Thornbury Hill

Description

The layout was built by the Club over 41 years ago and was sold to the Thornbury Club Owners (club members and others) around 1991.

Thornbury Hill represents part of the London to Brighton main line as it leaves the London suburbs. The track is handbuilt, the signals work and, in prototypical practice, interlock with the points. The objective of the track plan is to allow an intensive suburban passenger service with cross London freights and requent inter regional trains.

The station buildings are based upon the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway style. The platform canopies are copied from East Croydon, the signal boxes are copies of Eastbourne and Seaford, the Goods shed is copied from that at Burgess Hill, the garage is at Haywards Heath and the pub is south London.

The period depicted is circa 1962, allowing electric, steam and diesel hauled passenger and freight trains with specials appearing at regular intervals, as was the practice at the time.