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ELY & DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB
OUR ANNUAL EXHIBITION WAS HELD AT THE CITY OF ELY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ELY ON SATURDAY 15 MAY 2010 INVITED LAYOUTS
BURWARTON O Gauge Alan Searle: Birmingham A model of the second largest of the intermediate stations on the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway set during the 1930s. The layout shows what can be achieved using O Gauge in a small area.
STONEY LANE DEPOT N Gauge Grahame Hedges Byfleet Set in the 1980s, Stoney Lane Depot represents a London theme and is inspired by the viaduct level lines that dominate just south of the Thames, with a touch of Stewarts Lane TMD thrown in to increase operational interest.
ABBEY ROAD “00” gauge John Polley & Abbey Road Group Welyn GC Abbey Road is a current day, London Underground ‘00’ scale, ‘end to end’ model railway layout. It features a fictitious split level station located somewhere in north-west London. The rolling stock is a varied mixture of ‘tube’ size rolling stock. This includes Metromodels 1972, 1992 and 1996 tube stock, EFE heritage 1938 & 1959 tube stock together with avariety of engineering & departmental trains. The split level station features a familiar Charles Holden designed Underground station building sitting across the platforms below. On the station road overbridge are shops & commercial premises including a McDonalds restaurant, Marks & Spencer and a Tesco Metro store.
LOCH AYLING “00” Paul Wright Bourne Loch Ayling is a small town situated on the Eastern side of Scotland, between Dunfermljne and Perth. It is a terminus served by a double track branch line, currently threatened with closure, that diverges from Lochgelly on the Edinburgh to Perth line. The single track bridge which crosses the River Ayl, which feeds into the Loch, on the station approach creates an operational bottleneck. It serves a rural community with a loco hauled passenger service to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen & Perth, usually formed of 3 Mkl or Mk2 coaches and whatever loco is diagrammed, usually a 25, 26 or 27, but expect the odd unusual loco. DMU’s are also to be found on the all station stopping services to Edinburgh &local services to Perth, Stirling & Dunfermline. Even though freight activity is high with the daily visits of 4 wagon load Speedlink services, and the return workings, British Rail have given notice that they are to withdraw these Speedlink services as fromSeptember. There are trip workings from Perth and Sterling and Loch Ayling is also served by the Speedlink network with grain, domestic coal and Other wagon load commodities. All loco’s are detailed & weathered as is all of the stock. Today’s station pilot is a Haymarket class 20 which is in need of the attentions of the depots cleaning facilities.
SPITZWEISERTAL N 1:160 David O Rourke Peterborough Spitzweisertal is loosely set in the Alpine/Black Forest area of Germany. It is based around the Bietschtalbrucke, a bridge on the B.L.S Bern-Lotschberg Simplon railway in Switzerland, which has been moved north east to fit the geography. The line is a secondary but sees its fair share of cross country express’s and heavy freights. Most trains are steam hauled and most major classes of locos will be used at some point. A small station with goods facilities is provided for the local population, which consist mainly of farmers and forestry workers. The layout has been built as epoch 3 but, as always, locomotives and stock froman earlier era will no doubt put in an appearance. The object of the exercise has been to construct a layout that will fit into a familyestate car and not be to heavy. Hopefully, it will have the ability to keep the viewing public interested! With this in mind, a layout with ample scenery and agood variety of trains has been the order of the day. The baseboard has been built from 6.5mm birch-faced ply and the airframe method of construction has been employed. This gives a light, rigid foundation with plenty of scope for under track features. A more detailed description can be found in the April 2007 edition of Continental Modeller If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask the operators.
ULLAPOOL 7mm Ian Futers Norfolk
This 7mm layout depicts what a Highland Railway branch line between Garve, on the Kyle line, and Ullapool, by the shores of Loch Broom, may have looked like, had the line been built in the 1890s. It is assumed the line has remained open and the period modelled is the 1970s- 80s. The structures modelled, are all based on typical HR prototypes, whilst the operation of the line utilises, in the main, BRCW Type 2 motive power. Timber and fish traffic somehow still survive, whilst a mediocre passenger service links Ullapool with Dingwall and Inverness.
OSHAWA HO Martin Spence Ely & District MRC Member Oshawa is a city on the north shore of Lake Ontario, its main claim to fame is being the home of G M.. Canada. I liked the name Oshawa but my layout is totally freelance of what I think may be there, one end there is a port area with a grain elevator and container and piggy back handling area. General industry covers the rest of the layout. SYMMONDS GREEN BREWERY Lynda & David Coates Stevenage 009 Symonds Green Brewery is afictious brewery near Hull in North Yorkshire. The brewery has been established for 200 years and this can be seen by the old brewery building behind the administrative building. The main brewery dates from the Victorian period where breweries became ornate but function buildings designed by the top architects of the day.
The railway enables transportation of materials around the site and between the nearby villages and farms. The canal provides transportation for various materials and goods.
BRENLYN Glynn Bennet March 009
A narrow gauge railway depecting typical short trains often made up from mixed stock from other railways, running through a small Welsh village set among the hills and valleys.
TWIN FALLS Logging Mining Railroad Dan & Mick Lawrence Canvey Island VOTED BEST LAYOUT BY VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITION 16.5 On30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAe3aN8-hew
A typical American logging and mining railroard in the early 1900’s.
GESTUP ST ANNE Derek Reeve Sible Hedingham 7mm narrow gauge
Gestup St Anne is based on the village I was born and raised in. The village of Gestingthorpe is in the north of Essex about 5 miles from Sudbury on the Essex / Suffolk border. Gestup was the local name for the village. The layout is an autobiography of my life in model form. Featuring all the houses I have lived in, the school I attended and other buildings I have an affection for. There never was a railway at Gestingthorpe, but one was planned in the late 1800s to link Melford and Thaxted. All the buildings are scratch-built and most of the rolling stock. Some of the locomotives are kits and some have scratch-built bodies onto ready-to-run chassis.
SOUTHWOLD (1922) OOn3 4mm to 1Ft 12mm gauge Stewart Green Lowestoft
Modelling Southwold Station in the years after World War I gives the maximum variety of locomotives and stock.
Sharp, Stewart locos No 1 Southwold (2-4-2T) and No 2 Halesworth (2-4-0T) had recently been repainted in unlined black. Their sister loco No 3 Blyth (2-4-0T) still retained its GER colours, while the Manning Wardle 0-6-2T No 4 Wenhaston still sported its original Brunswick Green livery. In the years immediately following the war the six Cleminson 6-wheeled coaches underwent modernisation, being rebuilt with enclosed ends and having side-beading strips removed to produce a more modern profile. By 1922 only coaches 2&4 still retained their original balcony ends. In the same year local coal merchant Thomas Moy ordered a further two Cleminson 6-wheeled coal wagons to replace some of his worn out private owner stock.
I have tried to be as historically accurate as I can, referring to as many photos of the period as possible. Compromises have had to be made – for instance, the proximity of the station to the cutting and footbridge - while still attempting to retain as much as possible of the flavour of this quirky 3-foot gauge light railway in the years leading up to its demise in 1929.
HAMPTON END,. Dale Gillard Northampton G scale Small UK branch line after being closed and reopened as a preservation line but with foreign motive power and stock.
SECCIOLE SALINA (SLOVENIAN SALT PAN) Basildon.M.R.C. Gauge Gn15 ( G Scale running on 0-16.5 track)
http://www.basildon-mrc.org.uk/
This layout depicts a Mediterranean Salt Pan illustrating the production of Salt in the Adriatic, a process that has happened over 100s of years.
STANTON LACY Norman Goodey Stowmarket 7mm narrow gauge
Stanton Lacy is a is a fictitious rural scene in an agricultural area. Traffic dealt with by the rail fruit, potatoes , timber and coal and also some passengers.
DEMONSTRATIONS Graham Varley Loco and rolling stock building Ely Graham is a professional model maker and a member of the Ely & District MRC. On display are examples of his work and he is available to answer questions on model making.
TRADERS
MK MODELWORLD 3 London Road, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes MK16 0HA 01908 612 983 info@mkmodelworld.co.uk
Brian Collier 1 Brookside North Elmham, Norfolk. NR20 5JP 01352 668739
“Modeller’s Mate” Unit 8, Moat Hall Farm, Parham, Wickham Market, Suffolk, IP13 9AE This trade stand has on offer a good selection of scenic accessories, including architectural kits. Modelling tools and aids will also be available. Tel. 01728 720072 e-mail. Modellers.mate@virgin.net www.modellersmate.co.uk/
“Milnsbridge Models” 92 Armitage Road, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, HD3 4JW This trade stand offers in particular a wide range of second-hand model railway equipment and accessories for everyone, from beginners to experts. Tel 01484 655276
Pat Price (Transport Books) Langley, Church Street, Stiffkey, Norfolk, NR23 1QJ Tel 01328 830863 Fax 01328 830909 This stand specializes in the sale of new, second hand and out of print books on railways, modelling, the underground, trucks, trams, buses and trolleybuses. Outer Rim Kings Lynn Diecast metal vehicles http://www.rolfe92.freeserve.co.uk/ See us at Ely Market every Thursday and Saturday
Magpie Scale Models Ken Gilbert 01480 810357
This stand offers for sale of various different ranges of 4mm and N gauge kits, and possibly some kitbuilt stock.
RAILWAY MEMORIES JOHN MAGERUM 17 Purvis Way Colchester Essex C04 9FN DVD’s T Shirts, Greeting Cards
The Battle of Britain
Locomotive Society
The Battle of Britain Locomotive Society is an entirely voluntary organisation, a Registered Educational Charity. ( No.299140). The Society operates steam locomotive, number 34081, named “92 SQUADRON”, – in honour of the RAF Battle of Britain Fighter Squadron.
In 2007 we repainting her, from the earlier livery of Southern Railway Malachite Green, into the British Railways Brunswick Green livery that she operated in for most of her working life. Also for a short time we re-christened her to 34057, ‘Biggin Hill’ which was a locomotive of the same Class that actually worked in Norfolk for a short while. 2008 proved to be her last operational year for some time as her boiler certificate expired in April requiring the whole engine to be stripped down once again and totally rebuilt this may cost us in the region of £250,000, so our immediate outlook is a lot of man hours and costs to keep ’92 SUADRON’ going for the future. So please support our stand at this exhibition in order that you, your family and generations to come will continue to enjoy the stunning spectacle of this impressive steam locomotive at work. On our sales stall we have an excellent book on the history of out engine as well as a superb DVD to accompany it. In addition there are many other items available such as CDs, Polo shirts, key rings, fridge magnets, mugs, railwayana and books, You can also join our club as well. There are many ways you can support us today, so do come along and see us. Thank you.
Great Eastern Railway Society www.gersociety.org.uk/ The Society was formed in 1973 in order to promote a widespread interest in the Great Eastern Railway, (GER), its predecessors and its successors, such as the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), British Railways (BR), Network Rail and the current privatised Train Operating Companies (TOCs) operating in the East Anglia area. To encourage and co-ordinate research into its history, and to provide a permanent record of the results. This is being achieved by building upon the knowledge of the known GER experts, and by locating and studying all surviving records of the railway. In so doing, the Society has established a high reputation amongst railway enthusiasts, historians, museums and professional railwaymen for the quality and accuracy of its publications, its expertise and activities. However, you don't have to be an expert to join the GERS - details of the benefits of joining the Society can be found on their website or at the exhibition.
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