Sodbury Vale Model Railway Club.

 

 

Railway Modelling Open Day

We look forward to welcoming visitors to our first Open Day on Sunday 20th October 2024 at Lyde Green Community Centre, Willowherb Road, Lyde Green nr. Emerson Green, Bristol. BS16 7GW.

We’ve several aims for this event. Firstly, it’s an opportunity for as many local model railway clubs and societies to display and showcase what they do and to inspire and enthuse both existing and new modellers in the hobby. If it generates new members to these clubs then that is another plus.

The second aim is to deliver a comprehensive and diverse range of layouts, modelling displays, societies and local trades to help visitors ‘See how it’s done’, to ‘ask how?’ and to ‘find out how to do it’ and to ‘Inspire the hobby’.

This is an opportunity for modellers and enthusiasts, societies and local traders to advertise and enthuse the hobby. All proceeds raised on the day will be donated to the local community and numerous charities.

There is ample free parking and a local Park and Ride for overspill parking too.

The event is all on the ground floor with full dissability access and light refreshments are available.

The event is open from 10am until 4pm. Entrance is £3 per adult and all accompanied children have a free admission.

 

 

Layouts and displays as follows:

2mm Society

3mm SocietyLayout ‘3mm’ (6ft) TBC and modelling demo- Doug Richards

S Scale Society Stand and modelling demo- Paul Willis

Larger Scale BSMEE Engineer’s Stand and live steam locos- Peter Nicholas and the BSMEE members. 

EMGS ScaleSociety Stand and modelling demo- Dave Burnett

Bristol GOG. Exhibits TBC- Bob Savage

GLOS GOGExhibits TBC- John Greathead

Avon Valley Trust. 2nd Hand model railways- Paul Baulch

SVMRC Club Shop. 2nd Hand model railways- Chris Lee

Tony Wilcock. 2nd Hand model railways. 

Lord and Butler. R2R/accessories and selection of pre-owned items. 

Paul Fogg. Railwayana Sales. 

 

Layouts 

   

Sodbury Vale MRC.

 

Codrington ‘00’

York Gardens ‘00’

Hagbourne Rd ‘00’

Mangotsfield Station ‘00’

 

SVMRC members.

 

Shirehampton Binegar ‘N’ and a 3mm TT demo. John York and Gary Castell. 

Thornbury & S. Glos.

Thorberton ‘N’ plus modelling displays. Peter Oddy.

 

Nailsea/Backwell.

 

Morrella LR ‘009’ Test Track plus static displays- Heather Hatch.

 

Nailsea/Backwell.

 

Portishead TMD ‘00’ layout with sound. -Charlotte Carpenter

Bristol East. Modelling buildings and structures in 00. Richard Lear and Phil Lovell. 

 

BDMRC.

Calderbridge (N) and Clement Street Yard (0). Mark Savage and Norman Clymer. 

 

Forest of Dean‘N’ gauge starter layout plus stock and kit building demos. Jon Beales.

 

West Wilts MRC.

 

Exhibits TBC. Rod Towler and Les Gibbs

Jon Edwards.

Barwick Green ‘0’ plus controlling a layout via an ipad or iphone. Jon Edwards.

 

DCC Supplies, DCC concepts and the Basics of DCC- Fiona Forty.

 

Brass Loco Building, Demo of soldering techniques- Dave Murdoch.

 

 Painting techniques with air brush spraying.

 Kit building. - Jon Beales

 

 Scenics/Buildings- Neil Walker and Andy Babb

 Rolling stock construction- Paul Willis.

 

 3D Printing- Dave Burnett. 

 

 Test Track for running your own trains- Heather Hatch.