Model Railway Day

[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

[tractionman]

Is there any trade support at the exhibition?

 

cheers,

 

Keith

 

 

 

[debrawenlock]

Hi Keith,

The only sales stand will be the Railway Preservation Society stall mainly selling books. There are 31 layouts promised as well as full size steam train rides. The star layout Saltdean from England on its first ever appearance in Ireland should be worth a look. Hope you can make it along.

cheers

[debrawenlock]

A layout to look out for this Saturday 9th November 2019. Dave from Stradbally is bringing an N gauge layout that had been built specially for Whitehead Model Railway Day. Dave thought it would be fun to produce a layout that would fit in a attache case, which the kind they used in spy-movies from the Cold War era.

It's a simple oval loop, combined with a slightly grim pseudo-Soviet aesthetic and representing Dave's love of Robots and agricultural machinery. Dave takes up the story-  'Listening to shortwave English-language broadcasts in the 1970s, such as Radio Moscow and Radio Prague, I was always fascinated with the endless references to tractor-production targets being exceeded. This layout squeezes in part of a Robot and Tractor factory and the endless delivery of these to the far corners of the USSR.'