Worthing Model Railway Club Holds Annual Exhibition

January 30, 2006

The Worthing Model Railway Club (formed in 1964) holds an annual exhibition with the 2006 event planned for September at the Boundstone Community College, West Sussex, UK.

The model railway club has several layouts including:

WITTS END (available for exhibitions)

GAUGE: 0-16.5
STOCK: Scratch built
PROTOTYPE: Narrow gauge
DESCRIPTION: Country terminus with limited goods facilities and a small loco shed
SIZE: 16′ x 18ins (20′ x 6′ to include safety barriers and maintenance area.

WELLS GREEN TMD (available for exhibitions)

GAUGE: OO 4mm
STOCK: Highly detailed 4mm scale locomotives.
PROTOTYPE: Crewe International Electric Maintenance Depot.
DESCRIPTION: A small electric depot based upon current EWS operations in the North West, featuring highly detailed AC electric locomotives in an authentic grimy, gritty atmosphere. The depot concentrates on undertaking routine maintenance to locos, and includes a locomotive washer, and a scrapline containing electric locomotives surplus to EWS’s requirements. A fueling road for diesel locomotives also enables many different varieties of loco to appear.
SIZE: 5′ x 1′ plus 3′ x 1’6″ fiddle yard.

NINE MILLS
(pictured: Fiddle Yard construction)
GAUGE: N Gauge 9mm
STOCK: Ready to run, modified ready to run and kit built.
PROTOTYPE: See description for full details.
DESCRIPTION: It is an N gauge layout built to 9mm gauge and features handbuilt points in the main viewing area, although for ease of maintenance, it is planned to replace these with proprietry units at some stage in the future.

It is a ficticious MPD located in the Banbury, Oxfordshire area which gives members the excuse to run Midland, Western and BR Standard rolling stock as well as Inter-Regional trains from the Southern and Eastern regions. In other words, something for everyone.

The period of this layout is depicted as being in the early post-nationalisation era when rolling stock of the “Big Four” (LMS, GWR, SR and LNER) could be seen alongside the new BR colour schemes.

The layout, as it stands, may be operated in its present state although future plans will enable this layout to be shown in its present form or as a continuous run. The estimated date for the continuous run is 2005, unfortunately, the rebuilding is at a stage where we cannot now show the original layout.

SIZE: Approx 20′ x 2′ (undergoing upgrade to new size 20′ x 8′)

NORTHLANDS WOOD

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 a wide varity of motive power may be seen.
SIZE: 12′ x 14′

The Worthing Model Railway Club has an informative website that is well worth visiting.