Cheshire Railway Modellers

Ian is another prolific modeller, he builds G scale micro layouts, as can be seen on his website, and also works in HO and T scales. A few photos are shown here, please note that these are not published under the Creative Commons licence and Ian should be contacted via his website for permission to use the images.

Ian's layouts are designed to be taken to shows and conventions, but he lives in the American Mid-West, so, while Stateside show managers are welcome to email via the usual CRM address for exhibition enquiries, the models are not available for exhibitions in the UK.

In HO scale Ian has Oneota Yard, an industrial switching layout (above) and an Inglenook type layout, Winglett's Recycling (below), which was built in less than a week as described in this weblog.

An early model of an estate railway was Whinny Lane, now retired from the exhibition circuit.

Another agricultural layout is Purespring Watercress (above), this G scale model is inspired by an 18" gauge farm railway in Dorset. Staying with G scale, Wold Farm Mushrooms (below) used N gauge track to represent a 10" gauge line.

The mushroom business was short lived but the watercress farm has become something of an icon with the Gn15 fraternity's GnATTERbox forum and can probably never be retired.

Ian is also experimenting with T-Gauge, these tiny Japanese models run on track just 3mm in gauge!