1. Arrowmouth - 4mm scale West Coast Mainline station set in the 1960s
2. Auch Ae - 4mm scale Scottish Region locomotive shed
3. Bristol Avon Bridge - 4mm scale model of part the main Bristol station
4. Illie Town - 4mm scale modern image locomotive depot
5. Pirton and Wadborough - 4mm scale of the actual location in the 1950s and 1960s
6. Torcy (SNCF) - 3.5mm scale layout of a French terminal station

Others being confirmed ..........

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.  

Auch Ae is a 4mm scale Scottish Region locomotive shed based in the 1960s. It is very much work in progress but showing it in a part built state gives the opportunity to see how a layout is built. All the track work has been laid using Peco code 75 track and wired for DCC operation. Buildings on the layout are scratch built and are based on prototypes in Scotland. The layout will be operated with a mixture of steam and diesel locomotives with many featuring working sound.  

Bristol Avon Bridge may remind you of a certain large station in Bristol in an era when the evenings and early hours of the morning had a bustling newspaper, parcels and post office traffic flowing to and from the South West. The layout depicts platforms 3 and 5, their avoiding lines and the Severn Beach bay to the north and motorail terminal platform to the south. Pause a while to watch long distance trains change crew or loco. Regular HST services mix with mk1 to mk3 regional services to Weymouth, Fishguard, South Wales and beyond Exeter. The station pilot fusses over motor rail and parcels formations, while Speed-link services for Severn Tunnel Jn and beyond arrive in the avoiding lines. DCC control allows flexibility to create a bustling, noisy, environment. Signalling is automated, many thanks to TrainTech for support in developing this. The operating era spans almost 20 years, liveries Blue through Intercity, sectorisation and Rail Express Systems. The scene is compressed, between the Post Office conveyor bridge and the Bath Road Bridge, after crossing the River Avon “cut”. The great trainshed is a representation, hopefully capturing the essence of Bristol as you view the coming and goings from platform 3, the booking hall or the buffet! The buildings and platform canopies have been an experiment in laser cut components, supplied by LCUT and bespoke structures created with help from friends. The signal box is the guardian of the old Bath Road locomotive depot, and the Post Office conveyor buildings are both scratch built from Photos. I hope you enjoy Bristol Avon Bridge, “BABs”.

Illie Town is a small modern image layout based in Cheshire. Passenger services are operated by Arriva Wales, East Midlands, Cross Country and Northern. On the freight side, there's a ballast siding and a warehouse that imports steel, which are served by a variety of locos from different companies. There's a two-road loco depot with a separate fuelling point. The layout is over 20 years old and has been on the exhibition circle previously known as Bridge Street, but a lot of work has gone into making it Illie Town. Though the track plan is pretty much the same, we added the bay platform, fuelling point and warehouse for added interest, along with new background scenery. Fully wired for DCC and controlled by NCC power cab, all turnouts and signals are analogue. With a daily timetable of over 400 movements, there's always something to watch. 

Pirton Sidings was on the Birmingham to Gloucester main line south of Worcester. The layout features Pirton Signal box, level crossing and sidings together with a model of the former Wadborough station. The whole catalyst for the layout was when Hornby introduced what they call the Holy Trinity Church model into their Skaledale range of trackside model buildings. It appears to be a pretty accurate replica of St. Peters Church in Pirton, with its distinctive black and white tower. The layout was then constructed to showcase this model The layout is exhibited by the PW Gang (Pirton and Wadborough) and features trains that would have operated on the line in the 1950's and 1960's.

Torcy is located in the Department of Seine - Maritime in the Haute Normandie. (upper Normandy), Region of Northern France at the end of a single-track branch of the line from Rouen to Dieppe. Torcy is a real place, but the railway is completely fictitious. The survival of the imaginary branch line is due, in the main, to a distribution depot set up to transfer goods arriving by rail to road vehicles for delivery to this area of Northern France, the level of freight traffic is sufficiently healthy to require several trains a day. In addition, loaded trains of open wagons containing gravel from a quarry up the line, that only has access from the Torcy direction, enter the station area to reverse before departing to Soteville yard in Rouen for onward dispatch. The station also survives and is served by a regular passenger service from Rouen operated by diesel powered push-pull trains and multiple units. There is a twice daily through train to/ from Paris and occasional steam hauled specials. The period modelled is in the era between 2005 and 2008 and the railway is controlled by a Lenz DCC system.