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Skimbleshank's Mill

Scale: 7 mm Scale/14 mm (2 ft) Gauge

Owned by Alison Gilmour, Skimbleshanks Mill is a fictitious industrial backwater somewhere in a forgotten corner of post-war England. The narrow gauge railway takes varied goods to and from the Warehouse.

The model is built to the unusual gauge of 14 mm, representing true two-foot narrow gauge. All locomotives and rolling stock are either kit or scratch-built.

Skimbleshanks Mill is available for exhibitions.

Tintagel Road

Scale: 4 mm Scale/OO Gauge

Owned and built by Ian Wilkins, Tintagel Road is set in North Cornwall Line during the 1930s. It is based on Camelford Station, which served nearby Tintagel. The addition of some sidings brought about the change of name to Tintagel Road. The timetable is based on the Southern Railway’s versions for the period 1930-1939.

Rolling stock is mostly kit-built, with some scratch-built and modified proprietary items.

Tintagel Road is available for exhibitions.

Botleigh

Scale: 4 mm/OO Gauge

Owned and built by Ian Corps, Botleigh is modelled closely on the actual station of Botley, a small town in Hampshire. Because of space constraints, artistic licence has been taken in making Botleigh a terminus. The period for this model is set in the late fifties to early sixties, with many different types of locomotive often being seen, thanks to the closeness of Eastleigh works.

Botleigh is not available for exhibitions.

Cornwallis Yard

Scale: 4 mm Scale/EM Gauge

Originally built by the late Bob Haskins and completed after his death by Karl Crowther and Ian Worthington of the Rochdale Model Railway Club, Cornwallis Yard is now owned by Dave Barker and Alison Gilmour, who are continuing to exhibit the model around the country. It depicts a fictitious setting on the line into Millbay Docks in Plymouth during the mid-1930s.

Hobbiton

Scale: N Gauge/2 mm

Owned and built by Stan Clarke, Hobbiton is an imaginary setting in the Peak District of Derbyshire that gives as realistic an impression as possible in a small space of the line that formerly ran through the area. The period for the model is around the mid-1950s, Locomotive stock is mainly the ex-Midland/LMS designs of Fowler, Stanier and Ivatt, together with a small number of the BR standards.

The scenery, viaduct and all buildings are scratch-built, except for the Midland signal box, which is the Ratio kit.

Hobbiton is no longer available for exhibitions.

Cartsdyke Yard

Scale: 7 mm Scale/O Gauge

Owned and built by John Purdie, Cartsdyke Yard is a freelance design based on a track plan illustrated in the Railway Modeller. The layout has been extended by adding a locomotive run-round for the platform, an engine shed and a cattle dock. Cartsdyke Yard is a small yard off a much larger main yard in a town centre setting. The yard is surrounded by walls on all four sides, the front wall having been left off to permit viewing of the model. The setting could be around London, or a large town in the north east of England, or even somewhere in Scotland.

Littleton

Scale: 7 mm Scale/O Gauge

Owned b David D'Arcy, Littleton is a fictitious seaside terminus station set somewhere on the South Coast between Brighton and Portsmouth. The model was originally purchased, but has since been extended and re-modelled to include carriage sidings, a carriage shed, and a new fiddle yard arrangement.