GAUGE: ‘OO’, 16.5mm SCALE: 4mm: 1ft SIZE: 11ft 6in x 2ft 8in REGION: NORTH LONDON PERIOD: 1950s CONTROL: DCC, NCE Powercab
Rossiter Rise is TERRY TEW’S second North London-based ‘OO’ gauge layout. In its debut feature, Terry explains why he decided to build a new layout and why he stayed with the North London theme.
Ex-Metropolitan ‘F’ 0-6-2T L52 stands in the yard with a scratch-built sump wagon while a 1957 BR Class 501 EMU enters the station and a North British Type 1 passes through with a parcels working.
Rossiter Rise is a fictitious through station set somewhere in West/ North West London during the mid-late 1950s.
My previous layout, Earl’s Court, had appeared at almost 50 exhibitions and a new project was beckoning. I had spent a lot of time and effort producing a range of ex-North London Line/Euston-Watford EMUs and these had always been popular at shows and having done so I really wanted to be able to continue running them in a new scenario. In addition I had accumulated a large collection of London Transport items including passenger and engineering stock. I wanted a layout that would allow all this stock to be run alongside and also be able to provide varied and almost continuous movements which paved the way for Ro…
