Nailsea & District MRC : Model Railway Exhibition

NAILSEA and DISTRICT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB

Model Railway Exhibition - 2009
Weekend of 28th - 29th March, at Princes Hall, CLEVEDON.

Details of our exhibition, with pictures of layouts will be provided very soon.
We also hope to include a video of our 2008 (30th anniversary) exhibition.

The following page includes details presented about our last (2009) exhibition.

BAGBOROUGH WEST:
Nick Salzman (3mm Broad Gauge Soc.)
3mm Scale 21 mm Gauge

This is a fictitious broad gauge terminal of a branch of the Bristol & Exeter Railway in Somerset. The layout has been built as an exercise in modelling Broad Gauge in 3mm scale. All stock is handbuilt with some modification of standard kits. The buildings are models of Broad Gauge prototypes. The station is a model of Watchet station.

BAHNBETRIEBSWERK-DUGELSHAVEN: D. Tompkins
HO (Scale 1:87, 3.5mm gauge)

This is an imaginary town somewhere in the north of the Federal Republic of Germany. It represents a diesel locomotive
depot of the 1979-84 era. The border with East Germany is not far away, so diesel locomotives from the Deutsche
Reichsbahn visit at times. Peco Code 100 Streamline track is used, ballasted with Woodland Scenics products.

CRACKINGTON QUAY:
Howard Martin 0-16.5 mm gauge
7mm Narrow Gauge

This layout represents a 2ft 3in narrow-gauge line in an unspoiled cove on the North Devon/Cornwall border, there is a fish processing factory specialising in pilchard processing on the quay. At the other end, there is a small marine engineering works, servicing the local fishing fleet. The layout has been featured in Railway Modeller and Narrow Lines.

DOVINGTON CAMP:
Paul Taylor (Nailsea & District MRC)
00 Gauge BR 1960s - 1990’s

Dovington Camp was developed during WWII as an Army stores & training depot, with quite an extensive rail network.
It has been ‘rationalised’ over time but it still maintains a rail link for the movement of fuel, stores, munitions and a
wide variety of military vehicles. It retains an old MoD loco, or two, for shunting within the depot.

SODOR VALE (Club Layout)
Stephen Ash (Nailsea & District MRC) N Gauge

A Thomas the Tank Engine exhibit, using Club N Gauge layout “Combe Vale” . It uses Thomas trains from the Tomix range, including Persy(No 6), James(No 5) and Thomas(No.1) himself to create a representation of the Isle of Sodor in miniature.

FENNY BRIDGE:
K Powell / S. Weeks (Nailsea & Dist MRC) 7mm Modern Image.

The track plan is a freelance design using hand-built point work. The bridges, tunnels and retaining walls use embossed plasticard. Colour light signals were constructed by Roger Murray and tailored to suit this layout, which is DCC controlled by the Digitrax system, with ESU traction and sound decoders by South West Digital.

GREAT SNORING:
North Road Railway Club
00 16.5mm gauge

This fictional 3mile branch from Fakenham was a sleepy backwater until the Americans opened up an airbase, close to the village of Great Snoring. With the Americans gone, the branch is gradually returning to its pre-war level of activity, while still retaining a few through passenger coaches working to Norwich. Rolling stock is mainly kit-built.

HIGHBURY COLLIERY:
Jerry Clifford 2mm Finescale
2mm Fine Scale Association

This is an attempt to portray a typical North Somerset Colliery as it might have been in the 1920s. It represents a
proposed, but never built, light railway connecting Mells Road on the Bristol and North Somerset (GWR) and Chilcompton on the SDLR, via the Nettlebridge Valley. The main inspiration comes from Camerton Colliery. .

HOATH HILL HALT:
Peter Bossom (3 mm Society)
3mm Scale : 14.2mm Gauge

Based somewhere in East Sussex, the railhead and exchange sidings are for an industrial site on the non-electrified
lines of British Rail (Southern Region). Most products are conveyed in closed vans or sheeted wagons, so the products are left to the imagination. The adjacent halt serves the nearby community of Hoath Hill, hence the name of the layout.

N Gauge British layout depicting Western Region Steam in the 1950’s. Late addition to our show.

German railways in the 1990’s, built in Z Gauge to show a lot of railway in a small space. Late addition to our show.

ORO GRANDE RAILROAD:
William Loyd
Sn3 Gauge Scale 1/64th

This is a depiction of the end of a short branch on the Narrow Gauge Oro Grande Railroad, set in the USA. It was
created to show an American "Hoist & Ditcher" working in a quarry. The layout features an engine shed with ash pit, and office. It uses hand-built points and track with a selection of kit-built locomotives and rolling stock.

SHUNTING PROBLEM:
Don Dickson (Nailsea & distict MRC)

A small ‘N’ gauge demonstration layout, for anyone to try their expertise to get two locos to pass on a single line, using just a short siding. Brought back by popular request.

SOUTHALL LANE M.P.D.
OO Gauge
Nailsea & District MRC

A privatised ‘modern-image’ (2000+) “Work-in-Progress” Exhibit. The baseboard was originally made some time ago by one Club member and the trackwork laid and wired by another. For many years it never progressed beyond this – but, we decided as this small layout would not take very long to finish. How wrong we were!

STODMARSH:
Kevin Cartwright 32m/0 Gauge

This layout is based on a proposed but never completed extension to the East Kent Railway. The line would have run
from Wingham to Canterbury West via Stodmarsh. The period is 1943 and the layout depicts a day of total chaos following the preparations for D-Day. Men, munitions and machinery are being transported to the South coast.

WESTONMOUTH CENTRAL:
Adrian Full 4mm/00 gauge

Westonmouth Central is set in the 1970s. No flashy mainline locos. working long distance expresses here.This is a "micro-layout", representing a small part of the large Westonmouth Central Station. Platforms 9 & 10 are
served by DMUs forming local stopping services, although 3 coach loco-hauled trains also appear now and again.

WHEAL ELIZABETH:
Andrew Ullyott (Weston-s-Mare EM Soc)
P4 / 18.83mm

A Cornish China clay works 1958-1988. The layout is inspired by the former china clay dries at Wenfordbridge and Carbis Wharf in Cornwall (last coal fired dry which closed in 1986). Since the track work remained virtually unchanged from the 1950’s the layout can chronicle the various types of rolling stock typically seen on clay trains over the period.

WINDSOR (Great Western Railway)
Colorado (USA): HO Gauge
Peter Everitt (Nailsea & District MRC)

The Great Western Sugar Company set up the Great Western Railway in 1902 north east of Denver to connect with the main local railroads (the Colorado and Southern and the Union Pacific) at Longmont, Loveland and Windsor. The railway was separated from the, ailing, sugar company in 1978, survived as a separate entity and is still in business.

Z - U - DRIVE
Z Gauge Demonstration

A small demonstration layout in Z Gauge, providing ‘Hands-On’ for Children. A popular exhibit which has been included in several of our recent shows.

Layout Construction in EM Gauge (by Club Chairman - David Burnett)
Computer Simulation for Children
Various Demonstations
Society Stands: DEMU, Ffestiniog Railway, WC&PR (Weston Clevedon and Portishead Railway) Society.
Traders, including new and used model railway items, tools, and modelling accessories.
Club Sales Stand

LIST of LAYOUTS that appeared at the Exhibition

EXHIBITION PUBLICITY PICTURE
Photo of Drewry-03 (D2133) at Minehead, on West Somerset Railway
Taken by Ian Brown (Club Publications Manager).

Exhibition Manager: Paul Taylor

19 Coleridge Vale Road East, Clevedon BS21 6NS

Tel: 01275 871926