‘OO’ GAUGE LAYOUT CRUMFORD
Lofty ambitions
Roger Marsh set out to build an exhibition layout, but enjoyed building it so much that he decided to make it a permanent fixture in his home.
Words: Chris Gadsby
Photography: Chris Nevard
What makes this layout great?
“ Crumford’ is small, but enough is going on to make it believable. Roger hasn’t filled his scene full of wagons and locomotives, but with plenty of small details for the viewer to spot, which prevents the scene from becoming overwhelming. ”
Somepeople build exhibition layouts, and some people build stay-at-home layouts. Not many people do what Roger Marsh has done though and build a layout with the full intention of taking it to exhibitions, only for it to find a permanent home in his loft.
“This layout all started when I decided to move away from the looped layout I had in my garden shed. I could sit in the centre of it and watch the trains go around, but it never really moved past the track-on-a-bare-baseboard stage and I decided that I wanted to go back to building a small end-to-end layout that I could put in my car and take to shows.