Long Line Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Swindon Railway Festival 2015 The Big GWR Event of the Year Doors open 10.00am – 5.00pm We're gearing up for this year's Swindon Railway Festival, with some fantastic model railway layouts - many being shown for the first time! Live steam from Hatch Heritage & Steam Engineers and the evocative sound of the steam whistle welcome each day of the festival, now in its 14th year. All model railway layouts, demonstrations and trade stands are displayed throughout the Museum so you'll get to enjoy STEAM's permanent exhibitions that include iconic GWR locomotives like No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle and No. 4003 Lode Star. Among our special guests and attractions will be top music producer, author and keen railway enthusiast, Pete Waterman. Pete will be exhibiting his amazing Just Like the Real Thing models and signed copies of his railway books will be available too. Special guest model railway layout this year will be 'Hewisbridge', a fabulously intricate Borders layout by the 57 Model Railway Group. We have a great variety of modelling demonstrations lined up for you this year. These will run throughout the weekend - from locomotive and wagon construction to signalling, soldering and weathering. Trade stands will be stocked with plenty of bargains too - from model railway kits and accessories, to railway art, books and memorabilia. Heritage railway organisations will also be among the traders to showcase their attractions. More book signings include STEAM’s pictorial book, Wartime GWR by STEAM authors Elaine Arthurs and Felicity Jones. A Real Ale Bar, courtesy of Box Steam Brewery and a barbecue will be on hand both days for refreshments, alongside STEAM’s own Platform One Café. · Traction Engine Display · BBQ & Restaurant Dining · Real Ale Bar · Ian Allan Bookshop · Demonstrations · Trade Stands: Cheltenham, Kernow, Invicta, Just Like the Real Thing, Squires Tools, Picture Pride, Lionheart, Andy Duncan) · Preserved Railway Stands 0 Gauge Berkeley Junction Cascade Yard Coppers Quay East Dean East Midlands Test Track Lough MPD ‘0’ Gauge Model Display Stabling Point Ullapool Hewisbridge 00 Gauge Awdry St. Nicolas Bradbury June Choller Ford Fairford Halston Kensal Green Old Mills Colliery Sidings Simington N Gauge Aston Magna Charlieville Ridgacre Branch Sandwell County Gauge 3 G3 Test Track St. Ives 2mm Fine Scale Bath Queen Square STEAM is just ten minutes’ walk from Swindon Railway Station and the town centre. Tickets Adults £12 Seniors (over 60) £9 Children (3-15 yrs) £8 Family ticket (2 adults, 1 child) £28 Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £32 Under 3s go free Buy tickets online from SwindonTickets (booking fee applies) at www.swindontickets.co.uk There’s a 10% discount on Swindon Railway Festival tickets for STEAM Season Ticket holders when purchased from the Museum direct. http://www.steam-museum.org.uk/events/Pages/Swindon-Railway-Festival-2015.aspx will post full layout list shortly... Cheers Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted August 24, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2015 We will be there again this year in our usual 2mm corner. This year along with the 2mm demo we will be bringing along a selection of models, maps, photos and other research material from my home based Bath Queensquare project. A cracking day out in the excellent Steam Museum, do come and say hello. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I'm going, will be one of the operators on Berkeley Junction. Not sure how much of an opportunity I'll get to go and wander round the show. Do say hello though if you see us- I'll most likely be at the front running the goods yard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Line Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 More details inc layout list added to opening post, cheers Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted September 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 4, 2015 Just to clarify, Bath Queensquare in 2FS is not a working layout but a demonstration on researching and modelling a prototype. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Hopefully Going saturday , anyone know or advise on what is the car parking like?? thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 9, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2015 Hopefully Going saturday , anyone know or advise on what is the car parking like?? thanks Just across the road and usually a reasonable chance of getting in although it also serves the outlet shopping centre so can get busy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Reminds me, I should probably go through the wagon fleet tonight and check they are all serviceable! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clearwater Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 On the parking, i think it's the case that if you, or someone you're with..., spends over a certain amount, from memory £100, in the outlet village you can get your parking validated and avoid the charge. I'd note the outlet village does include the Hornby concession as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 On the parking, i think it's the case that if you, or someone you're with..., spends over a certain amount, from memory £100, in the outlet village you can get your parking validated and avoid the charge. I'd note the outlet village does include the Hornby concession as well They have in the past also accepted receipts from spending at Steam (including traders at the show) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted September 10, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2015 SWMBO used to work just next door in what was, when the Works was functioning, the Drawing Office. I could have used the office car park. Working on Saturday but might be able to get there on Sunday. Clashes with REC at Woking which I would also like to go to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Any reports from today or recommendations for tomorrow? Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted September 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2015 A flying visit - these were the layouts I got photos of. Great if you like the larger scales - which I do. The Gauge 3 St Ives was spectacular. I loved the 4F #44422 Berkely Junction East Dean Kensal Green St Ives Cascade Yard Ullapool Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I only had the chance for a quick look but "St Ives" in gauge 3 was very impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted September 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 13, 2015 Look out for Ridgeacre Branch - I was really impressed with what had been achieved in the space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthesnail96 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Bit of a shakey Saturday with Berkeley Junction, mostly due to it being our first time running as a team and overenthusiasm overruling ability to fathom the DCC/ fiddle yard staging arrangements. Had a much better day on Sunday other than some DCC glitches (which we still haven't got to the bottom of) and a couple of loco failures which were a bit of a pain and led to the odd unusual bit of rostering but nothing too serious. Managed to keep to 7 trains in the fiddle yard in each direction (from a long iron ore rake with a 28xx to a Heljan railbus in length!) for most of the day so there should have been a reasonable variety and not much repetition for the trainspotter. I think we did have a few folks stay and watch the whole sequence! Stock was a bit of a miss- match but we knew that, as it was supplied by various group members- we'd never have got enough to run it otherwise. It's all about running long trains in a big (ish, so long as you'd visited us before St Ives anyway) scale, as opposed to complete historical accuracy. If anyone has any more photos we'd love to see them One of the team did get out with his camera but I think he mostly focussed on the GWR stock that was running, so anything of the BR era would be great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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