OO9 / HOe SCALE

1/76, 1/87

Layout

Owner

Amiens 1918

Callum Wilcox

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJoUVfk9guP_-KLPSsUL2kgTR9HaxstpY

Argonne Forest

Callum Wilcox

https://youtu.be/-o8xd8yyNkU?si=h7enm427_pCPcW9y

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDDWg8-ewvQ

Willesden Junction

Peter Wilson

Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review Issue 90 April 2012 and issue 96 Oct 2013

Now retired from the exhibition circuit, but a standard setter that has inspired many other modellers.

https://youtu.be/lzB5dC-u5-M?si=dCcIow5SJYhLsIfK

Somewhere in France

Peter Capon

Older version, now donated to Ashford Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXBxZf4Eia4

New version as displayed in 2024

https://youtu.be/SdQ6ZtgP6aY?si=TlQVssWfjrVDAqon

Maranique

Peter Gray

Continental Modeller Nov2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk7TU1Wg5uM at 18:08

A Cold Front

James Styles

https://railroadmodeling.net/news/a-cold-front-inspirations-by-james-styles

First prize at the East Midlands NG Show 2022

Behind the British Lines 1918

Darrel Foxwell & Ray Hirst

https://www.narrowgaugenorth.org.uk/index.php/exhibitors/previous-years/99-behind-the-british-lines

009 Diorama

Jason Pierce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOzEAGT8vlA&t=44s

WW1 WDLR

Brian Elder

Brian designed a WW1 layout but ended up making a later period. His design is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FaaID9coAM

Swiss Cottage

Bill Pinfold

A small model of the transhipment yard near Poperinghe, designed to fit into a Really Useful storage box. See photo at head of this page.

Brian Willcocks

Layout built around a factory and nursing station scene

https://youtu.be/K-lnUhHINRc?si=T71RIN-KFDZA0vZb

No Man's Land

Bernard Kempin-ski

Both narrow gauge and standard gauge are included, showing the delivery of tanks to the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 and the nearby WDLR lines. (See Fins-Sorel below)

Article in the booklet "Model Railroads Go To War"

Holbeach Estates

Stephen Sullivan

An exhibition layout based on the East Anglian agricultural business railways, such as Nocton and Holbeach, that utilised much of the ex WDLR narrow gauge stock after the War. A great collection of rolling stock in a well crafted setting that includes the building used to transfer potato loads from narrow gauge to standard gauge.(http://www.davesrailpics.bravehost.com/nocton/nocton.htm)

https://youtu.be/4ThAYWanuPw?si=PXoEKT3GcCMenZNc

https://youtu.be/y5RsyjEsEg4?si=9OagZ5o9sqqFAIK3

Poperinge Terminus

Bernard Lambert

A large layout showing both standard and narrow gauge at the Poperinge transhipment yard. (See Continental Modeller March 2015)

https://youtu.be/2Mgkp-SFZ2I?si=tI0m_rNF9BZQgnZJ

This marvellous layout is a clearing in a wooded area and depicts a gun park of the French Artillery Regiment of foot (68th RAP).
Set in the summer of 1918 following the German spring
offensive, the gun park acts as a hub for the supply of
material to regiments in this sector, especially ammunition for
the guns. Practically all of the stock is scratch built.

https://youtu.be/PFj51hgH7F8?si=o2Byl53cUBVtQU8K  see at 13:36

20 Casualty Clearing Station

A narrow gauge layout with broad gauge sidings alongside. Lots of very interesting detail and several videos showing how the scene was put together.

https://youtu.be/eByshPr-OF0?si=2WX2KcxozVHEj_9_

https://youtu.be/WRiWTRLfA3Y?si=tqqCLrIZiUrry_Ba

OTHER SCALES

Birches Barn Extension (16mm/foot scale)

Dave Watkins

Last seen at Apedale 2018 but may still be around.

https://www.16mm.org.uk/?s=birches+barn

Up The Line (7mm / O-16.5 gauge)

Kevin Hughes

Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review Issue 110 April 2017

Tackeroo (EM 4mm scale)

Andy Banks & Andy York

https://www.world-of-railways.co.uk/virtual-exhibition-layouts/tackeroo?postId=588e2a1d-9f5a-463f-967f-6ce64532d687

Q Dump (1/35 scale 16.5mm gauge)

Nigel & Sue Tansley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ_qNnTLBLE at 25:50

Somewhere in Europe (1/32 scale)

Chris McCready & Richard Bradey

Shown at Apedale Tracks to the Trenches 2018

Ferme du Pont (7mm O-14 gauge)

Ben Moorehouse, Michael Hodgson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqo1wb_cppE

Over the Top (1/35 scale)

Peter Hollins

https://www.cvmrc.co.uk/10th-annual-exhibition-2018.html

Richborough Port

N Scale (1/150 approx)

Andy Chant (River Model Railway Club)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-d5L0RMDig

See at 4:55 into the video. A super model of the yards and camp at Richborough in 1918 with one of the Train Ferries docked.

Also at https://esngblog.com/2024/12/28/mid-kent-model-railway-exhibition-2025/

Richborough Ferry (OO 1/76)

Unknown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjcnX15GFM

See at 3:08 into the video. A large model of one of the Train Ferries when transporting the 14 inch railguns on 6 May 1918. Built by a model boat club member in Northamptonshire.

Aftermath WW1 (OO 1/76)

Laurie Calvert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJK8o8Df7I

Followed up by the Explode layout

https://youtu.be/1GOzKpwBxWM?si=Lzqs3dKMToPS2K32

Cambrai Fins-Sorel (OO 1/76)

Bernard Kempinski

Both narrow gauge and standard gauge are included, showing the delivery of tanks to the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 and the nearby WDLR lines. (See No Man's Land above)

The Last Push     (O-16.6 1/32)

Ian Roberts

A busy scene depicting the WDLR during the last 100 days of the War. (Continental Modeller July 2016