Southern Region
VIDEO: The Hornby Magazine Show | August 2020
Available now is our monthly feature video from the Hornby Magazine team - the Hornby Magazine Show. This month the 50 minute programme focuses on a full tour of our 'OO' gauge Southern Region layout Twelve Trees Junction, a visit to the Statfold Barn Railway and more.
Wimborne, 'OO', BR (SR) 1958
Wimborne represents a once-busy BR Southern Region junction in 'OO' finescale.
Portsea, 3mm, BR (SR) 1950s/1960s
Portsea is set on BR's Southern Region in the 1950s and 1960s and features third-rail Southern Electric and steam operation, based on the railway infrastructure in and around Portsmouth on the South Coast.
KR Models plan Leader and DHP1!
KR Models has revealed bold plans to develop two historic prototype locomotives for 'OO' gauge - Bulleid's radical vision for the future of steam design - Leader - and Clayton's experimental Rolls Royce engined diesel-hydraulic DHP1.
Bath Green Park at home
Taunton Model Railway Group is best known for its spectacular model of Bath Green Park which will be attending Hornby Magazine’s Great Electric Train Show. However, as DAVID BUTCHER explains, at its home base at Bishops Lydeard it forms part of a complete railway system... Photography, Trevor Jones.
Tonbridge West Yard
This inspirational ‘OO’ Southern electric layout was a popular exhibit of the 1990s and early 2000s show circuit. After a lengthy absence from the public eye, PAUL WADE reveals the story behind this fabulous layout, and of its recent and warmly welcomed revival. Photography, Trevor Jones.
BRADWELL POINT
Nuclear flask traffic is one of the railway’s more unusual loads. MARCUS LAMBERT created a stunning terminal in ‘OO’ to showcase the operation in the eras just before and after privatisation. Photography, Trevor Jones.
Churminster and Stowe Magna, Southern Railway
The Southern Railway in the final decade before nationalisation is the setting for TONY TEAGUE’S huge 32ft long ‘OO’ gauge layout. In this introduction he reveals the first completed sections of his lifetime project. Photography, Trevor Jones.