HIGH WYCOMBE AND DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY - WYCRAIL 2019

High Wycombe & District Model Railway Society
  - Wycrail 19 - Saturday 2nd November 2019

LOCATION:
The Cressex Community School, 
Holmers Lane, High Wycombe, 
Buckinghamshire   HP12 4UD

OPENING TIMES:  10am to 5pm
ADMISSION:  Adults £7.00    Accompanied under 16 year olds FREE
 
This year's WYCRAIL '19 exhibition will once again take place at the Cressex Community School. With 29 high quality and inspirational model railway layouts, This impressive layout line-up will include British, North American and Continental outline and in a wide range of scales and gauges including Z, 2mm, N, OO, H0, EM, S, 0, G and narrow gauges. Full trade support will be present ranging from tools, kits, electronic components to R-T-R models and books.

While the enthusiasm for the hobby once again getting a boost from the Great Model Railway Challenge on prime time Channel 5 TV, WYCRAIL is delighted that one of last year's competition layouts attending is 'Ealing Road', this was built by the Missenden Modellers team, 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. One of the highlights and impressive features of 'Ealing Road' is use of forced perspective both within the models on the layout itself and within the effective back-scene.

The venue is conveniently close to the M40 Junction 4 and the free vintage bus service will once again be operated between Wycombe Railway Station (Chiltern Line) and Wycombe Town Centre to the Cressex Community School and via the new large park and ride free car park at the Handy Cross Hub.

List of Layouts Attending:
Haversham Central 

N Gauge 1960s BR Transition (pictured right). 
The layout is set loosely in the 1960s Haversham Central depicts a busy town/city and was built by John Dowrick of the SilverFox DCC Model Railway Club. It is a fictitious location in a central position, allowing trains from various regions to have reason to pass through - including steam and diesel. 

Lynth-Haven OO 1940s LMS, (above) A fictitious railway some where on the LMS line, the creator based it on two towns in Scotland having been advised that the design reminded them of that area, hence Lynth Haven was born. The layout was featured in the March 2011 issue of Railway Modeller.

Ilfracombe East OO9 1920s /30's. 

Watch the narrow gauge trains making their way through an imaginary (but curiously familiar!) landscape including an intermediate station, a viaduct and a river bridge to the Ilfracombe terminus of a fictitious branch from Blackmoor. In the creator's world, there was also a connection from Minehead to Barbrook, so the occasional GWR train (with Vale of Rheidol rolling stock) could be seen.

Ealing Road OO BR 1960s. ‘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.
Mothercombe OO 1950s Wr/Sr - Located on the South West coast between Salcombe and Plymouth this fictitious ex GWR station, with SR running rights, is being superbly constructed, under supervision, by their Junior section and has also been used to form part of our Junior Member’s skills learning for their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. It has already been exhibited and well received at our Wycrail exhibition.
Lakebank 3mm 1923/30 LMS
Porlock OO GWR/Br(W)
Portwenn 0 16.5 1920/30 Steam
Thornfield OO 1950s BR(W)

Staffordshire Pottery N 1923/35 LMS, Staffordshire Potteries was built by Gilly North and features a working Pottery in the early 1900s. Smoking bottle kilns, a canal, back-to-back housing, and an open-cast coal mine add to the dirt and grime resulting from the manufacture of the finest porcelain in the world at that time. It won the Visitors 'Best in Show' award at the International N Gauge Exhibition in Stuttgart in November 2017.

Treloare Sidings 0 1950s BR(W) - depicts the terminus of one of the branches that wound their way around the clay producing area north of St Austell in Cornwall, generally ending in remote and barren places.  The facilities comprise a loading dock for the standard open clay wagons and a couple of Nissen huts for storing bagged, high quality clay, and a run round loop. The locomotives for the clay branches were supplied by St Blazey shed that held the standard and lighter classes of pannier tanks and prairie tanks of the 45xx class. The most famous clay branch locos were the LSWR Beattie well tanks, so occasionally the layout is run with one of these locos, and the GWR panniers and prairies are kept out of sight. This layout was formerly owned by the late Alistair George, and is now exhibited by other club members in his memory
Turntable Yard N Steam
Kyle of Lochaish 2mm FS BR Blue
Bristol Goods Shed 7mm FS Broad Gauge Mr/Gwr 1835/75
Burton Bradstock EM BR(W) 1950s
Cotehele Quay 0 Ng
Trinity Dock Street Bridge OO LNER 1939
Feltham Road Mpd OO SR 1950s/ 1960s
Trowland S 1985 Midland /Gn
Whiteleaf Railway G Trams
Belbroughton 0 1950s BR(M) & (W)
Whitmoor N BR Steam / Diesel
Upper Oreful Street OO Trams
Vale View 0 1960s Steam

Daisyfield Traincare OO Diesels; (above) represents a class 14X TMD based in Blackburn next to the East Lancashire Coach builders factory. The depot consists of a 2 road maintenance shed and fuel point and train care siding. Regular traction is a Multitude of Pacers in various liveries, some 1st & 2nd Generation DMUs, classes 25, 40 & 47, with the rare visitor of other classes. DCC locos with sound.

Salinas Valley HO 1970/70s Diesel. 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.
Svanda HO 1980s Norwegian
Kidmore Fork HO Diesel
Sankei Valley Z 2000s Japan
Norge HO  Diesel / Electric

Nearest Railway Stations:
High Wycombe [1.97 miles]
Marlow [3.04 miles]
Bourne End [4.02 miles]
Saunderton [4.61 miles]

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