List of model railways
UK and Ireland
A theme through many of these has been a movement away from the 'mass of moving trains' approach to a more pictorial approach, producing scenes and dioramas that represented the appearance of their original prototype.

List of model railways

Section Title: UK and Ireland
Table Section Text: A theme through many of these has been a movement away from the 'mass of moving trains' approach to a more pictorial approach, producing scenes and dioramas that represented the appearance of their original prototype.

Name	Creator	Scale	Date	Description

Bekonscot	Bassett-Lowke	Gauge 1	1930s–	General view of the Bekonscot model village A two acre outdoor model village with an extensive railway. The sheer size of this was remarkable.

Madder Valley	John Ahern (1903–1961)	00	1939	Pendon's Madderport.JPG 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.

Buckingham Branch	Rev. Peter Denny (1917–2009)	EM	1948–1970s	A fictional branch on the Great Central Railway. Buckingham went through a number of major rebuilds over the years and was regularly featured in the modelling press.

Craig & Mertonford Railway	P.D. Hancock	00-9	1949	The model railway that established 00-9 standards, and popularised narrow gauge modelling in the UK.

Pendon Museum	Roye England / Guy Williams	EM	1954	Pendon's White Horse Hill.JPG Pendon began slowly in the 1930s and 1940s as a museum-grade attempt to record the changing scenery of rural Wiltshire by modelling.

George Iliffe Stokes	4 mm scale, Gauge 1	1950s–	Previously a watercolour artist, Stokes' buildings were carefully recorded, drawn and modelled in cardboard. He was one of the first in the 1950s to emphasise the modelling of the buildings away from the railway itself, and to see the careful sketching of their details in the real world as essential for achieving convincing model.

Minories	C. J. Freezer	00	1957	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.

Aire Valley Railway	Derek Naylor	00n3	1961	Another long-lived narrow gauge layout, the compact gauge and length of operation allowing the development of an extensive scenic context and backstory around the railway.

Adavoyle Junction	Tony Miles	P4 21 mm gauge Irish broad gauge and 12 mm OOn3 narrow gauge	1963	Adavoyle on the Great Northern Railway of Ireland in 1949, set at a fictional junction of the Dublin-Belfast main line. This was an important early example of P4 work, before the standards were fully established.

Mike Sharman	4 mm / GWR broad gauge	1968	The first modelling of Brunel's broad gauge, a mixed-gauge layout of broad, Stephenson standard gauge and narrow gauge.

Heckmondwike	'North London Group' of the Scalefour Society Bob Essery Mike Peascod Ray Hammond Ken Morgan	P4	1973	Heckmondwike on the Midland Railway. One of the first really large group effort projects to use the P4 Finescale standard and consistently high modelling standards to provide a large museum-grade recreation of a distinct prototype.

Little Long Drag	David Jenkinson	EM	–1976	An ambitious project to model the 'Long Drag' of the Settle and Carlisle Line across the Pennines. The intention was to model a significant mainline route, at a size that would allow a reasonable representation of it and, like Pendon, an appropriate setting for large express locomotives.

Under Milk Wood	Dave Rowe	00-9	1977	Modelled as a series of separate cabinets, which could be linked for exhibition. The main cabinet was a small Welsh fishing port, modelled on the Llareggub of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, complete with characters.

Alan Downes	4 mm scale	c. 1977	A scenic modeller and constructor of buildings, more than a layout builder, Alan Downes and his "In Search of Realism" series in Railway Modeller raised the standards for representing masonry by moving away from factory-printed brick papers to relief modelling of authentic textures, using scribed plaster or applied computer chads to represent stonework.

Axford	Dave Rowe	00-9	1980-	An East Devon market town. Modelling of the street scene and its varied buildings takes clear precedence over railway operations.

Dorchester Junction	R.W.B.White / now Scalefour Society	4 mm / GWR broad gauge	1987	A mixed-gauge junction at the end of the broad gauge era, modelled to the finest standards of accuracy.

County Gate	John de Frayssinet	00-9	2008	A hypothetical extension of the narrow-gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway through the East Lyn Valley to Minehead. This was featured in a book written by the creator.

Fry Model Railway	Cyril Fry	O	1920s-	A 2,500 square feet (230 m2) layout and collection of the Irish scene created by Cyril Fry and previously displayed in Malahide Castle from 1988-2010.

The Biggest Little Railway in the World	Dick Strawbridge et al.	16mm Narrow Gauge	2017 (no longer in existence)	A temporary railway running 71 miles (114 km) from Fort William to Inverness Castle, now removed, although the construction was televised.

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In 1963, Tony Miles' Adavoyle Junction was an important early model railway using the P4 Finescale standards.

final_sentence: In 1963, Tony Miles' Adavoyle Junction was an important early model railway using the P4 Finescale standards.