Layouts at our 2008 exhibition are expected to include:
- Blandford St Mary (O) A small market town served by a branchline between the S&D and GWR, with a brewery. The layout can run as 1930s or 1950s.
- The Broadway (2mm) Trams in the centre of a town in East Anglia, between the wars. It is loosely based on Ilford Broadway after the 1923 alterations.
- Castle Hill (N) Models locations on the Devon and Somerset Railway that went between Norton Fitzwarren Junction and Barnstaple. It can be run for diffrent periods from 1930s to 1960s. A particular feature is the 5 ft long single track viaduct.
- Dragline (4mm) A fully working model of a Ruston Bucyrus 1260-W Dragline in 1:76 scale. It "digs" up gravel operated from a set chair with reproductions of the controls ofthe real dragline.
- Exdale Light Railway (O/16.5) A fictitious line somewhere in middle England originally built for the transport of minerals but extended to accommodate passengers and general freight too. Minerals are brought down from the hills and are shipped out from the lower wharf sidings by a canal.
- The Garden Railway (G/N) A model of a 7 1/4" gauge garden railway, modelled in G scale using N gauge RTR stock. The scene is a typical club running day with families enjoying the trains.
- Minic Motorways (OO) Triang produced the "Minic Motorways" system in the 1960s with facilities to integrate with Triang railways such as level crossins and drive-on car transporters. This extensive layout has lots on the move!
- Prospect Valley (HO) An obscure branch line in the mid West of the USA surviving the difficult times just after WWII. The stub end station is the junction between the branch and even more decrepit mine line that heads off up the mountain side on a 4 percent grade using various geared locomotives such as Shays, Heislers and Climaxes.
- Rivendell (O-16.5) A 1930s narrow gauge railway, somewhere in Britain, shown in a state of some decay towards the end of its operational life.
- Santo Antonio (HOm) The metre gauge terminus in a small (imaginary) city somewhere in Northern Portugal. The period is the mid-70s when steam haulage was giving way to diesel. All buildings and feratures are based on places in Northern Portugal and scratch built.
- Shirebeck in Emswell (EM) Set in the 1970s or 1980s on an ex-GC secondary line linking Lincoln with Nottingham/Derby. As well as passenger services, usually a DMU, there is freight and trains for the local coking plant (1970s) or steelworks (1980s).
- Stratton St George (OO) Originally developed to encourage new modellers in the Basingstoke & North Hants club to produce a layout within a year. It depicts a BR(W) branch terminus in the late 50s/Early 60s. Since its inial appearance work has continued to add detail and extend the layout.
- Tarrant Valley Railway (OO9) The Tarrant Valley Railway is depicted as running from just north of Spetisbury on the S&DJR to Tarrant Gunville and beyond. Quaried chalk is the main traffic. In 1867 a passenger service was introduced. After WW1 the chalk became exhausted and the line closed at the start of WW2. The model is set in the 1920s/30s.
- UK Train Sim Hundreds of different railway lines and trains run on simulators on PCs. DCC Workshop An opportunity to learn about DCC, see demonstrations, and ask questions.
- Waitawhyle (N) A fictitious place on the Settle to Carlisle route showing the wild and bleak scenery. It is based loosely on the Blea Moor sidings, and is set about 1960.
- Wells Green TMD (OO) Wells Green TMD is a diesel and electric depot at Crewe 2002-6. It is DCC controlled allowing several locomotives to be on the move at the same time.
- West Croydon (OO) This layout depicts the complex tram system in Croydon in the 1930s, with a short length of railway as well. Many of the buildings are unchanged today except for shop names - thos near the junction are as in 2000, those further away 1940s. A single line of the modern tram track has been superimposed to allow these to operate.
- Weydon Road (O) Our clubs large O gauge layout, recently extended. It represents no particular location or period, but usually runs grouping period stock.
- Club Layouts Sections of our club layouts will be available to inspect, giving a close-up view of construction and wiring, our new OO gauge layout "Greenfields" and our N gauge layout "Basingstoke". We will try to be honest about the approaches that worked, and those where you can learn from our mistakes.
