Project 45C

​What is Project 45C?

The objective is to generate funds for wounded Royal Marines. There is a charity for this purpose managed by The Royal Marines Charitable Fund, a part of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charitable Trust. I am now a nominated fund raiser.

The outcome of Project 45C is a 34' x 13’6” layout comprising 10 boards of 7' x 3' and 2 boards of 6'6”. Laid out in a rectangle of 4 x 2 x 4 x 2. One part of the layout is being adapted to allow a wheelchair user to help operate a part of the layout from the outside. This will be part of the external shows in shopping malls that will accept us.

The generic theme of the layout is to run freight trains for 2 years. There are no stations or public buildings purely a railway infrastructure that supports the carrying of all sorts of freight. To this end there needs to be an interactive component for children with a parent and or adults to be able to pay for the privilege to move points and create consists for moving around the layout. This would all be supervised by the project team who would control the digital locos. Another idea is to ask for small donations to choose a particular steam loco or diesel to run around one of the two running tracks. Choice and lots to see working is the idea behind this, not a specific location or era. Public participation will be in venues outside of the traditional exhibition circuit.

This is a project continually work in progress as both enhancements, embellishments and modular changes are made over time.

For example working signals are already going onto the layout.

Phase one - Freight

Phase two - EMU and DMU

Phase three - loco hauled passenger