Calling all train enthusiasts, families, and curious minds!
Join us for our fun-filled Model Railway Club Open Day where miniature worlds come to life. Whether you’re a seasoned modeller or just love the magic of model trains, there’s something for everyone!
Saturday 25 October 2025
1030-1530 hours.
Admission: Free
Layouts in both the Chantry Centre garden, and in the club itself.
Unit 20, The Chantry Centre, Chantry Street, Andover, Hampshire SP10 1RL
Woodend is a fictional OO gauge 4mm layout utilising Peco code 75 fineScale track throughout. It depicts a countryside landscape with a track plan that snakes through a valley.
The layout was envisaged as a club layout which would allow all club members the opportunity to see their models operate through a landscape that the originals spent most of their time, compared with the usual station/industrial scene that many layouts follow.
Like many railway clubs, our members’ interests are varied and on a running night, models of ‘The Big Four’ can be seen running alongside BR and American modern image. It is able to run DC and DCC at the same time. However, for exhibitions, the layout runs as WoodEnd Sawmill DCC, is situated somewhere in the north west of England set in the 1940’s.
It sits alongside a double track mainline of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company. The sawmill expanded a number of times during the late 1800/early 1900’s and uses both reciprocating and rotating saws to produce its products.
Following completion of a high fidelity OO layout and also a N gauge layout, we have recently embarked on an innovative new layout comprising both gauges.
We have just completed the baseboards and bus wiring. Next up is track laying, more wiring and scenics. On one side of the layout there will be a depiction of the village and station of Wherwell, Hampshire set in the 1950s. Whilst on the other side is more in our imagination, compriding a modern day mainline station with a preserved steam railway alongside.
This combined layout will be called Wherwell and Barton upon Avon reflecting the two dimensions just outlined. We are using the end pieces of the oval to depict a wide variety of engaging cameos too.
