Gauge: OO Gauge

Size: 12ft x 8ft

Power: One 13 amp standard wall socket.

Staffing: 2 operators (minimum), who will transport the layout in a car.

Description

SR/BR Southern Region - 1940s/1950s. TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE. Club Members Layout.

Notes

Southern Railway/BR Southern Region - 1940s-1950s.

This layout is a small Southern branch terminus loosely based on aspects of the Hawkhurst Branch Line and the Kent & East Sussex Railway, with a goods and engine serving facilities. It was known as a hop-pickers line, so the layout contains a small oast house and part of a hopfield. Trains include hop picking specials that used to bring the pickers down to Kent from London for the annual hop picking season, which for many people was their annual holiday and enabled them to earn some money. The layout can be run on either DCC or DC but not together at once.

There is a small engine shed with coaling and water facilities. There is also a grounded coach body which serves as a mess-room. The station lighting fully works using Gaugemaster gas lights which look really nice when lit. Most of the buildings are scratch-built, the station being a particular favourite. The cattle-dock had to be adapted to fit in the available space. Although being a simple track plan many train movements can be done. The signals are from Dapol which are lit and fully working. They are each fed from a single 9 volt transistor battery.

Including operators’ space (operated from behind).