https://www.railex.org.uk/ 2026-04-21T14:25:25+00:00 https://www.railex.org.uk/ https://www.railex.org.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2021-05-17T08:57:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:aylesburylnwr&rev=1621241852&do=diff Aylesbury LNWR This is the model is of Aylesbury LNWR, and is the first station in Aylesbury running in from Cheddington - and located where B&Q now is. It is to EM gauge and was built by Geoff Williams and his sons. Originally a loft layout, this is the second attempt by Geoff and was modelled in the early 70s’. The layout depicts the whole of the station complex with engine shed, goods yard and gas works. The railway is set amongst the back drop of the town and has been created with meticulou… text/html 2021-05-17T13:45:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:beijiao&rev=1621259121&do=diff BEIJIAO – A CHINESE INDUSTRIAL CITY IN 2001 This layout was inspired by my many trips to China from 1993 to 2015 to photograph the last of Chinese steam. The layout is set in 2001 and, by then, the remaining steam action was mainly centred around heavily polluted industrial cities in the north of China and Beijiao is a fictitious version of such a city – in many ways the real China, the China which few tourists ever see. There are three distinct systems on display. Firstly, at the back of the l… text/html 2021-05-17T13:37:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:bournemouth_west&rev=1621258648&do=diff Bournemouth West Photography, Trevor Jones. The former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway southern terminus was selected by ROGER SUNDERLAND, DAVE BAYMAN and friends to create this stunning ‘OO’ gauge exhibition layout. Roger reveals its story and explains how it works. text/html 2021-05-17T13:42:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:brighton_east&rev=1621258975&do=diff Brighton East Brighton East is 4mm/ft using EM gauge track and depicts a Southern Region Rail terminus in the period loosely around 1998 to 2003 where 3rd Rail EMU’s prevail on passenger services. My son Matthew was a medical student in Brighton and came up with the old Kemp Town branch as a possible setting for a layout. What if it had retained some passenger service (this actually ceased in the 1933) and had never been shut (it closed to goods traffic in 1971), been electrified and then had… text/html 2021-05-17T18:55:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:charwelton&rev=1621277710&do=diff Charwelton into the 80s Exhibited by the CBM Diesel Group The challenge of re-inventing this exhibition layout for Simon Howard and his friends saw a transformation in its era too, from the end of steam to an imaginary BR blue diesel scenario. Factfile text/html 2021-05-06T14:09:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:eccleston&rev=1620310154&do=diff Eccleston Martin Nield Eccleston is a village in West Lancashire which never had a railway. It did, however, have two cotton mills and was surrounded by rich arable land, so there would have been sufficient traffic to justify one. I have therefore imagined that the local mill owners, supported by Lord Eccleston of nearby Eccleston Hall, prevailed upon the Directors of The East Lancashire Railway, later part of The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR), to build a branch line from Cros… text/html 2021-05-17T13:51:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:freshwater&rev=1621259515&do=diff Freshwater was the western terminus of the 12 mile long Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway on the Isle of Wight. Opened in 1888, the Southern Railway lengthened the platform, removed the loco shed and carriage shed, and modified the track layout slightly in 1927, but the line was never very successful, and closed as early as 1953. text/html 2021-05-04T11:04:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:grindley_brook&rev=1620126244&do=diff Grindley Brook Layout Details Our O gauge Finescale layout is based on a fictional station set on the now closed ex-LNWR line between Whitchurch and Chester in Shropshire in the period 1954 - 1964. Although there was never a large station with a yard at Grindley Brook, but just a wooden halt, the location was chosen as the point at which the railway crossed the Llangollen Canal. text/html 2021-05-17T13:57:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:high_wycombe&rev=1621259825&do=diff High Wycombe High Wycombe is an EM gauge layout trying to capture the atmosphere of the station in the early 50s. The town is about 40 miles northwest of London and lay on the old GW & GC Joint line opened in 1906. By the 50s it came under the auspices of the Western and Eastern regions and as such featured a wide variety of traffic and motive power from both parents. Heavy mineral trains were woven between expresses from Paddington and Marylebone with an intensive suburban service from the lat… text/html 2021-05-06T14:13:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:kensington_addison_road&rev=1620310421&do=diff Kensington Addison Road O Gauge 7mm:ft Twickenham and District Model Railway Club 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 l… text/html 2021-05-26T09:58:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:kyle_of_lochalsh&rev=1622023132&do=diff Kyle of Lochalsh was originally built in Barcelona, Spain as a micro layout capable of being transported via box-files. It was first exhibited in 2010 at the Burgess Hill Model Railway Club annual exhibition having being flown in by hand luggage the day before. text/html 2021-05-17T13:40:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:lightermans_yard&rev=1621258843&do=diff Lighterman’s Yard 2mm Finescale The layout represents a small fictitious goods yard, somewhere in South East London. Timescale is the late 1950's early 1960s, near the end of steam, with an occasional diesel to be seen. It is still a work-in-progress, construction having occupied members of the 2mm Association Kent & Essex Area Group for many years during which time it has been rewired from DC to DCC. text/html 2021-06-03T18:14:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:love_lane&rev=1622744081&do=diff Love Lane Scale 7 Love Lane is a fictitious location some near Chigwell in North West London set in the period around 1958. It’s on the Great Eastern railway coming out of Liverpool Street and continues through Love Lane onto Ongar and Dunmow and then into East Anglia. During operation quite a variety of trains will be seen ranging from a Quint-Art operating in and out of London, a Push-Pull going into the country together with various goods trains and through passenger services. text/html 2021-05-17T13:29:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:modbury&rev=1621258194&do=diff MODBURY Layout Description Modbury is a 2mm Finescale layout representing a Great Western “might have been” through station as it might have appeared c.1906. The layout has a small traintable type fiddle yard at each end of a scenic section. text/html 2021-05-06T18:35:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:oldparrock&rev=1620326135&do=diff Old Parrock A couple of years ago I found photos of an old watermill in East Sussex, near Forest Row, close to where I grew up. The mill disappeared in the thirties; the photos show a run down but functioning building in 1903, with a sandstone base and clapboard upper frame set in a rural location - and I can't get it out of my mind - I really want to build it. text/html 2021-05-26T19:24:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:padfracombe&rev=1622057081&do=diff Padfracombe This is James's layout based largely on the track plan of Ilfracombe, but set at sea level as I wanted a dockside, like at Padstow. The video shows you the inside of the shed and the garden railway so far. The layout has the trackwork largely complete, some buildings in place, but no real scenic work carried out yet. The garden railway section has reached a stage where trains can be run, but much more work is needed. text/html 2021-05-08T09:33:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:pottendorf&rev=1620466396&do=diff Pottendorf 1915 Overall concept Rather than build a layout from rare and exotic items, everything on Pottendorf is readily available, either by mail-order or from a good hobby store. This ensures that anyone can build a similar layout. Some background text/html 2021-05-14T18:40:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:riogrande&rev=1621017614&do=diff Mick's Rio Grande Mick Moignard's Denver & Rio Grande Western recalls the 3-foot narrow gauge lines in south-western Colorado in and around 1951. 1951 was the last year the San Juan Express ran from Alamosa to Durango over Cumbres pass, and the last year that the connecting Rio Grande Southern line operated. Still entirely steam operated, D&RGW 3-foot gauge served the mining areas of south west Colorado and handled agricultural produce, as well as handling local oil and coal traffic. While th… text/html 2021-05-17T18:52:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:romford&rev=1621277572&do=diff Romford The layout is four years in the making and at present only represented on a 4ft by 2ft baseboard. Eventually, the diorama will be incorporated into 30ft by 10ft oval layout, once the loft is converted. The current diorama is based around the main station area and is made up of the Up and Down Electrics and Mains, with the start of the branch line to Upminster. The track is from C&L and is a mixture of timber and concrete sleepers with both bullhead and flat-bottomed rail, as was pres… text/html 2021-06-08T16:03:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:sovereigncollieryjunction&rev=1623168232&do=diff Sovereign Colliery Junction 2mm Finescale/British Rail 1970's Another Manchester Sheffield & Wath model? Yes and why not!? The Woodhead system holds an enduring fascination for many of us. This direct descendant of the builder’s ‘Mini-MSW’ once again focusses on the Wath arm of the system, the freight route which ran from the junction at Penistone to the huge coal concentration yard at Wath. And once again, the period is the 1970s, with the whole route into its final few years of operation bef… text/html 2021-05-16T10:25:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.railex.org.uk/doku.php?id=virtual21:layouts:wendover&rev=1621160748&do=diff Wendover The Great Central Main Line in its LNER heyday is the subject of DAVID DANN-GIBBONS’ marvellous ‘OO’ layout, as he explains. Photography Trevor Jones. Scale: 'OO' Size: 26ft x 11ft 6in Period: 1930 Control: Analogue This layout was originally conceived in the 1980s when I was living in Hertfordshire. As a Great Central Railway (GCR) enthusiast, I was looking for somewhere on the old main line into Marylebone. I settled on Wendover for reasons I will come to shortly, and I started to …