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Alston
by Mervyn Turvey 3mm
scale TT3
A fictitious layout featuring a double track
main line passing through a series of interesting aspects: a
quarry with a narrow gauge line, open countryside and a
viaduct crossing a creek. A variety of trains can be seen
ranging from steam era GWR and S&DJR to green period and
modern diesel stock.
Bincombe
Junction (Weymouth
MRA)
N gauge BR(SR)
Bincombe Junction is a freelance
double track layout set in the BR Southern Region. It
features a branch line leading to a small country terminus
not modelled, and an industrial branch with a pair of
sidings. A between London and the coast location has been
chosen to allow the running of main-line express passenger
trains interspersed with heavy goods traffic. There's still
work to be done on this layout, but is
now nearing completion by the N Gauge Group.
Bridport
Town by David L
Taylor 7mm Narrow Gauge
Bridport Town is the headquarters of the
fictional narrow gauge Marshwood Vale Railway, located in
the real town of Bridport in West Dorset. Featured are the
main terminus station, sheds and workshops, and exchange
sidings with the GWR West Bay branch line. Locomotives and
rolling stock are mostly scratch-built, and based on
examples from the larger British narrow gauge railways.
 
Connaught
Road (Weymouth
MRA) 7mm Finescale,
early BR(SR)
Connaught Road is a freelance urban mainline station set in
1950s British Railways steam period. Its location in the suburbs of London is somewhat unusual
as stock from the "Big Four" can be seen both in
original company livery and that of the nationalised
railway. The layout, which connects to the
Association's Test Track for train storage, features four
running lines, a goods yard and loco stabling area with
coaling stage. The
booking hall is located on a road over-bridge which spans
the platforms, construction of these is progressing with
the ply-wood shell being covered by layers of plasticard
& ordinary card for the walls and roof respectively.
This layout
is being constructed by the O Gauge Group who build and run
their own locomotives and rolling stock, both from kits and
scratch.
Filswey
by Phil Dawling N gauge BR(WR)
The
layout represents a BR Western Region cross-country line in the
late 50s to early 60s period. As it is a cross-country line there
are a few diverted express trains. Some Southern Region
stock is also to be seen.
Hotley
Vale by
Plymouth and District MRC
4mm
00 gauge BR
Hotley
Vale is a double track main line running through rolling
countryside. A wide variety of stock is to be seen.
 
Lulworth
Road by
Malcolm (Tug) Wilson 7mm Finescale BR(SR)
Lulworth Road is situated on a fictional
branch line (near the Army Ranges), which leaves the main
line to Weymouth somewhere between Wareham and Wool. There
is also a spur line that serves the Army camp. The layout
features small branch trains hauled by O2 and G6 Tank
engines. A special off the S&D hauled by an ageing
Johnson 0-4-4T is used by Army personnel from Blandford
Forum. Also a 7F used for hauling military trains off
the S&D is to be occasionally seen.
Rax
Lane Diesel Depot
by Bridport & District MRS OO gauge, 4mm scale
Rax Lane MPD represents a fictional model of
a diesel depot during the 1960s very loosely based on
Willesden shed. Primarily built to show-off a sizeable
collection of 'green' diesels. Various classes of
locomotives are represented from early prototypes, including
diesel-hydraulics and diesel-electrics to the very first
class 50 (D400).
Rock
Ridge by Steve & Tom
Nuttall 1:160 scale N
Rock
Ridge is a fictitious Wild West town in the Mid-West of the
United States of America around the time of the 1870s. The
town was born out of the earlier gold rush, and the mine
workings are still active. The nearby army fort of Fort
Ridge offers protection to the local residents of Rock Ridge
from the local Red Indian tribe who still have ongoing
skirmishes with the army units. This layout is the first
train board we have ever built. The construction is plywood
based with built up polystyrene hills, covered in shaped
plaster and real stone is used when possible. All the
buildings are scratch built out of balsa wood, and are all
copied from photographs and pictures of real Wild West
buildings. The locomotives used are Bachmann 4-4-0s and
original rolling stock of the era.
Tarrant
Valley Railway by
Wimborne Railway Society 009
This
model is based on the little known Tarrant Valley Railway
running from an exchange siding just north of Spetisbury on
the Somerset & Dorset to Tarrant Gunville and beyond
,for about one mile, for freight traffic to serve some chalk
pits. Quarried chalk was the line's main source of revenue.
With the chalk exhausted, the line eventually closed at the
start of WWII. The model features Stonemere station in
1920-30s period, which was built for the passenger traffic
over the line.
Topline
Tinplate by
Dave Corps vintage O gauge
A life-time's and very comprehensive collection of Bassett
Lowke and Hornby 3-rail O gauge, tinplate electric trains,
which is still being added to. Fortunately for us all, Dave
(unlike a lot of collectors) likes to see his vintage
trains, some dating back to the 1930s, in operation and
share this unique experience.
 
Yeovil Pen
Mill (Weymouth
MRA)
OO, 4mm scale, GWR period
This
layout is based on Yeovil Pen Mill during the Great Western
ownership in the 1937-41 time period. Motive power is almost
entirely steam outline. The layout depicts the line from
Weymouth which crosses the Rive Yeo, passes under the
Sherborne Road bridge and into the station. From the station
and goods handling area, the line is modelled as far as the
North signal box in the direction of Westbury. The loco
sheds, a further extension to the layout, are nearing
completion by the OO Pen Mill Group.
 
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