The National Festival of Railway Modelling
Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th December 2019
Location
East of England Event Centre,
Oundle Road, Alwalton,
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE2 6XE
OPENING TIMES:
Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 10am - 4pm
ADMISSION:
Adults £10.00 Children £5.00 Family £30.00
Once again the event, the largest model railway show in the East of England, will host over 30 must see layouts from a variety of major scales and gauges plus over 100 quality traders and demonstrators. Whether you're looking to stock up on essentials for your hobby or enjoy a family day out, our Peterborough Show offers something for everyone. There is full disabled access around the venue with the exhibition area all being situated on ground level. Booking in advance will ensure you save up to £2 on your entry, receive 30 minutes early entry and a free show guide on arrival.
SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE
A FREE shuttle bus service will be running approximately every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday between Peterborough Railway station and the venue. First bus from the Railway station will be 8.30am and the last bus from the venue will be 5.15pm each day.
LIST OF LAYOUTS ATTENDING:
Avyn -A -Llyin [009 Gauge, Andrew Bailey].
This layout has Welsh origins hence the name, although you will realise the name isn’t Welsh if you say it the English way. The grounds of the ruined castle on the hill now belong to the local golf club, who have constructed a very scenic golf course. The pier is of timber construction with each upright individually screwed into place. Most of the buildings are scratch built two of the roofs are genuine hand cut Welsh slate and three roofs are thatched with plumbers hemp in Pendon style. The sea is literally dozens of coats of non-drip varnish on a mixture of sand and ballast. The beach is real sand from our local sand quarry and is about 20mm deep. There are over 200 figures on the layout and in case you can’t find them, the nudists are at the back of the beach under the sea wall! The track is Peco crazy track with seep and Cobalt electrics and ballasted with a mix of granite, limestone and sand. Most of the stock is kit built with a few scratch built items.
Bewdley [OO Gauge, Alisdair MacDonald]
The model of Bewdley Station is set in the 1960’s. At that time, it was a busy junction of four railway routes. To the north west one route ran to Bridgnorth, and onward to Coalport and Shrewsbury, while the second route headed westwards to Cleobury Mortimer, Tenbury Wells, Wofferton Junction and to Ludlow and Hereford. In the opposite, and south easterly direction, one line ran to Kidderminster, and the second headed for Stourport on Severn, Hartlebury and onwards to Droitwich and Worcester. The double track over the viaduct is in fact two single lines running parallel, one heading to Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury, the other to Tenbury Wells and Wofferton Junction. To add to the layout authenticity the 1960’s working timetable has been followed for the local area. This allows for the correct train services and sequences of the period to be operated, using the correct locomotives and rolling stock.
Binns Road, Toys of Yesteryear
[O Gauge, HRCA Chiltern Hills Vintage Train Group]
Binns Road is a layout comprising mainly of Hornby trains (made by Meccano Ltd) which were generally sold as toys, although some were reasonably accurate representations of real life locomotives. These trains run on a course scale O gauge track on a 3 rail system. The scale of the accessories was not always precise. Some items, such as the luggage and porters’ barrows are larger than the people in the same range. Most of these trains were produced between 1920 and 1941, although there was some limited production from 1946 until the mid-1960s. The rolling stock and most other accessories are also mostly produced by Hornby with a few modern additions, such as Ace and Darstaed. The toy cars were first produced as part of the Hornby series and only gained the title of Dink Toys after a couple of years of production. The layout has building from the construction toy called Bayko which was first produced in the 1930s by a company called Plimpton Engineering, which was then bought by Meccano. Also on the layout are figures and animals that were produced by Meccano and Brittens. The aeroplanes are special Aero Meccano sets from the 1930s which make up into several different types of aeroplanes.
Bluebell Cutting [N Gauge, Steve Lowndes]
Bluebell Cutting is a modern image layout, which features a double track mainline which passes over a canal with a regular flow of trains both passenger and freight. Having travelled about with other people’s model railway layouts and also the club layout within the Alsager Railway Association, With this being my first attempt I wanted to keep things simple, so that if anything went wrong it would be easier to fix. By keeping it as two plain tracks on the front it allows for a regular flow of trains.
Bodmin [P4 Gauge, North London S4 Group]
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The model of this Cornish branch line terminus was built to exact scale length by members of the North London Group, and portrays the prototype as running in 1928 when GWR Prairie tanks and new 'B Set' coaches were introduced on the service. The branch was built in 1887 from the main line at Bodmin Road to Bodmin (later Bodmin General) station. In 1888 a further branch was completed from the terminus to Boscarne Junction where there was a junction with the LSWR line allowing lucrative traffic from the Cornish china clay mines to be carried. The GWR also negotiated running powers to Wadebridge, used primarily for passenger services. The line was extraordinarily busy for a branch line keeping three engines and two sets of coaches hard at work all day. Over 40 trains appear in the daily timetable which is based on the GWR service (working) time table for 1926. A feature is the carriage of loaded china clay wagons en-route from Boscarne Junction to Par or Fowey for onward shipment by sea, with the balancing of empties in the other direction. The ruling gradient on the line was 1 in 40 up from Bodmin Road and a similar gradient from Boscarne Junction, which restricted train weights due to small engines and brakes only on the locomotive and brake van.
Brent Eleigh, West Suffolk Light Railway
[009 Gauge, Peter Rednall]
Brent Eleigh is a small village lying between Sudbury and Bildeston in West Suffolk. Following the 1896 Light Railway Act, a line was surveyed by Colonel Stephens to link Hadleigh with Long Melford with the intention of developing the agricultural economy of the local area. The railway was never built but this layout represents a narrow gauge version of what might have been. With a little tweaking of the route, a junction has been modelled at Brent Eleigh to allow trains to diverge to nearby Lavenham. On leaving the station the ‘main line’ loops and crosses over itself in Himalaya Darjeeling style to gain the necessary height to carry it out of the valley and onto higher land for the journey to Long Melford. Most of the buildings adjacent to the station are modelled on those in the village though a great deal of licence has been taken in relocating them.
Burnham on Sea [N Gauge, Alastair Knox]
Burnham on Sea is an attempt by the owner to model an actual place, using photos, magazines and books for information. Construction of the baseboards is from plywood with Sundeala tops, with integral legs from 2”X 1”. Buildings are scratchbuilt by me from Plasticard with the exception of the Queen’s Hotel on the seafront which was made by Ken Ball, and some Metcalfe terraces. Track is Peco Finescale (code 55), turnouts are electrofrog, control is by AMR. Electromagnets are scattered about in strategic places for uncoupling. The aim is to have a small S & D terminus with hands free shunting. The long platform at the front was the excursion one, and specials ran into Burnham for a few years after regular services were withdrawn.
Chrilvington Road [N Gauge, Kevin Leggett]
This layout depicts one of those typical small GWR branch lines connected to main line just south of Truro. Due to disputes with the local landowner the station was built about 1 mile from the village. With the GWR’s generous schemes freight was always the main stay of the branch with animals always on the move to market. After the 1950s the car and the lorry soon took away the passengers and the freight so the branch closed in 1963. The layout represents the twilight years of operation with both GWR and BR engines providing the motive power. The village fair is in full swing raising funds for the castle’s upkeep and a local dairy is operating from the old factory site.
Devonport Road [OO Gauge, John Anderson]
Situated in the suburbs of Plymouth, Devonport Road is one of those typical neglected commuter stations. It was once a junction of the Southern “Withered Arm” with the Great Western Cattewater Branch, but has seen better days with passengers now only served by the trains to Gunnislake. The Great Western platforms are now a parcels depot, and the sidings in front of the station are busy with the shunting of parcels vans. The once vast good yards are now gone and the sidings that remain are used by the railway engineers; and many of their weird and wonderful wagons can be seen. There is however a steady stream of trip freights to the fuel and general goods terminals at Cattewater; and also those trains serving Devonport Naval Dockyard, including ones carrying nuclear flasks and also rolling stock for repair.
Durham Street
[O Gauge, Scarborough & District Railway Modellers]
Set at the end of that golden bygone era, when our magnificent steam locomotives were starting to be phased out for the ‘new-era’ diesels. The changes being introduced in the early 1960s meant our railways were never going to be the same again! Our layout attempts to show how one typical engine shed on the North Eastern Region was slowly adapting to the changes, still meeting the needs of the steam locos while, sometimes begrudgingly, servicing the needs of the diesels. The unusual use of the turntable demonstrates a clever space-saving solution to allow for the emptying of the ash pit.
Ealing Road [OO Gauge, Missenden Modellers]
Ealing Road was conceived and built by the Missenden Modellers team for the Channel 5 TV series ‘The Great Model Railway Challenge’. It appeared in the first episode, broadcast in October of 2018. The main aim was always to demonstrate the innovative techniques the team had learned at the Missenden Abbey courses in Railway Modelling. The TV programme had the potential to bring these techniques to a wider audience and inspiring people with the potential of the hobby as an art form. All art is ultimately the creation of illusion. Ealing Road includes a forced perspective landscape with terraces of scratch-built houses in reducing scales and a 3D, lit, back-scene that matches the perspective lines of the terraces. The overall effect is to conjure the impression of close-packed, grimy, war-damaged Victorian slums stretching to the horizon. It is operated through a DCC system with sound, based around MERG controllers and CBus, and can run up to five trains simultaneously on three circuits, including a shuttle in the docks. Since filming, Ealing Road has improved to make it suitable to move and reassemble, the viaduct has now been made a permanent part of the baseboards and is much more finished than time allowed originally. The whole of the right hand scene of Passport to Pimlico has been remodelled and is now an accurate representation of the film set.
Eu (Le Treport) Depot [O Gauge, John and Peter Smith]
Eu is a real town in northern France, just inland from the resort of Le Treport. We like to base our layouts in a real place, and who could resist a name like that? “What’s your layout called?” “Er……..”
A line from Dieppe was built to Le Treport from Dieppe by the Ouest Railway; it closed in 1938 but we have assumed it remained open into the 1950’s and have given it a locomotive depot at Eu. Although it is an Ouest (Western) shed we have locomotives from further afield to give the look of a typical SNCF steam shed with examples of some of the large and impressive locomotives running in France at that time. We use DCC for control and all the locos have sound; several have smoke as well so the layout should be easy to find, just look for the cloud hanging over it! There is one diesel, a yard shunter, but other than that it’s all steam. The turntable has a sound decoder too with all the sounds of a real turntable, but also background noises such as passing trains, birdsong and even a thunder storm. The buildings on the layout are all built from scratch, including the street scene that hides the fiddle yard.
Goathland [OO Gauge, Simon Denham]
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is regarded as one of the country`s premier heritage railways, and Goathland is its most recognisable station, thanks to the filming of Heartbeat (Aidensfield), Harry Potter (Hogsmeade) and Simply Red's music video (Holding back the years). Check out the well-known characters from the TV series - you'll see Claude Greengrass in trouble, yet again, with the police. This iconic station has been faithfully reproduced. Even the current station master is impressed. All trains on the layout depict those that have operated on NYMR over the years.
Hills of the North - The Spirit of Shap
[OO Gauge, Graham Nicholas]
The mainline over Shap summit in the Cumbrian fells has been an irresistible draw for generations of railway enthusiasts. The layout attempts to recreate something of this atmosphere in the classic steam era, including a recreation of the banking arrangements that were employed to assist the heavier trains up the incline. The layout takes three places on the climb of Shap Bank and blends them into one continuous scenic presentation some 40 foot long. In the uphill direction, trains enter the scene under the Greenholme road bridge. This then transforms into the ‘classic’ location on the prolonged embankment at Shap Wells. The trains then enter a sizeable cutting before passing the sidings and signalbox at Shap summit itself. The scenic work attempts to capture the bleak open moorland setting, with plenty of drystone walls (51 feet to be exact) and few trees. A graduated, forced perspective approach has been applied behind the mainline to blend into the backscene.
A sequence of trains is operated to depict an evolving time period from the mid-1950’s pure steam, through the early 1960’s steam/diesel transition era, to the late 1960’s death throes of steam with blue diesels and blue/grey coaching stock in evidence.
Karolina Falls [On30 Gauge, David Bailey]
A gold prospector discovered the falls in the mid 1800s and named them after his wife "Karolina". He carried on with his long quest for gold and found a rich seam. He persuaded investors to build the railway which bridged the ravine in front of the falls. The gold soon ran out, so then he turned to logging to keep the investors happy. With logging trains passing the falls every day people got to hear about the falls, so he decided at weekends to attach a carriage to the back of some trains and started taking visitors to the falls. To cope with demand he took a gamble and built the station shortly followed by the saloon and general store. Logging and tourism were running hand in hand. Business was good so he built a bank, paid off the investors and made himself sheriff. Moving forward 100 or so years its now the late 70’s. With the discovery of a new vein of gold the mine has reopened. The railway is now a preserved line still owned by the original family. Nothing much else has changed, there are a lot more tourists including the odd teddy boy and punk rocker and still the odd logging train trundles past. Karolina features a real waterfall cascading into the ravine below.
Kirtley Bridge [O Gauge, Bob Hordern]
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, local businessmen in the Yorkshire Dales raised funds to build a light railway to serve their estates, farms, mills and quarries. Trains would serve the settlements of Hebden, Kirtley Bridge and Dalehead. The Midland Railway Company soon took over the line and this was reflected in the trackwork, station buildings and railway practices that followed. The LMS took control in 1923. At the same time the LNER successfully negotiated to run a service to Dalehead, encouraged no doubt by the increased traffic as Bradford Corporation began building a reservoir at the head of the valley. The branchline and growing village of Kirtley Bridge are modelled as they might have been in the late 1930s. The layout consists of seven plywood baseboards and the trackwork is C&L - built with wooden sleepers and plastic chairs. Trains are steam-hauled using ex-Midland Railway locomotives in their pre-war LMS livery. Rolling stock is kit-built or modified RTR and fitted with Dingham auto-couplings. Buildings are mostly scratch-built and based on real buildings, relocated or adapted to fit their sites on the layout.
Leysdown [P4, Adrian Colenutt]
Of the standard-gauge light railways of Kent, one of the most successful was the Sheppey Light Railway engineered by the well-known Holman F. Stephens. After being absorbed into the South Eastern & Chatham Railway and subsequently the Southern Railway; the line was improved, enlarged and partly standardized. Leysdown, the terminus, was the largest station on the line and served the embryonic seaside resort offering very limited facilities including cattle pens along with a horse and carriage dock. The layout, built to P4 standards, comprises four 4ft x 2ft plywood baseboards with integral legs. Trackwork has been built using ply and rivet construction on foam underlay. An NCE Power cab DCC system has been installed allowing locomotives to be sound fitted. Turnouts and signals are operated by slow action Tortoise motors. The buildings are scratch-built using a variety of materials. Use has been made of carpet underlay for the undergrowth with products from the 'Woodland Scenics' range much to the fore. The rolling stock may not be truly typical but featured are models of "B1" Class locomotive No 1021 and ex. S.E. & C.R. articulated coach set No 514, both of which were photographed on the line in the early 1930s.
Mackenzieville Yard and Glendale Junction
[N Gauge, Ian Wilson]
Eastern roads – especially in Pennsylvania – are my main interest, and in my prototype research for a location for this N scale layout I was continually drawn back to one location – Westwood Junction in Schuylkill County, at the heart of the Reading Railroad’s mine operations in hard coal country. Westwood is a simple junction (named Glendale Junction on the model) where a mine branch meets the main line and both lines run into a small marshalling yard at Mackenzieville. This yard is a visible section of the layout’s off-scene staging yard and the yard tracks are long enough for a train to arrive and stop in view before moving out of sight later. Similarly trains leaving the yard pull into view until it is time for them to depart. Short trains of empty coal hoppers are taken up the branch and full hoppers return, while longer mainline runs of full and empty hoppers are also seen, along with local freight service and passenger runs by a Budd RDC
Modbury Torr [TT Gauge, Paul Hopkins]
Modbury Torr represents the proposed terminal of the GWR Yealmpton branch in South Devon had it been completed to the original proposal. The layout is built to a scale of 3mm to 1 foot on three baseboards the middle one of which was built to participate in the 40 inch challenge set by the 3mm Society as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations in 2005.
The majority of the buildings, scenery and trackwork represent the features and layout at the Yealmpton end of the branch and are all proprietary items, some converted from other scales, and apart from the loco shed which is scratch built, can be purchased from most model shops. There are no ready to run locomotives or rolling stock available in this scale, apart from Triang TT which was discontinued in 1964. All the models operating on the layout are made from kits or scratch built sources, and represent those which would have operated on a typical south Devon branch line. Look out for the Railmotor and the GWR internal combustion railcar as well as the typical auto trains.
Nine Mills [N Gauge, David Forshaw Liverpool MRS]
A fictitious MPD located in the Midlands, where the LMS and GWR both had depots. By the early 1960’s the Midland shed has been replaced by a new diesel facility, the GWR shed remains in use, but the steam locos continue to use the LMS coaling & ash plant. Behind the depot runs a London Midland Region main line, running a wide range of local and long distance cross country passenger services, including some displaced from the west coast main line due to electrification work. The line also sees extensive freight workings, often pausing nearby in the passing loops. A 44 train fiddle yard, capable of holding over 1200 wagons or 500 coaches, provides a steady flow of trains for the main line, taking about 45 minutes before the same train is seen twice. The scenic sections use Peco finescale (code 55) track and fiddle yard code 80. Scenic structures are a mixture of modified kits, scratch built and SD Mouldings. Selected Hornby Lyddle End and Farish Scenecraft will also be seen. Motive power is mainly Graham Farish and Dapol, with Minitrix, Union Mills and Peco, making up the 100 + loco fleet. Many have been detailed, extensively modified, or are now completely different locos using body kits. Over 40 steam types and 20 diesel classes are represented. Farish, Dapol & Ultima kits provide most coaching stock. Wagons are a varied mix of RTR and kits, many from the ‘N’ Gauge Society.
Oakley Green [OO Gauge, Jamie and Luc Mathlin]
Inspired by the owners youth spent watching local SR trains this was conceived as a mainly Southern Region Layout based in the mid 1970’s, taking ideas from Basingstoke, Micheldever Station and Eastleigh Works, to create a layout which had a small parcels depot, a busy oil depot, as well as a loco service depot, this has as a result allowed for a larger collection of locos to be run on the layout, adding a lot of interest and operational complexity. The layout is full DCC with all locos having sound, the points and signals are also all DCC and the layout is controlled via an NCE system and an interface using JRMI software, with the final control achieved by using wireless tablets and phones. All the buildings are scratch built and the locos and rolling stock are all weathered.
Obervaz Swiss [HOm, Norwich Model Railway Club]
A fictitious layout based on the operations of the Rhätische Bahn (RhB), the largest narrow gauge railway operator in Switzerland. The RhB is joint operator of the famous Glacier Express with the MGB (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn). The Glacier Express may be seen on the layout. The RhB is a dual voltage railway, apart from the new Allegra units which are dual voltage all other motive power is either 15kv AC or 1000v DC. The only remaining DC line is the Bernina between St Moritz and Tirano. Purists may pick up on us operating AC and DC stock on the same tracks but with a little “Modellers Licence” this allows us to create a greater variety of interest. Most of the stock is produced by Bemo, a German company but a few items are from another German company, D & R.
Per Ardua Adastra [OO/HO, Team Grantham]
Built in just three days as part of the 2019 Great Model Railway Challenge (GMRC). It was the winning layout in Heat 5 (‘The sky’s the limit’), being awarded a perfect 10 by the judges for build quality and functionality. The design is inspired by the dramatic hill-climbing railways of the Swiss Alps. A double track mainline connects with a branchline which spirals its way up the mountain, crossing a recreation of the famous Landwasser viaduct on the route of the Glacier Express, running past a typical Alpine lake before arriving at the mountain top station. To meet the GMRC brief, the railway depicted the journey of a space rocket being transported up to its launch site. Working features include a funicular railway as a direct route uphill from the main station, a fully operational radio telescope and a spectacular Thunderbirds-esque rocket launch from the mountain top space station complete with smoke effects.
Project Iraq 2003 [1/35 NG, Tony and Kate Bennett]
1st May 2003 somewhere near to Basra in Iraq and the main fighting is over. The model depicts a section of the British Army on Operation Telic taking stock of the situation before moving on to their next objective. Amazingly they have come across a working remnant of a railway constructed by their forefathers about 80 years ago, the Maquil Railway. The local Iraqis are celebrating their freedom from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein’s regime by returning to normal life as soon as possible and so the run down and battered railway has returned quickly to its main role of moving water and agricultural produce. Project Iraq 2003 is a simple run round layout. Built to a scale of 1/35 it runs on a 16.5mm track gauge representing the original 600mm gauge. It is very highly detailed with over 20 vehicles and 125 figures in cameo scenes. The more you look at it, the more details you will see. Project Iraq 2003 supports Help for Heroes.
Ridgmont [32mm Gauge, Bedfordshire Area Group Association of 16mm NG Modellers]
Ridgmont is owned and operated by the “Bedfordshire Area Group” of the Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers. The railway takes its name from the Bedfordshire village of Ridgmont where the club was formed over 30 years ago. Ridgmont has been built to the scale of 16mm to the foot, running on 32mm gauge track. This represents 2 foot narrow gauge as you will find on many of the preserved railways in Wales and many other parts of the UK. The layout has two running tracks with storage sidings and passing loops giving ample space for “Steaming Up” and storage. Ridgmont is over 11 metres long and 4.5 metres deep and in exhibition mode it has the full scenic treatment which is to a very high standard which needs to be seen. Check out the details in the station buffet, it will make you feel hungry. We expect to be running a full roster of Live Steam Locos which in most cases are gas fired, environment permitting we may include at least one coal fired Loco, at quiet times you will see a number of battery locos making their leisurely way around the layout.
Smallbridge Junction [009 Gauge, Dale Gillard]
Is an imaginary small junction connecting the branch line to wood warehouse. The station today is hosting the mini owners club in the car park. All the track and points are Peco, locos are mainly kit built, Minitrains and Bachmann.
Thomas and Friends
[OO Gauge, Mickleover Model Railway Group]
Hello, I am Thomas and I live on the small island of Sodor, along with my friends Gordon, James, Henry, Edward, Percy and Toby. I am the cheeky little blue tank engine with six small wheels, a short stumpy boiler a short funnel and dome. Annie and Clarabelle are the two coaches I pull and they carry the passengers around the island. Sometimes we give the owner of the railway, Sir Topham Hatt a ride. He is also known at the Fat Controller and can usually be found at Tidmouth Station watching his trains go by. We all work very hard on this railway and we hope you will come to see us before you go home. this would make us all very happy indeed. Come and say hi to the Fat Controller who will be in attendance during the show. His beard does not bite unless it is provoked!
Towcester OO Gauge, George Woodcock / John Norton
The year is 1977 and Towcester still has a railway presence although on a reduced scale. Though the line from Blisworth on the WCML through to Banbury has been retained as a north-south link, the old SMJ line to Stratford has indeed closed though the derelict track is still in situ to sidings on the other side of the A5 bridge. The remaining line carries passenger services between Northampton, Banbury and Oxford although the intermediate stations have long closed. These are in the hands of Class 101, 105 and 108 DMUs. Freight traffic includes coal, cement, petroleum and Speedlink traffic between the North East and Eastleigh and there are also parcel services from the South-East to the Midlands and the North-East. There is also local freight in the form of steel delivered into Towcester yard to an engineering works in the yard itself as well as occasional fertilizer and animal feed traffic for a local agricultural merchant. The old SMJ line to Olney has been retained as far as Salcey Forest for the loading of timber. Locomotives to be seen include C120, 25, 33, 40, 45 and 47 in good old BR ‘banger blue’.
Webb's Wharf (GWR) [O Gauge, Dr Michael Watts]
An early nineteenth century wharf was installed two miles inland, along the five mile canal from the Teign, to serve rural businesses with raw materials. By 1920 William Arthur Webb and two sons had developed the wharf with a private siding for road & water and road & rail transfers to Bristol, Gloucester, and London, via adjacent GWR branch-line. Monocoque baseboard is solely MDF. Two 5-rail traverser plates optimise fiddle-yard storage space. Trackwork is Peco Fine, code 124, with Cobalt point-motors. Two-cab control is used with six, switched, track sections. Neodymium magnets facilitate uncoupling. Locomotives and rolling stock are from Dapol, Lionheart Trains, Peco, and Tower Models. Buildings are from Bachmann, and Skytrex kits, modified and weathered.
Whiteleaf Tramway with Rack railway
[G Gauge, Buckinghamshire Garden Railway Society]
The Whiteleaf Tramway is our attempt to show in an indoor setting, what can be achieved in the garden of a typical home. We make no apology for the intensive schedule being run on the line today. We are here after all to entertain and to demonstrate the diverse pleasures of a railway in the garden. The layout portrays an electric tramway that runs through the streets and then sets off through the countryside to serve surrounding villages before becoming a mountain railway. Traffic is handled by tramcars with trailers, with the trailers being detached from the tramcars and pushed up the mountainside by specially equipped rack locomotives. These locomotives engage with the central toothed rail that enables them to climb the 1 in 4 (25%) gradient and more importantly, provides braking effect when coming down. This type of operation was common on narrow gauge railways in Europe. There are very few G scale exhibition layouts with overhead wire and the inclusion of the rack section probably makes this a unique layout in this scale.
Woodcroft [EM, Market Deeping MRC]
Woodcroft is a small through station on an imaginary single-track line built to give access to Stamford from the Great Northern main line. It's main purpose was to allow for through running of coaches from King's Cross via Peterborough to Stamford. The station has a single platform and a run round loop for goods trains. A small brickyard in the vicinity (so typical of the area) with sidings gives much useful goods traffic.
Wyken Yard [O Gauge, Justin Adams]
O Gauge layout in a small space, the layout depicts a small yard that serves some factories and warehouses.
Yorkshire Pennines [N Gauge, Roland Wood]
Yorkshire Pennines is set in the present era in a part of the country where the rugged Pennines meets the stunning Yorkshire Dales and Moors. It depicts a fictitious scene that could be close to the town of Yockenthwaite, on a part of the East Coast mainline, where a supposed preserved railway line has adjoining platforms. In this picturesque countryside, some charter trains run, as well as the expected freight and passenger services. The preserved railway line is a popular tourist attraction.
MAP
How to get there;
By Rail
Peterborough is located on the East Coast Main line running from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh. A number of fast trains run on this network, making London accessible in 45 minutes on specific trains. The station has its own taxi rank, which means reaching the East of England Arena is approximately 15 minutes away once your train has arrived.
By Car
There are 22,000 Free spaces – so plenty of room for everyone. We also have plenty of disabled parking bays. Travelling from Peterborough City Centre – take the Nene Parkway/A1260, follow directions to Oundle Road/A605 and turn right onto this road, which will lead you directly to the venue. The brown highway signs indicating East of England Arena/Showground will help to guide you. The journey is approximately 16 minutes from the centre of Peterborough.
Travelling from the A1(M) South – continue along the A1(M), passing the Peterborough Services (Extra MSA); continue forward onto the A1 and then take the next turn left, signposted East of England Arena/Showground. At the junction with the A605, turn left and travel half a mile. At the roundabout, turn right, and you have arrived at the East of England Arena.
Travelling from the A1(M) North – ignore the very first signpost for Peterborough and continue travelling along the A1 picking up the brown highways signposts indicating East of England Arena/Showground. Follow these signs and leave the A1 at Alwalton, taking you through the village and onto the A605 Oundle Road junction. Turn left at this junction and at the very next roundabout, turn right and you’ve arrived at Peterborough Arena. If you are in a heavy vehicle, or towing a trailer, we advise you to avoid driving through Alwalton. In this case continue on the A1, leaving at Junction 17. Turn left onto Fletton Parkway A1139. After half a mile exit onto the Orton Parkway (still A1139) taking the second exit at the roundabout. Continue on Orton Parkway at the next roundabout. After half a mile turn left onto Oundle Road where you will find the entrance of the Arena on your left after 600m.
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