BRISTOL O GAUGE GROUP 2020 EXHIBITION UWE [BOGG 2020] SUNDAY 26th JANUARY

Bristol O Gauge Group -- 2020 Exhibition
Sunday 26th January 2020

LOCATION (Map at foot of page)
University of the West of England (UWE)
Filton Road, Bristol,   BS34 8QZ

OPENING TIMES:    10.00am -- 4.00pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £9.00
[£7.00 for Gauge 0 Guild members on production of a valid membership card.]

All Wives / Partners & children under 14 are admitted Free.
      
The exhibition is held annually on the last Sunday in January. It is a mix of 70+ traders, up to 10 layouts & demonstrators giving advise on the required skills to fulfil your modelling requirements.

Once again this event supports the Children's Hospice South West charity, in 2019 the show and it's wonderful visitors were able to donate £1,200.00 to this cause so if you can please give generously again this year.

The following layouts have accepted our invitation to attend the 2020 exhibition.
Test Tracks from:-
West Wilts O Gauge Group
Weymouth MRC
Layouts confirmed:- 
Thiswaye from Plymouth O Gauge Group. 

Bridgwater [1904] from Trevor Gibson
The layout is set in the Edwardian period of 1904; with all the stock being kit or scratch built items representative of the glorious Prussian blue days of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The buildings and structures are accurate models of the prototypes, built from drawings and photographs and are scratch built from laser cut mdf and plastic. Operations are to a sequence representing, in compressed form, a typical days working on the branch during the golden age of the S&DJR.
Stodmarsh from Kevin Cartwright
Tony's Forest from Robin Edwards

Laramie Engine Terminal from Peter Kirmond.
Laramie Engine Terminal is an O Scale model railway layout depicting a part of the Union Pacific Engine Terminal at Laramie Wyoming as it was in the late 1950s.

In the hot summers of 1957 & 58, the Union Pacific’s Big Boys (amongst the largest steam locomotives ever built) were brought out of store for their final moment of glory pulling massive trains from the Californian fruit harvest east over Sherman Hill between Laramie and Cheyenne in Wyoming. This layout aims to capture what it was like fuelling, watering and turning these monster beasts for this 50 mile each way shuttle. The layout is built by Peter Kirmond (with a little occasional help from friends).
Potters Quay Foundry from Chris Bolton
Franklin from Bob Harper
Stodden Hundred Light Railway 
1930's presented by Andrew Jones of Luton MRC. The Stodden Hundred Light Railway is a depiction of a rural railway on the borders of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, in the mid 1930s, just before everything changed with World War 2. Serving the market town of Kimbolton and the villages of Pertenhall and Swineshead, this is a branch off the main line which runs from the iron ore pits around Kettering to Great Barford near Sandy, where connections are made with the LNER and the LMS.  Being an economically stretched railway, the SHLR had to make do with cast off locomotives and passenger coaches from the more major railways or industrial users.

GETTING HERE:

Nearest Railway Stations:
   Filton Abbey Wood [0.63 miles] 
   Bristol Parkway [0.92 miles] 
   Patchway [2.01 miles] 

Maps;
Please use the NORTH ENTRANCE, using the Coldharbour Lane entrance will take you into the main University complex which is ONE BIG 1 way system, and you will end back where you entered.  Note that Car Parking on Sunday is Free.