KETTERING AND DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY - 2019 EXHIBITION [SEPTEMBER 14th]

Kettering and District Model Railway Society
   - Annual Model Railway Exhibition
Saturday 14th September 2019

ADDRESS;
Greenfields Primary School
Highfield Road,  Kettering
Northamptonshire   NN14 1JS

OPENING TIMES:  Saturday  10am-4pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £5.00    Concessions £4.00    Family £12.00

This is our second year at Greenfields Primary School after our very successful show in 2018. 
About the K&DMRS
Well like many clubs around the UK, we are a small vibrant group of people whose ages range from the 16 to, well, lets say pensionable!  One of our members was asked by his daughter, "What do you do at your model railway club?" He responded, "Well, we plan and make layouts, chat about model railways and drink tea!" His daughter perhaps tongue-in-cheek, "A bit like the Women's Institute but for men!"

So, if you like drinking tea and have an interest in model railways, come along and see what we do. We are a friendly club whose members range from complete beginners to seasoned modellers. We create railways in miniature, by helping one another to learn new skills to research the prototype, build base boards, track lay and wiring, landscaping, building buildings, signalling and operating the models.

Our layouts cover most gauges and scales, from club layouts, member layouts and lots of guest layouts not seen at our exhibition. Four confirmed layouts have been the subject of features in Railway Modeller magazine over the last year.

List of Layouts Attending:

Blisworth 'O' Gauge (Page header image and left) -- The Stratford-Upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway’s ‘mainline’ ran from Stratford- upon- Avon to Blisworth, where it had its own station (opened 1866) adjacent to the LNWR station. The company operated some 75 miles of track through sparsely populated countryside from Broom Junction in the west and Olney in the east. Passenger service was withdrawn in 1952 and goods in 1965.  In 1853 the station was rebuilt 880 yds to the north, closer to the junction to facilitate changing trains. The station closed on 4 January 1960, and was demolished soon after

Wendsleydale O:16.5 -- Based on a small rural area in the East Midlands. Wendsleydale (right) depicts the Industrial side of model railways, with a narrow gauge railway servicing a small quarry and factory area. At an upper level, you will be able to view a processing plant manufacturing everyday goods that you may recognise. Look out for the animation of some of the workers in the quarry and in the village of Wendsleydale with amusing effect.

Heys Quay OO9 -- (above) is set in the north west of England on the river Heys near where it meets the coast. Small fishing boats unload their catch and other goods some legal some not but the local bobby is watching. All set in the late 50s it has a good passenger service mainly with small locos and coaches. The layout is housed in an under bed storage box.
Great Minion Railway Yes as the name suggests this is a railway featuring the "Minions" And the layout made its exhibition debut at the Great Central Railway Model Event in mid-June, 2018 as a late substitute. The layout had not been finished and operation was limited but still attracted favourable comments plus two invitations for exhibitions in 2019.  The railway is primarily 'driven' by youngsters visiting exhibition. We try to let them drive two locos including the steep bank if time allows. Track One is 'end to end', from Central Station to the scenic end tunnel, via Lakeside Station. The line has two sidings. Track Two is also 'end to end' with the same start and destination but running on a DCC Shuttle Unit. Track Three departs from Minion High Level up a staggering 5% gradient to Minion Mountain Halt, where the are two platform entries. Small certificates are given to the young drivers!

Belbroughton O Gauge -- (left) A branch-line in the late 1950’s.  Belbroughton in North Worcestershire is village in an area bounded by Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Longbridge and Stourbridge. In real life the village never had a railway but this is what could have been if the LMS and GWR had built a line into the town. The line in from Kidderminster fights the contours of the region causing it to enter the station via a rather circuitous route, whereas the line from the LMS at Longbridge takes a shorter route to Belbroughton coming off the Halesowen branch at Rubery. 
Cheriton Bishop
Timber Valley
Elmfield
Squaw Falls

Bankfield Road - is an O Gauge finescale layout, set in 1947-8 on the LMS. It can sometimes be seen with 1952-59 BR stock. A minimum space layout set in the Black Country in the immediate post WWII period. The railways may be about to be nationalised, but this is still the world of the LMS. Small engines shunt a factory siding and a canal wharf, while the occasional passenger waits for the ancient six wheel coaches that make up the train at the tiny station
Ellasweet Beet Factory
Duke's Mine
Magna Park
Danny Figg Micro Layouts
Architectural Models
Hornby Three Rail
Great Central Railway
Sixpenny Handley
Braysdale
Welland Bridge
The Canal Basin

Public Transport 
BUS
There is a half-hourly bus service No.2 from Kettering Town Centre via Kettering Railway Station to within 100 metres of the Model Railway Exhibtion entrance.  No.2 buses leave Horsemarket Bus Stop No.12 at four minutes and thirty-four minutes past the hour. Add on three minutes for arrival at the railway station.  Alight at St. Clements Bus Stop in Highfields Road. The single fare is £1.70 single. Return buses leave at eight and thirty-eight minutes past the hour.

TRAINS
Nearest Railway Stations:
Kettering [0.64 miles]
Wellingborough [5.99 miles]
Corby [7.33 miles]
Market Harborough [10.14 miles]

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