RISEX 2019 Model Railway Exhibition

Event Name: RISEX 2019 Model Railway Exhibition

Classification: Exhibition

Address: Community Centre(adjacent to Springs swimming pool), Wades Park, Stratton Road, Princes Risborough, Bucks, HP27 9AX

Day 1: 23/02/19

Opening times Day 1: 10.00-5.00

Prices: Adults £4.00, Child £2.00

Disability access: Yes

Car parking: No

Website: http://www.rdmrc.org.uk

Organising body: Risborough & District Model Railway Club

The whole of the Community Centre in Princes Risborough is taken over one day in the spring each year. Allowing local modellers to display their layouts and model making.

We have 10 layouts, trade support and demonstrations, one of the layouts that is attending is ‘Ealing Road’, this was built by the Missenden Modellers for the Channel 5 TV series 'The Great Model Railway Challenge', which you may have seen back in October/November of 2018, the theme of their heat was ‘Movies’ and the team opted to base theirs on a medley of the Ealing Studios films of the early fifties, regarded by many as the high point in British Cinema.

Ealing Road, Photograph Courtesy of Knickerbockerglory TV

Light refreshments will be available including LOTS of HOMEMADE CAKES

Confirmed Layouts:

7mm Scale

• Central Works O Gauge, Exhibited by Luton Model Railway Club, The location is based on the intense network of sidings that once existed at Longbridge, Birmingham. This enables us to run a great variety of locos and stock from the late 1950s through to the 1960s.
  
• Grange West Tramway O-16.5 Gauge, Exhibited by John Dean, The layout is a fictitious narrow gauge system situated in the middle of England. It is modelled in O-16.5 (7mm) and depicts Beldam Road Station on a non tramway section.
  

4mm Scale

• Canute Road Quay, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Graham ‘Muz’ Muspratt, Canute Road Quay is a dock / quayside layout located somewhere around the Canute Road area within Southampton Docks operated primarily by the Southern Railway between 1946 to 1949. Occasionally it can be operated in different eras such as early or late British Railways periods.
  
• Ealing Road, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Missenden Modellers, Built for the Channel 5 TV series 'The Great Model Railway Challenge', the theme of the heat was ‘Movies’ and the team opted to base theirs on a medley of the Ealing Studios films of the early fifties.
  
• Mount Road Shed, OO Gauge, Mark Bacon, Set in the late 1960s, almost at the end of steam, see this fictitious shed that has been created based upon Mark's early childhood memories of Leicester.
  
• Norwood Road, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Simon Paley, With Norwood Road set in the 21st Century, it remains unchanged since BR Days, services are now in the hands of Southern and London Overground, while also seeing some Thameslink Services as the route is used as an occasional diversionary route.
  
• Ottilies, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Andrew Hicks, This is a double sided layout set in Yorkshire during the LNER period, with a town station scene on one side and a county station scene on the other, the whole layout folds in half for storage.
  

3.5mm Scale

• Lemmington Park, HO Gauge, Exhibited by Western Model Railway Society, A station in the outskirts of Chicago, on what was once a through line but now truncated to serving as an outer-suburban terminus receiving push-pull trains as used by Metra.
  
• Salinas Valley, HO Gauge, Exhibited by John Baggaley, This is a small US switching layout, with relatively modern rail served industries. It is assumed to be situated on the outskirts of a city in the 1960/70s.
  

1:148 Scale

• Whitmoor, N Gauge, Exhibited by Astolat Model Railway Circle , The layout has a continuous run, via a fiddle yard, on a double main line through the station. Additional terminal platforms at one end of the station are intended for branch line traffic and suburban traffic to the "big city". The layout includes a goods yard and locomotive depot.
  

Confirmed Traders

• Club 2nd Hand: Risborough Club Members' items for sale.
  
• Keith's Model Railways: New and high quality second-hand 'OO' railway items to suit all ages and all pockets. From all manufacturers, for all enthusiasts.
  
• Len Bunning Books: Pre-owned books and magazines.
  
• P & G Engineering Supplies: Selection of Tools and N/OO9/OO kits.
  
• Richard Boddington Postcards: Dealers in second-hand postcards.
  
• Sunningwell Command Control: Digitrax, Soundtraxx, North Coast Engineering, Train Control Systems (TCS) and CML and other products.
  

Confirmed Societies

• Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway: The preservation and running of the line between Chinnor and Princes Risborough.
  
• Great Central Railway Society: The society promotes interest in and study of the former GCR lines which is valuable information for modellers.
  
• Princes Risborough North Signal Box: The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Association appeal and restoration of this building.