Words & photographs by Steve Waredraper (layout information taken from the show programme).
Chatham Historic Dockyard.
The N gauge contingent.
Alan's credit card goes home a good deal lighter ...
Castle Rock, 009 scale 9mm gauge by H.B. Wust of the Dutch Model Art Society, representing a small
English town with military activity in 1939.
The Ditton Railway Company, 4mm scale 009 narrow gauge by John Thorne.
A ficticious 2'3" british narrow gauge modelled in the 1930's, comprising three individual sections
separated by fiddle yards: Long Ditton, Ditton Marsh and Ditton Heath.
Sutton Wharf, 1:25 scale 16.5mm gauge by Christopher Payne.
Described by the owner as a "quest to achieve the ultimate in terms of maximum scale in a
minimum space".
The Garden of England Railway, G scale 1 gauge by the G Scale Society, Kent.
Built as a group track to show off a variety of stock.
Hornby, 4mm scale OO gauge, a layout originally displayed at the Hempstead Valley Shopping
Centre, taken over by the Chatham & District Model Railway Club.
Rock Ridge, 1:48 scale O gauge by Chris White, a small ficticious town in Northeast Iowa,
served by the Rock Island Railroad.
Houghton Colliery, 1:32 scale 1 gauge by Jack Burnard, an imaginary North Eastern Railway
branch line off the old east coast mainline, set in the 1950's.
Megalo Horio, 3.5mm scale HO gauge by Baz Ward.
Set in Northern Mainland Greece sometime in the last 25 years.
Wildschonau, HOe scale 1:32 9mm gauge by David Coates, a narrow gauge railway in
Wildschonau, a valley nestling between the Kitzbuheler Alps and the Wilder Kaiser in Austria.
Purcell, 3.5mm scale HO gauge by John Rumble. Represents a small town in 1950's South
Western USA served by a branch of the Santa Fe Railway.
Melbury, 2mm scale N gauge by the Chelmsford & District MRC. Circular layout on 3 levels,
constructed with the object of testing locos' handling of gradients and tight curves.
Hopfields, 1:19 scale 32mm gauge by Kent Area 16mm Group.
Layout with two separate circuits for
running live steam and battery powered locos at the group's monthly meetings.
Tolcarn Engine Shed, 7mm scale O gauge by Terry Yeend.
Inspired by Great Western Engine Sheds
1947 by E. Lyons, and specifically Chippenham
Engine Shed.
