Bournville Model Railway Club
- Model Railway Exhibition
Saturday 28th August 2021
LOCATION:
The Austin Sports & Social Club, 30 Tessall Lane.
Longbridge, Birmingham, West Midlands B31 2SF
OPENING TIMES: 10.00am - 4.30pm
ADMISSION: Adults £5.00 Concessions £4.00 Family £9.00
Bournville Model Railway Club are pleased to announce their first exhibition at this new venue which offers a larger, disabled friendly indoor space. Ample free parking with disabled spaces and excellent public transport links with buses and trains, all within easy walking distance. Hot and cold food available and a licenced public bar for refreshments.
Arley [N Gauge] A layout that has been displayed on the Severn Valley Railway itself and has model buildings which are lovingly created to represent the station as seen today on the Seven Valley Railway today.
[N Gauge] From the host society, The Bournville Engine Shed layout is based upon period signalling diagrams and Ordnance Survey maps to provide an authentic track layout that allows us to run trains from the period 1939 to closure in 1960. Travelling from Birmingham trains enter the layout by emerging from Church Road tunnel and run alongside the Worcester & Birmingham canal until they pass under Mary Vale Road. With Mary Vale Road passed, the shed and coaling stage dominate the scene as trains ease towards the bridge at Cotteridge Park before passing out of sight beneath the Pershore Road. The layout is currently very much a work in progress.
A disused military narrow gauge railway in 009, including a display of sound mirrors on the Beacon Point model railway (see above). Has featured in both the Railway Modeller magazine, and at large exhibitions such as Warely. Some of the features could have been loosely based on the Romney - Dymchurch railway, beachside scenery, lighthouse, old wartime pillboxes.
Is a fictitious town on the Welsh borders (pictured above). The layout is in ‘N’ gauge and set sometime during the 1950s. It is a through station with a small branch line and a small goods yard. It is GWR mostly steam and some DMUs. Displayed by the Wyre Forest Model Railway Club.
A “OO” gauge layout set in an industrial area of the North of England during the 1950’s / 60’s. A fictional based diorama set around the town of ‘Eckerslike’ dominated by a viaduct and substantial industrial red brick buildings built in the Victorian era. The railway station was originally an intermediate station on the Fair to Middlin line. The railway line was, however, truncated at Eckerslike following closure of the mine at Middlin during the 1930’s.The railway nowadays is a branch line from Fair providing a regular passenger service between the two towns. There is also a busy goods shed serving local people and industry and a private siding to the large engineering works adjacent to the station with an active coal yard. BR steam locos as well as early green diesels and DMUs provide the motive power. Display by Wyre Forest Model Railway Club.
Hackworth
Yellowstone Ridge
The Burlington Northern Yellowstone Division is set in central and western North Dakota in the 1976-1980 timeframe. This was a time of transition for the BN, with carload shipments of grain giving way to unit trains, Powder River coal on a sharp rise, and the invasion of SD40-2’s while inherited power is parked and retired.
Catfield
Norfolk's Model Railway Club, located in the village of Catfield were asked to produce a model of Catfield Railway Station and this OO Gauge display was the result.
St Frazal D'Ardeche - by Piers Milne - Chemin de fer du Vivarais tourist line in 1:160 scale 6.5mm gauge (Continental Nm)
Awdrey St Nicholas
OO Gauge layout based around the Thomas stories, named after Rev W Awdry (pictured right). Layout named Awdry in memory of the man who first put pen to paper and St Nicolas is the name of the parish church of King’s Norton where he was based at the time. Designed to be operated by youngsters, the layout is 8ft square with the “fat controllers” at one end leaving the other three sides for the kids controllers on two or three of the other sides according to where the layout is situated.
Lakeside & Haverthwaite
Hadley, Stoney Brook & Swale
Uffculme
This O Gauge layout is based on the station at Uffculme on the Culm Valley Light Railway. It also includes a bridge over the River Culm. The layout represents Uffculme as it was during the last years of passenger traffic . As the "Culm Valley Light Railway" only ran "one engine in steam" we have devised a non-prototypical timetable to give the viewers something more interesting to look at whilst still retaining the correct rolling stock. The layout was conceived late in 2012 realising that the 7th September 2013 commemorates 50 years since that last passenger train travelled along the line.
Marklin Z Gauge
Just in case you thought N Gauge was small enough, try and get your fat fingers and bad eyesight onto Z Gauge ... speaking from a personal perspective here ... any model that fits neatly in a briefcase is fine by me, bring your magnifying glass though ;) Nearest Railway Stations:
Longbridge [0.21 miles]
Northfield [1 miles]
Kings Norton [2.27 miles]
Barnt Green [2.7 miles]
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