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==== Kensington Addison Road ====


=== O Gauge 7mm:ft Twickenham and District Model Railway Club ===

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Addison Road is nowadays known as Kensington Olympia, on the busy West London route between
Willesden and Clapham Junction. Because this was a joint line, formerly involving the L&NWR,
GWR, LB&SCR and L&SWR, it has proved to be a good choice for a club project. Our O gauge fine
scale model shows the station as it was around 1925, enabling us to run trains in both pre- and post-grouping
liveries. As you face the layout you are standing on the site of the Olympia exhibition halls,
with Willesden Junction and the north off to your left; at the right-hand end of the layout the tracks
disappear southwards under Hammersmith Road bridge towards Earl’s Court and Clapham
Junction. The terraced houses of Russell Road form a natural backdrop to the station.
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Most of the trains running through the station at this period were general goods, coal or milk trains
and our operating schedule is designed to provide a balanced representation of these services. For
passengers, a frequent local service ran from the bay platform to Clapham Junction. The main lines
were electrified in 1914 (3rd and 4th rail 630 volts DC), and the layout features models of the
distinctive ex-LNWR 3-car electric sets which ran an intensive service from Willesden to Earl's Court.
Look out for the ‘Sunny South Special’, a through train which linked the northern cities of Liverpool
and Manchester with the southern resorts of Brighton and Eastbourne. A Southern loco took over
the southbound train at Willesden and our model shows the distinctive D213 carriages still in L&NWR
livery; these had to be built from scratch.

Amongst other items of interest on the layout are servo-operated scratch-built models of the original
LNWR signals and the use of the MERG CBUS system to operate the layout from a representation
of the lever frame in Kensington South Main signal box without the use of section switches. Both the
signal box and the platform canopies were constructed from laser-cut ply and MDF to our own
drawings.

The layout has been constructed by members of the Twickenham & District Model Railway Club and
is our largest and most ambitious project to date. You can find further information on our club website
http://www.tdmrc.org.uk/ and on the Addison Road page there is a link to the forum on RMweb which
has featured progress updates during the construction of the layout. The layout was featured in BRM
magazine in July and August 2018.

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All Photos taken by Tony Wright

Credit as

Kensington Addison Road
Exhibited by Twickenham & District Model Railway Club
Photograph by Tony Wright
Courtesy of BRM