CardiffModelExhibition

The 36th Cardiff Model Railway Exhibition will be taking place on the 19th and 20th of October 2024. The venue is the same as last year - the Sophia Hall at the Glamorgan Cricket Ground in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff CF11 9XR Ticket price - £10 adults. Children under 15 are free (when accompanied by an adult). Advance discounted tickets will be available. For full details of ticketing see our website www.cardiffmodelrailwayshow.co.uk 18 layouts (including a Warley Show Award Winner) 15 societies and modelling demonstrations are confirmed. More still to be announced! Many Trade Stands including Squires Tools and War World Scenics. Expect over 50 stands in total. Limited free parking available, public transport and other pay-per-hour car parks & public transport nearby. Hot and cold refreshments available Layouts: Layouts: Morfrail OO Graham Morfoot Aberddu Yard OO Mark Patrick Diano Marina HO Rod Mackay Bowleggett Manor OO9 Peter Cullen Penrhyn Quarries 10mm 1/32nd Bill Ferguson Sherton Abbas O Dave Stone Nantgarw OO Brian Tucker Clyre Valley Railway OO9 Tim Couling Heybridge Wharf 3mm Mike Corp Woebley OO John Cox (North Gwent Rm) Newvaddon Parkway N Darren Glasson Midsomer Mardy Z Max Jones Ynysybwl EM Graham Tierney (Cardiff 4mm) Lananta Quay 3mm Nick Salzman Lochty EM Andy Cundick Gosodiad Modiwlaidd N Newport N Gauge Soc Traders: Squires War World Scenics Abc Model Railways Absolute Aspects Glr Bespoke Going Loco Henry Thomas Graffeg Lord and Butler Paul Dean Collectables Demonstrations: Fred Lewis - O Gauge Loco Construction Geoff Kent - 4mm Buildings from Scratch Derek Mundy - O Gauge Signals, Wagons and Buildings Mike Gill - Longmoor Railway Exhibit Peter Lewis - 3d Printing (PPM Models) Societies and Displays: Model Electronic Railway Group (Merg) Dean Forest Railway Cardiff Trolleybus Group The Welsh Railways Research Circle Great Western Study Group EM Gauge Society RCTS MAFVA (Military Vehicles) N Gauge Society OO9 Society How to get here...

A finescale 'OO' layout featuring BR (Western) & BR (Southern) operation from the period around 1960 Broadwell is the latest club layout built by the Cardiff Model Engineering Society, based in Heath Park, Cardiff. It continues the club's 50-year history of producing quality finescale OO gauge exhibition layouts. Our depiction of this fictitious Devon/Dorset route covers a broad ten-year span of British Railways ownership between 1955 to 1965. The predominant traffic is steam hauled local passenger trains although early diesels were beginning to appear. These timeframes allow us to run Western Region B-sets as local trains from Exeter, Bridport & Maiden Newton alongside Southern Region loco hauled trains on Exmouth, Lyme Regis and Sidmouth locals. Through express trains from Devon, Cornwall and the Withered Arm of North Devon head to and from London Paddington and Waterloo respectively. The occasional inter-regional expresses from the North are seen sometimes with out of region engines. There is little freight traffic on this coastal route although long distance through freights do appear from time to time. The Creamery supplies milk tanks daily to London. What makes this exhibition layout stand out? Probably the use of full computer controlled operation of the points and route-setting and the presence of hand-made GWR-style searchlight signals. The operation is based around a 60-movement sequence from which train information which is displayed to the front of the layout on a 40" TV monitor. Train detection is in use and headcodes are allocated to trains which can be tracked on the TV screen similar to modern day train tracking websites such as Traksy https://traksy.uk/ At the start of the day the operators switch on the Automatic Route Selection software, set the sequence to 1 and manually control the movement of the trains, but with all route setting and signalling done by the computer. When each sequence move is finished the operators increment the sequence number and so on... All track and points are hand-made. Most buildings are scratch built as are the platform canopies. The magnificent model of the Carmarthen Bascule bridge is motorised and can be raised and lowered. Note that this operation takes 3 minutes to complete so we don't tend to do it frequently throughout the operating session. The Background Story of Broadwell At the start of the 19th Century the rapidly expanding (but fictitious) seaside town of Broadwell had developed into the regional hub with a population of 50,000 making it easily the largest of the Devon & Dorset coast resorts and on a par with other South Coast destinations such as Bournemouth. Broadwell is located on the west side of Lyme Regis Bay yet up to this point it had remained without a rail link due to the difficult terrain to the north and west. Other coastal resorts such as Sidmouth, Seaton, Lyme Regis and West Bay had developed rail links prior to the end of the previous century being served by LSWR or GWR branch lines. The Great Western Railway wanted a greater part of this expanding holiday market, so in 1930 and in partnership with the LSWR they invested in a double track main line to serve the developing resort of Broadwell whilst providing links into the other well established South Coast resort branch lines between Exeter and Bridport. Broadwell’s station building was a prominent and elegant structure indicating the stature and importance of the new resort town. The building was designed in the art deco style by the GWR’s chief architect Percy Emerson Culverhouse and was constructed using locally sourced Portland stone. The design was echoed shortly afterwards in 1935 for the replacement station at Leamington Spa. The new route departs Exeter St Davids following the LSWR line up the bank through Exeter Central before branching off in a south easterly direction towards the Devon coast. The line skirts the Devon coast until it reaches the newly built through station at Broadwell. Before and after Broadwell there are junctions at each intersection with the pre-existing LSWR coastal branch lines (Sidmouth, Lyme Regis, Seaton etc). This allows resorts like Lyme Regis (SR) and Bridport (GWR) to be linked directly to Broadwell, Exmouth and further afield via the new joint line. After Broadwell the line continues eastwards along the coast re-joining the GWR at Bridport then inland via the upgraded Bridport branch. Western region expresses head northwards on GWR metals eventually re-joining the GWR main line at Castle Cary (via Yeovil). Southern Region expresses are routed via the Southern to Dorchester then to Bournemouth, Southampton and ultimately Waterloo. Evidence of local narrow gauge mineral lines can be seen through the remains of a route running alongside the road to the beach at the centre front of the layout. A working ‘OO9’ scale line serves the wharf on the right side of the layout. This line would have been a mineral line when constructed but now processes wood for export. Exhibition Managers The layout is 20ft x 10ft but requires 2ft access all around, meaning that a space of 24ft x 14ft is required. It requires 5 operators (3 on, 2 off) Transport would be via a 1.5T Luton van with a tail lift (weekend hire currently approx £350 + fuel) Contact : Paul Jenkins (paulejenkins@yahoo.com) for more information.

The 35th Cardiff Model Railway Exhibition is taking place this October. This year we have moved to a new venue in central Cardiff at the Glamorgan Cricket Ground in Bute Park 10am-5pm Saturday & 10am-4pm Sunday Discounted price adult entry tickets are available for £9 (includes one free prize draw raffle ticket) through our website. Admission on the day is £10. Under 16's free but have to be accompanied by an adult. Hot and Cold Refreshments Website: https://www.cardiffmodelrailwayshow.co.uk Layouts Confirmed To Date Broadwell OO Caroline Concrete Works O/Ng Cog Road O Ffordd-yr-Deryn 16mm Foxwood End N Heybridge Wharf 3mm Midsomer Mardy Z Nantgarw OO Oasis Camp HO/HOn3 Orfe Quay EM South Wales Coals OO Spriggs Lane OO Three Cocks Junction EM Tunnock Yard EM Up The Line O/Ng Also confirmed are 15 trade stands and 15 displays from railway and military modelling societies along with modelling demonstrations. By Car There are four Pay & Display Car Parks nearby - Sophia Gardens Pay & Display Car Park (by National Express Coach Station) - CF11 9SX - 6 minute walk. - Pontcanna Fields Pay and Display Car Park (accessed from Fields Park Road off Cathedral Road) - CF11 9JP - 9 minute walk. - Llandaff Fields Pay and Display Car Park - CF11 9PQ - 12 minute walk. - North Road Pay and Display Car Park (via Bute Park and across Millennium Footbridge) - CF10 3DU - 20 minute walk. Note: there is very limited public parking at the venue for Blue Badge holders Public Transport By Bus Cardiff Bus services run regularly between Cardiff Central Station and Cathedral Road (adjacent to Sophia Gardens Cardiff). Routes going via Cathedral Road include:- • Number 25 Circular Service to Llandaff North and North Road • Number 62 Service to Llandaff, Danescourt, Pentrebane, Fairwater & Canton. • Number 63 service Ffordd Berllan, Central Station, Radyr to Llandaff. If you are planning to travel by bus please use https://www.cardiffbus.com for more information. By Train Walk from Cardiff Central Railway Station (via Taff Embankment footpath) - 24 minute walk. Walk from Cathays Railway Station (via Bute Park and Millennium Footbridge) - 20 minute walk.

20th & 21st August 2022 at the Ice Arena Wales, Olympian Drive, Cardiff Bay, CF11 0JS. The relaunched Cardiff Model Railway Exhibition is back after a two year break. This year we have moved to a new prestige venue in Cardiff Bay. 10am-5pm Saturday & 10am-4pm Sunday Admission £8.00 Under 12's free but have to be accompanied by an adult Advance discounted tickets available via the website. Free entry to prize draw with every advance ticket purchased through the website. Website: https://www.cardiffmodelrailwayshow.co.uk/ Layouts in all major scales Special guest layout is the popular P4 exhibition layout Mostyn, making its return to the exhibition circuit. Demonstrators Traders Preservation Societies Hot and cold refreshments Free Parking behind arena and also in nearby Swimming Pool Car Park. Low price parking available directly across the road from the arena in former Toys-R-Us car park Layouts: Bath Green Park Loco Shed - 2mm Finescale Bicsdale - OO Gauge Broadwell - OO Gauge (first exhibition for this new 21' x 10' layout) "Canadian Layout" - HO Gauge Cwm Castell - OO Gauge Ffordd-y-Deryn - 16mm Scale Kleine Albula - HOm Gauge Llandarfal - OO Gauge Llawryglyn - EM Gauge Margam Moor - OO Gauge Midsomer Mardy - Z Gauge Mostyn - P4 Finescale (Special Guest Layout) Pencader - EM Gauge Plaxtol Road - O Gauge Ryders Green Wharf - OO9 Gauge Sheep Dip - OO Gauge Trevanna Dries - EM Gauge Washery Halt - O Gauge Traders: Squires Tools War World Scenics - One of the show's sponsors A Brooks Project Ltd Martyn Parry - One of the show's sponsors 813 Preservation Fund Alastair Warrington Railway Photo's Bespoke GLR Services Country Park Models Craftfairs Henry Thomas Diecast Lightmoor Press Taff Vale Models (Dragon Models) Trade Stand Enquiry Email: tradestands@cardiffmodelrail.org.uk General Email: enquiries@cardiffmodelrailwayshow.co.uk Telephone: 029 2025 5000 (10am to 5pm Monday to Friday) There are regular bus services from central Cardiff. Service 5 - Hourly intervals between approx 11am and 5pm Service 7 - Hourly intervals between 9am and 5pm Service 9 - Approx 15 minute intervals throughout the days Service X45 - Hourly interval throughout the day up to 5:30pm. Note: Services listed are subject to amendment. Please check with Cardiff Bus before starting your journey. Nearest railway station is Cogan. Walk across the Pont-yr-Werin footbridge to get to the Arena...