ROTARY CLUB OF FAREHAM EXHIBITION 2019 (ROTARAIL)

ROTARAIL 2019
Will be held on Saturday 27 April from 10:30 to 17:00.

Fareham College, 
Bishopsfield Road, Fareham, 
Hampshire   PO14 1NH

OPENING TIMES:    10.30am - 5pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £6.00    Children £2.00 

This will be the Seventh Rotarail exhibition held in Fareham College and our aim is to provide some fine layouts in most gauges. Organised by The Rotary Club of Fareham in conjunction with Fareham College. Parking is all on-site and plentiful, everywhere is wheelchair friendly and you can refresh yourself in their superb restaurant. This charity event raised £2,300 for 'Flat Spaces' in 2018 and has raised over £10,500 since it started. For 2019, we will be supporting the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.

Fareham College (Postcode PO14 1NH) can be found on the A27 (The Avenue) about 1/2 mile west  of Fareham Railway Station at its junction with Bishopfield Road. Entrance for vehicles is in Bishopfield Road and the Sports Hall is at the rear of the site. There is pedestrian access to the Sports Hall from The Avenue as well as through the main gate and walking through the William Price Building. There will be Rotary Club stewards in yellow jackets to guide and help you.

List of Layouts Attending:

Pwllheli (P4) left - Jonathan Buckie 

(South Hants MRC) 
This is a model of Pwllheli which is the northern terminus of the Cambrian coast railway in north west Wales. This model is how the station would have appeared between 2000-2012.

Whitmoor (N) - Astolat MRC.
The layout depicts a fictitious station which serves a small village and industrial park. It is notionally at the limit of commuter services up to the big city and thus has two terminus platforms to serve the local commuter trains and two through platforms for ongoing full-formation trains. It also has a modest goods yard and boasts a large MPD to supply loco changes for through services down to the country. 

Loddon Road (OO) - Loddon Vale MRC.
An OO layout 26′ x 2′, fiddle yard to terminus layout. This layout is based on a small branch line with a connecting mineral line. The track has been hand built and it is the proud boast of this group that there is not a straight bit of track on this layout.

Hilldale (N) John Weller.
A British countryside themed layout in N Gauge.
Danbee (O) Richard Burkert (Southampton MRS) 
A beautiful Great Western Railway branch line layout. 

Stoke by Nayland (P4) David Hawkins (South Hants MRC)
A fictitious layout (left) based on the Great Eastern line between Colchester and Stowmarket in Suffolk. The cross country route towards Sudbury was never as successful as anticipated and lived a quiet existence for 100 years until closure in 1967. It did however prove to be a useful avoiding line, taking pressure of the Colchester to Norwich mainline at busy times.  

Dovington Camp (OO) Clevedon & Portishead (right and below). Dovington Camp was developed during WWII as an Army stores & training depot, with quite an extensive rail network. This has been ‘rationalised’ over time but it still maintains a rail link for the movement of fuel, stores, munitions and, of course, a wide variety of military vehicles.
It retains an old MoD loco, or two, for shunting within the depot. 

Friedrichstrasse (HO) Liphook & District MRC - Debut Show 

Lulworth Castle (OO) Paul Steedman -- Based on an idea that Lord Weld of Lulworth set up a light railway to serve Lulworth Cove and replace the narrow gauge tramways west of Norden, (on the Swanage Branch), and it was absorbed into the Southern at the grouping.  Post WWII Military traffic was mainly restricted to supplies and small armoured vehicles as the new tanks were too big to be carried by train. Closure came with the end of the Swanage Branch.

Newport Road (OO) Liam Rasbid 

Addison Park (3mm) Phillip Hutchings 
The unique character of London Transport proved a fitting challenge for 3mm stalwart Phill Hutchings. Going 3mm is challenging enough, but Phill Hutchings decided to make life even harder for himself – he wanted to capture the intricacies and unique character of London Transport. This is not Phill’s first layout to carry the name ‘Addison Park’. His first was set in the 1930s and featured North London Railway steam services and Southern electrics running into a small terminus. 

A new layout moved the setting into the early 1950s London Transport scene, with the first post-war trains running alongside vintage pre-war stock.

Wickhambreux Road (OO9) David Marshall (Salisbury & S Wilts RS) 

Shillingsford (OO) Ron Randall 

Milford on Sea (OO) Mark Clayson 
Steam outline branch line layout based on Southern Region practice in the 50s (left). It's good to have a New Forest area layout that depicts a local railway, even if it is imaginary. It is true that Milford on Sea has never had a Station, but there were schemes put forward in the late 19th and early 20th century to link Milford with the LSWR main line.

Hillbrow (OO9) Steve Fackrell 
Abbeyfield (N) Howard Staniforth 
Kydmore Light Railway (OO9) David Mitchell 
Fordingham (3mm) Hugh Martin - Debut Show 

Ryedown Lane (OO9) Patrick Collins (above and below) 
A small layout depicting part of a rural narrow gauge light railway in the 1930s. Inspiration comes from the narrow gauge and light railways associated with Lieutenant Colonel Holman F. Stephens. The combination of 4mm scale and 9mm gauge track to represent railways of around 2ft gauge is known as 009.

Fawcett Street (OO) Steve Rogers (Southwark & District MRC) 
San Maria Gandia (HO) Ian Milroy & Robin Marie 
Frogpool (O) Andover MRS 

In addition the Hampshire Area Group of the 16mm Society will have a large (40ft x 12ft) layout running steam and battery powered locos on 32mm / 45mm track in the main College Mall.

Nearest Railway Stations:
Fareham [0.3 miles] 
Portchester [3.22 miles] 
Swanwick [3.39 miles] 
Botley [5.12 miles] 

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