Expo Narrow Gauge, Swanley, 29th October 2016

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The Greenwich and District Narrow Gauge Railway Society is pleased to announce that it will be holding its annual Expo Narrow Gauge® on Saturday 29th October 2016 at the White Oak Leisure Centre, Hilda May Avenue, Swanley, Kent BR8 7BT.

ExpoNG - as it is more commonly known – is Europe's premier narrow gauge exhibition, attracting visitors from across the globe. We continue to bring together the best in layouts, traders and societies from Britain and Europe. We hope to have around 65 stands in attendance, with narrow gauge layouts in all the major scales and gauges, as well as the usual range of narrow gauge traders and manufacturers, a wide range of prototype and modelling societies as well as displays of modelling techniques.

As well as fifteen exhibition layouts, we will also have around a dozen entries in various scales for this year’s Dave Brewer Memorial Challenge – building a small working layout containing a single turnout – a ‘tuning fork’ layout – bringing the total number of working exhibits this year to well over twenty!

The show will be open to the public from 10.00am to 5.00pm. Admission prices are as follows: Adults £8.00, 009 Society, 7mm Narrow Gauge Association, GEMME / TDS members, Senior Citizens £7.00. Accompanied Children (6 - 16) £1.

The White Oaks Leisure Centre is to the north of Swanley Town Centre, a short 10 minute walk from the railway station (rear exit into Everest Place), served by trains from Victoria. There are good connections from the M25 (junction 3) and the A20, and its close proximity to the Channel Tunnel terminals at Folkestone, Ebbsfleet and Ashford make it an easy day trip from the Continent. Routes will be signposted from the station and M25.

Layouts confirmed so far are as follows:

3.5mm scale, 9mm gauge - HOe

Tramfabriek Sven van der Hart

4mm scale, 9mm gauge - 009

Buccabury Town & The Brickworks - last showing
Buccabury Branch
The Corn Mill XL Jan van Mourik / Henk Wust
Green End David Gander
Grindley Brook Wharf / Dwarfie Stane Tim Ellis
Nixnie Ted Polet
P'tit train de la Haute Somme AMAL - Association des Modelistes d'Amiens-Longuean

1:50 scale

Arenberg Don and Val Sibley

¼ inch scale – On2

Franklin Bob Harper

7mm scale, 9mm gauge – O9

Enigma Quay Richard Williams

7mm scale, 14mm gauge – O14

Trinca-Vecnou Escadrille St Michel

7mm scale, 16.5mm gauge - O-16/5

Up the Line Kevin Hughes

1:24 scale

Pike’s Pits Peter Hollins

7/8n2

L’Aubraie Bernard Junk

1:12 scale

Waterfield Hall Allen Law

We will also have around a dozen entries in various scales for this year’s Dave Brewer Memorial Challenge – building a small working layout containing a single turnout – a ‘tuning fork’ layout.

Traders

A1 Models
ABS Models
Andrew Neale Books
Aubertrain
Avalon Line Models
Black Dog Mining Co.
Blackham Transfers
Branchlines
CWRailways
David Provan
EDM Models
Eileen's Emporium
Fourdees Models
Golden Arrow Models
Grainge & Hodder
Gramodels
Locos and Stuff
Minimum Gauge Models
Model Railway Developments
Mosskito NG
Narrow Planet
Neil Sayer Scale Modelling
N-Drive Productions
Nigel Lawton 009
Parkside Dundas
Port Wynnstay Models
Roxey Mouldings
S&D Models
Smalspur Nederland
Steve Currinn Books
Tebee Models
Worsley Works
Wrightscale

Societies

Penrhyn Quarry Railway Society
7mm Narrow Gauge Association and Sales
5.5mm Narrow Gauge Railway Association
Slim Gauge Circle
Metropolitan Water Board Railway Society
Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre
2mm Scale Narrow Gauge Group
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Association
009 Society Members' Sales
009 Society Display
SNCF Society
British Overseas Historical Railway Trust
Corris Railway Society
Moseley Railway Trust / Narrow Gauge Railway Society

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Bump! Only two weeks to go now.

 

Traders update - Green Scene, the scenic specialists, will be attending.