OO gauge, by Rob Score. At our 70th anniversary exhibition on 17 and 18 October.
17 and 18 OctoberCorfe Hills School, Broadstone
Pine Road evokes the slow, idyllic life of the Dorset countryside. It was built by Kelly Miller, also known for Exon Quay and Parkstone Freight, who started it in 2007 and named it after the road where she was born. Despite a few childhood memories, it is mostly an imagined place somewhere in south-west Dorset in the mid-1930s.
Every building except the station is scratch-built, from a host of sources. The thatched cottage is copied from a photo that hung on Kelly's mother's lounge wall, of the house where she was born. The goods shed and engine shed come from Lyme Regis, the Bridge Inn from Cranborne, and the signal box once stood at Moreton, between Wool and Dorchester. Even the blacksmith's shop is named in memory of Kelly's father.
It is a Southern layout, but you may spot the odd LMS engine sneakily borrowed from the old Somerset & Dorset. Can you find the little girl on the swing with her dog? She is probably late home for tea. Elsewhere an owl looks out from a tree, the shepherd and his dog Jake chat to Mrs Habgood, landlady of the Bridge Inn, two hares box in the back field, and a fox peers through the hedge at the chickens in the farm yard.
The trains run with subtle DCC sound, in keeping with the size of the layout.