Saturday, 16 May 2015

RAILEX 2015 -- RISBOROUGH AND DISTRICT MRC [SAT 23rd MAY 2015 -- SUN 24th MAY 2015]

Stoke Mandevillle Stadium,
Stadium Approach, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21 9PP

OPENING TIMES:  SAT 10.30-17.30 SUN 10.00-17.00
ADMISSION:  Adults £8.00    Children £5.00  Family £18.00

Risborough and District MRC
Click on image to visit RAILEX website
RAILEX is a model railway exhibition that brings together the very best layouts and traders in one huge hall at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. 

The emphasis is on quality and Railex has some very large layouts that are not normally seen at other shows, A free vintage bus will run from Aylesbury railway station to RAILEX and return up to every half hour Saturday and every hour on Sunday

Link to halls floor plan here;
http://www.railex.org.uk/Railex2015FloorPlanandStandNumbers.pdf


List of Layouts Attending :
7mm Scale

•82g Templecombe Road Shed, O Gauge, Warley Model Railway Club 82g Group
•Aberbeeg, Scale 7, Simon Thompson,
•Frecclesham, O Gauge, Newport Model Railway Society,
•Grindley Brook, O Gauge, Hillingdon Railway Modellers

1/4inch Scale

•Corris, 9/16inch Gauge, Peter Kazer

4mm Scale

•Black Country Blues, EM Gauge, Staffordshire Finescale Group
•Harton Gill P4 Carlshalton & Sutton MRC
•Warren Lane, OO Gauge, Alan Bevan & Maggie Clark

3mm Scale

•Addison Park, 14.2mm Gauge, Philip Hutchings,
•Ballyconnell Road, 15.75mm Gauge, 3mm Society Irish Group
•Whatlington (SX), 14.2mm Gauge, Peter Bossom,
•Portsea, 12mm Gauge, Paul Hopkins

2mm Scale

•Loch Tat, N Gauge, Adrian Lambourne
•Melton Mowbray (North), N Gauge, John Spence & Steve Weston
•ST Blazey, 2mm Scale, John Greenwood
•William Smith Wharf, 2mm Scale, Jerry Chifford



Sunday, 10 May 2015

OO GAUGE DJH KIT "N" CLASS SOUTHERN REGION


DJH KIT 
4mm "OO" GAUGE "N" CLASS 
SOUTHERN REGION No. 1412


The first 65 of the class were built with the standard SECR right hand drive, however a further 15 engines numbered 1400 to 1414 were built between 1932 and 1934, with U1 Chimneys and domes (U1 domes were lower), 4000 gallon tenders with a step in their footplate, and some of this batch had the by-then Southern standard left hand drive. 











Monday, 4 May 2015

ASSOCIATION OF LARGER SCALE RAILWAY MODELLERS 2015 READING SHOW

SATURDAY 9TH MAY 2015
The Association Annual Reading Show    10am - 4.30pm
The Rivermead Centre, Reading, RG1 8EQ
Admission: ALSRM Members  Free
Non member Adult £9.00  (£8.00 for approved societies)  
Accompanied children (under 14s) and partners Free.

The original larger scale model railway show now in its 14th year has exhibits from S scale to 5" Gauge including 7 MM, Gauge 1 and G Scale. Demonstrators, society stands and bring & buy. The largest exhibition of its kind in the UK.


The location is only ten minutes' walk from Reading Mainline (25 Minutes from Paddington) and buses 22 & 24 from Reading station.

For those of you who haven't been before, a show not to be missed. There is a trade hall and a layout hall. The bring & buy occupies an additional side room with some other smaller stands. There should be something for everyone interested in the larger scales.
Refreshments, including a bar with real ale, are also available at the venue.

At least 14 layouts and over 70 traders in attendance this year so plenty to occupy yourselves with;

Layouts 0 gauge
Bankfield Road
Bristol Goods Shed (Broad Gauge)
East Dean
Great Train Robbery
Lough
Normandy Junction
Pistyll - Craig - Ddu
Stodden Hundred
Mole End (0n30)
East Midlands Test Track

Layouts in other scales
Beamish Colliery - G Scale
Blackgang - Gauge 3
Llanfair - S Scale
Invicta Track - Gauge 1

Here are a few photo's for the EAST DEAN layout which was previously exhibited by Hillingdon Railway Modellers.