Another wander down memory lane for the club, and yet another video. This time I introduce Woodchurch, our 0 gauge layout, set on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line.

Construction started on this layout a good few years ago, with it finally making its debut at the Midhurst show back in 2005. There was one subsequent outing in the October of that year before the layout was put into storage, where it has remained ever since...we have no room to assemble it as it is about 40' in length...moves to reuse the boards for a nice N gauge layout have been resisted - imagine a 40' long N gauge layout. B)

The track work was all PECO and most of the structures (if memory serves me right) are scratch built. There is the usual station building, signal box and good shed, as well as the addition of an engine shed. There was still an amount of work to complete on here.

There are only a couple of photographs of this layout sadly, however a number of video clips I have show an austerity tank (not sure they went anywhere near the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton!), an ex SECR H15 in BR livery (likewise) a FR 0-4-4 tank, a G6, an O2 (featured in this video) and a rather lovely Q1 (seen in the background of the video).

Unfortunately, it is unlikely that this layout will be used again...it is really too big for the club. However I thought it might be nice to share this with a wider audience that won't get a chance to see it in the flesh.