BRISTOL O GAUGE GROUP 2018 EXHIBITION [BOGG 2018]

ARUN QUAY

Bristol 0 Gauge Group -- 2018 Exhibition
Sunday 28th January 2018

LOCATION
University of the West of England (uwe)
Filton Road, Bristol, BS34 8QZ

OPENING TIMES:  10.00am -- 4.00pm
ADMISSION:  Adults £9.00
[£7.00 for Gauge 0 Guild members on production of a valid Guild Membership card.]

All Wives / Partners & children under 14 are admitted Free.
     
The exhibition is held annually on the last Sunday in January. It is a mix of 70+ traders, up to 10 layouts & demonstrators giving advise on the required skills to fulfil your modelling requirements.

The event supports the Children's Hospice South West charity, in 2017 the show and it's wonderful visitors were able to donate £1,450.00 to this cause so if you can please give generously again this year.

The following layouts have accepted our invitation to attend the 2018 exhibition.

Arun Quay [top picture], by Mr G. Gravett, a Mid Sussex Branch Line

Eight Bay Halt, by Mr C. Heard. A Midland Railway branch line set in the 1914-1918 period.

Bristol Goods Shed, by Mr P Boyce. A Broad Gauge / Standard Gauge of the 1845 / 1870 period.

A collection of Early Hornby 0 Gauge Models, by Ms R. Strong supported by the HRCA.

Hospital Gates, by Mr N. Ripley, early BR in the 1950's.

Treloar Sidings, by Luton MRC, a Cornish Railway scene.

Kingsbury [Pic below], by Barhnill MRC, a BR[W] line in the 1948's.

Berkeley Valley Rail Road, by Mr J Keylock, depicting a 30inch American narrow gauge line.

KINGSBURY

GETTING HERE:

Nearest Railway Stations:
   Filton Abbey Wood [0.63 miles] 
   Bristol Parkway [0.92 miles] 
   Patchway [2.01 miles] 

Maps;

Please use the NORTH ENTRANCE, using the Coldharbour Lane entrance will take you into the main University complex which is ONE BIG 1 way system, and you will end back where you entered.
Note that Car Parking on Sunday is Free. 

EGHAM AND STAINES MODEL RAILWAY SHOW 2018

Egham & Staines Model Railway Show
Saturday 20th January 2018

LOCATION:
Strode's College, High Street, 
Egham, Surrey TW20 9DR

OPENING TIMES:  10-30 am 5-00 pm
ADMISSION:  
Adults £6.00  Concessions £5.00  
Children £3.00  Family £15.00

This is a local exhibition for me so nice start to the year it's in a bigger venue now too in Strode's College and this has all the modern facilities you would expect including wheel chair friendly as well as the use of college catering facilities.

A new venue with all the stands in one hall easy accessible for all with ample parking.

Layouts for 2018

Colnebourne OO -- The Society's own Finescale layout.  Still under development.  The recent scenic work is most noticeable but many other developments have been under the baseboard. More Details Here

Hummer Road OO -- The Society's propriety layout using Peco code 100 "OO" track modern image stock with visiting steam and occasional overseas visitor.  More Details Here

Sabins End -- 3 mm scale.  A small country terminus with stone buildings could be set in Dorset using SR and GWR, or with LNER and LMS stock in Yorkshire.  Rolling stock is  modified Tri-Ang and Gem & Kitmaster kits.  Video here
Drive a train -- This a layout for our junior visitors, who can drive the trains.
Arigna Town --  An Irish broad gauge layout;  a fictitious branch on the Sligo, Leitrim & Counties Railway in NW Ireland built to the correct 5' 3'' gauge, almost every thing on the layout is scratched built.  Video Here
Clayton West OO -- A modern image layout based on the premise that a government funding was made available to regenerate the area. 

• Clayton West closed to traffic in 1983 with the closure of the associated colliery. This layout is based on the premise that government funding was made available to regenerate this area, resulting in a shopping village, new homes and businesses on the colliery site. 
• Electrification of the branch from the main line would have been instituted in the early 1990s, allowing services to run through from both Manchester and Leeds, though cost restrictions have meant that only the bay platform is energised.The station occupies the site of the colliery sidings, rather than being a rebuild of the existing station, as the land there would have been sold for redevelopment. In addition to the shopping complex, behind the station, there is a distribution centre, which variously handles parcels or vans, depending on the operator's whim! 
• There is sufficient siding space to accommodate engineer's vehicles, locomotives resting between duties, spot traffic flows and weekend stabling. The layout uses DCC (a Lenz Compact system), with traditional 12V control retained for the points, signals and lighting. 
• The overhead centenary is made from modified Sommerfeldt parts and steel wire. The layout uses a great many ready-to-use building components and attempts to portray the last year of the nationalised network, with a wide variety of locomotive types and liveries. The points are Peco code 75, but the plain track is C&L, giving a much better representation of scale sleeper spacing, even within the compromises inherent in OO.​

Little Hister O -- A layout representing the Southern (LSWR) branch line terminating on the south coast supporting a thriving seaside town.  More Photos Here

Garsdale Head N -- this is a layout based on Garsdale high in the Pennines near the Yorkshire/Cumbria border operating in the post privatisation era showing both steam, deisel locomotives and DMUs seen on the Settle and Carlisle railway.  Photo here​

Trowland S -- This is an "S" scale a ratio of 1:64 (3/16in to 1ft) layout the M&GN never had a small branch terminus but this is what might have been set some were in North Norfolk.  More Photos Here

​Traders for 2018

• ABC Models - www.abcmodels.co.uk/
• Addlestone Models - www.addlestone-models.co.uk/​
• Bob Hodges Transport Videos - bhtransportdvds.co.uk/
• Freestone Models - www.freestonemodel.co.uk/
• J B Model Storage Solutions - www.stores.ebay.co.uk/JBs-Model-World
• Junction 10 Trading - junction-ten.co.uk/
• P & G Engineering - www.facebook.com/pg/2016railways/about/?ref=page_internal
• Squires Tools - www.squirestools.com/
• Videolines - railwayvideo.co.uk/
• Yetoushka Photography - www.facebook.com/YetoushkaPhotography/?pnref=about.overview
• 3mm Scale Models - www.3smr.co.uk/​

FIRST RAILTOUR OF THE NEW YEAR -- THE SEVERN AGGREGATOR

The Severn Aggregator

13/01/2018

Saturday 13th January, 2018

A LEISURELY AND INTERESTING RAILTOUR HIGHLIGHTING THREE FREIGHT BRANCHLINES, AND OTHER LOOPS AND SPURS, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SEVERN ESTUARY.

The day starts with pick ups from the South Midlands, through the heart of the West Midlands to Gloucester, from where a circular itinerary commences. With Goods Loops and sidings featuring throughout the day. We have selected three freight branch lines as specific highlights:

    Westerleigh - with its oil terminal nestling against the M4 (ex LMS)
    Machen - another stone quarry railhead (once part of the Brecon & Merthyr)
    Sharpness - retained for nuclear traffic (ex Severn & Wye Joint)

Motive power for the day is based on a DB Cargo class 66 trunking Banbury to Gloucester and back, then a DB Cargo class 60 around Severnside with the 66 assisting.

On board there will be Gricers Grill hot food and buffet service, real ales plus sales stand and charity raffle.

The following routing beyond, and back to, Gloucester has been requested:

Via Gloucester Down Goods Loop - Gloucester (reverse) - Standish Jn - Yate South Jn - Westerleigh Yard (reverse) - Yate South Jn - Yate Middle Jn (reverse) - Bristol Parkway - via Pilning Down Goods Loop - Severn Tunnel Junction - Newport - Park Jn - Machen Quarry (reverse) - Park Jn - Newport - via Up Relief - Severn Tunnel Junction - via Lydney Up Goods Loop - Gloucester via Up Relief - Haresfield Down Goods Loop - Berkeley Road Jn - Sharpness (reverse) - Berkeley Road Jn - Haresfield Up Goods Loop - Gloucester (reverse) - via Up Goods Loop - Barnwood Jn.

 

Estimated Timings
Joining Stations	Depart	Return
Banbury	0700	2040
Leamington Spa	0720	2020
Dorridge	0740	2000
Birmingham Snow Hill	0800	1940
Stourbridge Jn	0825	1915
Kidderminster	0840	1900
Worcester Shrub Hill	0905	1835
Cheltenham Spa	0930	1810
Gloucester	1000	1800

Fares	Adult	Junior	Party of 4
Standard Class	£98.00	£49.00	£372.00
First Class	£139.00	£99.00	£536.00

Private 'Table for Two' seats are available at a supplement of £28 per person in First Class.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 [LET'S MAKE IT A BETTER ONE]

Time to kick off another year, a big welcome to 2018 may it be twelve amazing months for you and yours. 

I know for me it will be a busy one with a change of office location to Central London on the horizon but we'll still have plenty of railway and modelling related events and days out to plan for and enjoy. While this blog has outlived its original remit, focusing on Dad's models, I enjoy it and plan to keep it going for as long as I can with hopefully more news and events throughout the year as well any more days out I can manage. 

As I still have a few of Dads models to display I hope to get these out for a run a few times a year, am also considering getting a few bits of N Gauge again which I used to collect and build layouts, the advantage here being that they do not take up a lot of space, but so far they appear to be very expensive and might limit myself to a few shunters and wagons and make a small shunting yard layout, will see what I can do later in the year with that idea. 

Trips out to Swanage, York or somewhere similar would be great ideas for long weekends away this year. Try and attend a few exhibitions and open days too if we can. Whatever happens make it fun, enjoy life and travels be entertained and indeed entertaining too in all you do.