BEACONSFIELD MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION -- SATURDAY 6th JULY 2019

ADDRESS:
The Beaconsfield School
Wattleton Road, Beaconsfield, 
Buckinghamshire   HP9 1SJ

OPENING TIMES:  10.30am-5pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £5.00      Children £2.50   

Their 52nd Exhibition, being held once again in the now regular 'First Saturday of July' slot, will feature 21 layouts, along with full trade support. Free Parking available and less than five minutes drive from M40 Juct.2 - fully signposted on the day.  Exhibits include Ealing Road and William Street Yard (finalist) as seen on the Great Model Railway Challenge TV Programme. Free admission to wheelchair users as there isn't easy access to the stage area - the rest is wheelchair friendly.

There will be 21 layouts on show, covering all the popular gauges and as well as the usual UK railways, representing both the American and European Continents. There will be two layouts which were seen on the Great Model Railway Challenge TV programme - the 'Fawley Flyers' layout 'William Street Yard' as seen in the finals, being exhibited for the first time, and 'Ealing Road' from the 'Missenden Modellers' among the layouts on show. We should also have at least 10 Traders, offering a wide range of products, who should be able to cater for most of your needs. The club's popular own secondhand sales stand will also be in full swing. Because we are using the stage area this year, wheelchair users will be admitted free to recognise their lack of access to the stage (reached via steps). Access to the rest of the exhibition should not prove to be a problem. We have links with the Bekonscot Model Village (the oldest model village in the world) which has an extensive Gauge 1 outdoor railway. This will be open all day on 6th July and is only a short drive away from the exhibition, allowing a full day out for the family by visiting both events. Discount available for those visiting both the exhibition and model village. Our extensive professional catering is well known for it's quality and wide choice of food on offer.

List of Layouts Attending

Addison Park “3mm” -- The unique character of London Transport modelled in 3mm and means that nearly everything here is scratch-built. A popular layout on the exhibition circuit and beautifully detailed. [pic above, by Phill Hutchings]
Bamfylde “N”
Bradfield Gloucester Square “OO”
Brinklow “N”
Cheffley “OO”

Clayton West
“OO” Gauge 4mm Scale -- Clayton West (left) was based on a station that 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.  [by Mark Lambert]
Elmwood Yard “HO” -- an American 'Switching' layout running with DCC built by the Little Layout Co.
Frampton on Severn “OO”
Great Bardfield “EM”

Kidmore Dark End (right) “OO” -- there have been many different Kidmore layouts and designs over the years this appears to be the most recent incarnation. Based on that familiar location of “nowhere in particular”, the layout represents that tired and dirty rail yard behind a row of terraced two ups / two downs. These are now all empty, semi derelict, & awaiting the demolition crew.  All that remains of any life is at the end of the street where a builder’s merchants still maintains an ever diminishing trade.
Mulldale “O-16.5”
Old Elm Park “O”
Rossiter Drive “OO”

Rotherbridge Goods 00 gauge 1950's shunting layout (left).  
San Maria Gandia “HO”
Thornfield “OO”
Trowland “S”
Vale View “O”

Whatlington “3mm”  The example above shows Peter Bossom’s ‘Whatlington’ a 3mm gauge layout, which depicts the station of a small town, with a goods trains delivering gypsum from a local mine. While Whatlington does exist as a village in East Sussex, and the London-Hastings main line does pass by the village this layout has been made into a larger town with a station building that is an accurate scale replica of the operational Stonegate station, two stops further up the line, made after extensive photographic research. [Peter Bossom]
William Street Yard “OO” -- as already mention this is one of the fine layouts shown in the recent model railway program and is being exhibited for the first time. 'Fawley Flyers'

Nearest Railway Stations:
Beaconsfield [0.52 miles]
Seer Green [1.55 miles]
Bourne End [3.45 miles]
Gerrards Cross [4.01 miles]

MAP Off Junc 2 M40 [Sat Nav use HP9 1SJ]