Members Layouts

Detailed below are a number of our members layouts which have been created and developed over many years, some complete and others in a state of "current or continuous development".

Each layout below has a brief description of it’s operation. Click on the external links (where available) to view additional information and pictures.

Coombe Wharf - (4mm, P4)

Built by the late Frank Warren in response to Scalefour Society's challenge to build a P4 layout within a footprint of 18.83 square feet. Period 1903. Now owned by Roger O'Neil.

Link 1883 Challenge

Drws y Nant (2mmFS, 9.42mm)

Nigel Ashton's new 2mm fine scale layout based on a real location in the GWR/Cambrian area in 1930s.

Link to RMWeb

Ferring - (4mm, P4)

LB&SCR layout built by Michael Ball. Period 1910

Featured in the Railway Modeller, June 2010

Fittleworth (4mm, P4)

Built by Nicholas and Phyllida Holliday, Fittleworth is turn of the Century LB&SCR. Built in response to Scalefour Society's challenge to build a P4 layout within a footprint of 18.83 square feet.

Link 18.83 Challenge

Llangerisech (2mmFS, 9.42mm)

Nigel Ashton's Llangerisech is a 2mm fine scale layout, set in the1930s. Normally using Great Western stock, it can also run with1970s blue diesel or mid-2000s.

Link 2mm Scale Association

Shirebrook (4mm, OO)

Formerly a Club layout, now owned by Philip Reid. BR in the1980's, modelled on Shirebrook in Nottinghamshire.

St.Nicholas - (4mm, OO)

Phil Reid's St Nicholas layout depicts an imaginary Spa town situated on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, the branch would have run from Chesterfield to Matlock. The town's name originated from the St Nicholas shopping centre in Sutton in Surrey where the track for this layout was set out for the first time as a track laying demonstration.

Staindrop - (7mm, O)

Photograph © Chris Nevard

Chris Robertson’s 7mm 0 Gauge layout is a ‘might have been branch’ servicing Staindrop a large village between Darlington and Barnard Castle. The aim is to give representation of a country branch and the variety of facilities it might contain. There are coal cells, plus facilities for cattle, horses and milk, as well as passengers.

Appeared in Model Rail No.263, August 2019

West Wittering - (4mm, P4)

Dave Searle's West Wittering layout was originally built by members of the South London Area Group of the Scalefour Society for one of their members.

The premise of this layout is that the LB&SCR bowed to local landowners' interests to serve this area in the mid 1870's. They provided a short branch line from the Brighton to Portsmouth main line at Chichester. In reality this never happened, and the Selsey Tramway started from Chichester and went to Selsey, not West Wittering.