700 Posts- Layouts over the years in 3mm & 4mm scale, 009 Narrow Gauge, HO Trams and 0 Gauge.

               3mm scale Teignford- has appeared in Railway Modeller and at Warley- shows station.

                Quarry Siding is a minimum space 009 layout built by Paul Levy on a cable drum.

Hillbrow is my first 009 build. This one also appeared in the Railway Modeller but the ticket collector     was still upright!

      RAF St Misrah is 21 x 24 inches and this one appeared in both Railway Modeller and 009 News.

My only foray into 0 Gauge is Cringle Street Goods. Imagined in South London it is an exercise in how small I could make a workable 0 Gauge layout. Since relocated to a new home.

This is Woody lane. It is a continuous circuit 009 layout based on nowhere in particular but uses the smaller stock in my collection.

Gwartha Vellan Tramway ( Cornish for Higher Mill) is the latest 009 layout. Based in Cornwall it is really an excuse to run my Lynton and Barnstable Manning Wardles. Baseboards are from Norfolk Heath Works and is in five fifteen inch modules

Two pics of St Mewan a Cornish layout in 4mm. The layout is 7ft long by 8inches deep with a 10inch extension to the fiddle yard. This is still under construction as is Gwartha Vellan.

Cody Street is a simple oval operating motorised Atlas Editions HO trams. Petite Properties low relief building kits have been used throughout- named after my youngest grandson.

Lastly is Hennock which was my first 3mm scale layout. This one has also been published in Railway Modeller and also appeared at Warley. This picture appeared in Railway Modeller in an article about portable layouts.

3mm Hennock confirmed for Portsmouth

After a while, Hennock is on the road again- this time to the Portsmouth Railex- see above.

3mm Scale - Hennock.

Hennock has been booked for a couple of exhibitions this year and I realised that I had no pictures saved in my files. So I have picked these from the old Dorset 3mm blog. below are some images from several years ago. Have a look at the pages section to view the old blog.

3mm Hennock shown in PECO Great Model Railway Challenge Magazine.

A 3mm friend, Chris Ketley, alerted me to the fact that Hennock was shown inside the Channel 5 accompanying bookazine GMRC.

Sure enough Hennock is shown on page 47 of the magazine which looks at locations and types of layout which may be suitable for home use.

Correctly described, I am really chuffed for Hennock to be selected to demonstrate portable layouts.

Quite appropriate really as Hennock has been invited to the Portsmouth MRE next year - the first in ages.

3mm scale Lowfit, Fencehouse chassis and modified couplings.

 Many moons ago the 3mm Society had a 50% sale of selected wagon kits. For some reason unknown to me, possibly alcohol related, I purchased several including four Lowfits.
Over time I rounded up the necessary Fencehouses chassis and batch built three of the bodies. One ,however, isn't quite square so will probably be substituted for the spare body sometime.
The transfers are from old Woodhead sheets- the best in my opinion, and other sheets I had lying around. What a pain to apply these to three wagons!!
Anyway, I have modified my usual couplings, the etch by Worsley Works, to be operated by magnets. The lower picture shows the high tech method which has been adopted- and it works. Hopefully the loco pickups wont be affected as they are periodically on Hennock and Teignford.

Hennock goods arrival-3mm Scale.

Busy day in the Hennock goods yard. A road roller has arrived to carry out some much needed road surgery to the localarea.
The roller and Morris 8 are both 3mm Society kits whilst the 6 wheeler is from Worsley Works.

Hennock at Romsey MRE March 2017. 3MM Scale.

    A few images of my 3mm layout, Hennock, at the recent Romsey Model Railway Exhibition.

 The signal box with the signalman's dog waiting patiently for his master.

 Prairie tank arrives with  the local 'B' Set.

 The local bus is ahead of schedule so the driver has a quick breather and a chat with his passenger.

 Lane rage!
It seems the tractor driver is not for turning- must be a conservative?

A steamroller arrives on a Lowmac-