Over the years the Market Deeping Model Railway Club and its members have produced a huge variety of model railway layouts in many scales. Here is a description of some of them: as time goes by we hope to list all the current layouts here, and some of the more interesting ones which are no longer with us.
Amberdale
Originally built as a project for British Railway modelling, this fine-scale 00 Gauge model railway depicts a typical, but fictitious, Derbyshire village station on a single-track secondary route which sees a wide variety of passenger and freight workings in the 1960s, with both steam and diesel traction. There are many scenic cameos to hold the viewer’s attention between trains!


Woodcroft
Built by late member David Smith, Woodcroft has been in the care of the club for several years and was a survivor of the vandalism to our 2019 Stamford Model Railway Show. It is in EM Gauge and features hand-built locomotives and rolling stock from the pre-grouping era. It is a fictitious single-track station in the Peterborough area and includes a small brickworks typical of the area as well as general goods yard and a small passenger station in the Great Northern style. Full of character and nicely modelled, this layout has been popular at exhibition but is now past its best and is unfortunately unlikely to be shown again.


Holcombe Beach
Built as a project for British Railway Modelling, this TT120 gauge layout incorporates a number of experimental techniques and has been very popular at exhibitions. It is a simple continuous run with a small set of hidden loops and runs a limited range of the Hornby TT120 modern image trains currently available. But the scenery, based on the Devon cliffs between Dawlish and Teignmouth, is stunning, and visitors love the long trains with digital sound.
Mitchell Junction
A OO gauge digitally-controlled modern image layout built specifically for public operation at exhibitions. Simple, with two OO gauge continuous runs, a shunting yard and a narrow gauge circuit in the centre, children (and adults!) will have plenty to do and can enjoy the sight and sounds of modern diesel and electric traction under their own control. The video here shows the layout under construction at our clubroom, with a preserved A4 steam locomotive under test.
Wipton
This layout has been adapted by some of our younger members, with some help from those with more experience, from a donated N gauge layout. The name started as “Work In Progress” and sort of stuck when a name was needed for the layout’s first outing!



Canons Cross
Canons Cross has at times been an exhibition mainstay for the club, presenting an entertaining mix of trains for the public. It was built as a project for British Railway Modelling and represents a small terminus in London on the Southern Region of British Railways with a mix of electric units and s handful of steam trains. Of particular interest is the working turntable which enables us to show an express passenger train arriving and the locomotive being taken to be fuelled and turned before returning to take the train out.

Canons Cross was pressed into service in a short film, Dream Big, by Pip Swallow, supported by the British Film Institute, and an extension to the scenic area was built especially for the film, featuring a street scene closely based on the real location in which much of the film was shot. A house fire had to be recreated for the film, all a challenge, and all good fun!