WSNG Module Design

Club Module Design

We use the modular system which means each member builds and owns their own board and we then join them together to form a bigger layout. The only requirements are :

The straight boards are normally 4 ft long and can be between 1ft to 2ft 6ins wide.
The corner boards are either 2ft or 3ft square.
The 3 club tracks have to be at the front of the board and meet club standards. These are 2ins, 3 ins and 5ins from the front and finish 1.5ins from the end
There are no points or isolators on the front two tracks, as these tracks are contolled from the main club fiddle yard.
The 3rd track can have points and isolators fitted as this track is controlled by each member as a block system around the layout.

Apart from these rules anything can be done. It can be set anywhere in the world from Japan to the UK or from desert scene to snow scene. It can just have three lines running through with no points or have a massive goods yard with lots of points. It can be an urban scene or rural scene.

Our aim during exhibitions is to entertain the public young and old alike. We do this by making sure there is always something moving somewhere on the layout. We don’t run to any timetable but whatever we do we always keep the trains moving. We do have and accomdate requests from the public and sometimes we even let children run the trains. We are always willing to talk so if you have a question just ask.

We receive some criticism because the scenery does not join up between our modules but there are three advantages:

You can only take in the scenery from one module at a time.

We can have more train movements using the modular system.

We can run trains at their full length without looking out of place.

Another advantage of the modular system is that we can fit any shape or size the exhibition manager wants us to fit into. We can have both a circular or an end to end layout. The biggest size layout we ever done on our own is 40ft x 30ft at the Brighton Modelworld.

The same standards of the modular system have been adopted by other Area Groups of The N Gauge Society, so we have represented the Society at Warley Show at the NEC with a layout of approximately 100ft square!

If you would like to know the standards that our modules are built to then please click on the link below and download the board dimensions you require. There is a seperate sheet for the Straight, the Large Corner or the Small Corner.

Click here for information sheet on Straight Board

Click here for information sheet on Large Corner

Click here for information sheet on Small Corner

This page was last updated on: 21-FEB-07