As a group the ACTMRS is actively involved in the creation of new layouts. These layouts are joint efforts between any interested club members.

We currently have 3 Layouts for the Exhibition circuit:

Little Austria Little Austria

is a HOe narrow guage exhibition layout based on a European outline. It includes a working coal loader, detailed villages and country scenes, and a dock where the coal is transported to and loaded onto a waiting ship.

Twelfth Street at Box Hill Twelfth Street Yard

is an eastern U.S. outline exhibition layout in HO scale, designed around a busy city scene. It features a double-track mainline, a classification yard, a tramway, and several industries to make the interchange of traffic interesting. The layout has won several awards, and was featured in the July 2005 issue of Continental Modeller Magazine.

Yendys Yendys

is our latest exhibition layout. It is an Australian outline HO scale layout based on a western Sydney setting, and includes a busy double-track suburban mainline 'under wires'. Being a main line out of Sydney, country and interstate freight and passenger trains can also be seen. The layout also features a secondary local freight line, a passenger carriage yard and maintenance facility, and other small industries served be the railway.

And we have a single permanent layout that is stored in our old railway carriage at the ARHS.

Van Layout

Incorporates both OO/HO and HO scale narrow gauge track, and was designed to allow each member to try new skills and techniques. We hold a work session on the last Sunday of each month, and a session purely devoted to running trains on the second Sunday of each month.

Also a number of our members have layouts both for home use and for the exhibition circuit.