Welcome To Moor Boxes
Tiny Worlds In Little Boxes

Hello and welcome to my world of Model Railways.... in Box Files!

Everything on this website features model railways that have been built within standard 'off the shelf' box files. The type you would usually see around offices storing such things as finance reports, staff records and other mundane bits of paper... My boxes are far more fun!

The idea all started whilst trawling through youTube one day. I came across a few micro layouts and then one in a box file - I could try that, thought I... so I did, and discovered how much fun one could have in very small space!

I laid down a few basic ground rules for myself, and in general have stayed with them:

• Each box made must be a self contained scene
• The box retains all four sides and it's lid
• Everything must fit the height of the box (around 65mm)

The boxes can be split into distinct categories:

• Individual Boxes - These are usually Oval layouts, featuring a scene mostly in it's centre. Although one box breaks that rule by not being an oval and having track leave the box!
• The Ivy Line - A set of four boxes joined together with track running through them, this forms the so called 'Ivy Line'. However each box is a completely separate scene.
• The Cleeve Tram Line - A set of four boxes joined together to form a tram line, again each box is a separate scene.
• Twin Boxes - Two boxfiles joined together to create one larger box.
• Box Frames - Small dioramas built into box frames that hang on the wall.
• Micro Layouts - These are not Box Files, but small layouts that I have made

All of the boxes, so far, are modelled in N Gauge (1/148 scale).

Controls and electrics are very simple and all run off analogue controllers.

Please use the menu to explore each of these miniature worlds.