As this latest layout from Worthing MRC is my baby and Mr James Makin keeps plugging it in each of his many published articles in the model railway press, I thought I’d better tell you all what it’s about and where we are to date in its construction.
This layout is the first to utilise the […]

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GAUGE

4mm:ft ‘OO’ Finescale

STOCK
Ready to Run

PROTOTYPE
Light Railway

DESCRIPTION
Halden Lane is set on a light railway somewhere in the heart of the South of England countryside at some time in the mid 1950’s to 1960’s. There is no particular regional theme to the motive power but expect to see a number of regional, and some BR standard, busy […]

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A 4mm scale Electric Depot built by James Makin 

SCALE: 4mm:ft/’OO’ Gauge
STOCK: Highly detailed 4mm scale diesel and electric locomotives.
PROTOTYPE: Crewe International Electric Maintenance Depot.
DESCRIPTION: Wells Green TMD is a diesel and electric depot set in Crewe, Cheshire, featuring a range of highly detailed 25kV electric locomotives in an authentic grimy, gritty atmosphere. The depot mainly undertakes […]

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GAUGE: 00
STOCK: Any
PROTYPE: n/a
DESCRIPTION: A “hands-on” demonstration unit showing what is normally hidden from view.
SIZE: 6′ x 3′ No barriers - operation by public (under supervision)
EXPENSES: Not normally charged separately from accompanying layout.
AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITIONS: YES

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GAUGE: OO Fine scale.
STOCK: Kit built stock.
PROTOTYPE: Southern Region 3rd rail.
DESCRIPTION: Although the village of Ashington exists, the railway itself does not. Ashington is a fictitious stabling point loosely based on Littlehampton and West Worthing. It has been designed to display some of the EMU’s which operated on the Southern Region of BR in the […]

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GAUGE: OO Gauge
STOCK: Propriety ready to run stock.
PROTOTYPE: “Modern image”
DESCRIPTION: The layout is a double track “tail chaser” with a large through station where the track splits into 4 lines to provide a variety of services. The station is based on a modern refurbished station but not based on any particular location. Because of this […]

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GAUGE: ‘N’ Gauge/9mm:1ft
STOCK: Heavily modified ready-to-run and kit built.
DESCRIPTION:
A main line passing a fictitious MPD located in the Banbury, Oxfordshire area in the 1950s-60s, the location being witness to a wide variety of rolling stock from the BR Midland Region, BR Western Region as well as Inter-Regional trains from the Southern and Eastern regions. In other words, […]

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