Bunkers Lane 
Bill Flude O9 gauge 7mm scale
The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway inspired me to build this layout. I visited the line and was fascinated by a narrow gauge line running through a 1960's and 1970's housing development. The town still has a sizeable quarry industry, with good enough quality building sand to export to Egypt.
My model is of a fictitious 18 inch gauge line built to the west of the standard gauge main line that would have been the destination for loaded sand trains. I decided that the mid 1980's was a good time-frame for the model; the preservation society, formed in the late 1960's, has shared the line with the sand companies initially but by 1982 sand was only being shipped by road lorries.
The layout has a backscene running down the length of the two scenic boards; the layout is 9 feet long but trains run through a 14 foot scenic section.
The baseboards are built from 6mm ply. Bunker Lane is controlled using a Digitrax DCC Command Station with Uhlenbrock Daisy 2 wireless throttles; track is Peco 009 with Cobalt IP Digital point motors. The control systems, lights and sound are built into the three boards to reduce the layout setup time. The photographic backdrops were produced by a commercial printing firm each from a panorama of 6 images.
The rolling stock is a mixture of kits, scratch building and 3D printing with some items bashed from parts I have collected over the last few years. Structures are built from styrene, wood, brass, card and glass.
I hope that it captures the feel of the quirky prototype, the wonderful Leighton Buzzard Railway.
