FestiRail Model Railway Exhibition Saturday 7th July

[ANT]

Hello All

 

FestiRail Model Railway Exhibition

 

Date; Saturday 7th of July

Time: 11am to 4pm

Entrance: Free

 

Community Centre(adjacent to Springs swimming pool),

Wades Park,

Stratton Road,

Princes Risborough,

Bucks,

HP27 9AX

 

This is part of the Princes Risborough Town Festival week, this is an informal event where you have the opportunity to see the clubs current projects and to discuss all aspects of modelling. For this we have taken over the whole of the Community Centre, to showcase what we get up to, plus there will be modelling demonstrations and displays of track laying, scenery, electrics, layout research, kit-building, detailing and weathering in a variety of scales from N through 00, 4mm finescale to 7mm. 

 

 

Aylesbury LNWR, Photograph by Andy York, courtesy of BRM

 

The following layouts are down to be setup and running:
 

• Aylesbury LNWR, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, Set in the Edwardian era circa.1910, the layout depicts the whole of the station (old High Street station long since gone) complex with engine shed, goods yard and gas works, amongst the back drop of the town.
• Aylesbury Town, P4 Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, See our under construction scale model of this station, set in the 1950s/60s, this will allow a mix of stock, GC, Metropolitan, LNER, GW, BR etc, with both through trains and stopping services(north & south), with local trains for Amersham, plus branch trains to Princes Risborough.
• Loughborough Road, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Alan Paley, 3 railways, the Melton Mowbray and Nottingham Railway, LNWR and Midland had access to a cramped terminus at Loughborough Rd. So the time period is 1900 to 1930 with MR, LNWR and LMS stock.
• Okehampton, O Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, The whole scenic section, with station, engine shed and yard area of our large southern post 1947 layout, where a variety of locos can be seen shunting the yard and operating on the main line.
• Ottilies, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Andrew and Ottilie Hicks, This is a double sided layout set in the Yorkshire during the LNER period, with a town station scene on one side and a county station scene on the other, the whole layout folds in half for storage.
• Shunting Puzzle, O Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, Come and test your skill on our Shutting Puzzle, there is a small cost to enter, but the fastest time will win a prize.

Please note we are proud to present the last ever full public showing of Geoff Williams’s iconic 1:76 scale Aylesbury LNWR layout. This fifty-five year old model of the former Aylesbury High Street station (once situated where Vale Park is today) represents faithfully the whole station complex - including engine shed, goods yard and adjoining gas works - as it would have looked in the year 1911. Built to a very high standard of realism the model achieves a convincing sense of scenic depth through the decreasing perspective of the background building, and provides a possibly the last opportunity to view a pre First World War scene of Aylesbury. Being originally built into Geoff’s loft the layout has since been adapted for public viewing, for its appearance at FestiRail, which it is anticipated will attract considerable interest both from local residents and from the wider exhibition-going public - particularly as this opportunity is un-likely to be repeated by the Club.

 

Only disabled car parking places are available at the Community Centre, therefore all other visitors are required to park in the Mount Carpark in Stratton Road, please note that this is pay and display, but for the 7th July only it is free, also note that the High Street, Duke Street and Church Street will be closed to traffic all day, so you will have to approach from the station side of the town. Half hourly bus service from Aylesbury or High Wycombe. 15 minute walk from Chiltern Railway station with regular trains from Birmingham, Banbury, Aylesbury or London Marylebone, 25 minutes drive from M40 Junction 6 via B4009.
Light refreshments will be available.

 

For more information on the event and more on the Club please go to www.rdmrc.org.uk

 

Thanks

SEEYA
ANT

Edited June 16, 2018 by ANT

[ANT]

Hello All

 

As it is only just over a week and half away, I thought that I would attach some photos of the Aylesbury LNWR layout that was built by Geoff Williams, which will be exhibited by the Risborough & District Model Railway Club at FestiRail on the 7th July. 

Please note that this will be the last ever full public showing of this iconic layout.   

All photos where taken by Andy York courtesy of BRM.

 

 

 

 

Thanks

SEEYA
ANT

[David Bigcheeseplant]

I will be there all day on Aylesbury Town, we have now got laid and ballasted track on two thirds of the scenic section main lines.

 

David

[ANT]

Hello All

 

Here are some photos that I took at our FestiRail exhibition on Saturday.

 

A view of Aylesbury LNWR taken from the station end.

 

 

A general view of the main hall, Okehampton on the left and Aylesbury LNWR on the right.

 

 

Okehampton, the complete scenic section of all 10 boards being put through its paces.

 

 

A view showing the whole of the Aylesbury Town project.

 

 

Another view of Aylesbury Town, with a Hymek rumbling through on the newly laid hand built ballasted track.

 

 

Ottilies by Andrew Hicks this is a double sided layout, this picture is of the City station side.

 

 

Ottilies by Andrew Hicks, this picture is of the Countryside station side.

 

 

The station end of Alan Paley's Loughborough Road.

 

 

The engine shed end of Alan Paley's Loughborough Road.

 

 

The Mayor of Princes Risborough Matthew Walsh gets to grip with the Shunting Puzzle.

 

 

Thanks

SEEYA
ANT