This is the home to all moles, ladybirds and mice but most of all it is the home of the Bramble Bottom Rail System, or BBR for short. With a small school house beneath the tree stump and a dozen or so houses, life goes on without incident. Well! Except when Edwin Earwig sat on Malcolm Mouses’s blackberry pie. Edwin still can’t get the stain out of his trousers.

Every day the BBR express train delivers mail for the Snail Xpress delivery service and then takes passengers to Lower Bramble Bottom to do their shopping or to work in the honey factory run by Brian Bumble Bee! The goods trains also regularly deliver strawberries, blackberries and other fruits plus building materials for use by the locals.

This unique layout is the brainchild of Brian Rawlings known so well for his Grumstick and Dipplewick Railway. Sadly Brian died in October 1999 but good friends completed the finishing touches and the layout is already very popular on the exhibition circuit. We hope it is enjoyed as much as Brian enjoyed building it.

The layout is 10mm to the foot, 16.5 gauge, with Peco track, seep electromagnetic uncoupling system and bell cranks and rods to operate the automata.