A natural selection
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Photography: Chris Nevard
What makes this layout great?
“Despite what looks like a small space from the outside, Barry has done a great job of maximising the interior space of his shed, and the layout doesn’t feel as though it’s been squashed in. An impressive achievement.”
Two things are guaranteed to be in the mindset of every single railway modeller. Firstly, none of us has enough space for the layout we want to build and secondly, none of us has enough time to spend as long working on our layouts as we would like. Because of this, our layouts are often a labour of love over many years, sometimes even decades, as we strive to get everything looking as good as our ability allows.
Long term readers of Model Rail may recognise the pictures of Barry Sergeant’s ‘Marshmill’ layout, but the name might not be so familiar. Since we last featured this layout back in July 2008 it has undergone a bit of a transformation and has taken on an entirely new identity.
“The layout as it is now began about 20 years ago, but the very first board for it was built in the 1970s,” explains Barry. “It used to be a portable terminus to fiddleyard layout but a house move allowed me to rehome it more permanently and extend it.”