Model Railways
Southport - Model Railway Village
Since 1996 Southport Model Railway Village has been attracting model train enthusiasts from all over the world. This spectacular Model Village consists of beautiful vistas and fabulous panoramic views of the miniature landscape and Model Trains. Based upon typical southwest Lancashire architecture the layout consists of a country scene, village and town. Movement is generated in the Model Village by one of the largest 45mm garden railway systems in the UK. With Five LGB trains continuously running on 500 metres of track.
Novelty or Oddity
This is a selection from my locos, that I refer to as novelties, although you may think them oddities.
Layouts Update Video December 2014
A photographic update of my OO,HOe,G and Z layouts. - With thanks to Robert Trebec for permission to use his music.
Our Model Narrow Boats
Before the introduction of engines, boats were pulled by horses and sometimes mules or pairs of donkeys. Almost all breeds of horse were used, but large horses were not always suited because of some of the lower bridges on some narrow canals.
Once motor boats were introduced the most common combination of working boats on the canals came to be a pair, a powered motorboat pulling an unpowered buttyboat.