2004 Model Railway Exhibition

 
This year's exhibition, held over the weekend 18/19th September 2004 at the Wey Valley School, was the first to be organised by the new management team. They went to some lengths to ensure a larger, good quality and balanced show with examples of most of the common modelling scales and themes. The show has been adjudged a great success with much favourable comment, increased attendance and good profit from what was a much larger exhibition budget.
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There was virtually something for everyone's taste in model railways:-

Big...

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Connaught Road is a large urban four track British Railways main-line station set in the British Railways steam period and being built in 7mm Finescale (O Gauge). The goods train in the background is some 18-20ft (6m) long.

Busy...

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Woodbridge Halse (OO Gauge) represents a centrally located goods yard and locomotive shed where trains to and from the British Railways operating regions of the 1950s are shunted and re-marshalled.

European...

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Die Gartetalbahn is built to 1:45 scale HOe and is based on East German 0.75m narrow gauge railways.

Exotic...

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Souk El Khemis (OO scale stock running on N Gauge track) layout of an imaginary portion of the Moroccan 0.75m railway through desert regions.

Fast...

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Top-Line Tinplate (vintage coarse scale O gauge) is a lifetime collection of ready to run, electrically powered Bassett-Lowke and Hornby tinplate trains. The display layout consists of three parallel circuits. These old trains have an amazing turn of speed!

Fun (for kids of all ages)...

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Exverton / Sodor Vale is an N Gauge layout with a difference. It depicts a small Devon station in the Exe Valley. And yes, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends pass through on a regular basis as well as typical GWR trains.

Modern...

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SE28 (OO Gauge) is exactly that, a South East suburb of London's railway. This layout is designed to show a typical railway scene complete with elevated main-lines supported by arches.

Narrow Gauge...

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Ddouallt on the Ffestiniog Railway of Wales is perhaps the most famous station on any of Britain's narrow gauge lines. The layout is built to the 009 modelling standard such that 4mm scale stock running on 9mm (N Gauge) track is a good scale representation of the prototype.

Period...

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Seahouses (7mm Finescale - O Gauge) represents the railway system that might have been associated with a small fishing port on the North East coast in the 1920s time period.

Rural...

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West Harptree (3mm Finescale TT-Gauge) depicts the country railway scene of Somerset. A between the wars summertime setting has been chosen.

Scenic...

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Fellows Peak (American HO Gauge) provides a glimpse of railways through the North Western USA scenery.

Small...

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St Denys (N Gauge) is a layout based on how the actual station (just outside Southampton) appeared in the early 1990s. To call it small belies the fact that the track work approaches to the station are modelled to scale length.

 

Some general views (taken at quiet moments over the weekend):-

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All photographs of the exhibition were taken by Roger Miller (Hon Treasurer, Weymouth MRA). Weymouth MRA is deeply indebted to him for struggling to take the photographs, while suffering from his injuries - a section of South East London (SE28) being considerably more robust than he (wouldn't you say, Tony)!

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