Whitehead Railway Museum Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 We are looking forward to hosting our first ever Model Railway Day at Whitehead Railway Museum on Saturday 9th November. The exhibition will be held at Whitehead Railway Museum, Castleview Road, Whitehead BT38 9NA and will showcase layouts on display in the Carriage, Locomotive and Stables Galleries from 10am-5pm. Two dozen layouts will be on show for the event including a never-before seen museum standard layout from England, the ‘Saltdean’ a Victorian Model which includes a brewery and 0 gauge locomotives based on William Stroudley’s designs. Layout highlights include Thomas the Tank Engine, Looney Toon’s Road Runner, the 1950’s Roland Emmett cartoonist inspired, Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway as well as various vintage models, lego layouts and a new N gauge layout in a briefcase featuring a tractor factory. Tickets can be purchased on entry and are £10 for adults and £6 for children, with a family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) costing just £25. Each ticket includes a free steam train ride, operating from the Station Building platform every 15 minutes from 12-4pm. Arriving by NI Railways? Produce your ticket to receive 20% off the admission price! The Edwardian Tea Room will be open serving hot stew, soup, tea, coffee and delicious traybakes. Additionally there will be refreshments served from our dining cars in the Carriage Gallery. With limited public car parking Whitehead Railway Museum are encouraging patrons to use public transport, this event is fully wheelchair accessible. If you would like to find out more about Whitehead Railway Museum and RPSI events, visit their website www.steamtrainsireland.com and follow them on Facebook @whiteheadrailwaymuseum Twitter @RPSItrains Instagram @steamtrainsireland 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 4, 2019 Share Posted November 4, 2019 LMS NCC North Atlantic Brake carriage No91 got some lovely new lining applied this week in time for Whitehead Model Railway Day this Saturday 9th November 2019. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Look out for this fantasy layout on Saturday 9th November 2019 at Whitehead Model Railway Day. Dave from Stradbally is bringing an N gauge layout that had been built specially for the event. Dave has produced a layout in an attache case which he describes as having a slightly grim pseudo-Soviet aesthetic. It is populated with robots that he designed himself and had 3D printed in France! This layout also includes a Tractor factory. Unmissable! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Here is a full list of model exhibits as of this evening. This is in addition to all the normal museum displays, full size steam trains rides between Noon and 4pm and coffee and scones in the dining car available all day. Electronics for Model Railways Model Electronic Railway Group Hornby O gauge clockwork Debra Wenlock Vintage Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway John Pollock Novelty Trebor’s Park Robert MacDougall GB OO Smurfs’ Layout Brian Chambers Novelty OO NER County Durham Station Neil Jackson GB OO Weston Town Nicholas Foote GB N Weston East Nicholas Foote GB N Spy’s Attache Case Railway David Gregg Novelty/USSR N Model Engineering display Model Engineers of NI Capecastle- NCC Diorama Patrick Davey Irish OO9 BLUR/Lego Peter Murfitt Lego Mill Road (Public Shunting Layout) North Down MRS GB OO Diesel Depot Wexford MRC Irish OO Dunster John Sinclair GB OO Road Runner Les Conn Novelty The Ffarquhar Branch/Thomas layout Michael White GB OO RPSI G Gauge Saltdean Peter and John Smith GB O T-Trak Impressions of Ireland Michael O’Connor Irish N Lego City Erica Lutzman Lego Hornby Tinplate Ken Cuming GB/Vintage O Stanfording Tony Ragg Irish O O Gauge Display Phil Aspinwall Irish O Quarry Hill Ulster MRC GB OO Killagan Ian Stewart Irish OO Portadown William Redpath Irish OO Quarry Hill First Bangor MRC GB/Irish OO Glenabbey Glenabbey MRC GB OO RPSI Sales John Friel Miniature Railway Display Belfast & Co Down Miniature Railway Society Miniature Vehicles Display Model Engineers Society NI Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted November 7, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 7, 2019 Some great layouts there and what a venue to show them in. Can't make this weekend but hope to visit Whitehead someday as I've never been there when it's open. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Sorry you can't make it this Saturday but it's worth a visit at any time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 The first layout to arrive at Whitehead for Model Railway Day on Saturday 9th Nov 2019 is John and Ian Sinclair's 'Dunster' OO scale line. As one of the event organisers, Ian is having a well-earned rest here with harbour engine RH Smyth behind 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Here's the pdf file showing the museum layout for this Saturday's Whitehead Model Railway Day. Model_Railway_Day_Guide-1.pdf 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
debrawenlock Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 Whitehead Model Railway Day starts at 10am tomorrow, Sat 9th November 2019, and is on all day until 5pm. Most of the layouts arrived today and only require fine tuning and a bit of track cleaning in the morning. Two fantastic O gauge layouts are on display: Tony Ragg's Stanfording featuring Wonderful Whitehead itself and John and Peter Smith's superb Saltdean- a recreation of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in the 1880s. This is the first time Saltdean has been shown in Ireland. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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