THE FESTIVAL OF BRITISH RAILWAY MODELLING [Doncaster] 8th-9th FEBRUARY 2020

THE FESTIVAL OF BRITISH RAILWAY MODELLING
DONCASTER FEBRUARY 2020

LOCATION:
Doncaster Exhibition Centre
Leger Way, Doncaster,
South Yorkshire DN2 6BB

OPENING TIMES:
SAT 10am - 5pm, SUN 10am - 4.30pm

ADMISSION:
Adults £9.00 Concessions £9.00 Children £4.50

Come and witness some of the best layouts British railway modelling has to offer with at least 30 high-quality layouts on display each representing British gauges, scales and locations. Enjoy browsing layouts with a 'Best of British' theme and purchase must have items in a variety of major scales, era and gauges from over 80 quality traders. There will be expert demonstrations, giving you an opportunity to enhance your modelling skills. Whether you're new to the hobby or looking to stock up on essentials, the Doncaster Show offers something for everyone. The show is kindly supported by Doncaster & District Model Railway Club.

Visitors can take advantage of a FREE shuttle bus service which will be running approximately every 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday between Doncaster Railway station and the venue. The bus will leave Doncaster Interchange-The bus station will have posters to direct you. (Turn right after Costa [Station Concourse] and W.H. Smiths, walk along the concourse to the end. Turn left over the Pelican Crossing into the Bus Station) 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:

Amalgamated Wagon Works O Gauge (above) - is a small shunting layout built in the late 90's by members of Rochdale model rail group, has been resurrected by the current owner and given a new lease of life on the exhibition circuit.
Ashtown N Gauge - depicts a fictitious small industrial town somewhere in the East Midlands as it would have been from the late 1950s through tto he 1970s. A secondary main line railway serves the town and, whilst de-industrialisation is slowly taking place, a small tar distillery close to the station is still active and rail served. Passenger traffic which may appear on the line ranges from non-stop expresses to local stopping trains, some of which terminate in the bay platform. Freight traffic consists of full and empty mineral trains, parcels trains (some of which pick up or drop off wagons in the parcels bay), milk trains, pick-up goods (some of which pick-up/drop-off tankers, open wagons and vans in the tar works) and engineering trains.

Bawdsey. (Above) British Railways (Eastern Region). Late 1950's an EM layout, originally built by the late Chris Matthewman. Chris named and exhibited the layout as ‘Strove’, which depicted an East Anglian branch line terminus in the 1930’s with LNER group, and ex Great Eastern Railway equipment. Since changing hands, the layout is undergoing a makeover to bring it up to the 1950’s to 60’s era of British Railways. Initially the rolling stock and locomotives depicted will reflect existing 'ready to run' equipment which would have operated in the Ipswich area.
Boston Frodsham P4 - is an embryonic P4 layout set in 1975-1985 (ish) and is partly based on the swing bridge at Boston Docks and the wharf at Frodsham in Cheshire.
Bournemouth West OO
Brighton East EM 3rd Rail based loosely on the area around the old Kemp Town branch near Brighton.
Broadhurst Works O
Broom Junction EM
Byway MPD OO
Canons Cross OO The layout is based on the Southern Region of BR in the 1950/60s and operates with Steam,diesel and EMU's. It is a small terminus to a fiddle yard layout and has been regularly displayed including a previous visit here.

Caroline Concrete Works O-16.5 - (Above) A new venture, after their previous work on Ben Moor Foot Peat works so another industrial 7 mm narrow gauge based on a concrete works. Standard gauge siding for deliveries and transporting products out. Narrow gauge within the works for moving materials and finished products within the works.

Castle Wharf Kendal - (Above) Ian Kirkwood OO9 gauge 4mm scale, Plans for a standard gauge light railway running south-east from Canal Head in Kendal, Westmoreland to Arkholme, serving various quarries and gunpowder works, as well as local farming interests, failed for lack of money. The layout represents the northern terminus in the 1930s. The canal is little used, most traffic being transferred to the LMS at exchange sidings just south of the area modelled. Trains to and from the exchange sidings are shunted at the wharf.
Falcon Road O - Set in the outskirts of a busy city centre station in the London and North Eastern Region. Falcon Road is depicted in the early 1960s and is a natural successor to Ian's last award winning layout - Haymarket Cross.
Faringdon P4
Fenny Stratford OO
First OO9
Fredstone Lane N
James Street N

Kepier Colliery (above) NCB Colliery represents a typical Durham Colliery and Kepier Railway system in the early 1960’s. Buildings are from various Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Collieries, with the exception of the upcast shaft which is based on South Hetton Colliery. The buildings have differing ages but reflect what a colliery system would look like in NCB days and the housing, shops etc are also based on a colliery village of the period. Kepier Colliery was situated at Gilesgate Moor, Durham City and was sunk in 1818-1822. It closed in the 1880’s and was totally demolished.
Lydham Heath, Bishop's Castle Railway An 'S Scale' layout made by Barry Norman, it is a very atmospheric recreation of the station at one end of the Bishop's Castle Railway in Shropshire. Unlike the real railway which closed before the Second World War, Barry's model can still be seen in the museum of the Bishop's Castle Railway Society at Bishop's Castle, Shropshire.
Maidenhaiste - modular O gauge layout which usually depicts a preserved railway. It can be exhibited as separate layouts both Maidenhaiste Station and Broadhurst Works - or joined together, with additional scenic boards, to become the Rushen Valley Railway.
No Place OO
Overlord OO Gauge / 4mm
Pedwardine Forest OO
SHWT EM
Titheridge Junction N
Todmorden Midland N
Waltham Wharf 24mm

Wantage Narrow Gauge Tramway OO9 was a standard gauge railway that linked the market town of Wantage to the GWR mainline which was two and a half miles from the town and this model has been designed as a narrow gauge tramway instead. The tramway had some very unusual locos and rolling stock for a British railway, and the train shed is also pretty unique. Unusually, the ‘small engine shed’ straddled the siding that fed the local gas works. This little layout is my interpretation of what the ‘Upper Yard’ at Mill Street, Wantage, might have looked like, had the tramway been built as a 2ft 3in narrow gauge line.


Nearest Railway Stations:
Doncaster [1.35 miles]
Bentley (South Yorkshire) [2.5 miles]
Kirk Sandall [3.32 miles]
Adwick [4.74 miles]

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