RISBOROUGH AND DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB EXHIBITION 22nd FEBRUARY

RISEX 2020 Model Railway Exhibition
Saturday 22nd February 2020
LOCATION:
Community Centre, Wades Park,
Stratton Road, Princes Risborough,
Buckinghamshire   HP27 9AX

OPENING TIMES:  10am to 5pm
ADMISSION:    Adults £4.00      Children £2.00
The whole of the Community Centre in Princes Risborough is taken over one day in the spring each year. Allowing local modellers to display their layouts and model making. Large car park adjacent to the Community Centre. Half hourly bus service from Aylesbury or High Wycombe. Ten minute walk from Chiltern Railway station with regular trains from Birmingham, Banbury, Aylesbury or London Marylebone, 25 minutes drive from M40 Junction 6 via B4009. The Community Centre is accessible and has level wheelchair access available throughout, there is a separate disabled toilet. Also avail yourselves of the excellent refreshments which will be available including a range of homemade cakes.

Layouts Confirmed to date

Fictionville, 45mm Gauge, Exhibited by Steve Hatt, Diorama depicting somewhere in France behind the German lines around in 1943, depicting German heavy haulage, loading stage, main line and civilian sector with tram-car. This model diorama won last years 'Chairman's Cup' and with another year in the bank should be even better now by the creators own words at the 2019 exhibition "Has been 18 months in the making so far and around another year to go, I want to add the same level of detail throughout that is depicted in the garage ruin to the left end of the diorama"

7mm Scale
Edgeholme Quarry, O-16.5 Gauge, Exhibited by Abingdon & District Model Railway Club, 7mm scale narrow gauge industrial layout, it is operated by DCC control and a variety of small wagons and v-tippers are shunted by small locos, typical of an industrial environment (pic above).

4mm Scale
Garreg Wen, OO9 Gauge, Exhibited by Matthew and Helen Kean, (pictured above and left) The model is set in Snowdonia in the Victorian period (approximately 1880) and represents the modest upper terminus for passenger working of a former horse tramway, converted to steam about a decade or so previously. A quarry extension leaves the back of the station to the foot of an incline located ‘off set’, but due to the gradient and the threat of runaway slate wagons, the passenger platform is on a separate line, as also happened at Bryngwyn on the NWNGR for example.  Interesting elements in construction include the quarryman’s terrace with individually built slate rubble walls, vertical slate slab fencing typical of the Corris area, vegetation with a Noch ‘Grassmaster’, and hand built plain track ballasted above the rail base in contemporary Victorian fashion.
Minnie Bridge, OO Gauge, Exhibited by John Baggaley, Set in the late 1960s/early 1970s the layout represents a fictitious London Transport loco and minor permanent way depot in a fictitious location ‘Somewhere-in-London’.

New Walmington Pier, OO9 Gauge, [above] Exhibited by Dave Carson, Set in Edwardian times the layout depicts a fictitious small pier tramway with a carousel at the end. Working along the pier is a Southend Pier 1890 "Toastrack" car.
Roadwater, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Steve Walker, Terminus on a ‘might-have-been’ truncated GWR branch in the 1920s. I have changed history and assumed the line remained, linking to the Taunton – Minehead branch at Washford.

Trinity Dock Street Bridge

OO Gauge, Exhibited by Gavin Rose, it's a fictitious location based on Railway Street in Hull, where the road and railway crossed the channel between Humber and Railway docks in the ‘Old Town Docks’ in the city set just pre WW2 on a dank dark February in 1939.

 3.5mm Scale
Klapping, HO Gauge, Exhibited by Mike Roualle, The layout is a fictionalised setting somewhere south of Graz in Austria,  Modelled as a truncated terminus station, the line is electrified using catenary. There is in addition a diesel freight feeder line, together with a goods yard also using diesel traction. Maximising the operational interest, the whole point of building the layout was to run trains and introduce the public to Austrian Railways, so a good selection of stock can be seen, including Wiesel double-deck carriages, City Shuttle single deckers, 4020 and Siemens Desiro EMUs as well as a 5062 railcar. A steady flow of locomotive hauled freight trains make an appearance hauled by both electric and diesel locomotives and, to add even more interest, there is the occasional steam hauled special.

1:120 Scale
Naples Street, TT Gauge, Exhibited by Rod Shaw, Naples Street (Pictured above) is a small American switching layout, with an industrial park straddling the street, this is served by a variety of freight cars moved around by two small diesel switchers. The small industrial park straddling Naples Street in the imaginary town of Sorrento, Illinois, is served by a branch of Conrail in the last quarter of the twentieth century. A mixed bag of rolling stock makes an appearance, moved around by a couple of small switchers. There is a mix of boxcars from different eras and to justify this I have imagined that short boxcars with roof walks weren’t phased out in the 1970s but lasted over a decade longer.

1:148 Scale
Airesby Colliery, N Gauge, (left) Exhibited by Stephen Beck, A modern image sound fitted layout, based on coal movements from the colliery and onwards. Recreating the atmosphere of the Aire Valley Merry-go-Round coal operations of the BR Railfreight Coal sector and early privatisation eras. It also features a functioning rapid loader to load coal trains. This has been cleverly designed to hand load the wagons via a scratch built shoot affixed behind the rapid loader.