Whitmoor by the Astolat Model Railway Club, Guildford. An N gauge layout Featured at the Marlow, Maidenhead & District Model Railway Club Annual Winter Show 11 January 2025
Whitmoor is a fictitious layout and named after an area of countryside between Woking and Guildford, which has no railway connection of any kind, but provides an authentic sounding name. Whitmoor is based on one of C.J. Freezer’s schemes from his ‘OO’ booklets
The buildings are a combination of Metcalfe and scratch built. The name of the electronics company in the layout is in memory of one of their late members who did the wiring design and diagrams, but never got to see the finished layout. The thirdrail was a latter addition, made from 2mm finescale rail and a pinned every fifth sleeper fitted just below running rail
The layout has a continuous run, via a fiddle yard, on a double main line through station. Additional terminal platforms at one end of the station are intended for branchline traffic and surburban traffic to the “big city”. The track plan includes a goods yard and locomotive depot and fully automatic turntable. The layout is designed to be operated by 2, 3 or 4 operators. Size is 12′ x 3′ in four 3′ sections, Southern Region rolling stock from 1930 to 2000s with analogue control
Featured in Hornby Magazine December 2020
Astolat Model Railway Club https://astolatmrc.co.uk/
0:00 – Introduction – Whitmoor
0:23 – Horses and Stables
0:37 – War Memorial
0:47 – Whitmoor Vilage Green
1:00 – Whitmoor Shops
1:15 – Timothy Whites
1:27 – Tin Plate Café
1:44 – Tudor House
2:06 – Market Day
2:24 – Fire Appliances
2:36 – The Big House
2:48 – Whitmoor Church
3:06 – Left Portal
3:18 – Left Signal Box
3:35 – Coaling Stage
3:47 – Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb
4:01 – Trackside Huts
4:30 – Wooden Huts
4:47 – Feeder Station
5:02 – Coaling Tower
5:18 – Whitmoor Station
5:33 – People on the Platform
5:51 – Waiting Shelter
6:06 – Platform Toilets
6:20 – Right Signal Box
6:43 – Jephson Electronics
6:53 – Dodds Motor Repairs
7:06 – KN Ottaway Timber
7:24 – Factory
7:40 – Nissen Hut
8:04 – End Titles
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