RISBOROUGH & DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB - 2019 Model Railway Exhibition

Risborough & District Model Railway Club
 -- Risex 2019 Model Railway Exhibition
 -- Saturday 23rd February 2019

ADDRESS:
Community Centre, Wades Park
Stratton Road, Princes Risborough,
Buckinghamshire HP27 9AX

OPENING TIMES:  10am to 5pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £4.00        Children £2.00

The whole of the Community Centre in Princes Risborough is taken over one day in the spring each year. Allowing local modellers to display their layouts and model making. Large car park adjacent to the Community Centre. Half hourly bus service from Aylesbury or High Wycombe. Ten minute walk from Chiltern Railway station with regular trains from Birmingham, Banbury, Aylesbury or London Marylebone, 25 minutes drive from M40 Junction 6 via B4009. Light refreshments will be available.

One of the layouts that is attending is 'Ealing Road', this was built by the Missenden Modellers for the Channel 5 TV series 'The Great Model Railway Challenge', which you may have seen back in October/November of 2018, the theme of their heat was Movies and the team opted to base theirs on a medley of the Ealing Studios films of the early fifties, regarded by many as the high point in British Cinema.

List of Layouts Attending :

7mm Scale.
Central Works O Gauge, Exhibited by Luton Model Railway Club, the location is based on the intense network of sidings that once existed at Longbridge, Birmingham. This enables us to run a great variety of locos and stock from the late 1950s through to the 1960s.

Beldam Road, Grange West Tramway

Grange West Tramway (left), O-16.5 Gauge, Exhibited by John Dean, the layout isa fictitious narrow gauge system situated in the middle of England. It is modelled in O-16.5 (7mm) and depicts Beldam Road station on a non tramway section.

Canute Road Quay

4mm Scale.
Canute Road Quay (right), OO Gauge, Exhibited by Graham Muz Muspratt, Canute Road Quay is a dock / quayside layout located somewhere around the Canute Road area within Southampton Docks operated primarily by the Southern Railway between 1946 to 1949. Occasionally it can be operated in different eras such as early or late British Railways periods.

Ealing Road, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Missenden Modellers, built For the Channel 5 TV Series 'The Great Model Railway Challenge', the theme of the heat was movies and the team opted to base theirs on a medley of the Ealing Studios Films of the early fifties.

Mount Road Shed, OO Gauge, Mark Bacon, Set in the Late 1960s, almost at the end of steam, see this fictitious shed that has been created based upon Mark's early childhood memories of Leicester.

Norwood Road (above), OO Gauge, Exhibited by Simon Paley, with Norwood Road set in the 21st Century, it remains unchanged since BR days, services are now in the hands of Southern and London Overground, while also seeing some Thameslink services as the route is used as an occasional diversionary route.

Ottilies, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Andrew Hicks. This is a double sided layout set in Yorkshire during the LNER period, with a town station scene on one side and a county station scene on the other, the whole layout folds in half for storage.

3.5mm Scale.
Lemmington Park (below), HO Gauge, Exhibited by Western Model Railway Society, a station in the outskirts of Chicago, on what was once a through line but now truncated to serving as an outer-suburban terminus receiving push-pull trains as used by Metra.

Salinas Valley, HO Gauge, Exhibited by John Baggaley, This is a small US switching layout, with relatively modern rail served industries. It is assumed to be situated on the outskirts of a city in the 1960/70s.

1:148 Scale.
Whitmoor, N Gauge, Exhibited by Astolat Model Railway Circle , the layout has a continuous run, via a fiddle yard, on a double main line through the station. Additional terminal platforms at one end of the station are intended for branch line traffic and suburban traffic to the 'Big City'. The layout includes a goods yard and locomotive depot.

Directions to the Exhibition

By Train
Princes Risborough is served by a fast, frequent Chiltern Railways service from London Marylebone in the south to Birmingham Snow Hill or Banbury in the North and from Aylesbury via the branch. Taxis are available from the station forecourt. From the station, go down Station Approach, turn right into Station Road, then immediately turn left into Manor Park Avenue, then take the second left into Stratton Road follow this until you reach the Community Centre.

By Bus from Aylesbury/Wycombe Bus Stations
Catch the 300/X30 service bus and alight at the Market Square in Princes Risborough, then it's just a 5 minute walk, down Church Street and into Stratton Road, follow the path round the Mount Carpark and the Community Centre is the first on the right.

Nearest Railway Stations:
Princes Risborough [0.47 miles]
Monks Risborough [0.73 miles]
Little Kimble [2.31 miles]
Saunderton [3.42 miles]

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