Hattons Model Railways

Have your layout shown on our website!!!


Mr C.G. Clough
A collection of UK trams, which has been purchased from Hattons


Chris from Wales
I have been using your shop since 1989. Here are some pics of my N gauge layout - Wenaullt junction set in the 1950s.


Mr S Harris



Mr J Martin
"Having surfed the Hattons site I stumbled across the "see your layout on our website" bit so here are a couple of pictures from my loft layout "Mallenbourne Junction" which depicts a largish modern station with a definite Southern & Western region heritage feel to it. The Turbostar & Thames turbo were both recently purchased from your excellent website ordering service and I am please to say that both models run beautifully.


Mr J Fiolka
It would be an honour for you to include photos of my layout on your website. It's 20 feet long by 6 foot wide. I call it British Rail in America" as that is where I currently live. Being so far from home, I am so grateful that you have such an excellent website. It is so easy to use and you offer excellent service. Every time I order, I receive exactly what I request (no "sorry we're out of stock" messages) and the goods get here very promptly too. I am a regular customer of yours and will continue to be. Thanks for your consideration to include my photos on your site.


Mr F Colins
"Just thought I would e mail you some pictures of my 00 gauge layout "LLAFFAN" (A backward place!) and wondered if you could use them on your web site. The Layout is based on the Cambrian coast line in the 1950's / 1960's. I also manage a communities web site on MSN groups called "RAILNUTS" for all rail and railway model enthusiasts. Please feel free to browse the site, there you will find more pictures of my layout as well as other modellers." http://groups.msn.com/Railnuts


Mr P Cole
My son Robert (age 4) and I are building an OO scale garden layout and we'd like to see it on your website. The photo shows Merchant Navy Class "Holland America Line" crossing the bridge over the pond with the evening down express, en-route from the patio to the willow tree!


Mr D Paterson - South Australia
Some shots of my collection/room 26' x 15' ceiling to layout, all walls, shelved with stock, plus below layout. Three main tracks, passing loops sectioned and able to enter or leave from either side into main station leg. Connected to 2nd room 15' x 15' with 2 tracks plus all triang, triang/hornby, hornby. With BR outline Lima, Mainline, Airfix, Dapol. The Hornby Dublo circle meets here Wednesdays Evenings.


Mr A Moser - Holland
"This HO German layout from the 1950's is still in progress, I am now working on the sidetrack"


Mr D Garrido
"Layout in Argentina" "I would like my layout to be shown on your website. I have 13 English locos and 18 coaches and 12 wagons. I love English trains"


Mike Crowe from Liverpool
Everything has been purchased from Hattons Model Railways in the last 20 years!



Here we have one of our longer distance customers who sent us these pictures by e-mail of his layout.


Mr P J Martin



Jim
Here are a couple of pictures from my friend Jim in Canada. He sent me a couple of pictures of trams that he has collected over the years.


Michael Churchward
Here are some pictures from Michael Churchward's layout. He says that he has recently started building this layout in Canada and bases it on British outline due to family connections that he has.


James Caton
This layout is based on the Hornby trackmat, and is around the 1950's and 1960's BR Blue days. Like most layouts, this is still in progress with lighting being installed.


Philip Benson
My layout built with many items of rolling stock from Hattons is now sadly in pieces here in Canada awaiting the resurrection! (Cunning Easter link) We emigrated to Canada in October! Here are some close up photos of the LNER layout


Colin McLeod
"I have been a customer of Hattons since 1970 and before that my Father was a customer. I still have the Hornby Dublo City of Liverpool (on Wrenn 2-rail chassis) that he bought in response to a Hattons advertisement in 1964 when Hornby Dublo announced the end of production of 3 rail"


Colin Wilson
Here are some pictures from Mr Wilson in Belfast, quite a few of the items have been bought from Hattons.


Mr Darren Eckersley
This garden railway is from Mr D Eckerlsey in Kent, it is called Taw Vale and is modelled in OO gauge. Most of the rolling stock has come from Hattons.


J.P.
JP volunteers in Hattons during the week, and has a keen interest in buses. You can see him on the meet the crew pages. This is some of his work modelling a nightclub in Liverpool called the Paradox.


Mr Gary Patterson
Here are some pictures from Mr G Patterson from the UK, from his layout, a work in progress. These are taken in the main station area


Nick Melling



Joe Roberts
here are a couple of shots of my layout 'Foldenhyde' which as you might guess folds up and hides under the bed!


Tony Hathaway
Here are a collection of pictures from my layout 'Tickhill'


John Taylor
Here are some pictures or Mr Taylor's layout, a work in progress out in Vietnam.


James Paice



James Gibbard
Mr Gibbard's layout is 12 x 3 ft on four levels. It has recently been extended by 10 x 3 ft for an automatic yard and a larger station.


Daniel Burrows
Here is Daniel Burrows layout which is based on a modern day railway and is called Dearford junction.


Mr. Frank Leonard
Mr Leonard lives in the USA, and the pictures show his British and Irish layout, many of the items purchased from Hattons.


Ben Hamilton
These are a few shots of my fictional loft layout 'Engsleigh' With a majority of the models coming from Hattons


Mark Craig
Hi have just seen your great website and thought you might like to see some photos of my layout which I built in 1998 and extended in 2000. The layout fills my loft and is 22 feet long by 9 feet wide. I bought a number of items from your shop on Smithdown Road when you were in the old premises further along Smithdown Road. I'm not a train buff - more of a landscape and countryside buff, so my layout is different in that rather than being train-dominated it is more a recreation of the British countryside which just happenes to have a single train track run through it. I did have a terminus station on the first phase in which to put the trains not being used, and the second phase did have a much larger station and sidings area. Both were placed in "towns" at either end of the layout. In phase one, built in 1998, the main emphasis was on a village with a village green, church, school, station, river and castle.


A Gill



Mr. David Stevens
Here are 10 photos of my loft layout. Carrsend is a continuous cicuit M.I. layout with a small North London line type through station, supplemented by a short sprinter operated branch line which runs into a terminus jointly operated with an adjacent preserved heritage railway, with no physical rail link between them. The heritage line main line link is via a short gated spur off of the freight only by pass line at Carrsend station. Carrsend is a loft layout in a semi detached house where a certain Mr. Carr lives in the adjoining property and the station sits at the partition wall end of the loft, hence Carrsend.


Brian Haselum
This layout is loosely based on the WCML in the early 1960's.


Alberto Toselli
These are pictures of Alberto Toselli's layout in Italy, all the trains having been purchased from Hattons


Leonard Millward
These are a few pictures from Mr. Millward's N gauge layout - Pughley in the Wold, all purchased from Hattons.


Trevor Dawes
These are from my loft layout in Leicestershire, which is about 16 feet by 4 feet wide around the edges of the room. It has four loops of track split over 2 levels. I have been building it since 1993 when the bug bit me again after many years of not building models. I still keep adding new features.


Jack Bowley
This is a layout from one of our younger customers, Jack Bowley, aged 12. "Here, are some pictures of my DCC 00 gauge railway layout ‘Edinburgh Jtn’. At the moment, I have a class 08 Shunter (D4093) a BR steam engine (47646) and a Virgin trains Class 390 (390012 Virgin Star)."


Robert Williams
I am coming to the end of a three-year build project, my first build. My layout depicts a fictional South Wales (U.K.) village scene of the 1970`s/ 1980`s .... many of the items on the layout were purchased from Hattons, I buy extensively from them and have done so over many years. My layout has been constructed using Tri-ang `Super 4` track. Robert Williams, New Zealand


Robin Sharman
My OO gauge layout Greetby Minster lives in the attic of my house in the East Midlands. It relies entirely on proprietory locos and rolling stock, as I've neither the time nor the skill to build my own!. The pictures show the railway representing the years from the fifties to the 'noughties' - i.e. from the decade of my birth to the present day.


Gwyn Morgan
Here are some photos of my layout, as you can see I've put gardens in the houses I've got on it with a woman mowing the lawn along with a chap cleaning windows too. I've also got a chap delivering tiles with a Ford Anglia van parked outside the house where he's delivering belonging to Marley Tiles which I purchased from Hattons, a further picture with it along with a Morris Minor traveller parked in the drive which I also purchased from Hattons.