St JEAN SUR MER

RESEAU DE LA COTE DE PICARDIE ~ PICARDY COAST RAILWAY

FRENCH METRE GAUGE IN 1/22.5 SCALE

WINNER OF THE BERNARD RICHMOND MEMORIAL PLAQUE  YORK 2008.

WINNER OF THE BEST LAYOUT TROPHY, BAKEWELL JUNE 2009

ADVANCE NOTICE - FOLLOWING IT'S FINAL EXHIBITION AT SPALDING IN 2010 St JEAN sur MER WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE, AS WILL ALL THE LOCO'S AND STOCK. IT HAS FIVE EXHIBITIONS BOOKED BETWEEN NOW AND THEN (see diary page); IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE LAYOUT OR ANY OF THE STOCK PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME FOR FURTHER DETAILS AT peter.smith630@ntlworld.com .

IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING EXHIBITION BOOKINGS FOR THIS LAYOUT.

PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKINGS CAN ONLY BE ACCEPTED UNTIL NOVEMBER 2010.

St JEAN sur MER at Railexpo, Paris, November 2008.

At Railexpo we were delighted to meet Bernard Deluard who brought his Gecomodel Locotracteur and modified LGB Corpet Louvet 030 'Lulu' for a run on St Jean...........

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K98wcAFqBAQ

THIS LAYOUT WAS FEATURED IN 'CONTINENTAL MODELLER' IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2007, AND IN THE MAY 2008 ISSUE OF THE FRENCH MAGAZINE 'VOIE LIBRE' .

FEATURED IN 'EUROPEAN RAILWAYS'  OCTOBER & DECEMBER 2006.  

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AvrCgTpJKsM

St Jean sur Mer is an imaginary seaside town on the coast of Picardie in Northern France, standing on the south bank of the estuary of the River Authie. The layout represents the terminus of a metre gauge line serving the town, with a standard gauge line also serving the quayside in the manner of the nearby Baie de Somme line at St. Valery sur Somme, the inspiration for the layout. The period is the 1950's. The line makes a junction with the SNCF Calais to Paris main line at Verton, with a long branch running south to Le Crotoy where it connects with the Baie de Somme system.

A network of metre gauge lines is imagined to have served the area south of Berck, on the border of Picardie and the Boulogne region to the north, known collectively as the 'Picardy Coast Railway', or 'Reseau de Cote de Picardie', including a 60cm gauge tramway to Fort Mahon Plage.  Such lines often survived into the 1950's, especially in seaside areas where tourists brought welcome extra traffic.

The layout is 11m Scale, (1/22.5), and features hand built trackwork including dual gauge pointwork, kit and scratchbuilt loco's and rolling stock and scratch built buildings.

The total size is 32' by 3' including an 8' fiddle yard. The layout is operated from the front, and comes complete with barriers. To transport St Jean requires a hire van and we need four operators; for that reason we can only consider invitations to two day shows or longer.

THE INSPIRATION!