Cornish modellers scoop GETS award

[steve howe]

The Helston & Falmouth Model Railway Club has scooped another award for one of its layouts at a top national exhibition. The group took their 0-16.5 layout ‘Gweek North Quay’ to the prestigious Great Electric Train Show sponsored by Hornby Magazine held at the British Motor Museum near Warwick where it was awarded a ‘Best in Show’ trophy.

 

The model represents the station and quayside at Gweek on the mythical narrow gauge ‘Helford Valley Railway’ which was proposed to link Helston and Penryn, but was never actually built.

 

Club member Steve Howe, one of the team behind the project, said “We were delighted to be asked to appear at the Show which is one of the highlights of the railway modelling calendar, after our layout appeared in the ‘Hornby Magazine’ earlier this year. It’s a real accolade to get this award and I’m pleased that it raises the profile of the Club and railway modelling as a creative and absorbing hobby.”

 

The model is also due to appear at the Warley International Model Railway Exhibition at the NEC in November.

 

The Club, which has its Clubrooms at Gunwalloe just south of Helston with around a dozen members, is one of the longest established model railway clubs in the country having been originally founded in Falmouth in 1951. Gweek North Quay is just one of several projects the group is working on and the Club always welcomes prospective members to its sessions on Wednesday and Friday evenings. More information can be found at www.hfmrc.co.uk

 

Club members Howard Ward-Ure, Tony Bates & Ken Hyland receive the award from Matt Taylor of Gaugemaster Ltd

 

General view of Gweek North Quay

 

'Horsa' shunts in the quay sidings

 

Touring motorcyclists study a map of the Lizard outside the 'Black Swan'

 

'Moth' passes the village section at Gweek.

 

'Trelowarren' departs from Gweek with the Market Day train for Helston

 

All photos by Trevor Jones courtesy of Hornby Magazine