Market Deeping Model Railway Club
Layouts
For information concerning availability for exhibition contact one of the following members:
Colin Brown on: 01778 342055
David Gentle on: 01733 262372
Please check the Events page for forthcoming commitments for club layouts.
We have five layouts on the current Exhibition circuit:-
"Compton Park" - FOR SALE!
General description:
A comprehensive imaginary layout set in the heart of Leicestershire and close to a racecourse in 1910-1912.
There are 20 locomotives mostly in the fully lined liveries of the GNR and LNWR with a wide variety of stock,
some of which is scratch built. This is fully detailed and scenically attractive layout featured in the May 1998
and October 2000 editions of British Railway Modelling magazine which has won awards at exhibitions
including ExpoEM. A superb DVD of Compton Park in operation was made available free by application with
the January 2006 edition of British Railway Modelling magazine.
Photo gallery
| Gauge | EM (scale 4mm) |
| Type | fiddle yard to terminus |
| Period represented | c.1910 |
| Companies represented | GNR & LNWR |
| Space required | 9 metres long by 2.5 metres deep |
| Means of transport | Hired van + car |
| No. of operators | 6 |
| Insurance Value | £20,000 |
"Sutterton"
General description:
Sutterton is based on Sutterton & Algarkirk, a through station on the GNR Lincolnshire loop line from
Peterborough to Doncaster via Boston (now closed). The stock run varies from fast excursion trains to local
stopping trains and lengthy goods workings. The layout was featured in British Railway Modelling magazine in
March 2001, and also by Anglia Television in 2002, and has won awards at ExpoEM.
| Gauge | EM (scale 4mm) |
| Type | continuous running |
| Period represented | c.1920 |
| Companies represented | GNR |
| Space required | 10 metres long by 4 metres deep |
| Means of transport | 3 cars |
| No. of operators | 5-6 |
| Insurance Value | £15,000 |
"Willingly"
General description:
The LB&SCR were involved in several plans for a more direct line to Eastbourne and the 'Cuckoo line' despite
its undulating gradients and sharp bends was a possible one of these. It is assumed it was developed and
improved to double track standards. Willingly is a fictitious town along this line, although those who know the
area may recognise a lot of the features of Heathfield in the station buildings, goods yard, and natural gas
supply. The main aim has been to try to catch the atmosphere of the Brighton area in the Sussex Weald in
the period 1905-1914. There are eleven recognisably different trains running on the layout featuring mainly
Mr. Stroudley's "improved engine green" livery for the engines and Mr. Robert Billinton's smart "umber and
white" livery for the coaching stock. It has been exhibited successfully from Great Yarmouth to Brighton.
| Gauge | OO (scale 4mm) |
| Type | continuous running |
| Period represented | 1905-1914 |
| Companies represented | LB&SCR |
| Space required | 6 metres long by 3 metres deep |
| Means of transport | 2 cars |
| No. of operators | 4 |
| Insurance Value | £8,000 |
"Woodcroft"
General description:
Woodcroft is a small through station on an imaginary single-track line built to give access to Stamford from
the GN main line. It's main purpose was to allow for through running of coaches from King's Cross via
Peteborough to Stamford. The station has a single platform and a run round loop for goods trains. A small
brickyard in the vicinity (so typical of the area) with sidings gives much useful goods traffic. For this
exhibition, the layout is operated in the GNR or LNER period.
| Gauge | EM (scale 4mm) |
| Type | fiddle yard to fiddle yard |
| Period represented | 1920-1948 |
| Companies represented | GNR/LNER |
| Space required | 7 metres long by 1 metres deep |
| Means of transport | 2 cars |
| No. of operators | 4 |
| Insurance Value | £8,000 |
"Dundle"
Dundle was built as a fully scenic model railway to provide a "drive a train" facility at the market Deeping Club's annual exhibition and also at the Deeping Show. It has both OO and OO9 track work, and so it can be used by modelers of the latter gauge as a running layout in the clubroom.
The track work was designed as providing both a basic "roundy roundy" together with extra loops and sidings which offer a variety of operation - a simple "once round the track" for the younger or totally inexperienced children, together with something more sophisticated for the more experienced or older children - or even some adults! There is no attempt to model a particular period or company - a "Thomas" train runs in conjunction with a set of GWR clerestory coaches, and a Schools class "Stowe" with an SR three coach set. On the OO9 there are two possible narrow gauge trains. All the stock has been donated by members of the club.
The scenic side is there to fulfill an aim that a model railway layout ought to be a three dimensional landscape (with of course important moving parts!). It needs to provide interest and be sufficiently realistic to convince the viewer. In this case nearly all the buildings have been made from easily built cardboard or plastic kits, and it also has a role of indicating to older children - or their Dads or Mums - the kind of thing that can be achieved without high level skills being required if they wish to develop their toy train set into a scenic model railway.