Phil Wrigley’s Marklin layout is located in a basement room at his home in Red Beach, on the Hibiscus Coast north of Auckland. It is in HO gauge and is analogue controlled. The baseboard is 3.5 x 1.1 metres with an additional 3 metres of track piercing the walls and running through the cellar.
There are two independent track circuits, a short section joining the two circuits and two reversing loops. A figure eight circuit runs through the cellar, crosses over itself just after emerging through the wall and then loops back around the end of the baseboard and across the centre of the layout to the other tunnel entrance piercing the far wall. The other circuit runs around the baseboard on the level.
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A general view of the rural scene.  |
The bridge over the
seacoast, with a cave and a stream running down the hillside. |
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The Marklin components are based upon a childhood train set. (Phil’s oldest catalogue is dated 1960/61). They have been augmented by primarily second hard components purchased at model shows. While Phil has had the luxury of a permanent layout for a number of years, only recently has he moved on from train operation to modelling a scene for the trains to run in. The layout does not model any particular country or period, though the locos and rolling stock are German ERA III (1945-70). One end is a rural scene, the central area has a station and railway cottage fronted by a seaport and the other end is an industrial area with a mine in the hills behind.
The tyre factory with a mine in the hill behind
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The baseboard and room layout. |
A view of the Wharf and Station. |
Behind the tunnel and in the cellar. |
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