Aberystwyth Small Model Railway Exhibition 2024

Aberystwyth Small Model Railway Exhibition!

New for 2024! (Updated 26 April 2024)

A variety of layouts will be on show in their new museum and flexible event space, displayed between the larger (full sized) exhibits there, on Saturday 26th October (still no time details as yet).

They have a number of layouts booked already (see poster and now, at the bottom of this post), but have space for more. If you are interested, please get in touch (phil@rheidolrailway.co.uk).

Prices and booking details are still to be announced.

Vale of Rheidol Railway 

Park Avenue

Aberystwyth

Ceredigion

SY23 1PG  

01970 625819

info@rheidolrailway.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=vale of rheidol railway

https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/

Registered charity No. 1076037

Layouts, etc. confirmed so far include:

• Ffarquar (00 gauge): Rev W Awdry – displayed by the Talyllyn Railway: hand-built code 75 track, operated to a realistic timetable with historic models.
• Castle Bank Sidings (7mm Scale): ‘Fiddle yard to fiddle yard’ layout, set in the 1970s Glasgow suburbs, used as a diversionary route for trains over the West Highland line, by Andy Pannett
• Hulme End (0 17.5 scale [17.5mm gauge & 7mm Scale]): 23′ long, 7mm scale model of the Hulme End terminus of the Leek & Manifold Railway, by Paul Holmes
• Whiteoak Light Railway (0-16.5 scale): Large narrow gauge layout, depicting a fictitious railway serving the Thames estuary in Kent, by Allen Lawe & Nyall Rudge
• Afon Adit (O9 [7mm/1Ft]): Narrow gauge layout, representing a gold mine scene, by Martin Rich
• Little Himalayan Railway (009): Ultra-compact ‘pizza’ layout, representing a typical switchback on the world-famous Darjeeling Himalaya Railway, by Giles Perkins
• Arley (N gauge): Layout of the well-known Severn Valley Railway station, set in the preservation era, by Will & Harvey Jarman
• Name TBC (Scale?): Shunting layout – still being built! Come and see it in it’s first public appearance, by Harvey Jarman
• Knott-on-Wye (00 gauge): Inglenook shunting layout, by Max Birchenhough
• Bron Aberffrwd (009): Narrow gauge, depicting a scene on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, by John Alderslade
• Earlshill (N gauge): Southern region, by Andrew Barker
• Llandyfai (4mm scale) Set in South Wales during the Arriva Trains Wales franchise from 2003 until 2018, by Ashley Griffiths
• Bottom Hole (N gauge): a layout of convenience to promote movement – come and see what this entails…, by Triston Lister
• Interactive 16mm Inglenook Layout: 32mm gauge battery locos, shunting challenge layout, with Phil Thorogood
• 16mm narrow gauge display, Neil Phillips (including 16mm models of Brecon Mountain Railway locos)
• 16mm narrow gauge display, Simon Reeves (including 16mm models of Rheidol prototypes in 45mm gauge)
• Fairbourne Railway display/publicity stand (Graham Billington)
• Talyllyn Railway Young Members Group stand (TR YMG)
• Modelling demonstration: Dr TJ mallard (finescale metal locomotive construction)