Wakefield Railway Modellers' Society

The year is 1912 and Kingston Regis is having yet another glorious day and the railway is very busy, as usual. It is reputed that the Prince Regent, stayed at the Crown Hotel, a former coaching inn, thus Kingston received the Regis in its name.

As Kingston Regis, although a small prosperous town was not served by the major railway companies, a 2 foot 3 inch narrow gauge line was built in 1902 to connect the town to the nearest main line some eight miles distant.

Enough of the fiction! The model is scaled at 4mm to the foot and uses 9mm as the track gauge and features hand built track and points. Rolling stock and locomotives are all built from kits. All the main buildings have been built by Jane using the Linka Casting System. Although Kingston Regis is fictitious, most of the buildings have been modelled on prototypes. The station building is based on the Portsmouth Arms on the Exeter to Barnstable line and the Crown Hotel is base on the hotel of the same name in Wells, Somerset while the church is loosely based on the one at Caldecott, in Leicestershire.