Stacks of sleepers and logs in the Redbridge works yard, with a steam locomotive shunting behindRailfreight Class 37, tank wagons and a shunter on the depot roads at Lockton Lane

Club and members’ layouts

Our layouts

From a Lancashire & Yorkshire branch in 1920 to Network SouthEast in the 1990s, in everything from N gauge to 7mm narrow gauge.

The works yard at Redbridge Wharf. Photo: Jamie Warne, courtesy of British Railway Modelling

Railfreight Class 37 on the depot roads at Lockton Lane

Built by the club

Club layouts

Built and run by members together. Redbridge Wharf tours the exhibition circuit; Abbotstone lives in the club room, ready for a running session. Eastleigh, in N gauge, is next.

Rebuilt Bulleid Pacific in BR green leading green coaches across the causeway at Redbridge Wharf
OO (4mm)

Redbridge Wharf

Award-winning 1960s Southern sleeper works on the River Test

Redbridge, Southampton · 1966–67 · Out on the exhibition circuit

LNER green A3 Pacific No. 4476 in close-up on Abbotstone
O (7mm finescale)

Abbotstone

7mm finescale Midland main line and branch, built by the club

Midland practice · steam era · Running in the club room

Supported by club members at exhibitions

Members’ layouts

Built by individual members and taken out to shows with help from the rest of us. Flick the Era switch and the matching layouts move to the front.

Network SouthEast Class 50 with a rake of oil tanks, an NSE diesel unit crossing the bridge behind
O (7mm)

Lockton Lane

Network SouthEast branch terminus with a quarry and an MOD depot

Presented by Bruce Armstrong

Class 33 and Network SouthEast coaches on the main line at Patrick Lane
O (7mm)

Patrick Lane

1980s Southern Region branch inspired by Marchwood

Presented by Bruce Armstrong

EWS Class 37 by the fuel point at Cramdin Yard

Cramdin Yard

A small yard and fuel point in the 2000s

Presented by Dave Renshaw

GBRf Class 66 with a freight train through the wooded cutting at Waton
N (finescale)

Waton

Finescale N gauge, modern image, inspired by Water Orton

Presented by Dave Renshaw

L&Y tank engine with six-wheeled coaches at Holcombe Brook
O (7mm)

Holcombe Brook

Lancashire & Yorkshire branch terminus in 1920

Presented by Jeff Geary

Tank engines and wagons in front of the maltings at St Holdens
EM (4mm)

St Holdens

Eastern Region what-if on the Essex and Suffolk border, 1955

Presented by Richard Gower

Narrow gauge train on the quay wall at Pilton Quay
NG7 (7mm narrow gauge)

Inspired by the L&B

Modular NG7 narrow gauge inspired by the Lynton & Barnstaple

Presented by Bev Dunstan, Jerry Griffin, Chris Jenner, Richard Read and John Shaw

LSWR green locomotive at the Mawgan Porth platform
EM (4mm)

Mawgan Porth

LSWR harbour branch on the North Cornish coast

Presented by Tony Pierson

Exhibition managers

Want one of our layouts at your show?

Tell us your dates and venue and we’ll let you know what’s available. Older layouts and past projects are in the gallery.