This is a moving diorama, rather than a layout & as such sets out to demonstrate the possibilities of a small operation in 7mm Scale. The concept is that the viewer is assumed to be looking out of the window of a carriage of a train that has drawn into the station on the mainline. What they see is the branchline bay platform & a small goods yard. At the far side of the yard, a short narrow gauge line runs into an interchange platform. The viewer might see the branchline train making a connection or some shunting being done. Every so often the narrow gauge train shunts a wagon into the yard.

The setting is somewhere in the Surrey/Sussex border area; the mainline is on the Redhill/Guildford ex SECR line & the branch connects with the ex LBSCR Guildford/Horsham at Cranleigh.

The station buildings are modelled on those at Marden SECR, the signalbox at Goudhurst on the Hawkhurst Branch & the goods shed is based on the one that stood at Fittleworth LBSCR.

Kineton
by BDMRCG
Gauge = 'EM'/4mm

Kineton is a small fictional station just this side of the Welsh Mountains. It is a through station with a closed fiddle yard at one end & an open yard at the other end to add working interest. This is part of the clubs’ extensive layout.

Drummond
by Rob Newman
Gauge = '00'/4mm

Drummond is a rural terminus in the Highland which can be operated with appropriate stock between the years 1950 to 1980. The layout uses code 75 track with kitbuilt or detailed proprietary vehicles.

The track plan follows no actual prototype but if you can recognise features from Kyle, Oban, etc. the all will not have been in vain!

Leamington Trinity Road
by Mark Miller
Gauge = '00' 4mm

This represents a fictitious terminus station in Leamington Spa. I have built it in conjunction with my school, hence the name Leaminton Trinity Road. It is a modern image layout with the odd steam special. Expect to see class 03, 31, 20, 24, 25 & 156. The layout is 8’ long & this will be its’ first exhibition.

Llangennith
by Hannah (& Tony Drew)
Gauge = '00' 4mm

The layout itself came into being when, at the age of 10 years, I announced that I wanted to have a layout of my own (just like Dads!). After lengthy negotiations with the "domestic authorities" (Mum), it became clear that the only acceptable space site for such a venture would have to be the windowsill! And so we embarked upon this minimum space exercise.

The layout made itsí debut in March 2000, in its original 6'(8' format, but was restricted to the use of tank & prairie locos. To enable some larger tender engines to be used, the layout was moved from its 6' bedroom window sill to the dinning room window sill, this was 8' long, thus allowing a 2' extension to be added, incorporating the local "Laver Bread"í factory & quayside. The 2 baseboards consist of simple frames of 2'1" covered with a top of 6mm MDF, covered further with 6mm cork, in order to keep the noise level below that of a snare drum. The back and end scenes of the same material, as well as the 19' sector plate in the fiddle yard. All trackwork is Peco code75; all rolling stock & locomotives are r.t.r items with some very minor alterations- namely the couplings, being "Alex Jackson". The only kit built items, are a pair of Ratio 4 wheel coaches & a couple of wagons.

As regards the scenic structures, the signals, signal box & cattle dock are standard, if slightly butchered Ratio products. The station building is a Prototype card waiting room kit, whilst the platform, coal staithes, goods shed & the factory are all scratch built from Wills plastic sheets, balsa wood, card & 0.6mm & 1.5mm veneers. All the stonework is made from Wills coarse stone sheets, & the grass is gardeners capillary matting. Finally the ballast is provided by nature- it's called granite!

NOW TELL ME "YOU HAVE NO ROOM FOR A CONVINCING LAYOUT…!!! (See Railway Modeller March & May 2001 issues)

Stodmarsh
by Les Spratt
Gauge = '0' 7mm

This layout is based on a proposed, but never completed extension to the East Kent Railway. One of a number of railways owned or managed by the late Colonel Stephens. A number of extensions were planned for the E.K.R., mostly based on the development of the Kent coalfields. One extension planned was to run from Wingham to Canterbury West, a distance of about 7 1/2 miles. This line went into the first stages of construction during 1919, starting at Wingham & was to reach the city of Canterbury via Stodmarsh. Running rights had been arranged with the S.E.C.R. (later the Southern Railway) for the E.K.R. to use Canterbury West Station. There were many hold-ups, such as the general strike of 1926 followed by the depression. The untimely death of Colonel Stephens in 1931, put paid to all the extension work on the East Kent. It seemed that a plausible idea for a layout could be, that the Canterbury extension line stopped just short of Stodmarsh. However a typical Colonel Stephens station building & an agricultural engineering workshop were built at the end of the line.

Colonel Stephens & Southern Railway stock can be seen on the layout, this was normal. It is hoped that the small size of the layout is compensated for by an authentic atmosphere.

Cherwell Junction
by Solihull Model Railway Circle
Gauge = '00'/4mm

‘CHERWELL’ is our exhibition layout and is developing fast. Its design means a number of scale length trains can run simultaneously. The scenery is now taking shape, the tramway is now laid, and new for this year light signals!
If you look carefully you can see: Pigeons roosting under the station bridge; Foxes using the trackbed as a shortcut and one fox eying lambs, gulls eggs and the shepherd on the upper pasture; Cats watch building work in the arch from the platform; Gulls above the sea and on the cliffs with a lonely Cormorant.