Scale/Gauge: 4mm Finescale
Size: 24ft by 10ft 6in
Theme: 1966/7 BR
Show Location: Sports Hall

Redbridge Wharf by the Winchester Railway Modellers is based on the location of the now demolished Redbridge Sleeper works on the northern shore of Southampton Water at the mouth of the river Test. There has been wharf in this location for several hundred years and the railways moved into the area in the mid-1800s. Initially the railways used this area as a holding place for materials as the route developed west then moved to the manufacture of sleepers, bridge timbers and cast track components. In the final years the site was used for the assembly of long welded rail sections and the laying out of large complex point work.

The design places the public view across a section of the River Test/Southampton Water as though they are looking from Eling, or more precisely Eling Great March in the middle of the river. This puts the wharf as the centre point with the works behind and Redbridge station and junction to the rear. The junction provides a constant stream of traffic, with a rich mixture of mainline, branch and freight. Redbridge causeway, both rail and road, frame the left hand end of the layout.

The new rail and road causeways and the laying of third rail sets 1965 as the earliest possible operating date, and as such the 1966/1967 appearance is the aim, offering operating flexibility from late steam through to modern image.