Some of you will have seen my Introduce Yourself post as I just joined the group at the weekend. I’m working on a two-level shelf layout that is running along a wall in my garage. Eventually the upper level will loosely represent the route of the Brighton Belle, the only electric Pullman service that ran between Brighton and London Victoria until 1972. I have the 1934 Southern Railway stock - one set from Hornby and two examples of the rarer and older Wrenn 3006/7 produced in the 80s and early 90s. The layout will have a Sussex terminus at one end and a London terminus at the other. Currently I’m completing a London suburban section, and adding a mid-Sussex country station. These make use of card kits for the shops and station buildings, some are just downloads and others like the cinema are Metcalfe kits. The London terminus will be made from a Superquick A10 kit which I’m currently building. On the lower level is a London Underground deep level tube station with two platforms and an interchange lobby, all made out of 100mm cardboard postal tubes and interior wall tile paper designs from Mind The Gap. I have the Bachmann 4-car 1938 stock tube train set, which is modelled on a 1960s Northern Line train. I recently obtained a Harrow Models Q Stock kit which I’ve yet to start building. The plan is to add a depot underneath the London terminus station and a disused ‘ghost’ station based on Down Street or Heath Street. I’m reasonably happy with the London suburban scene although it’s very linear and some of the kits are probably a bit anachronistic for the era. I’ve built the tube station twice already and I’m still not happy with it. I have the Mind The Gap paper kits for Down Street and Heath Street so I may model those as stations and decide which looks best. Most underground layouts I’’ve seen have been surface stations - the 1938 stock are ‘tube’ trains so it felt more appropriate to model them in deep level stations. Tips and advice welcome!

Posted by Russell - Belle Epoque MR at 2025-04-10 21:30:54 UTC