The Swindon Railway Festival 2016

Event Name: The Swindon Railway Festival 2016

Classification: Exhibition

Address: STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway,Fire Fly Avenue,Swindon, SN2 2EY

Day 1: Saturday 10 September 2016

Opening times Day 1: 10:00 to 17:00

Day 2: Sunday 11 September 2016

Opening times Day 2: 10:00 to 17:00

Prices: Adult £12, Senior (Over 60) £9, Child (3-15 yrs) £8, Family (2 adults, 1 child) £28, Family (2 adults, 2 children) £32

Disability access: Yes

Car parking: Yes

Website:

Organising body: STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway

Organiser: 01793 466646 www.steam-museum.org.uk Email [email protected]

THE SWINDON RAILWAY FESTIVAL 2016

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.