2mm scale, N gauge

John Cannons

This represents a typical small town on the Sotovento, or leeward coast in the south of Portugal. In this region the railway traverses the wetland, between the sea and the mountains.

Portuguese railway rolling stock has been purchased from various international manufacturers. Similarly the models have come from a number of sources, all being repainted in the correct livery. Some have been scratch built, using proprietary chassis and mechanisms.

Buildings have been scratch built, all are based upon prototypes drawn or photographed in the region. Some architectural drawings were supplied by the Camara Municipal do Faro.

4mm scale, OO gauge

The Abbey Road Group

Abbey Road is a current day, London Underground '00' scale, 'end to end' model railway layout. It features a fictitious split level station located somewhere in north-westLondon.

The rolling stock is a varied mixture of 'tube' size rolling stock. This includes Metromodels 1972, 1992 and 1996 tube stock, EFE heritage 1938 & 1959 tube stock together with a variety of engineering & departmental trains.

Viewing the layout from the front, to the left of the station trains negotiate reversing crossovers, before passing the signal cabin and sub station & disappearing underground into deep tube tunnels heading towards Central London. To the right, trains pass beneath the station over-bridge before leaving the platforms & passing out of sight into the right hand fiddle yard. The split level station features a familiar Charles Holden designed Underground station building sitting across the platforms below. On the station road over- bridge are shops & commercial premises including a McDonalds restaurant, Marks & Spencer and a Tesco Metro store.

7mm scale, O gauge
Steve Maddison & Peter Coulls

In the years before World War II, Bassett-Lowke was the premier manufacturer of model railways and continued after the war until the general decline in the larger scales during the 1960s spelt its end. (The subsequent revival of Gauge O and other large scales is another story).
Exhibited here are a variety of vintage Bassett-Lowke locomotives as well as a few modern replicas by Bearwood Models, Ace Trains and Darstaed. Coaching stock is mainly from Edward Exley and the freight stock is a variety of Bassett-Lowke tin-plate from the 1920s, 1930s and post-war series, plus a few modern pieces from Ace Trains and the current Bassett-Lowke range, now marketed by Hornby. The buildings are Bassett-Lowke replicas made by my good friend Joe Challingsworth, although most of the advertising signs are original vintage Bassett-Lowke. The track is genuine Bassett-Lowke in part, with a good deal built by myself using batten/sleepers made from wood supplied by Dolls Domain of Leamington, modern brass rail and vintage lead chairs (as far as I am aware, you can’t get modern sleeper chairs in lead, only white-metal which is an inferior material).

4mm finescale, OO gauge
Mark Clarke

Blucher Street is set in the Manchester area in 1968 at the finish of steam on BR. At this time there were quite a few small yards in the north which had never had a passenger service and had survived the Beeching cuts.
All motive power is diesel: classes used are typical of what would be seen daily in this area.

4mm scale, 16.5mm gauge

John Dilnot & David Kirby

Calderwood is our interpretation of a wayside station on the L&Y main line circa 1910 in the west riding of Yorkshire, with the LNWR having running powers for their goods traffic to Bradford.

The inspiration for it was a photograph of HIPPERHOLME station, but built as an island platform with a small goods yard and a chemicals factory with private siding access.

The model you see before you has taken us 10 years, All the track work and points are C&L using their plastic sleepers and chairs, the ballasting uses genuine L&Y ash from the Cleckheaton branch. All the buildings are constructed from aircraft ply and faced with plasticard or in the case of brickwork all bricks are individually set on. Locomotives are mainly etched brass kits from the late George Norton or London Road models. Rolling stock is from a variety of sources, David Geen, D&S and Slaters being the majority. Our signalling is operational by a memory wire system on low voltage power, we have made the operating units for the individual signals ourselves.

We have modelled all the point rodding and signal wiring to the respective signal boxes and ground frame. The signal box on the up line is Calderwood station box, the one by the goods loops is Calderwood East which is modelled on Lightcliffe, and the ground frame is based on Rochdale up platform ground frame.

Please feel free to ask us any questions were always happy to oblige.

4mm scale, OO gauge

Derek Smith

This is a large Hornby Dublo 2-rail layout, modelling the period between 1950 and 1964.

4mm scale, OO gauge

Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society

Duxbury is the ‘OO’ gauge club layout of the L&WMRS. At the time, the Club did not have an ‘OO’ Gauge layout and a group of interested club members got together to form the Duxbury Team. Numerous plans were considered with the present layout being designed to fulfil as many of the members requirements as possible. The layout is designed to keep a number of operators busy whilst providing a continuous circuit for members who wish to test locomotives and rolling stock. 

As a club layout, it has to please the greatest number of people most of the time. So, with this in mind, Duxbury Station is loosely based on Aylesbury GC/Met./GWR Station circa 1960. By doing this, we can cater for steam, albeit in BR guise, as well as diesels and electrics. The variety of steam locomotives that can be run is quite large, being drawn from ex-GCR, LNER, LMS, GWR (from the Princes Risborough branch) and BR standard types. Even the odd SR locomotive can be seen with an excursion!

Aylesbury was the one time terminus for the Metropolitan Railway trains from Aldgate, Liverpool Street and Baker Street with a bay being provided for the purpose. These trains were electrically hauled to Rickmansworth were a BR locomotive would take over. However, with the extension of electrification to Amersham, the Aylesbury service was discontinued in the early 1960's. We have taken modeller's license and imagined that London Transport extended the 3rd and 4th rail all the way to Aylesbury. This way, we can run both electrically hauled LT trains using the famous Metropolitan Bo-Bo’s as well as the Underground units.