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There is a progressive relationship between the smaller scales, 2mm:1ft, 3mm:1ft and 4mm:1ft, but a huge gap in size between 4mm:1ft and 7mm:1ft. ‘S’ scale at 4.76mm:1ft fills that gap.
I was first attracted to ‘S’ scale having seen Trevor Nunn's ‘Wicken Fenn’ in the late 1970s, and later his inspirational Great Eastern layout ‘East Lynn and Nunstanton’ (BRM March and April 2012). At the time, I doubted I had sufficient skill to work in the scale, but a chance conversation with Trevor in 2016 led to the acquisition of a set of parts for my favourite locomotive, the Brighton ‘Terrier’, which the S Scale Society had commissioned some years ago. I built it, loved working in the scale, and was hooked!
Never having been blessed with enough space, many years ago I built a small LBSCR layout, ‘Alfriston’, in EM gauge, using the folding baseboard design that Peter Denny used for his original Leighton Buzzard station. When I began modelling in 7mm:1ft scale in the late 1980s, I reused the baseboards for an O gauge light railway layout, which, with a fiddle yard, was only 9ft long. This second ‘Alfriston’ was described in the Gauge O Guild's first book of ‘Small Layouts’. This used a small turntable at the platform end to save valuable space. I have a shelf in my modelling room just under 6ft 6in long and, searching for a small project as a test in S Scale, I revived this plan - a third Alfriston’ layout.
Many years ago, I researched the Cuckmere Valley Light Railway, which was planned in the
