The protoype station is just a few miles from the club rooms on the mothballed line from Bletchley to Oxford. The Bletchley-Claydon Junction section is currently mothballed, whilst the Claydon Junction-Bicester section is retained for freight; Bicester Town-Oxford is used by passenger trains (operated by operated by Chiltern Railways) and will soon be connected to the Chiltern mainline as part of the proposed new Marylebone – Oxford service. The entire line from Bicester-Bedford (via Bletchley) is expected to be re-opened as part of the East-West Rail development.
Local train on the branchline
Once the junction for the lines to Banbury Merton Street (via Buckingham ) and the terminus of the Metropolitan Railway (later London Underground) services from Baker Street, the model is operated in the immediate pre-2nd World War period.
Originally built in the 1970′s, the layout was stored for some 10 years before being installed into Bletchley Park. With the electrics and trackwork fully operational, attention is at present being focused on restoring the scenery.
