Club Layouts
The Club Layouts are built with the aim of presenting well-made scale models, operated to entertain show visitors. Our layouts are primarily built to 4mm finescale standards with either analogue or digital (DCC) control.
Active exhibition layouts
Active on the exhibition circuit
L&Y in Yorkshire just after the Great War. There are also plans to operate Eastwood in BR days
Roundy-roundy layout with large rear fiddle yard
More information and details of exhibition appearances can be found here
Active on the exhibition circuit
Joint LNWR and GWR in Herefordshire in the Pre-Grouping period (1906 to 1920)
Roundy-roundy layout with large rear fiddle yard.
More information and details of exhibition appearances can be found here
Active on the exhibition circuit
Light railway on the South Coast, set around 1923 with LSWR and SR stock
Branch terminus to fiddle yard.
More information and details of exhibition appearances can be found here
Active on the exhibition circuit
Fictitious location set in the BR period
Small shunting layout
More information and details of exhibition appearances can be found here
Widley and St. George is a layout we operate at our annual Model Railway Show in Portsmouth especially for the younger boys and girls. They are able to run a variety of trains pulled by Thomas and his friends.
Layouts under construction
Under construction
BR in West London, mid-50s to early 60s (late steam to early diesel)
Two-level layout with independent fiddle yards (both at the same end)
More information can be found here
Being overhauled after a period in storage
Lancashire and Yorkshire wharf-side cameo layout with fiddle yard
Originally built for a Scaleforum weekend challenge in 1993 by Iain Rice, Tony Wilson, John Chambers, Tony Hill, Gordon Ashton, Jonathan and Don Leeper.
More information can be found here
Being completed after a period in storage
Lancashire and Yorkshire meets LNWR. Cameo layout with fiddle yards at each end
Originally built by Iain Rice and Don Leeper
More information can be found here
Retired layouts
Ogden Fold (P4)
No longer available for exhibitions
L&Y in West Yorkshire pre-grouping (1910 to 1920)
Through station with fiddle yards at each end