Portfield '00' gauge 18' x 9' club layout.

It takes four members at a time to operate Portfield. Each session lasts about 90 minutes before a new team takes over.

Behind the scenes it has five storage roads (hidden tracks for holding trains) in both up and down directions, while the paying public sees the main line station, a branch line and dock scene for shunting.
Portfield needs 15 locomotives to operate it successfully; elegant Bulleid pacific (4-6-2 wheel arrangement) Battle of Britain, West Country and the heavier Merchant Navy class engines, tanks engines like the Drummond M7s that did such sterling work on the Ringwood, Lymington and numerous other branch lines in the south, and others too numerous to mention.
Portfield is stored safely away, but is ready to roll at at any time.

Wessex Model Railway

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    Best Layout 1989