‘OO’ GAUGE LAYOUT WIMHILL
Inter-regional inspiration
Rather than plan and build everything in one go, Nick Mould built ‘Wimhill’ in stages, finishing one feature before he moved onto the next.
Words: Chris Gadsby
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Photography: Chris Nevard
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What makes this layout great?
There’s a lot to like about ‘Wimhill’, particularly the level of effort that has gone into scratchbuilding the vast majority of models on the layout. Nick, Brian and Graham haven’t tied themselves to a particular location, and that has given them the creative freedom to create superb structures that best work for them.
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A dding an extension to your layout is something the majority of modellers would love to do, if only we had the space. Even the owners of the largest layouts wish they had a few extra feet but, for Nick Mould and his friends Brian and Graham, building an extension to their layout ‘Colebourne Junction’ was always on the cards.
“The layout is looped through the fiddleyard, and when we built ‘Colebourne Junction’ we knew that we were going to eventually add another section. To facilitate this we built the rise, leaving the station all the way around the layout, crossing the four‐track main line and stopping level with the fiddleyard, ready for what would become ‘Wimhill’ to be added later. ‘Wimhill’ is now above the fiddleyard, ending in a terminus station level at the other end of the yard, so that it looks now as if the trains leaving ‘Colebourne Junction’ go into a tunnel underneath ‘Wimhill’ station.”