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O-14 7mm Scale/14mm Gauge

This was the club's second attempt at TIDMERIC and featured an industrial setting in the early 1950's.

This layout was recently sold at the Bremen exhibition to someone in Germany.

GILBERTSTONE QUARRY

 

P4 : 4mm Scale/18.83mm gauge

This was the club’s first and, so far, only layout in P4 and was the club’s main 4mm scale exhibition layout during the 1990’s.

The layout represented the small interchange facilities of a limestone quarry near the end of a quiet branch line in an unspecified part of the country. With limestone occurring in a wide band across the country, a variety of stock could be run at different operating sessions, from pre-Grouping to modern image. It was extremely popular on the exhibition circuit and visited most shows in SE England and beyond.

When the layout came to the end of its useful exhibition life it was sold, but it is still giving pleasure to its new owner and may well appear on the exhibition circuit again sometime in the future.

WATERSFIELD

 

O : 7mm Scale/32mm gauge

Watersfield is a village in Sussex, and in reality was not served by a railway. The model is based loosely on nearby Pulborough, an intermediate station on the Arun Valley line, which was also an interchange station for the former Midhurst branch. The period modelled is c.1930, well before this line was electrified.The station buildings are a scale model of Pulborough - in mirror image!

Watersfield was the second layout to be constructed by the Club's O Gauge Group.

This layout has now been sold to a private collector.

PORT WARREN

 

O : 7mm Scale/32mm gauge

Port Warren was built in the early 1980s as T&DMRC's first O gauge layout and was a small shunting layout using magnetic couplings to achieve "hands off" operation. At the time the T&DMRC had very few 7mm scale standard gauge modellers and the main purpose of the layout was to attract new 7mm scale modellers to the Club. The very success of the PORT WARREN in attracting new O gaugers meant that it had a short Club life as it was sold and a far more ambitious project ( WATERSFIELD) was built to replace it.

Johnshaven

 

OO : 4mm Scale/16.5mm gauge

Johnshaven was the OO layout of Richard Parker, a founder member who died in 2005. When the Club started in 1961, Richard and his father Les were building a permanent layout in their loft which a freelance model of the fictitious ‘Richards Castle and Johnshaven Railway’.