Back today with another selection of excellent layouts from Southampton.

I’ve seen Rossiter Rise before, but I think that the layout has been extended with an underground Underground (so to speak) workshop as in the photos below.  I’ve always liked this layout.  Very compact, with a mixture of London Underground and British Railways suburban trains.  All in a station reminiscent of Baker Street, in a cutting surrounded by grimy blocks of flats.  Of note is the fact that the layout is largely pointless (so to speak) with the only turnouts being in the LUT depot at the front of the layout.  All the platforms go directly into the fiddle yard.

Wimborne (OO) is an excellent representation of Wimborne station,  modified slightly to allow an oval layout into the fiddle yard, but with all the features of the prototype.  This was the busiest station in Dorset, with trains from the LSWR, then Southern Railway, and the Somerset and Dorset Joint.  Now, of course, there’s nothing left.  We did like the accurately scale station buildings, with a couple of old Bere Regis buses in the yard, in their unusual brown livery.  (Seeing one of these was a highlight of the family holiday to Dorset around 1960.)  And plenty of interesting trains passing and shunting the yard.

Just the one picture of Fawley (OO), as I’ve recently featured it on the blog.  But it’s an interesting prototype that’s always worth another look.

Hayling Island (OO), with its Terrier in the station.

Lower Exbury is another old friend, and also always worth another look.  I especially like the dead DUWK and the live cormorant…..

And finally today, Radcliffe Road (O).  Under construction, but I appreciated the Class 73 and the 4-TC unit (actually a 3-TC, to fit it on the layout.)

Final pictures next time.