Isle of Thanet Railway Society
© Isle of Thanet Railway Society - Author: Steve Costin IOTRS Secretary
Club Layouts
Lyndenthorpe OO Gauge
Lyndenthorpe is a dual height loop with several branches. Featuring a station,
a signal box, coal yard, turntable, tunnels and fiddle-yard with ramps to change
level in both directions.
Great Ownsley OO Gauge
To encourage children in the hobby we have a small Drive Your Own layout.
This is popular at Ellington Park Ramsgate where there is also a Model
Engineers Club with ride on model trains. Great Ownsley can also be seen at
Broadstairs Model Railway Exhibition which is run by our club.
Members Layouts
High Peak OO Gauge
Based upon Buxton Terminus and Yard, High Peak features the local station,
a TMD, refuelling point and sidings. All the locomotives on this layout
feature DCC Sound.
Peak Quarry OO Gauge
Peak Quarry is located in the Derbyshire Peak District. Featuring the quarry
with live stone wagons being filled and emptied by our team members. All
the locomotives on this layout feature DCC Sound.
Durston OO Gauge
Durston is a a Great Western layout based upon a small village in Somerset.
Hornby Track Mat OO Gauge
Hornby supply with their train set packs usually a loco,
carriages, track, points, controller either DC or DCC and a
track mat to place your track for running your new train
set. at about 5’6” x 3’6” it’s quite a good template for the
home layout. You can buy more track and buildings to
complete the diagram.
Barry 2 Loft Layout OO Gauge
This is a multi-track layout built up in Barry’s loft. The layout features
station, sidings, turntable, tunnels and fiddle yard.
Hope Sidings OO Gauge
This will be Adrian Newman’s new OO gauge layout using the same fiddle
yard as Peak Quarry. The photos are temporary images taking on a visit to
the site.