Introduction
Convinced that the hobby must attract the young if it is not going to fade away, and inspired by the joy that model railways be it Brio, Duplo, or something more sophisticated seem to bring to our grandchildren the club has two interactive children’s layouts available for shows. An additional larger G scale Thomas layout is run by a club member. The pair of these will fit in the back for a car and are available for shows and can both be set up and run for a one day show by two people as long as they are placed adjacent to each other.
Tomy Train Thomas the Tank Engine
Description: Tomy Train track makes 3 separate but linked circuits, with some appropriate buildings. It comes with a selection of push along and battery motorised locomotives, lots of rolling stock and accessories. This is designed to be used and abused by children as young as 2 years (as tested on various grandchildren) with only light touch adult supervision to sort out rights of way disputes and change the odd battery.
Layout Measurement: 2340 X 920mm. It has its own legs and only stands 600mm off the ground.
Minimum total space required: About 4m (Width) X 2.3m (Depth) as there needs to be at least 600mm of access space for multiple children all the way round it, and preferably a bit more.
Electric: None. Locomotives are battery powered
Other requirements: none
Operators: Light supervision by a single operator. If co-located with another BSEMRC children’s layout no additional operators are required.
Some of the clubs and members Layouts that might appeal to junior members. Available for shows
Thomas the Tank layout built by Matthew P
Thomas N Gauge interactive layout
Description: The layout has two independent tracks which run Tomix Thomas the Tank Engine trains (Thomas, James and Percy) with appropriate rolling stock. There are two controllers which have been modified to restrict the top speed to prevent an overenthusiastic child sending the rolling stock flying.
Layout measurement: 1200 X 500mm, it sits on top of a standard 6 X 2ft table. (We prefer the table to be supplied but can provide one if notified).
Total space required: 2.5m (Width) X 3m (Depth) as the operators need chairs in front and the supervisors chairs behind the layout.
Electric: One 13amp socket. We can provide a short extension to plug the two plugs we have into. All equipment will be PAT tested.
Other requirements: 4 chairs required for supervisors and operators. We can not provide these.
Operators: Two adults to supervise its use and change the locomotives periodically. At a one-day event the same adults can also supervise the Tomy Train interactive layout.
N Gauge Thomas layout , 2 independant tracks operatated by seperate controllers