SARUM FINESCALE GROUP
Finescale Railway Modelling in the Salisbury Area
We are a Group of railway modellers from the Scalefour Society and EMGS who meet at 7.30pm on alternate Monday evenings near Salisbury. The Group currently has about 15 members, many of whom belong to both Societies.
We have two EM exhibition layouts with another in OO finescale now under construction, together with a circular test track which is available on most Group evenings.
Our members have a wide variety of specific interests, but are united by their desire to achieve the highest possible standards of model accuracy and performance.
Latest News
A new gate for Chitterne
I recently constructed a new private siding gate for Chitterne. In this post I’ll describe the issues with the previous gate and the constructio…
Chitterne at ExpoEM Spring 26
Chitterne had a very successful outing to Bracknell for ExpoEM. This was it’s first show since the new scenic board was completed. The board has…
March 2026 Report
With Navigation Road temporarily put back into storage, our test track has once again been in regular use, particularly with recently purchased OO mod…
Group Layouts
Navigation Road
Navigation Road is the Group’s diesel era EM exhibition layout and it has attended a number of shows over the last few years. The layout portrays a fictional location in north east London in the late 60s/early 70s and attempts to evoke the rundown nature of the railways at this time. The layout was featured in Railway Modeller March 2020, Model Railway Journal No 266 and British Railway Modelling September 2023.
Chitterne
The Group’s steam era EM exhibition layout, Chitterne, was built as an entry in the EMGS Chairman’s Challenge competition in 2020 and thus exclusively uses the society’s ready to run EM track.
It represents a small branch line station with a military connection shortly after grouping.
The layout featured in British Railway Modelling January 2024.
Parkstone
Construction of our new exhibition layout is making excellent progress. It will be a large round-and-round layout representing Parkstone station in Poole and is being constructed in 00 finescale.
Contact
To contact us you can either phone Richard Simpson on 03331 121421, or use the Contact Form.