The inspiration for the layout - Jim Peden's photograph showing the MDHB shed, the Riverside Branch, the Waterloo Corn Warehouse, Bibby's, a transit shed, Princes Half Tide Dock and the MDHB lines. (Picture taken after demolition of the LOR, which ran between the shed and the dock wall). Where else could you see short BR freight and passenger trains running on an extensive industrial system, with a unique elevated electric railway which was not nationalised?