with Scotland. Lob Ghyll is the result, built to ‘OO’ gauge fine scale and featuring scratchbuilt buildings and structures. It sets the   scene for a rural outpost in the Yorkshire Dales in the BR steam era with a variety of rolling stock in attendance.     

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.

This is a minimum space 7mm/ft 0 Gauge layout occupying approx. 10ft x 2ft floor space upon which the main scenery is the fleet of locomotives! The collection of locomotives was once described as a ‘motley’ one, so it seemed the  natural thing to do, when constructing a layout upon which to display them, to call it ‘Motley’! Engines need somewhere to rest until the time of their next working. The sub-shed seen here at Motley provides that space. This is not a large motive power depot, just somewhere to park locomotives between duties and perhaps replenish the tenders or clean clinker from the firebars. The locomotives are rotated through the course of an exhibition, to allow different models to be on view. Most of the locomotives and other scenic items have been hand built from kits, and we are grateful to Keith Blake, Aidan Houlders and others for building these. It is possible to operate this layout with locomotives from BR (ScR), BR (LMR), BR (WR with SR interlopers!) or a wide variety of industrial types, diesels from the ‘green’ era or a mixture of all of these. The layout is widely used to publicise The Stanier 8F Locomotive Society Ltd, owners of Stanier 8F locomotive No 48773 [also known as LMS 8233 and WD307], currently awaiting overhaul and located in the Engine House at Highley on the Severn Valley Railway.  For further details about the locomotive or membership of the Stanier 8F Locomotive Society please ask one of the operators.   

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