List of model railways#Buckingham Great Central

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| {{visible anchor|Bekonscot}}

A two acre outdoor model village with an extensive railway.{{cite book

|title=Bekonscot - Historic Model Village & Railway

|last=Dunn |first=Tim

|publisher= Jarrolds

|year=2009

|isbn=978-0-85101-435-7

}} The sheer size of this was remarkable. The railway continues in operation to this day.{{YouTube|HMsJ_P6d-zg|title=Garden railway: 10 scale miles: Drivers Eye View of Bekonscot Model Railway}}

| {{visible anchor|Madder Valley}}

Considered to be the first 'scenic model railway', Madder Valley and John Ahern's series of books was a major influence on railway modelling through the 1950s.{{Cite web

|title=A History of 00 Gauge - Part I

|url=http://www.doubleogauge.com/history/History2.htm

|author=Stephen Siddle

|website= Double O Gauge Association

}} As well as its scenic aspects, this also represented an influential shift from compressed representations of main line stations to a smaller branch line, where the model could more closely represent the original.{{Cite journal

|title=Master of the Madder Valley

|journal=Model Railway Journal

|date=December 1994

|issue=75

|pages=282–302

|url=http://tbmod.com/rm/Madder%20Valley%20MRJ%201994%20dec.pdf

}}

Ahern was also a naturally pragmatic 00 modeller, despite the compromises of its undersized gauge. He combined prototypes from smaller standard gauge locomotives with those of the 3 foot gauge Isle of Man Railway Beyer Peacocks. 'Most of my buildings are derived from something, but they are not exact copies.'{{Cite book

|title=Miniature Building Construction

|author=John Ahern

|year=1946

}}

The model survives today at the Pendon Museum.{{Cite web

|title=The Madder Valley Railway

|url=http://www.pendonmuseum.com/about/madder

|website=Pendon Museum

}}

| Buckingham Branch

| {{visible anchor|Craig & Mertonford Railway}}

| Pendon Museum{{Anchor|Pendon}}

Pendon began slowly in the 1930s and 1940s as a museum-grade attempt to record the changing scenery of rural Wiltshire by modelling.{{Cite journal

|title=50 Years of Pendon

|author=Guy Williams

|author-link=R. Guy Williams

|journal=Railway Modeller

|date=July 1994

|pages=308–313

}} When the main effort of the railway mainline began in 1954, it adopted the early Finescale standard of EM gauge and the very highest standards in locomotive modelling, far beyond other work at this time.{{Cite web

|title=Origins and Early Years

|url=http://www.pendonmuseum.com/about/origins

|website=Pendon Museum

}} Pendon has become best known for its 50 GWR and other locomotives, modelled by Guy Williams.{{Cite book

|title=Model Locomotive Construction in 4 mm Scale

|year=1979

|publisher=Ian Allan

|isbn=0-7110-0843-4

|author=Guy Williams

|author-link=R. Guy Williams

}} Pendon still attracts many visitors to this day.{{Cite web

|title=Pendon Museum - The Madder Valley

|date=1 June 2015

|website=Michael's Model Railways

|url=http://michaelsrailways.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/pendon-museum-madder-valley.html

}}

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| Minories

| An influential design, more than as a single instance of a model; this is an attempt to model an interesting urban passenger terminus in the minimum space, allowing much opportunity for operating trains, more than scenic modelling. Freezer was the editor of Railway Modeller and Minories, and its developments, made regular appearances throughout the years.{{Cite news

|title=Cyril Freezer

|newspaper=The Telegraph

|date=12 June 2009

|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/5517020/Cyril-Freezer.html

}}{{Cite web

|title=Minories, isometric view

|website=RMWeb

|url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cqP72O35CNs/TdYIYi3cuLI/AAAAAAAABVw/gRT_1vbACK4/s1600/Minories+-+close+up.JPG

}}{{Cite web

|title=Minories

|website=The Model Railway Club

|url=http://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/about-us/layouts/minories

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727002100/http://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/about-us/layouts/minories

|archivedate=2015-07-27

}}

| {{visible anchor|Aire Valley Railway}}

| {{visible anchor|Adavoyle Junction}}

This was an important early example of P4 work, before the standards were fully established. The desire to model a local broad gauge prototype, without commercial model support, meant that scratchbuilding was necessary anyway and so the adoption of P4 was less of a change than was seen by British standard gauge modellers.{{Cite web

|title=On Irish Tracks ~ Adavoyle Junction

|url=http://www.templot.com/GNRI/adavoyle.htm

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| {{visible anchor|Heckmondwike}}

| {{visible anchor|Little Long Drag}}

| {{visible anchor|Under Milk Wood}}

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| {{visible anchor|Axford}}

| {{visible anchor|Dorchester Junction}}

| {{visible anchor|County Gate}}

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| {{visible anchor|Casino Model Railway Museum}}

| {{visible anchor|Glenauchter}}

Small layout housed in wooden railway carriages at Bo'ness railway station (heritage site) adjacent to the Scottish Railway Museum; its design is based on Gleneagles railway station.[https://www.bkrailway.co.uk/about-us/about-the-stations/ About the stations], Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway[https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst6773.html Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway], Gazetteer for Scotland

| {{visible anchor|The Biggest Little Railway in the World}}

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| Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway

| Bhausaheb Joshi

| Model railway in Pune, India which also promotes the building of model trains and layouts.{{cite book

|author=Milind Gunaji

|author-link=Milind Gunaji

|title=Offbeat Tracks in Maharashtra

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHA9SzLMj3EC&pg=PA236

|accessdate=22 May 2012

|year=2010|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7991-578-3|pages=236

}}{{cite web

|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Miniature-train-museum-chugs-into-11th-year/articleshow/4352254.cms

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103160435/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-04-03/pune/28019414_1_museum-displays-miniature-version-indian-railways

|url-status=live

|archive-date=3 January 2013

|title=Miniature train museum chugs into 11th year

|date=3 Apr 2009 |access-date=22 May 2012 |work=The Times of India

|location=Mumbai

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| Alpenbahnparadies

| Willy Abbühl / McGill

| Model railway in Kandersteg and around Eiger, Switzerland.{{cite web | url=http://www.alpenbahnparadies.ch/7_infos_2.html | title=7. Infos 2 }}

| Foundation Railway Collection Uster

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| Swiss Miniatur

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| Switzerland, 3560 m railway lines with 18 trains.

| Swiss Transport Museum, Lucerne

| EMBL

| North bound of the Gotthard Pass Line, Switzerland.{{cite web | url=https://embl.ch/die-embl/geschichte/gotthardmodell-im-verkehrshaus/ | title=Gotthardmodell im Verkehrshaus | Eisenbahn- und Modellbaufreunde Luzern }}

| Fondation des Chemins de fer du Kaeserberg

| Marc Antiglio

| Switzerland in the 1990s with Swiss Federal Railways and Rhaetian Railway.{{cite web |url=https://www.kaeserberg.ch/ |title=Home |website=kaeserberg.ch}}

| Stockerenbahn Bolligen Bern

| Urs und Jürg Aeschlimann

| Track of RhB Railway, Switzerland, Canton Graubünden, Rhetian Railways. Filisur, Chur, Surava, Bergün, Stugl, https://stockerenbahn.jimdofree.com/ near Berne in Bolligen in a garden, 3 times open per Year{{cite web | url=https://stockerenbahn.jimdofree.com/beschreibung-1/ | title=Beschreibung }}

| Albula Railway

| Albula-Bahn-Club Bergün (H0) / Bernhard Tarnutzer (0)

| Albula Railway in H0{{cite web |url=http://www.albula-bahn-club.ch/ |title=Home |website=albula-bahn-club.ch}} and Albula Railway in 0 scale around 1960/70.{{cite web | url=https://www.bahnmuseum-albula.ch/de/informationen/modellbahn-werkstatt | title=Modellbahn-Werkstatt» | Bahnmuseum Albula }}

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| Timesaver

| John Allen
(1913–1973)

| "One of the plainest, even ugliest, little railroads ever built.",{{Cite web

|title=John Allen's TimeSaver

|url=http://www.gdlines.com/Timesaver.html

|website=John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312070747/http://www.gdlines.com/Timesaver.html

|archivedate=2013-03-12

}} Timesaver was built as a diversion by modeller John Allen, well known for his 'Gorre & Daphetid Railroad'. It was a simple switching layout, of compact size and without requiring scenery. Its purpose was to be as an exercise in switching. A number of short stub sidings were provided around a short loop and five switches. Each stub was of limited capacity. The game of Timesaver was to place some cars randomly, or to a pre-chosen puzzle, and then require them to be switched into a selected order in the longer outbound siding. The operator achieving this either most quickly or, more rarely, with the fewest movements{{Cite web

|title=John Allen's Timesaver in 3rdPlanIt form

|website=John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad

|url=http://gdlines.com/Timesaver_3PI.htm

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106091124/http://gdlines.com/Timesaver_3PI.htm

|archivedate=2012-11-06

}} was considered the winner.

A major part of this operation involved coupling and uncoupling. This relied on a reliable coupling that could be disengaged easily, either by hand or with ten remote uncouplers placed at defined locations on the layout. Allen's own choice was his 'Baker' coupler, uncoupled manually with a 'spoon' tool.{{Cite web

|title=The Baker Coupler

|website=John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid Railroad

|url=http://www.gdlines.com/baker.html

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111154631/http://www.gdlines.com/baker.html

|archivedate=2013-01-11

}}

Timesaver was described in Model Railroader in Allen's last article for them, shortly before his death.{{Cite journal

|journal=Model Railroader

|date=November 1972

|author=John Allen

|author-link=John Whitby Allen

|title=Timesaver

|url=

}} It was described more fully some years later. The baseboard of the original H0 Timesaver was {{convert|68|in}} by {{convert|9.25|in}}.{{Cite journal

|journal=Model Railroader

|date=October 1976

|author=Russ Cain

|title=The Snap-Track Timesaver

|url=http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Timesaver/MR1976.jpg

}} It was also arranged to fold inwards for storage. Two Timesavers could be coupled back-to-back to pass trains between them for a team competition.

Non-identical derivatives of the original Timesaver have been described as 'Tymesavers' and catalogued by layout galleries such as Carl Arendt's.{{Cite web

|title=Tymesavers!

|author=Carl Arendt

|date=1 October 2005

|website=Carl Arendt

|url=http://www.carendt.com/small-layout-scrapbook/page-42-october-2005/

}}{{Cite web

|title=Micro Tymesavers

|date=13 December 2013

|website=Carl Arendt

|url=http://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/micro-tymesaver-designs/

}}

The original layout is still preserved at the NMRA museum in Chattanooga.{{Cite web

|title=The Classic Switching Puzzle John Allen's Timesaver

|author=Adrian Wymann

|date=2014

|website=The Model Railways Shunting Puzzles Website

|url=http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-timesaver.html

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| {{visible anchor|St. Jacob's & Aberfoyle}}

| {{visible anchor|Osoyoos Desert Model Railway}}