Enquiries in first instance to: Club Secretary, Andrew King: 01420 477665
Basic details only. Each layout has a full information pack- please ask.
WEYFORD-ON-SEA
SCALE: 1:76 ‘00’
SIZE: 6000 x 3000
Southern Railway /BR (S) Seaside terminus with separate Docks station, set in Dorset in the late 40’s and 50’s. Terminus to fiddle yard and Docks station. Layout is scenically treated on 3 sides. Plans to add 4th scenic face and seafront promenade for 2011 season (please ask)
Layout travels in 2 mid sized MPV’s. Largest section 1200 x 900.
Layout needs public access to 3 or 4 sides for full appreciation.
Operators: 6
Limited availability, maximum of 50-mile radius from Liphook.
Club Layout.
COTTLESTON PARK
SCALE: 1:148 ‘N’
SIZE: 4200 x 1000
Through station, with terminal roads and small goods facility, it was designed to show a wide range of British modern image rolling stock in action and has been shown in this form at a number of shows in the South of England. The layout is in a period of further development and may in the future be able to be shown as a backdrop for modern image continental, North American or Japanese outline stock. Please ask.
Layout travels in two cars. Largest section 1200 x 900
Operators: 3/4
Club Layout
VIERBRUCKEN
SCALE: 1:160 ‘ N’ DCC
SIZE: 2400 x 1200 x 1500 high
The layout is set in the Alpine region of Germany with a fascinating combination of tunnels and bridges against a realistic scenic treatment. The layout is operated with a combination of high-speed passenger trains, slow moving freight trains and local passenger trains by DCC.
Layout travels in one (hired) medium size van in one piece, on wheels. Please no tight turns or stairs on access route from off loading area to exhibition position.
Operators: 2 / 3
Layout owned by member Ben Russ
LYNNBOTTOM
SCALE: 1:450 ‘T’
SIZE: 425 x 900
A layout to demonstrate the qualities of this newest of very small-scale model systems from Japan, it uses as a baseboard a toilet seat and lid. It has full scenic treatment using model buildings, boats, people and animals available to the same scale as the rolling stock. Needs “frontage space” to allow visitors to appreciate the detail.
Layout travels in one car. Requires table as support when exhibited.
Operators: 2
Layout owned by member John Chandler
EAST HANTS LIGHT RAILWAY
SCALE: 1:76 Narrow Gauge ’00-9’ DCC
SIZE: 1070 x 1070
Freelance narrow gauge layout in the round, which imagines a narrow gauge network part military, serving establishments and localities from Alton to Farnborough and South to Port Solent. Part of the Southern Railway post grouping, they invested in modernising the line and rolling stock to reduce costs, but improve services.
Look out for the Eastleigh designed and built diesel railcar running at the zenith of the SR in 1937.
Layout travels in one car
Operators: 3
Layout owned by member Matt Wildsmith
MUHLLAND SUMPHF
SCALE: 1:45 Continental ‘0’
SIZE: 3200 x 900
(Not available until late 2010- please ask)
Small German 0 layout representing a fictional location in Northern Germany in the British Zone, in the period just following the partitioning of Germany, when as a result, many lines between East and West German were “cut” at the border.
This is a sleepy station, originally on a through route east from Hamburg, now finding itself an important terminus for supplies to a nearby British Army and RAF base. No changes have been made to the station layout, leading to some “interesting operational problems”. Meanwhile the East German Army observes from its watchtower….
Layout travels in one MPV-one section 1200 x 900-others 1000 x 900
Operators: 2
Layout owned by club member Tony Bettger