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TRAINWEST 2018 - 14 & 15 April


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Bentley Model Railway Group Present:
TRAINWEST 2018
Saturday 14th April 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Sunday 15th April 10.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
THE SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY CAMPUS, BEECHFIELD ROAD,
CORSHAM, WILTS., SN13 9DN.

TOP QUALITY LAYOUTS IN VARIOUS SCALES AND GAUGES
 

Admission: adult £8.00, child (5-17) £5.00, group (2+3) £20.00. Sunday after 1.00pm: adult £5.00, child £2.00, one child free with each paying adult.

 

Advance tickets: adult £6.00, party rate (10+ people) £5.00, child £3.00. Available from Trainwest, 84 Hardens Mead, Chippenham, Wilts., SN15 3AF. Send a cheque payable to Trainwest and an s.a.e. Also available to callers at the Springfield Community Campus and Modelmania in Bristol.

 

Online booking at www.wegottickets.com/event/425745.

 

Cash only on the door, but card bookings can be made online. The booking fee is just 60p, which makes the online charge £6.60, but the cash price at the door is £8.00.

 

Layouts:

 

82G (O): Warley MRC

 

B A Bodil (1:25-1:400): ModelSpoorGroep Valkenswaard

 

Broadford (HO): Iain Hunter

 

Charmouth (O16.5): David Taylor

 

Cornwallis Yard (EM): David & Alison Barker

 

Empire Mills (EM): The Model Railway Club

 

Fence Houses (2mm): Bob Jones

 

Hope-under-Dinmore (EM): South Hants MRC

 

Ironstone (OO/OO9): Bentley MRG

 

Marmagne (HO): Tony Durose

 

Mers-les-Bains (1/32): Smiths Layouts

 

Mulldale (O16.5): Letchworth MRS

 

Oakley Green Oil Depot (OO): Jamie Mathlin

 

Pixash Lane (OO): Bentley MRG

 

Sparkel (HO): Norman Raven

 

Star Lane (OO): Mike Peace

 

The Bridge (T): Doug Kightley

 

Titheridge Junction (N): Bradford MRC

 

Villefranche-la-Chapelle (HO): Graham Broad

 

Wisteria Collop (OO9): Gas Cupboard Models

 

 

Trade Stands:

 

Along Classic Lines

 

Andy Lynch

 

Box Tunnel Railways

 

Branchlines

 

Brian James

 

Brunel Model Railways

 

Brunswick Railways

 

Country Park Models

 

David Smith Books

 

Friends of Swindon Railway Museum

 

Gas Cupboard Models

 

Golden Arrow

 

Just in Case

 

Mad About Trains

 

Mainline & Maritime

 

Model Railway Developments

 

Modelmania

 

Network Rail

 

P&D Marsh

 

Railroom Electronics

 

Ray Heard

 

Squires Model & Craft Tools

 

Steam Train Tours

 

Sunningwell Command Control.

 

The Trainman

 

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Geoff Endacott

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Trainwest 2018 preview layout number one, B A Bodil:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number two, Fence Houses:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number three, 82G:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number four, Cornwallis Yard:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number five, Hope-under-Dinmore:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number six, The Bridge:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number seven, Titheridge Junction:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number eight, Star Lane:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number nine, Oakley Green Oil Depot:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc2XKD66K4k

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number ten, Marmagne:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number eleven, Mers-les-Bains:

 

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number twelve, Sparkel:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txpYok7cngo

 

 

Trainwest 2018 preview layout number thirteen, Broadford:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt3Tu5nqPQ0

 

 

Trainwest preview layout number fourteen, Mulldale:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLLcfUPUsG8

 

 

Trainwest preview layout number fifteen, Villefranche-la-Chapelle:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X91DFaHlzc

 

 

 

Geoff Endacott

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Four weeks to go and the forecast is snow. Fortunately that's for this weekend, but somehow I doubt that mid-April will see temperatures in the low twenties as we did last year.

 

Geoff Endacott

 

Having just got back from a ten hour stint driving a gritter/snowplough in East Yorkshire with another session due tonight, I've had enough snow for this year. If it snows for TRAINWEST, I'll cry then emigrate!!

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What a good idea to feature "Layout Previews".

 

I presume it's to encourage visitors to turn up, (hopefully them not having to brave yet more snow, and us to suffer another Ketteringgate).

 

I'm unlikely to get to deepest Wiltshire, so I find the "Layout Previews" fascinating to see what modellers have achieved.

 

I watched "B A Bodil", and then wandered off to a 0ng logging line via a Youtube link. Both superb, and a trackplan idea from logging, to a Sector freight only layout.

 

I've just watched the magnificent "Fence Houses" which will send me happily off to bed.

 

How far is it to Wiltshire?

 

Well done that man.

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There seems to be a slight problem with our plan for a shuttle bus to and from Chippenham Station on the Sunday. No trains. Thanks Network Rail.

 

There is a replacement bus service from Bath Spa, which will involve people travelling along the A4 to Chippenham, almost past the door of the exhibition, before arriving at Chippenham Station. They would then have to catch our shuttle bus back to Corsham

 

I think I need to come up with a different plan.

 

Geoff Endacott

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There seems to be a slight problem with our plan for a shuttle bus to and from Chippenham Station on the Sunday. No trains. Thanks Network Rail.

 

There is a replacement bus service from Bath Spa, which will involve people travelling along the A4 to Chippenham, almost past the door of the exhibition, before arriving at Chippenham Station. They would then have to catch our shuttle bus back to Corsham

 

I think I need to come up with a different plan.

 

Geoff Endacott

X31 bus goes from Bath bus station to Corsham and passes close by the venue. Alternatively a shuttle bus from Bath Spa if network Rail will let you?

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I think I've solved it.

 

On Saturday the revised rail timetable sees trains arrive at Chippenham Station hourly from Bristol Temple Meads at xx.56. The rail replacement bus arrives hourly from Reading at xx.58. Our shuttle bus times have been revised accordingly so that an hourly service for Trainwest will leave Chippenham Station at xx.10.

 

In the afternoon trains for Bristol leave at xx.10 with the replacement buses for Reading leaving just before that at xx.07. Our shuttle bus has therefore been timed to arrive back at Chippenham Station at xx.00 to connect with these services.

 

There are no trains to and from Chippenham on Sunday so we will not be running a shuttle bus. Visitors wishing to use public transport on Sunday are advised to use the X31 bus service to and from Corsham.

 

I hope that will work.

 

I you want to make a comment about the difficulty getting to the show by rail, please talk to the people on Stand 48*.

 

Geoff Endacott

 

* The Network Rail information stand.

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We've given "Empire Mills" a test, before breaking it down this afternoon ready for the trip next weekend. For what will probably be the layout's last outing before it moves on to pastures new.

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