2012 Swindon Railway Festival

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2012 Swindon Railway Festival

 

 

The Big GWR Event of the Year

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm

Twenty of the country's finest GWR and BR (w) layouts are heading to the Museum for the 2012 Hornby Magazine sponsored Swindon Railway Festival on 15 and 16 September. Now in its eleventh year, the Festival brings together the country's finests layouts, demonstrators and traders.

The Museum welcomes back the impressive displays from model giants Hornby and Bachmann, and celebrity modeller and pop music legend Pete Waterman will be at the show.

We look forward to seeing you at the home of the GWR this September.

Meanwhile, here are details of this year's Festival.

 

 

Swindon Railway Festival 2012 Layouts

O Gauge

• Lelant Saltings (Historical Broad Gauge Layout)
  
• Bleadon (Col. Stephens Light Railway)
  
• Pystyll-Graig-Ddu (Taff Vale)
  
• Western View (Great Western Engine Shed and Station)
  
• Aber Emyln (Welsh Valleys Railway)
  
• Test Track (Bring your models to run on this layout)
  
• Graig Wen **NEW LAYOUT** (Great Western Collery Screens)
  
• Working 'O' Gauge Cranes
  
• Nancleare Harbour (Narrow Gauge)
  

00 Gauge / EM / Scale 4

• Hungerford (Scale model of Hungerford Station GWR)
  
• Wales Rails Rain and Steam **NEW LAYOUT** (Diesel era)
  
• Yardley
  
• Bluchel Street (Diesel era)
  
• Denroyd (London North Western)
  
• Llawryglyn (Cambrian)
  
• Corris 1930 (Narrow Gauge)
  

S Scale

• Grove Ferry Junction (Col. Stephens Light Railway)
  

N Gauge / N Scale / 2FS

• Union Pass (American Modern Railways)
  
• Bodmin (Great Western Station)
  
• Tucking Mill **NEW LAYOUT** (2mm layout)
  

Displays

• Traction Engines
  
• Bill Slaymaker (Display of Rail Motors)
  
• Mike Little (M&SWJ, Southern + Others Models)
  
• Dennis Feltham (Display of mainline running steam locos)
  

Swindon Railway Festival 2012 Demonstrations

• Paul Jones - Wagon Kit Building
  
• Waverney Group - Scratch Building + DCC Hand Soldering
  
• Chris Baston - Transfers and Kit Building
  
• Warren Shepherd - Boiler Rolling
  
• Andy Duncan - White Metal Soldering
  
• Mark Henshaw - SCALE148
  
• Mike Gough - G Scale Demos
  
• Chris Dunn - 4mm Loco Construction
  
• Dave Walker / Liz Marsden - Large Scale Modelling + Painting & Lining
  
• John Coulter - S Scale Modelling
  
• Roger Manton - Weathering
  
• Bob Brown - 3mm Scale Modelling
  
• Richard Brown - Scratch Building 7mm Wagons
  
• Derek Mundy - Signalling
  
• Dave Baverstock - N Gauge Modelling
  
• Fred Lewis - 7mm Modelling
  
• John Taylor - Patterns for Panto-graph Milling
  
• David and Sylvia White - (Slaters Plastikard) Inside Motion Crank Axles
  
• Brian Tole - 7mm Building
  

2012 Festival Traders and Societies

Box Steam Brewery www.boxsteambrewery.com

Hornby Magazine www.hornbymagazine.com

Picture Pride Displays www.picturepridedisplays.co.uk

Squires Model & Craft Tools www.squirestools.com

Just Like The Real Thing www.justliketherealthing.co.uk

Hornby Hobbies www.Hornby.com

Bachmann Europe www.Bachmann.co.uk

County Rolling Stock www.ntasticshop.co.uk

Aster Hobbies (UK) www.asterhobbies.co.uk

Oakwood Press and Visuals www.oakwoodpress.co.uk

Kernow Model Rail Centre www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com

The Signal Box www.thesignalbox.co.uk

Coate Water Miniature Railway www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/northwiltsmes/

Severn Valley Railway www.svr.co.uk

Swindon & Cricklade Railway www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org

6024 Preservation Society www.6024.com

6880 Betton Grange Society www.6880.co.uk

West Somerset Railway www.west-somerset-railway.co.ukLink

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.festrail.co.uk

Rodbourne Community History Group www.rodbournehistory.org

Friends of the Swindon Railway Museum www.fosrm.org.uk

Great Western Society

[The Stationmaster]

Looks like another good year for the 'Steam' show (and I've an inkling there might be 'something special' in the model railway world announced at or just prior to the show).

[Long Line]

Not so long to the big day now so a bump was required... cheers all Mark

[MarkSG]

I went to the 2009 event and really enjoyed it - it's a good opportunity to see both models and full-size stuff in the same venue. I missed the past couple of years as it's clashed with something else each time, but this year it's on a weekend when I'm free so I'm planning to head down on the Sunday. Good looking line-up, too.

[Crompton Power]

Looking forward to my annual visit to Steam.

Looks like a good mix of layouts.

 

Keith.

[josh993]

Hoping to visit on the Sunday (:

[Long Line]

A mix of demonstrating and operating the Gibbon brothers Taff Vale O gauge in store for me this weekend,

 

This show keeps on growing from strength to strength and Saturday can be very busy, Sunday is the more relaxed day to visit!

 

cheers Mark

[DJM Dave]

Oh and Don't forget Dapol will be attending with our glass cabinet packed with new and upcoming models, plus a small sales stand with some goodies on it.

Cheers

Dave

[richbrummitt]

I'm planning on attending on the Sunday and very much looking forward to it.

 

...plus a small sales stand with some goodies on it.

 

I'm guessing you're unlikely to elaborate further? I saw the cabinet last weekend but didn't see any n gauge panniers on the sale stand.

[The Stationmaster]

I'm looking forward to Saturday - sounds as if it will be a better show than ever this year.

[queensquare]

Kim and I are there with Tucking Mill's first proper outing. Far from finished but fully operational.

 

Jerry

[Sidecar Racer]

I'm looking forward to Saturday - sounds as if it will be a better show than ever this year.

 

Stu and I will be keeping an eye out for you then Mike .

[The Stationmaster]

Stu and I will be keeping an eye out for you then Mike .

Will do likewise then Mike - daughter and I will probably arrive c.10.30-11.00ish, current booked ports of call are the Kernow stand (for some pre-booked goodies coming up from the west), Tucking Mill, the Hornby and Bachmann stands plus Dapol's and of course Steam's own together with the burger bar & bar, and working my way through all the other layouts.

[Jonboy]

Well I am just back and have enjoyed a fantastic almost one on one (a few others seemed to be listening closely by the end!) white metal soldering lesson from Andy Duncan - He has helped me more in 15 or so minutes than 6 years of trying to get my head round it from online tutorials! That on its own was worth the entrance fee and then there where some very impressive modelling as well.

[The Stationmaster]

An excellent day although it seemed more crowded (with visitors) this year. An interesting collection of layouts with all scales from 2mm FS to 7mm represented. Tucking Mill is clearly going to be a cracker when complete and is already looking very good - I can't wait to see the finalised backscene. Hungerford 'in the flesh' is also a sight for sore eyes with some lovely operational touches as well as the exquisite finish.

 

Dapol's newest was on show (see separate thread) while Hornby had most of the initial batch of GW 8-coupled tank variants in their display case - all looking very nice but still with a wrong running number on the BR black 72XX; the 42XX and 5205 very clearly have the correct - different - rear bufferbeam thicknesses as well. According to SK the 72XX will go round 2nd radius curves so quite what is happening underneath it sounds to be something special, to say the very least. Looks like the tank engines will all be here by the year end.

 

Bachmann had 2 'Modified Halls' in the showcase and their rep today said no changes are being made to the body - perhaps they need to issue common 'hymn sheets' as we now have a repeat of the original story on that front

 

This show shows one very good way of tackling the question of how to organise and run a show with some high quality layouts among what was in many respects an eclectic mix spread through an interesting (to me at any rate) museum. To this was added a reasonable selection of trade albeit with few specialists, a good range of demos and a really good quality catering contractor offering good food at sensible prices.

[gwrrob]

Shame I couldn't make this show especially as I now know the new 72xx was on show too.Were they painted samples Mike ?

[Sidecar Racer]

Shame I couldn't make this show especially as I now know the new 72xx was on show too.Were they painted samples Mike ?

 

I can answer that with a yes Robin , and very tasty looking they are . Like Stationmaster I

would love to have a look at the workings , if they can do 2nd radius I could see my kit

builts being added to with a pair of these , the kit's can sit ' on shed ' while these work for

their keep .

 

And I'm in agreement about the whole show experiance .

 

Late edit , the 72xx was only in Black .

[Kev_Lewis]

Dad and myself had a great time at Steam today. The exhibition was very well organised with a nice balance of layouts, traders and demos.

 

Oh, and 5815 had a nice run on the test track too.

[richbrummitt]

very excited about this tomorrow later today.

[Jonboy]

Dad and myself had a great time at Steam today. The exhibition was very well organised with a nice balance of layouts, traders and demos.

 

Oh, and 5815 had a nice run on the test track too.

 

5815 was a little cracker - I assume you got it back in the end or did it end with a rake of coaches on top of the two vans and a warflat?

[Kev_Lewis]

5815 was a little cracker

 

Thanks Jonboy.

 

I assume you got it back in the end or did it end with a rake of coaches on top of the two vans and a warflat?

 

I did manage to get it back before it went any farther. The warflat was actually a scratchbuilt GWR Crocodile L, which I think weighed more than little 5815!

[TimC]

I went today. A last minute decision as we were supposed to be going to the outlaws who put us off at the last minute. Glad I went a super show!

[DJM Dave]

Great show and very busy.

Blinking shame I never got to see Tucking Mill though :-(

[Kev_Lewis]

Great show and very busy.

Blinking shame I never got to see Tucking Mill though :-(

 

You certainly looked to be doing a good trade when I was there yesterday Dave.

 

It was great to get a good look at the samples of 7mm milk tankers. At Telford there always seemed to be a rugby scrum around the cabinet! They do look fantastic. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a couple when they're released.

[richbrummitt]

Great show and very busy.

Blinking shame I never got to see Tucking Mill though :-(

 

I put a few pictures on Jerry's thread in the 2mm section. I'm sure I appear on Jerry's pictures when he gets a chance to upload them, so would like to apologise for that in advance.