HILLINGDON RAILWAY MODELLERS OPEN DAY PICS

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Had a wonderful day out at the Hillingdon Railway Modellers Open Day which was held on Saturday 31st October, extremely well supported as always and a nice variety of models on display around their extensive O Gauge Test Track. 

Our first couple of pictures attempt to show the size of this test track, 4 main lines with an 8 line "fiddle yard" area. The layout can be easily adapted to an exhibition standard design of similar area, known as Grindley Brook when appearing in that guise as it did at this years Railex show.

To hopefully give a better view and perspective of the size of this running layout I have been able to upload a couple of short videos taken on Saturday. These are available via You Tube here>> Video1 / Video2

There is also a small (Yes of course it's small silly) N Gauge running track available and the OO Gauge was busy too. 




Since my afternoon was spent enjoying the O Gauge display I didn't have that many photo's of these this time around. 







Some wonderful models on display, here's a few that I managed to capture for posterity, note these ones aren't mine but I'll bore you with those later...

Ok here's a few of mine, only able to take a couple of loco's down to the church on the weekend as travelling by buses, the first here I believe is a Great Central Railway Class B2 (ex Class 1) also known as a Sam Fay ... though I don't know fully the background to 'why' it's just something I read on some Railway Modeller forums. Anyway will have a lot more on this one in a separate posting soon, will be researching the history too.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/1294/entry-16473-city-of-lincoln-part-i/

Must also add that the refreshments on offer are awesome too, a bacon roll should never be turned down, and just another good reason to come back again for their final Open Day of this year which will be held on Sat 19th December. 

Will conclude this update with a final few pictures of a pair of my favourite models, Jersey and Caen. They may be small in stature but they do run well albeit slowly, and trotted around the test track in their own good time.