4mm/OO Gauge
Presented by Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society
Duxbury is the OO Gauge club layout of L&WMRS. At the time, the club did not have an OO Gauge layout and a group of interested club members got together to form the Duxbury Team. Numerous plans were considered with the present layout being designed to fulfil as many of the members requirements as possible. The layout is designed to keep a number of operators busy whilst providing a continuous circuit for members who wish to test locomotives and rolling stock.
As a club layout, it has to please the greatest number of people most of the time. So, with this in mind, Duxbury Station is loosely based on Aylesbury GC/Met/GWR Station circa 1960. By doing this, we can cater for steam, albeit in BR guise, as well as diesels and electrics. The variety of steam locomotives that can be run is quite large, being drawn from ex-GCR, LNER, LMS, GWR (from the Princes Risborough branch) and BR standard types. Even the odd SR locomotive can be seen with an excursion!
Aylesbury was the one-time terminus for the Metropolitan Railway trains from Aldgate, Liverpool Street and Baker Street with a bay being provided for the purpose. These trains were electrically hauled to Rickmansworth where a BR locomotive would take over. However, with the extension of electrification to Amersham, the Aylesbury service was discontinued in the early 1960’s. We have taken modeller’s license and imagined that London Transport extended the 3rd and 4th rail all the way to Aylesbury. This way, we can run both electrically hauled LT trains using the famous Metropolitan Bo-Bo’s as well as the Underground units.