Generally speaking the layout is "era free" although the stock running will usually be late steam / early (ish) diesel.

Full length HST trains in various liveries will sometimes be seen as well as various excursions and heritage composites alongside goods movement.

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The track shown in red is a DC line running as a shuttle with a railcar or single coach train.  The fact it crosses a trestle bridge in the middle of the scenery always peeks interest,

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Where is it?  Good question!  It is somewhere where the imagination can be used and its name originates from a comment made by a good friend of mine along the line that "when it's finished it will give people Summit Else  to look at".

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Because of it's 'generic' design the layout can also be used for running Canadian/American stock.  If required the stock can be changed so that it runs British outline on one day and Canadian / American on the other.

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The entire track is Japanese Kato and the points are all electrically operated from the back using a bank of Kato switches.Additional ballast has been added to the viewing side of the layout and vegetation and discolouring has been added to add realism.  The scenery is scratch built using cardboard, newspapers, PVA glue, plaster bandage and moulded rock segments.  Most of the buildings are made from proprietary kits or purchased/acquired already assembled.  People on the layout are glued into place but all vehicles and many other dressing items are loose and so may not be in the same place two times in a row.  Animals wil be stuck into place both on the roads and fields as well as the hillside scrub.

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Work is currently underway to motorise an emergency helicopter which will hopefully be operated by pushing a button on the front of the layout.  It is currently being unco-operative!

Now showing possibly the largest herd of N Gauge cows on the exhibition circuit!