Layouts already confirmed for Rail-Ex 2026:

Layout 1:

Whiteacres

OO Gauge 2000 - 2020

Whiteacres is Stafford Railway Circle’s 4mm fine scale exhibition layout set in the Staffordshire/Derbyshire area and representing a (fictitious) former LNWR route from Birmingham to Derby and Nottingham (on the assumption the Midland lines were never built). This line is on the high level and is linked to an ex-GCR line on the lower level. One throat of the station is modelled together with the station buildings and surrounding town scene. The River Acres valley is crossed by both lines on viaducts and girder bridges-on the high level is the junction of the lines to Derby and Nottingham while on the low level there is also a junction but the ‘main’ route as currently modelled is truncated. The visible track and point work is all hand-built using C&L and Exactoscale products, and for point operation uses Cobalt and Tortoise point motors. The signalling is all colour light with full route indications. All the bridges and buildings are either scratch built or modified kits. The stock is provided by SRC members and is appropriate to the chosen operating period. The wiring and control panels allow operation on DCC (using Lenz equipment). Behind the scenes there is an extensive fiddle yard which can store over 60 separate trains and allows for an intensive and varied operating sequence.

Layout 2:

Kreuzweg

HOm Swiss metre gauge

Serving the well-known mountain towns Davos, Klosters, and Saint Moritz the rails of the Rhatische Bahn (RhB) play host to two recognisable services – The Glacier Express, and the Bernina Express – both of which may be seen on the layout. The striking red of the well-maintained trains against brilliant white snow is an impactful image. The RhB has an enormous international following and is as much a tourist attraction in its own right as well as being a serious transport network. As such there’s a healthy appreciation of the railway’s heritage, and historic ‘specials’ run on the RhB throughout the year.

A key factor was that the layout had to be able to handle scale length trains. The result is Kreuzweg, a fictional location but based on several actual scenes on the line between Klosters and Davos. Kreuz (cross) weg (path) is the name of a ski piste that drops down into Klosters, passing underneath the line.

Layout 3:

Smalldale Quarry

N gauge 1970s-1980s BR(M)

Smalldale is a small village situated between Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith just east of Dove Holes. The quarry is now a popular rock climbing area, but it was once part of the ICI Buxton lime operations. The layout is a "what might have been": features of the layout are a three platform station, the quarry, a spring water bottling plant, riding stables, and a small maintenance and refuelling point. There are two continuous loops plus an extensive shunting area for the industries. The layout is DCC only with several sound fitted locos. Most of the rolling stock had been professionally weathered.

On the left of the layout is the loco maintenance depot. This consists of a re-fuelling point, oil tanks, office, and shed. To the right of the loco maintenance area is the old quarry pond.

Towards the middle of the layout is the quarry. The quarry building is complete with conveyors. On the right of the layout is the bottling plant and riding stables.

Layout 4:

Westcliff

EM Gauge - 1920s GWR in Dorset

Westcliff is a ‘might have been’ whose location is based on the Dorset seaside town of West Bay, Bridport’s harbour, as it might have evolved by the 1920s.

When the railway arrived at West Bay in 1848 there was the expectation that the town would grow into a seaside resort in the same way as Bournemouth or Weymouth had done. Land was bought in preparation for promenades, walks, gardens and hotels. Fortunes were to be made. In the event none of these things happened, the main result of the railway’s arrival was the decline of trade through the harbour.

However in our version of events not only did the town become a successful resort, but the harbour continued to flourish with the export of coal (from Somerset and South Wales), shingle (from nearby Chesil Beach), rope and netting (manufactured locally) and the importation of timber from Scandinavia. Some light shipbuilding was also carried out.

The existing station was moved to make way for developments in the town and a larger station built in a new location under the ‘west cliff’ to cater for a now intensive service of main line holiday expresses and local passenger trains. Goods trains bring supplies into the town and service the harbour via a short branch line.

Extensive carriage sidings and loco facilities are located off the main line to the east of the station, beyond the bridges carrying the footpath to the promenade.

Layout 5:

Snowdon (NWNGR)

Scale 1:38 (8mm = 1ft) 16mm gauge

Snowdon Station was the southern terminus of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway before its 1920s extension to Portmadoc and renaming as the Welsh Highland Railway. It is situated at the village of Rhyd Ddu. The layout represents the station as it was circa 1910. The railway was defunct by the start of WW2 but has been brought back to life by the Welsh Highland/Ffestiniog Railway.

The layout and stock are entirely scratch built, with a minimum utilisation of commercially available parts. Loco building commenced in the 1980s and has continued since. The locos, including the chassis, are mainly built using nickel silver and brass. Carriages have made extensive use of Plasticard for the bodies, although some are made from wood, while their underframes are made from nickel silver and brass.

Stonework on the buildings has been carried out by building up layers of Polyfilla on a scribed base. The corrugated iron used in places is represented by the use of Slaters sheets suitably cut and pinned. The layout shows a fairly accurate representation of the station buildings. However the actual station site was much longer. Some freelance modelling has been carried out at the ends of the layout.

Layout 6:

Caldershaw

P4 BR(M) and BR(E) 1960s

Caldershaw started as a small layout and just grew bigger. It now has 6 boards, each 4ft by 2 ft, with a traverser at the rear at each end, so that 4ft long trains can run up and down at the back, on a double track secondary line. There is a goods loop, and a line down to a headshunt which serves as an exchange with the industries and the private line below that.

The period is late 1960s, so there are steam engines and green/blue diesels, and the location is definitely up north, somewhere Pennine, maybe Lancashire or Yorkshire, or a bit of both. I like to keep things deliberately vague, so that no-one can say ‘it wasn’t like that’. The track is P4 built from C&L components, and can be run with DC or DCC with sound. There is a wide variety of stock from the Midland and Eastern Regions, from off-the-shelf to kit-built, but always detailed where possible, and extensively weathered. There are now fully working semaphore signals, powered by Tortoise motors, as are all the points.

Layout 7:

Outwell Village

OO gauge BR(E) 1950s-1960s

Outwell Village is a ‘OO’ gauge layout built to finescale standards. Track is SMP code 75 with hand built points. It depicts the largest depot on the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway. The period is post Second World War, although this can be stretched to some 20 years as little changed in that time.

Motive power is what could have been seen running on the tramway: Y6 and J70 trams, Sentinels and O4 diesels. They are a mixture of scratch built, kits or ready to run. All buildings are scratch built using Plasticard and are buildings that once stood around the depot, many of which can still be seen to this day.

Layout 8:

North Cornwall Brewery

OO gauge BR(S) 1960s and Industrial

The North Cornwall Brewery is a fictitious industrial line situated near Camelford in Cornwall and feeding off the line to Padstow. It is set in the 1960s, not long before the North Cornwall line was closed, leaving this part of the country without any railways at all. The brewery is in full production with both bitters and lagers being shipped in kegs, barrels and bottles on both rail and road transport.

The layout is to 4mm scale on Peco Code 75 track, although as virtually all of it is inset, it is difficult to see anything but the rail head. All the buildings are scratch built and include both the factory complex and the adjoining village of Knights Hill. They are all based on real examples from around the country. But the real question that everyone wants to know the answer to, is why have the Police stopped that Land Rover? Only one person has ever guessed the correct answer.

Layout 9:

Burdock

N gauge

Burdock is a fictional village supposedly along the Golden Valley line between Swindon and Stroud. The name is borrowed from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee, which was set not far away in the Slad Valley. Burdock was Rosie’s surname. The station is not based on anywhere specific but it is hoped the layout conveys something of the flavour of this picturesque line. The imaginary history supposes that the station began life as a halt, but following demands locally for better facilities, a new station was built at the same time as the conversion from broad gauge in 1872. Nothing much changed in the intervening years until we reach the period depicted, summer 1964, just a few months before most of the stations along the line were closed.

The layout is a 12ft x 3ft “roundy roundy” with a fiddle yard that holds 16 scale length trains. The viewing side features the station set in a steep wooded valley with hundreds (literally) of hand made trees. Traffic is typical of that which would be seen at that time, although various prototype, experimental or proposed locomotives will also feature, many scratch built.

Layout 10:

Market Bosworth

P4 LNWR & MR 1907-1909

Market Bosworth railway station was a former stop on the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway, who jointly owned and operated the line between Moira West Junction and Nuneaton as the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway. A branch line also existed from Shackerstone to Coalville. The substantial goods shed was the centre for the majority of incoming/outgoing goods traffic for the whole area. There was a small gas works on the opposite side of Station Road. For operational interest we have assumed it was supplied by rail with the station down sidings used for exchange of gas works traffic. Coal from local collieries was also marshalled at the station for onward shipment South. The model is a representation of the station and goods yard in the period 1907 to 1909.

Layout 11:

Fornham Lane

00 gauge BR(S) 1980s-90s

Fornham Lane TMD is a diesel depot set in South London somewhere near Clapham Junction. The layout is focussed mainly on the Network South East era of British Rail (1980s-1990s) whilst also showing the looming shadow of privatisation and the birth of South West Trains. The layout's main focal point is its typical grimy atmosphere with all stock appropriately weathered too.

Layout 12:

Obbekaer

P87 (finescale HO)

Rural Danish line 1950s-60s

Obbekær is unashamedly experimental. After many years of modelling a British subject in P4, I wanted a new challenge, and found it in P87 (finescale HO) modelling, this time with a Danish prototype. Why Danish? Well it has a lot to do with the fact that my home town of Ely is twinned with Ribe in Denmark, so we have been frequent visitors over the years. The project has involved designing parts and processes for making track, rolling stock and buildings, and Obbekær is the test bed for all of them.

The real location is a village just east of Ribe, and the assumption is that a private railway typical of rural Denmark linked Ribe on the west coast of Jutland with Vojens to the east. Such a line was actually planned in the 1920s, as southern Jutland was returned to Danish rule, but it was never built.

The layout shows Obbekaer as a sleepy rural station woken several times a day by the passage of a railbus or mixed train, and hopefully it's a lifelike portrayal of many similar locations in Denmark in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. The trains are typical of branch line formations on both the private lines and the state railway (DSB) in Jutland, and are either scratchbuilt or heavily modified commercial products. With the layout now completed, the focus in the last couple of years has been on the creation of a wider range of rolling stock.

The project has been helped by significant research and historical information provided by friends in the Ribe Model Railway Club. The layout has appeared at exhibitions in Holland and Denmark, as well as the UK and has been featured in the model press in those countries, plus Norway. Above all, this project has shown that principles and techniques developed for P4 modelling can be successfully applied to P87, and the whole process has been a hugely rewarding one.

Layout 13:

Providence Colliery

OO Gauge BR(W) and Industrial 1950s

Coal has been mined in the Forest of Dean since before Roman times. By 1787 there were 121 small coal mines in the forest, and by 1841 over 145,000 tonnes of coal was being produced annually. After Nationalisation in 1947 the National Coal Board took over the larger collieries.

Providence Colliery is based upon several of those collieries in the Forest of Dean and it represents a drift mine coal loading area during the 1950s.

Pictures are credited to Chris Nevard

Layout 14:

Torreybridge

OO Gauge BR(W) 1950s

Torreybridge is situated on the former North Devonshire line from Torreycombe to Barnstaple. It was built with the intention of capturing some of the north Devon holiday traffic, sadly it never really materialised and the line mainly depends on freight for its existence. The period set is 1948- mid fifties.

Layout 15:

Ullapool

O Gauge Scotland 1980s

Ullapool imagines what might have been if the proposed Garve–Ullapool railway had been completed and extended on to Lochinver, set firmly in the mid-1980s. The station is loosely inspired by Ian Futers’ classic Lochside and built in traditional fashion with ply tops and timber sides. Track is Peco bullhead, with all points and Absolute Aspects signals worked from the box. Control is DCC via NCE, with three ProtoThrottles providing realistic locomotive handling. Services include three-four coach trains from Inverness, the Lochinver branch shuttle, a London sleeper, and a variety of freight, parcels, and excursion workings. Operational highlights are the flows of Lochinver Fishing Fleet Fuel (LFFF) tanks, conveyed on the rear of passenger trains, and Interfrigo fish vans, tripped forward to Lochinver. Scenery is deliberately simple but atmospheric, with muted tones, rocky ground, and bursts of yellow gorse suggesting the Highlands. Designed for exhibition running, the golden rule of Ullapool is simple: keep things moving — so you can always expect plenty to see.

Layout 16:

Durston

OO Gauge GWR 1936

It’s 1936 and on the outskirts of the small town of Durston a train pulls into the GWR station, situated on a single line cross country route from the South West to the heart of the Cotswolds. A few passengers alight and cross to the bay platform where the local service to Hemsby waits. A freight bound for Avonmouth slowly passes in the other direction as a pannier tank shunts wagons into the goods shed. Having received clearance to proceed the stopping service continues its journey towards Stow, to be followed by the branch autotrain.

None of this actually happened, only existing in this model created to celebrate the golden age of the GWR. Stock items are a mixture of detailed or modified RTR and kit built, all representing what could have been seen in the Bristol area in the mid-thirties. Trackwork is SMP code 75 with matching pointwork by Marcway. Structures are a mixture of scratchbuilt (some based on actual buildings) or suitable kits. The greenery consists of static grass and Woodland Scenics scatters and foliage.

Layout 17:

St Kenvince

OO Gauge 1990s-2000s Western

St Kenvince depicts a fictional section of the Cornish main line in the Sectorisation period of British Rail. The setting was loosely inspired by Burngullow, where the main line passes immediately in front of the clay works. The clay sidings, freight reception road and the dries building are the only remnants of the former layout.

Baseboards are made from 9mm plywood tops, framed with 18mmx44mm timber. And the layout is DCC controlled using a Lenz system. Most of the buildings and structures are scratch built, and scenic items have been used from Peco, Woodland Scenics, Javis, & Ten Commandments. Road vehicles are all by Oxford Diecast. Rolling stock is all RTR from the main manufacturers. Kadee couplings are used on the freight trains allowing for hands free shunting, whereas the passenger rakes are all fitted with magnetic couplings from West Hill Wagon Works. The trains running depict those typical of the time including loco hauled passenger, TPO & Parcels, Speedlink Freight and the crossover between first and second generation DMU’s.

Layout 18:

Yard No. 2

P4

Historic maps and photographs indicate that many railways had facilities on other company routes. This layout contains a small warehouse and goods yard operated by the London & North Western Railway and the later equivalents fronted by a branch line operated by another company. The branch is in this case from the main line left as it is viewed and leading to somewhere else. The buildings are selected from various locations but it is hoped they appear appropriate to the location. The large warehouse is a shortened and simplified version of the LNWR one at Heaton Norris with its accumulator relocated and with less wagon turntables. The five storey residential tenement whilst similar to those in London is from Weston-super-Mare! The semi-detached houses are based upon a London building as is the Jubilee Mansions maisonette block. Operation can cover different eras and regions. By selecting the stock and road vehicles etc. the scene can be amended. Stock and vehicles from an earlier period often lasted into subsequent times and ensuring anything newer arrives some consistency will prevail. Eras can vary from GWR from around 1925, LNER circa1937 and BR (Eastern Region) at 1955.

Layout 19:

Wood Street

O Gauge

Wood Street is a minimum space Industrial Layout inspired by typical urban shunting yards that could be found in many towns and cities in England. The time frame is deliberately flexible to facilitate the use of different members’ stock. A variety of small tank engines and diesel shunters can usually be seen in operation on the layout, with a wide selection of rolling stock.

Structures and buildings are largely freelance although the layout Wood Street is partly derived from a road in the Old Town area of Swindon. Old Town had rail access until the early 1970’s.

Track work on the layout including the four points, are all PECO. No automated coupling system is used – instead shunting is reliant upon manual coupling of traditional 3 links.

Layout 20:

Lintor Town

OO Gauge 1920s GWR

Lintor Town is a GWR branch line terminus somewhere in the West Country, which supports the local farming community as well as the town and environs of Lintor. The date is based on the early 1920’s, just about the time prior to the “Grouping” of 1923. The layout is digitally controlled including all Locos, Points, Signals, and the Turntable. The only exception is the Uncoupling system, which is controlled by Electro-magnets strategically placed on the layout.

Layout 21:

Roxby Town

N Gauge 2000s-Present Day

There is a Roxby in real life, but it isn’t a town but a small hamlet just north of Scunthorpe. There is a railway line which was used for the transportation of waste from the Greater Manchester area to Roxby Gullet, a former ironstone quarry adjacent to the northern extension of the Lincoln Edge.

At shows, the flexibility of the storage yards and the straightforward nature of the analogue control allow operators to run an intensive timetable; no waiting for train movements on this layout. Our main aim is to entertain the public and keeping things moving has been our trademark at exhibitions. A huge amount of stock is required to operate the layout with locomotive types including classes 37, 47, 57, 58, 60, 66, 67, 68 and 70. Second generation DMUs are also much in evidence with classes 142, 153, 156, 158 and 170 all operating on the layout. Rounding things off are Voyagers in Virgin and Cross Country colours along with a number of HST sets. On the freight side, there over 350 wagons with 99% of the stock weathered to some degree. On the scenic side of the layout, the town scene has been completely revamped, with a copy of the old tax office and employment centre in Scunthorpe created for it. It then continues to a disused power station and industrial units before coming to a freight yard surrounded by autumnal trees. The railway itself is split between two levels – the main lines on the highest level and a large maintenance depot on the lower level.

Photos copyright Mike Wild/Hornby

Layout 22:

Tan-Y-Bwlch

OO9

Tan-y-Bwlch Station is the half-way point on the Ffestiniog Railway’s route between Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog. During the year, the railway organizes a number of special events, and in recent years, in early October, there has been a “Bygones Weekend”. Many special trains run, including gravity slate trains, demonstration goods trains, and passenger trains which feature many of the railway’s heritage coaching stock. This model features such a weekend at Tan-y-Bwlch Station.

Whilst the model is not accurate in every little detail, it is hoped that those who are familiar with the station, will immediately recognize the key features and the surrounding scenery. The familiar S-shaped tracks that run through the station have had to be ‘flattened out’ somewhat to fit the track-plan into the space available

Some of the locos and rolling stock are ready-to-run from manufacturers including Bachmann, Heljan, Kato and Peco. Other coaches and wagons are kit-built using either brass, plastic or 3D printed parts. The diesel loco “Harlech Castle” was built from a kit from Fourdees and runs on a Graham Farish 08 diesel chassis. All the locos are sound-fitted and are operated using DCC. Some of the buildings have been scratch-built using plastic sheets and detailing parts, whilst others use 3D prints from MS Models. Most of the trees have been constructed from Woodland Scenics materials, and others have been purchased online from the 4D Model Shop, the Model Tree Shop, K & M Trees, and from Primo Trees.

Layout 23:

Lochgorm

OO Gauge BR(ScR) 1960s

Lochgorm portrays a small terminus set in the North East of Scotland. As with many layouts, it doesn’t follow a strict prototype but does its best to convey the feel and atmosphere of the area. The layout is set in the early 1960s, a time when the northern part of Scotland was fully dieselised. Trains seen include local passenger, longer distance passenger and freight, including fish.

The layout has an interesting history having started life as an HO layout set in East Germany under the name of Neuburg. For several years it was had thought of rebranding it as the trackplan was suitable and all that was needed was the courage to send the demolition crew in and remove the buildings and signals, plus anything else that might betray the new setting.

Layout 24:

Elms Engineering

O Gauge BR 1986 to 1993

Elms Engineering is set in British Rail’s sector era between 1986 and 1993, based around an engineering works. Set in no particular region, all classes of locos and rolling stock turn up, but the layout has periods with a theme which include RTC, military, breakdown trains and a major repair shop for damaged rolling stock. Elms Engineering offers a wide insight into this period of British Rail.

Layout 25:

Welby Lane R.T.C.

OO Gauge BR 1970s

During the early 1970’s it was recognized at the Derby R.T.C that they required more extensive testing facilities with the oncoming projects of the H.S.D.T and A.P.T-E .Therefore a former disused quarry line on the Old Dalby spur near Melton Mowbray was identified , to provide additional storage and test facilities along with a small maintenance area. Although this area still survives it is now a business park and has lost its rail connection. Welby Lane can be seen here on a busy testing day with many of the department’s strange and odd looking vehicles being used on various test trains.

Many items are adapted RTR, kit or scratch built. All locomotives are sound fitted and detailed. Kadee couplings are used throughout the fleet. Many of the buildings and structures on the layout are representations of actual ones on both the Mickleover and Old Dalby test tracks and also at the Derby R.T.C.

Exhibition running sessions start in the early 1970’s and end later in the day in the late 1980’s where our time machine ends! Please feel free to ask any of the operating team questions and they will do their best to answer them!

Layout 26:

Penrhyn Quarries

10mm/ft on O-16.5 track

Penrhyn Quarries layout captures Welsh slate quarry workings in an impressive 10mm scale. The layout is set on narrow gauge O16.5 track, features slate buildings inspired by the historic Caernarvonshire railways, mostly from Llanberis. A striking winter scene includes a track running past a frozen waterfall and through snow-covered landscape. All buildings, locos and rolling stock are scratch-built.

Layout 27:

Bristol Avon Bridge

OO Gauge BR(W) 1970s

Set during the late 1960s-early 1970s Bristol Avon Bridge lets you watch the end of the diesel hydraulic era on British Rail’s Western Region, with a mix of the fast disappearing hydraulic traction, alongside HST’s, or short lived Pullman units.

Watch them accelerate out of Bristol towards London, and then see local trains from South Wales, the southwest, or Portsmouth pulling into platform 5, some reversing, some just pausing on their travels. As the day moves into the evening more Mail and Parcels traffic is seen arriving and dividing. As night heads into the small hours so the newspapers arrive in a ragtag of stock pressed into service. You will find a huge range of locos as many classes passed through or terminated from the North and east. A number of locos will often be seen idling on the avoiding lines waiting their turn, having just been fuelled at Bath Rd Depot, just off scene. The station is scratch built from the Post Office chain conveyor, through the new train shed to Bath Road bridge in the South.

Layout 27a:

Acacia (Goods)

O Gauge BR 1970s-1980s

Acacia (Goods) represents a small goods yard on the edge of a small town, struggling to survive, but slowing being taken over by the permanent way department. Based in the late 70’s / early 80’s, its traffic is typically 03 or 08 shunters bringing in two or three wagons to shunt, and later periods being represented with various small permanent way wagons. The small fiddle yard is integral with the main layout with the whole front of the layout being scenic. It is operated with MERG DCC equipment with DCC operated points.

Layout 28:

Leicester Junction

OO Gauge BR(M) 1980s

Set in the centre of the Midlands, Leicester Junction (or Burton Leicester Junction as it appears in timetables) is closely based on a real location which is just to the south of Burton on Trent station on a busy cross-country route. It is set firmly in the mid 1980s and recalls the carefree days of youth, when loco hauled passenger trains would regularly thunder by enroute to the south west or to the north east. In addition the, by then, freight only line to Coalville and Leicester branches off, serving many of the East Midlands collieries and the nearby Drakelow Power Station. Trains on the layout therefore vary from a variety of blue diesels and HST’s to the early stages of sectorisation with Railfreight and Intercity colours. The occasional steam special may also put in an appearance.

The layout is OO gauge with Code 75 track, fully signalled as per the prototype and operated by DCC. It’s a solo project that has taken over 5 years to construct and most of the buildings are scratch-built, carefully researched from old photographs of the originals using a variety of techniques. A ‘time machine’ type layout where hopefully you’ll enjoy watching the trains go by too!

Layout 29:

Redbridge Wharf

OO Gauge BR(S) 1960s on

Redbridge Wharf depicts a layout based on the area of Redbridge, Hampshire. The station was opened in 1847 by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and became a junction in 1865 when the “Sprat and Winkle” line opened to Romsey and Andover. The large area of drained marshland between the wharf and station was used as a holding area for materials. This then became the sleeper works including the manufacture of sleepers, bridge timbers and cast track components. In the final years of operation, the site was used for the assembly of long welded rail sections and the laying out of large point work complexes.

The focus of the layout is the wharf, with the works behind, and Redbridge station and junction to the rear. On the layout can be seen numerous piles of timber sleepers and a barge; the river itself with salt marshes, mudflats, water and the causeway - the timber pond; the foundry and associated buildings connected with track building. The new rail causeway, the lack of the last road bridge, and the laying of third rail sets 1965 as the earliest possible operating date, offering operating flexibility from late steam through to modern image.

Images copyright Hornby Hornby Magazine

Layout 30:

Woodhead

N Gauge

The layout Woodhead represents the western approaches to the 3 mile Woodhead tunnel on the Sheffield to Manchester former Great Central line between 1954 to its closure in 1981. A pioneering electrified line most trains are hauled by class 76(EM1) or class 77 (EM2).

Scenery is made by expanded polystyrene covered with Woodland scenics scatter, rock faces made from plaster of Paris poured into moulds. Buildings are scratchbuilt, the catenary is made from brass sections and 0.3mm wire.