"Billingborough" (As seen in British Railway Modelling) This 4mm scale layout describes Billingborough in Lincolnshire as it was in the late 1950s and early '60s as remembered from train-spotting days by its designer. I was asked to make the main station building. Billingborough has already been seen at a number of exhibitions.

Horncastle is another 4mm scale Lincolnshire station project soon to be part of an exhibition layout. Although the station was demolished in the early 1980s, this layout supposes that it was still running at that point with limited passenger services and goods trains serving the local mill. I was asked to create lit interiors for the booking hall and the crew room with a kitchen and signing-on point. Click pictures for enlarged versions.

'Firsby Junction' as seen in Railway Magazine Modelling. This is the main station building for a layout describing Firsby Junction, a busy rural station on the old Lincolnshire loop. The layouts designer is building a present day representation as if the line had never closed. In his story the station has recently attracted a Heritage Lottery grant to be restored to it's former GNR glory but incorporating facilities for the 21st century traveller. Therefore the main entrance hall now houses Browsers Book Shop in a retro panelled book stand and the Peppercorn Tea Room. The end pavilion sections of the building have been converted to private houses, hence the plants in the courtyard. The interior is fully detailed and lit. Click photos below for full page close up views. You can find out more about this layout by clicking this link.

As seen in British Railway Modelling Magazine, this layout is set in the 1920s when Etwall station in Derbyshire was part of the Great Northern Railway. The main station building and timber shelter both feature interior and exterior lighting.

"Gosberton Risegate" is the Spalding Model Railway Club's members layout. I was asked to make the main station building, the goods shed (complete with shunting horse), the weigh-bridge hut and stables and the crossing cottages in their garden settings. As a club running layout it has a loose 1940s to 60s time period and all the club members have been encouraged to contribute to the layout's development.

With thanks to Paul Bason for the great photography.

I was asked to model Sutton's Fish & Chip shop in Wainfleet Lincolnshire as a feature piece for a private layout. The shop (below) is in the historic heart of Wainfleet and is distinctive for its immaculate paintwork and summer hanging baskets. They also serve very tasty fish & chips! The 4mm scale model features a lit interior.

 

For some time I have been working on a series of buildings for a large exhibition layout describing Lincoln Central station and its environs as it appeared in the mid 1960s. The layout is still developing but is occasionally exhibited as work-in-progress. The station dates from 1848 when it was built by the Great Northern Railway company to harmonise with its historic surroundings in the centre of the city. I began this project by making the crew accommodation block which stands alongside the main station building. The Great Northern Hotel, demolished in the late '60s, appears in virtually every photograph taken looking west from the station so was a must to include in the layout. The adjacent shops are all based on photographs from the period and represent the businesses which occupied them at the time. The island platform structure features working strip lights, another notable feature from the mid '60s, along with it's "gull wing" canopies. The main station building has changed very little to this day but in our layout still wears the tired colours of its LNER incarnation, although some of the "new" BR blue and orange livery is present in newer additions like the roof top sigh which once set this station apart from Lincoln St Marks a few hundred yards along the road. Every structure has some lit rooms with modelled interiors.

As seen in Railway Modeller 

Voted best layout in show - Bingham Model Railway Club Exhibition 2019