"Greenfields Jubilee Harriers" model railway layout diorama - part 2

In April this year, I decided at last to model the fictitious athletics club "Greenfields Jubilee Harriers" as though it existed during the 1980s and 90s, when I attended athletics events as a spectator.

On 20 April, I opened my box of sports and travel memorabilia in my spare room and unpacked a few of my stash of athletics programmes which had lain forgotten for years.

That very same day I first revealed them on a model railway web forum, I only later posted this image on Facebook.
It was a random selection consisting of five examples to show the variety of events I attended.

In parallel with disclosure of my experiences initially on Facebook and now here, I started accumulating materials to build a diorama so I could reasonably depict that era.

 

 

 

This is the rail-side view of 1980s/90s "Greenfields Jubilee Harriers" (715 x 297 mm). 

Note the club's more extensively developed, including:

Purpose-built 1950s style club house with "Lord Westgrove's Bar" on first floor (modified Triang-Hornby structure) with 1980s disabled persons' lift addition (white tower, scratchbuilt);

1950s style toilet block (modified Triang-Hornby structure);

"Westgrove Stand" covered spectator area (modified Subbuteo football stand)

The original private railway station "Westgrove Halt" shown in part 1 (the interwar era) fell into disuse and was demolished due to the rise in private transport.

A yuppie using a mobile stands to the right of the main public club house's entrance.

[On this diorama, a degree of imagination is needed, I'm imagining there's a huge car park on site as well as the 400m track finish and field event areas elsewhere]

 

In order to avoid damage to the ends of the railway track, they end 50mm from the edge and special 100mm linking pieces attached to bridge the gaps between boards.

 

 

This is the athletics track side of the club house and toilets.

There's a few athletes waiting for their mates outside the toilets and the club house entrance. Two onlookers are standing on the balcony.

 

 

Here's the spectator stand.

It represents an "open meeting" scenario, 30 years ago, with a few die-hard athletics followers sitting down and cheering, outnumbered by athletes resting and/or chatting.

Yours truly is modelled in his most garish 1980s outfit, wearing a lemon yellow shirt and dark turquoise trousers (I was mistaken for a shop assistant once)

Both model athletes wearing black and white striped kit (Shaftesbury Harriers) were modelled from memory in the mid-1990s for an abortive track and field athletics model layout scene. The tall, well-built white guy who's standing on his own on the left is based on someone I knew at school who competed at a high level.          

 

At long last, I'm now satisfied I've translated into model form something from my past experiences which has turned out to a reasonable standard.