exhibiton Model Railway Day at Whitehead Railway Museum

[Whitehead Railway Museum]

We are looking forward to hosting our first ever Model Railway Day at
Whitehead Railway Museum on Saturday 9th November. 

 

The exhibition will be held at Whitehead Railway Museum, Castleview Road,
Whitehead BT38 9NA and will showcase layouts on display in the Carriage,
Locomotive and Stables Galleries from 10am-5pm.

Two dozen layouts will be on show for the event including a never-before seen
museum standard layout from England, the ‘Saltdean’ a Victorian Model which
includes a brewery and 0 gauge locomotives based on William Stroudley’s designs.
Layout highlights include Thomas the Tank Engine, Looney Toon’s Road Runner,
the 1950’s Roland Emmett cartoonist inspired, Far Tottering and Oyster Creek
Railway as well as various vintage models, lego layouts and a new N gauge layout in
a briefcase featuring a tractor factory.

Tickets can be purchased on entry and are £10 for adults and £6 for children, with a
family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) costing just £25. Each ticket includes a free
steam train ride, operating from the Station Building platform every 15 minutes from
12-4pm.

Arriving by NI Railways? Produce your ticket to receive 20% off the admission price!
The Edwardian Tea Room will be open serving hot stew, soup, tea, coffee and
delicious traybakes. Additionally there will be refreshments served from our dining
cars in the Carriage Gallery.

With limited public car parking Whitehead Railway Museum are encouraging patrons
to use public transport, this event is fully wheelchair accessible.

If you would like to find out more about Whitehead Railway Museum and RPSI
events, visit their website www.steamtrainsireland.com and follow them on
Facebook @whiteheadrailwaymuseum
Twitter @RPSItrains
Instagram @steamtrainsireland

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LMS NCC North Atlantic Brake carriage No91 got some lovely new lining applied this week in time for Whitehead Model Railway Day this Saturday 9th November 2019.

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Look out for this fantasy layout on Saturday 9th November 2019 at Whitehead Model Railway Day. Dave from Stradbally is bringing an N gauge layout that had been built specially for the event. Dave has produced a layout in an attache case which he describes as having a slightly grim pseudo-Soviet aesthetic. It is populated with robots that he designed himself and had 3D printed in France! This layout also includes a Tractor factory. Unmissable!

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Here is a full list of model exhibits as of this evening. This is in addition to all the normal museum displays, full size steam trains rides between Noon and 4pm and coffee and scones in the dining car available all day.

Electronics for Model Railways                          Model Electronic Railway Group                                                           

Hornby O gauge clockwork                               Debra Wenlock             Vintage

Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway                        John Pollock                 Novelty

Trebor’s Park                                                   Robert MacDougall       GB       OO

Smurfs’ Layout                                                 Brian Chambers            Novelty OO

NER County Durham Station                             Neil Jackson                 GB       OO

Weston Town                                                   Nicholas Foote              GB       N

Weston East                                                     Nicholas Foote              GB       N

Spy’s Attache Case Railway                              David Gregg                 Novelty/USSR  N

Model Engineering display                                Model Engineers of NI

Capecastle- NCC Diorama                                Patrick Davey               Irish     OO9

BLUR/Lego                                                       Peter Murfitt                 Lego

Mill Road (Public Shunting Layout)                    North Down MRS          GB       OO

Diesel Depot                                                     Wexford MRC               Irish     OO

Dunster                                                            John Sinclair                 GB       OO

Road Runner                                                    Les Conn                      Novelty

The Ffarquhar Branch/Thomas layout                Michael White               GB       OO

RPSI G Gauge                                                 

Saltdean                                                           Peter and John Smith    GB       O

T-Trak Impressions of Ireland                           Michael O’Connor         Irish     N

Lego City                                                          Erica Lutzman               Lego

Hornby Tinplate                                                Ken Cuming                  GB/Vintage       O

Stanfording                                                       Tony Ragg                   Irish     O

O Gauge Display                                              Phil Aspinwall               Irish     O

Quarry Hill                                                        Ulster MRC                  GB       OO

Killagan                                                                        Ian Stewart                   Irish     OO

Portadown                                                        William Redpath            Irish     OO

Quarry Hill                                                        First Bangor MRC         GB/Irish OO

Glenabbey                                                        Glenabbey MRC           GB       OO

RPSI Sales                                                       John Friel

Miniature Railway Display                                 Belfast & Co Down Miniature Railway Society

Miniature Vehicles Display                                Model Engineers Society NI    

[Dava]

Some great layouts there and what a venue to show them in. Can't make this weekend but hope to visit Whitehead  someday as I've never been there when it's open.

 

Dava

[debrawenlock]

Sorry you can't make it this Saturday but it's worth a visit at any time.

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The first layout to arrive at Whitehead for Model Railway Day on Saturday 9th Nov 2019 is John and Ian Sinclair's 'Dunster' OO scale line. As one of the event organisers, Ian is having a well-earned rest here with harbour engine RH Smyth behind

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Here's the pdf file showing the museum layout for this Saturday's Whitehead Model Railway Day.

Model_Railway_Day_Guide-1.pdf

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Whitehead Model Railway Day starts at 10am tomorrow, Sat 9th November 2019, and is on all day until 5pm. Most of the layouts arrived today and only require fine tuning and a bit of track cleaning in the morning.

Two fantastic O gauge layouts are on display: Tony Ragg's Stanfording featuring Wonderful Whitehead itself and John and Peter Smith's superb Saltdean- a recreation of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in the 1880s.  This is the first time Saltdean has been shown in Ireland.