This year's festival marks 175 years since GWR directors approved plans for the GWR Railway Works to be built in Swindon.
To celebrate, the UK's finest GWR/BR (W) Region model railway layouts will be present, as well as highlights including:
- Pete Waterman with his "Just Like the Real Thing" Models
- Swindon Then and Now photographic exhibition
- Daniel Gooch: Life and Legacy special exhibition
- Regular soundings of the Swindon Works Hooter
- A display of seven 5" gauge Kings to recreate the iconic photographs taken at Swindon Works in the 1930s
- New locomotives on display, King George V and City of Truro
- Live steam display by Hatch Heritage & Steam Engineers, including vintage showman's engines
- Hands-on demos of wagon and loco construction, modern image, soldering, signals and weathering
- Trade stands (including Cheltenham, Kernow, Invicta and more)
- Ian Allen Railway Bookshop
- BBQ, Real Ale Bar and Platform One Café
The Layouts;
O Gauge
- Marshfield
- Bontfaen TVR
- Ynysybwl Fach
- Aber Emlyn
- Western View
- East Midlands Test Track
- Graig Wen
Broad Gauge 7mm
- Dunsmore Heath
- Alma Street Yard
- Chalfont
- Bristol Goods Shed
00 Gauge/4mm 4mm Fine Scale
- Awdry St Nicholas
- Cornwallis Yard
- Horfield 1955-61
- Porth St John
- Burford
2mm 'N'
- Broadwater Junction
- Little Aller
- Aston Magna
Gauge 3
- Ketheric
- Warton Road
2mm Fine Scale
- St Blazey
- St Ruth
3mm Fine Scale
- Chipping Compton
'S'/Scale 4
- Llanfair
- Llawrygln
NOTE: details believed to be correct at the time of posting - potential visitors are advised to check these details before travelling, to avoid disappointment.
