HILLINGDON RAILWAY MODELLERS OPEN DAY -- SAT 27th AUGUST 2016

The next confirmed date for the hall is on Saturday 27th August, I will update the site when the others are confirmed but they tend to be every couple of months. 

Yiewsley Baptist Church
74 Colham Avenue
West Drayton
UB7 8HF

* the entrance is at the side of the church down a path and the doors at the end should be open, don't try and enter the main doors of the church. 

These are excellent events laid on by the members of the society, but we must stress they are NOT exhibitions, but an Open Day to show off their various layouts and test tracks, and an opportunity to see many fine models running. 



Visitors are more than welcome to bring their own stock and give them a run there is a small cover charge to contribute to the cost of the Church Hall and refreshments are on sale throughout the day. 

Doors open from 10am and there's activity throughout the day until about 4pm. 

Here's a few pictures from some of last years Open Days, though I personally tend to focus on the O Gauge track there are also Test Tracks available for OO and N Gauge too. 

 

People will bring a wide variety of stock to run, nearly all are kit built though and the skills / detail is incredible. 

Everyone will get their turn I promise.

This picture gives a good idea of the size of the O Gauge test track, you can give your models a really good work out here.


This can also transform into an exhibition layout called Grindley Brook a scenic section replaces the long straight down the back.

HOW TO GET THERE:
If you are Travelling by Car

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Nearest Railway Stations :

West Drayton [0.34 miles]

O GAUGE CLASS Q6 [BR No. 63381]

LNER CLASS Q6 [0-8-0]
BR No. 63381

The Q6 was an un-glamourous freight workhorse that plied the tracks of the north east of England for 50 years. Remarkably, along with the class J27s, it was one of the very few pre-Grouping steam locomotives to survive right up to the end of steam on British Railways.

HISTORY

a) Design and Construction

63395 at Houghton Colliery 1967 63395 working at Houghton Colliery in 1967. Maurice Johnson.
Wilson Worsdell introduced the first T class 0-8-0 on the North Eastern Railway in 1901, but Vincent Raven carried on the development of the T1 when he designed the superheated outside cylinder class T2 0-8-0s for handling the heavy goods trains of the North Eastern Railway. A total of 120 engines were built at the NER’s Darlington Works between 1913 and 1918. An engine was produced that could be driven all out - full regulator and full forward gear – for indefinite periods at anything up to mineral train speeds. In 1915 examples of the class had undergone trials on 700 ton trains between Newport and Shildon, putting up some impressive performances and comparing very favourably with the then newly introduced electric locomotives working that line.

The T2s, or Q6s as they were later classified by the London and North Eastern Railway and British Railways, proved to be extremely successful, carrying on a fine NER tradition for freight haulage right up until the demise of steam in the North East in 1967. As a measure of their success, the basic design of the locomotive was never altered, though some engines – including 63395 – received tenders from the famous three cylinder NER Atlantics. As class T2 No.2238, 63395 was completed by the NER at Darlington North Road Works on 3rd November 1918, one of eight built that year.

[Yes I did spot one of the lamps is about to fall off the front, thanks.]

b) Service

Following completion, 2238 was sent to Gateshead for running-in and allocated to Blaydon depot where it remained for 25 years. Its first re-allocation as part of a large wartime reshuffle was to Newport (Middlesbrough) allocations also followed at Darlington, West Hartlepool, and Hull Dairycoates, preceded six years allocated to Selby depot. 

On 14th June 1959 63395 was transferred once more to Darlington Bank Top, and then to Consett, before the engine was finally sent to Sunderland South Dock on 23rd May 1965. From here the Q6 worked south to Vane Tempest, Seaham, Teesside and South Hetton, and northwards to the Tyne, ironically ending its days where they had begun almost 50 years before. 63395 was the final Q6 to be overhauled at Darlington Works in September 1965 and, along with 63387 of Hartlepool shed, was the last Q6 in service. Following withdrawal, on 9th September 1967, 63395 was moved into store at Tyne Dock shed pending preservation.

TINKERS PARK -- MODEL RAILWAYS PLUS

Sat 6th August 2016 - Sun 7th August 2016

Tinkers Park
Main Road, Hadlow Down
East Sussex TN22 4HS


OPENING TIMES:  SAT and SUN 10am-5pm
ADMISSION:  Adults £6.00   Children £2.00    
Concessions £6.00 

The entrance fee includes rides on steam/diesel hauled passenger trains on Great Bush Narrow Gauge railway; mini passenger carrying railway and traction engine trailer rides.

Harveys beer tent, light refreshments, fairground/dance organ museum. Free bus service both days.

This annual model railway exhibition and narrow gauge railway gala is an extremely popular event for children and adults alike. We always aim for that little bit extra, with traction engine trailer rides, music in the Organ Museum and a bus "special" on the Sunday the event really has earned the "plus" in the title!

Model Railways plus will take place on Saturday August 6th and Sunday August 7th 2016. Please note that the bus event will be Sunday 7th only. As usual a free connecting bus service will be available on both days.

Tinkers Park is situated on the A272 to the east of Hadlow Down village in East Sussex.


List of Layouts Attending :

O Gauge / 7mm
Newchapel Junction - 0 Gauge - 23' X 54' 
Arnold Layne - 0 Gauge - 9' X 2' 
Peterstown - 0 Scale - 12' 

Slindon Vale Rlwy - 7mm Scale - 12' 2' 

Newchapel Junction

OO Gauge
Stourcombe - 00 Gauge - 10' X 7' 
Ouse Valley Cement Works - 00 Gauge - 8' 
Aldingbourne Central - 00 Gauge - 12' X 4' 
Trenance Downs - 00 Gauge - 20' X 5' 
Ashington - 00 Gauge - 12' X 2' 
Trenance - 00 Gauge - 12' X 15' 
Gas Lane - 00 Gauge - 4'8' X 1'4' 
Wolfdale - 00 Gauge - 18'

Trenance Downs

OO9 / N Gauge
Lydford - OO9 Gauge - 2' X 1'4' 
Awliscombe - OO9 Gauge - 4' X 2' 
Dufftown OO9 - 7' X 2' 
Holmill - OO9 - 7'6' X 6' 

Engaine-Cum-Hardy - N Gauge - 5' X 3'3' 
Lookout Mountain - N Gauge American - 9' X 3' 
Oakley - N Gauge - 13' X 6' 


Others
Pike's Pits - 12mm Scale - 15' X 2'4' 

Broke Brick Mountain - G Scale 45mm Gauge - 33' X 9'