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Expo Narrow Gauge @ Swanley - 27 Oct 2018


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October means ExpoNG !

ExpoNG is the familiar name for ‘Expo Narrow Gauge®’, the model railway exhibition dedicated to modelling narrow gauge railways in all their forms. Held annually at the end of October by the Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society in Swanley, England, it is the premier specialist Narrow Gauge railway modelling event held in the UK and probably the biggest in Europe. It includes narrow gauge model railway layouts and models in all major scales, traders and manufacturers from the UK, Europe and the USA, modelling and prototype societies, as well as demonstrations of modelling techniques.

 

The time : Saturday 27th October 2018 ~ 10:00am to 5:00pm

 

The place : White Oak Leisure Centre, Hilda May Avenue, Swanley, Kent, England. BR8 7BT

 

The admission price : Adults £8 ; Accompanied Children £1

 

The link : http://www.expong.org/

 

Here are the confirmed layouts for this year's show:

 

Achalraj - 009 - Malcolm Harrison

Calstock Halton Quay - O-16.5 - Chris Peacock

Coleford - 009 - John Wilkes

Empire - OOf - Peter Smith

First - 009 - Stephen Clulow

Grange West Tramway - O-16.5 - John Dean

Jan's Pek, Teer & Olie Handel - HOe - Jaap Sturmann

Launceston - 009 - Richard Holder

Orne - 009 - Chris Ford

Pen y Graig - 5.5 mm scale - Barrie Johnston

Picnic in Gelderland - HOe - Sven van der Hart

Pyn Valley Tramway - O9 - Christopher Payne

Ridge Lane - 009 - Ben Powell

St Amies sur Mer - HOm - Tim Somers

Scarside - 009 - Neil Briggs

Shipmeadow - 009 - Richard Doe

Somewhere Behind the Front - O-14 - Bernard Junk

South Creek Road - 1:35n9 - Kim Marsh

The Yard - O-16.5 - Martin Coombes

 

In addition there are 8 current Dave Brewer Challenge entries.

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The good news is that Hilda May Avenue is on a bus route. The bad news is that it doesn't go near the Railway station. In theory the journey can be done with two buses, 233 and 429. I'm not local to the area so don't know how practical this actually is.

 

233

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429

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Interesting! What my little screen shot doesn't show because I didn't scroll down is that it takes 14mins just to walk from the station to the venue. The key to this is to turn left when you get to the top of the stairs leading from the platform and not right onto Station Approach as I did last year.

 

See this screen shot of directions for walking:

 

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I shall probably take the walking route as 14mins isn't too far. My itinerary will be Underground  to Victoria, Victoria to Swanley and then walk.

 

It's always a good show, well worth attending.

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Here is an improvised/cobbled together/to be confirmed etc etc list of the traders and societies due to attend. The usual lot plus a few others.

 

2   Neil Sayer
3   Mosskito
4   Narrow Planet
5   Fourdees
7   Leighton Buzzard Railway
8   Metropolitan Water Works Railway Society
10   Blackham Transfers
11   Dundas Models
12   7mm NGA
14   Bachmann
18   Eileen’s Emporium
19   S&D Models
20   Steve Currinn Books
21   Robex
23   Worsley Works
25   Model Railway Developments
26   Roxey Mouldings
28   Tramfabriek
30   Slim Gauge Circle
31   Gramodels
32   BOHRT
34   2mm Narrow Gauge Group
35   Golden Arrow
38   Penrhyn Quarry Railway Society
39   EDM Models
41   Nederland Smalspoor
43   Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre
44   RT Models
45   Avalon Line
46   Black Dog Mining Co
47   Jelly Models
48   French Railways Society
51   5.5mm Association
53   Locos and Stuff
54   N-Drive Productions
57   Moseley Railway Trust
59   Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
60   009 Society sales
63   DHRS
64   Hafixs

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What this visiting colonial has done previously is;  take the 233 bus from Sidcup railway station directly into Hilda May Ave (for the Leisure Centre). 

This allows for visiting Invicta Model Rail to the north side of Sidcup station and for buying that new lathe (yes) at Home and Workshop Machinery in Maidstone Rd near the the Ruxley roundabout.

-Brian

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That's me setup and ready to go, apart from the leccy to be sorted in the morning.

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Something new this year, goalposts!

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They are to route cables over the aisles rather than use the rubber ramps that people kept tripping over.

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