THE LAYOUTS OF THE
All of our layouts so far have been based on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, at the beginning of the 20th century. This is superb period for modelling the 'Brighton' - at its height, with a wide mix of loco and stock liveries.
West Chiltington was our first real attempt (an earlier layout called Exceat was scrapped before completion). This was a very simple layout featuring a through country station, based on a prototypical track plan, and incorporating models of real 'Brighton' structures. It has now been retired, and given a new lease of life as a modern image layout
Pulborough is a real place in the heart of rural West Sussex, modelled as accurately as we can. The track plan is based on a 40ft:1in plan, kindly provided by British Rail. (Could or would Network Rail be so obliging?) The station is modelled true to scale, and features as many real structures as possible, based on what remains today, and a considerable number of photographs.
Brighton Road takes us to inner London, to an as-yet undetermined location, to give us the opportunity to model an urban setting.
Burpham has now been broken up, and the track has been sold.
Over the years we have exhibited our layouts at many British exhibitions, and have taken Pulborough to the continent on three occasions (Argentan, Orleans and Utrecht). Pulborough has twice won both Scalefour and Scalefour North 'best layout' awards in the same year, and also won best layout trophy at expoEM in 1995. West Chiltington won best layout award at expoEM South in the same year.
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