KING'S LYNN MRC - FIRST MODEL RAILWAY SHOW 2017

This is the first show from the King's Lynn Model railway club. It's good to see new shows on the calendar which demonstrates that the pastime and genre is in rude health. Taking place on Saturday 24th June in the Gaywood Community Centre. Map and directions follow on below. 

OPENING TIMES:
10am - 4pm

ADMISSION:
Adults £5.00    Children £2.00 

At least sixteen layouts representing all the popular scales have accepted invitations to attend including 'Thomas 2' that can be operated by our younger visitors, as well as layouts set in the local area. There will be several traders offering a wide range of products such as books, new and second hand items for the layout as well as tools and electronics for the discerning modeller. Parking is ample and refreshments will also be available throughout the day. Have fun.

List of Layouts Attending :

Thomas 2 
- Modelled in 00 Gauge by Alan Johnson. 
This is based on “Thomas the Tank Engine” with locos and stock to match. Youngsters are offered the opportunity to operate the layout. 

Trowland 
- Modelled in S Scale Gauge by Trevor Nunn. 

The M&GN never had a small branch terminus, but this is what it might have looked like had it done so. 

Cornard 
- Modelled in 00 Finescale by Sudbury Model Railway Club 
and featured in June 2012 edition of BRM. 

Cornard is set between 1960-68, in what was Great Central territory, although it never existed in real life it is based on a cross country single track branch. The goods yard is still busy with commodities for the surrounding area incoming and local produce departing. A factory complex off scene is still rail served and various wagons can be seen shunting to and fro under the aqueduct.

All of the buildings have been scratch-built by members of the club and the stock is fitted with S&W couplings to allow hands free uncoupling. 

Ben Moor Foot Peat Railway 
 - Modelled in 7mm Narrow Gauge by Graham Morfoot. 
The Ben Moor Foot Peat Company would have been situated in North Lincolnshire. 

Trenance Quay 

 - Modelled in N Gauge by Alan Johnson. 

A fictitious location; A continuous circuit serving a busy quayside and china clay sheds. 

Recently restored after years of neglect was built as a small space exercise this "table top" layout demonstrates how much detail and character can be obtained in a limited space with N gauge.  The model owes a little to Cornwall in its concept.

Fullers Wharf 
 - Modelled in 7mm Scale by Malcolm Hine. 
The layout is set in North Derbyshire and attempts to portray an interchange between the Cromford and High Peak Railway, the Peak Forest Tramway and the Peak Forest Canal. 

Ledsam Street Yard 
 - Modelled in 0 Gauge by Colin French. 
Featured in January 2014 edition of Railway Modeller. 
The layout is a fictional micro shunting layout set somewhere in the UK in the Mid 1930s. 

Lincoln (USA) 
 - Modelled in Z Gauge by Dave Dawes. 
Lincoln is Dave's second foray Into Z Gauge after ‘California Coast'. 

East Beckton 
 - Modelled in EM Gauge by Brian Wakeling. 
The layout is a work in progress and questions are welcomed on anything including construction and the back story. 

Fox Hollow 
 - Modelled in N Gauge by Simon Fox. 
A compact N Gauge layout based in the countryside, built and funded solely by Simon himself. 

Nene Sidings 
 - Modelled in 00 Gauge by March & District MRC. 
Nene Sidings is a small freelance layout designed to form a shunting puzzle giving the operator numerous challenges. The layout is set in a fictitious location in the Fens around the Isle of Ely. Feeder track leads into three sidings, points controlled by push / pull rods. All the buildings have been scratch built by club members.

Fenton St Clare 
 - Modelled in 0 16.5 MM by March & District MRC. 
Featured in August 2016 edition of Railway Modeller. 
Fenton St Clare is set in the flatlands of East Anglia where there were several army and air bases. 

Placerville 
 - Modelled in H0n3 by Neville Doe 
Placerville is a location on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad which was built in the 1890s to serve the silver and gold mines in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, USA. 

Bay City Terminal Railroad Maintenance Facility 
 - Modelled in H0 by Bill Tharp 
The BCTR is a freelance micro-layout based on a small American Maintenance Facility in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s/70s. 

Grassland & Wetland Railway 
 - Modelled in G Scale by Glyn Bennett. 
The railway started as a horse-drawn tramway for maintenance and improvement of Fenland washes flood defence and drainage systems. 

Nibley Knoll 
 - Modelled in OO9 by Graham & Caroline Watling.
 -- more images found on this site. 
This layout was designed to show what can be achieved scenically in 4mm scale in the space of a table top.


Nearest Railway Stations :
King's Lynn [1.16 miles] 
Watlington [6.17 miles] 
Downham Market [10.85 miles] 

Local Map:
(Driving Navigation use PE30 4EL)