Yeovil Town (OO exact scale model of the original)

Through the Yeovil Town Engine Shed Yeovil Town Station had disappeared before I moved to Yeovil in 1983. I had passed through on the blue coach when it was still standing but it really is a distant memory. This layout was started by Stuart Malbon in 1978 (before I lived here). In 1979 he met Paul Montecute and the two spent the next 15 years developing the layout in Stuarts loft. The layout then got dismantled and moved to Paul's garage but for various reasons had not progressed beyond some bare baseboards with fine-scale OO track-work and H&M point motors operated by a makeshift stylus system.

The Paul's health meant that he could eventually no longer continue the project so four of our members formed a syndicate (myself included) and joined with Paul the then owner to all part own the layout. Over the past few years the layout has been rewired to permit DCC operation, a leg system developed to support the main layout, The baseboards dowled together and fitted with special captive nuts and stainless steel bolts. A MIMIC panel , stock storage box and Power Supply box system is now almost built.

Yeovil Town This section will plot the course of this layout as it progresses to it's aim of being a faithful high class exhibition model.

At present the layout was built to the 1950's standard but the feeling is to now move it back to the early 20th century and may be have some replacement parts to run it in a later period.

The author has funded a OO fiddle yard to be a of a standard universal design so the layout can be used as a continuous run layout on club nights as well as providing four separate fiddle yards for exhibitions. This will be fitted with it's own route selected control box and the whole layout will be DCC.