Metromodels - other London Underground models

Here are a selection of layouts and dioramas. Some still exist, whilst others have been broken up, or sold to new owners.

Isle Of Wight - in Network Southeast days - in '00' scale by Mark Clayson - UK

Note, that this is East Inchley, not East Finchley! A layout that started off as a diorama to display John's first EFE train. It is now both LT / BR with dcc sound on the BR side. Set in a fictitious suburb somewhere in north London in the late 60's.

It is just seven feet in length and fourteen inches wide. It started out as a diorama to display my first EFE set, but soon expanded. Taking several forms over the last four years, at one stage it included a depot, since replaced by the DCC lines. All the points on the layout are manually controlled and there are currently no signals.

The station is a shared LT/BR station with limited BR services to the Widened Lines via Kings Cross York Road at peak hours only. The majority of passenger services are run by LT. The station building is a Bachmann Holden-style model which replaced various other Street Level Models erected on the site earlier this year.

All the street buildings are card models altered by myself to represent "London-style" flat roofed Georgian/Victorian buildings with some art deco. I made them myself as the pre-made buildings available are not suitable. The pub is equipped with a speaker attached to an iPod Touch, and you can hear old London pub songs drifting out of the windows.

For the future..... I have yet to complete the cable hangers near the tunnel, and some more third and fourth rail detailing needs to be done as well as adding some extra line-side clutter. There is also an absence of people, which needs to be sorted soon. I also want to replace the bogies on my Central Line EFE unit, which is already motorised but a poor runner due to the EFE wheels even with the clips removed.

I currently run a variety of LT tube stock, including two sets of 1938 EFE, 1959/1962 EFE, a battery loco made from a Radley Models kit, and one Acton Shunter (also Radley Models). Plus, one Metro Models 1995 Northern Line Tube stock, which runs occasionally, but does not fit within the 1950s-1960s time scale I have chosen to model in. In addition to the above, the BR side of the model is mostly DCC sound-chipped diesel locomotives, in British Rail green to fit the time scale modelled.

Modelling deep tube tunnels & graffiti covered tube trains by Marcus Sarkany - Germany

'Caldecote' - a '00' scale layout by Alistair Ramsey - UK
Based on fictitious extensions from Stanmore on the Bakerloo line & Edgware on the Northern line during the 1960s.