NOTTINGHAM MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY EXHIBITION - SPRING SHOW 2022

Nottingham Model Railway Society

  - Spring Show 2022

Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th February 2022

LOCATION:

Highbank Community Centre, Farnborough Road, Clifton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire   NG11 9DG

OPENING TIMES:
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

ADMISSION:  Adults £5.00

Nottingham Model Railway Society's Spring Show 2022 will take place at the Highbank Community Centre which is a short walk from the Holy Trinity tram stop on Farnborough Road.

How to get there

Nottingham Express Tram (NET) to Holy Trinity tram stop.

By Car M1 Jct. 24, use A453 to Clifton. There is some on-Street parking or use the free parking at Clifton NET Park and Ride which is signed from the A453 (Satnav NG11 8BF). 

the exhibition will include several layouts including the club's own iconic Woodhead Electrics layout - Deepcar, a number of trade stands as well as a hands on demonstration.

List of Layouts Attending:

North Haston  HO Scale in New England USA

A new OO9 Layout by Dave Jones (Nmrs)

Britannia Mills. 1950s BR steam in OO based around a local Nottingham industrial layout. 

Hazelby Ballast Loader. BR sector era freight facility, Hazelby Ballast Loader is an N Gauge double track oval layout, It features an open fronted ballast Loader rather similar to the one found at Cliffe Hill until the last days of BR. The loading is done at the push of a button and can be seen from the viewing side of the layout.

Welby Lane RTC, OO BR research department with stunning departmental stock (pictured above). Based on the Derby RTC research test tracks of Old Dalby and Mickleover in the 1970s and 80s.

East Midlands Fremo Group With an extensive US based layout in HO.

Netherwood Sidings. 7mm scale O gauge by Graham Clark. This layout represents the Woodhead line in its final years. The layout is based on a set of exchange sidings near Sheffield. The track plan is freelance but based on features taken from Rotherwood and Wath. 

The bridges, in particular, are based on the real ones in the Rotherwood - Orgreaves area. 

The layout has taken around ten years to build. With scratch built Em1s & Em2s

Taste of Alber, Czech narrow gauge in TTe

Nearest Railway Stations:

Beeston [2.07 miles]

Attenborough [3.55 miles]

Nottingham [3.75 miles]

East Midlands Parkway [3.83 miles]