Bala Model Show September 16th - 17th 2023

[MatP]

Dear All,

 

The Bala Model Railway Show will be returning for 2023 after what (we think!) was a very successful 2022 Show. In 2022 we had 21 layouts and 9 traders. There was an approximate 50/50 split between narrow gauge and standard gauge layouts and we also had 16mm NG live steam. 

 

The Show will be open from 10.00 to 16.00 on both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September. There will be a vintage bus shuttle from the venue to the Bala Lake Railway and back, and the BLR will be running special extra trains. 

 

We are hoping to put on a similar-sized show in 2023. 9 layout owners and 5 traders have already expressed their definite interest. Offers of layouts, other exhibits, trade or society stands are welcomed: please email me at modelshow@bala-lake-railway.co.uk. We are sorry that we can't afford to cover accommodation costs but we do pay travel expenses as you would expect, and also offer a free campsite / caravan site, food and a complimentary 'Exhibitors' Special' train on the Bala Lake Railway on the Saturday evening. 

 

We've had to move our Show forward by a week from its traditional date, due to the Stafford Model Show's move to September. Although we survived - better than survived - the clash in 2022, we thought it best not to repeat it. The only other possible dates available to us were 16th-17th but that means that in 2023 we will still have a clash, this time with a 009 Society anniversary event.  With all due apologies to 009 modellers, the 16th-17th clash seemed like the lesser of two weevils, and it's only for one year. We are expecting there to be fewer 009 layouts available for our Show in 2023 which will mean that other scales and gauges will have to step up...!

 

2023 will be the 50th Anniversary of the Bala Lake Railway Society (the Railway Company's 50th was in 2022) and we also have grounds for hoping that some significant steps forward with a certain 3/4-mile long, 1:1 scale, narrow-gauge layout will be made between now and the Show.

 

Best Wishes,

Mat P. (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Railway Show Organiser)

Edited March 7, 2023 by MatP
Opening times added

[MatP]

Dear All,

 

I'm now in a position to start announcing some of the layouts for the 2023 Bala Show (16th and 17th September 2023). First of all, a pair of N gauge ones: Llangollen and Sandside. 

 

UPDATE 26.3.23: the owner of 'Sandside' is no longer able to come to our event. We would like to thank him for supporting our event in the past and to wish him the very best. 

 

Mat P (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Railway Show Organiser)

 

 

 

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by MatP
Information update

[MatP]

Hello Again,

 

Here is some more layout news from the Bala Model Show organising team, which I am putting up partly as a displacement activity to stop myself from buying any more 00 Gauge industrial tank locos... The news at the moment is about the smaller scales, standard gauge and steam, but there will be future announcements pertaining to larger scales and/or narrower track, and diesel and electric traction too. 

 

The first layout I have for you today is 'Boulder Falls', an American N micro-layout. This was built from mainly recycled materials by the same gentleman who exhibited the 0-16.5 layout "Gorsaf Maes-y-Gof" at our 2022 Show. Indeed, "Gorsaf" will be making a return appearance as well. The second layout is a model of a now-disused station on the Bala to Dolgellau line, not far from what is now the Bala Lake Railway. It is "Drws-y-Nant", in 2mm Finescale. This layout is continuous-run and 16 feet long overall.

 

The Bala Lake Railway possesses several relics from Drws (some of which might be on display at the Show). Indeed, for many years we used Drws' old signal box windows in our own box at Llanuwchllyn. 

 

Video footage of Drws-y-Nant can be seen by following the link below to You Tube and fast-forwarding to about 14 minutes. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24MK-Cq_Sgw&t=9s

 

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by MatP
Picture of "Gorsaf Maes-y-Gof" added

[MatP]

Good Morning,

 

Firstly, today, I can confirm a number of our traders, with many thanks to them for supporting our Show, starting with high-street retailer and loco-upgrade experts Sawyer Models (https://sawyermodels.co.uk) and detailing specialists North Western Models (https://northwesternmodels.co.uk). We will also have bespoke 0-16.5 models for sale from Andrew McDougal.

 

Another layout which will be appearing, with the certainty of plenty of shunting (or should I say 'switching'), is "34th and Vine". This is an American harbourside layout in H0, which was exhibited at the Warrington Show in 2022.

 

Unfortunately (update 28.8.23), "Worthington Shed" (0 scale loco depot built on a modified ironing board), which was originally advertised in this posting, is no longer coming, owing to illness. 

 

Best Wishes,

Mat P. (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Show Organiser)

 

 

 

Edited August 28, 2023 by MatP
Layout removed from line-up, due to illness.

[MatP]

Good morning!

 

I have a couple of 00 gauge layouts to add to the Bala Model Show list. As with all the layouts listed here, there may be last-minute reasons why they can't come, but let's hope not as they are super duper.

 

These two 00 gauge layouts are also almost exactly the same length. The first is Beaumont Ville, an GWR terminus (a sort of layout which I hardly ever seem to see at shows these days, though maybe living in East Anglia has something to do with that). The second is Weaver Hill, which depicts a four-track section of the West Coast Main Line in the contemporary era. Here are some links:

 

http://www.colwynmodelrailwayclub.co.uk/norman.html

http://www.alsagerrailwayassociation.co.uk/weaver_hill.html

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/127626-weaver-hill-4-track-mainline-doncaster-11th12th-feb-2023/

All best,

Mat (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Show Organiser)

 

 

 

[MatP]

Good afternoon!

 

I have two more layouts to add. Both feature 32mm gauge track along with a second gauge... 

 

The first is a 16mm scale live steam layout, 'Pentre'. It has hand-built dual-gauge track to allow SM-32 and G scale trains to run. It also has a museum shed area where a collection of historic and vintage 16mm scale models will be on display. The layout appears in the following video (from the 2022 Llangollen Garden Railway Festival), 1 minute from the start: 

 

 

The Bala Lake Railway publicity stand is just about visible in the background at 2:57 as well (look for a blue banner), complete with a thankfully extremely brief and long-distance shot of me!

 

Also now confirmed for the Show is an industrial 7mm scale layout, 'Sandy Lane', which was inspired by railway systems such as Snailbeach and Leighton Buzzard. An 0-9 narrow gauge system on two levels serves a set of quarry screens. Crushed rock is transferred, via working tipper wagons, to a standard gauge train waiting at the exchange siding. Here is a video: 

 

 

There are more layouts and traders to come but if there's anybody reading this who has a narrow gauge layout, an industrial standard gauge layout, a trade stall or frankly anything (!) that they'd like to bring to the Bala Show (16th and 17th September 2023), then we would be very pleased to hear from you. Even when the layouts and traders I haven't announced yet are taken into account, we still have a little spare space. Please be aware, though, that we cannot pay for accommodation, only travel costs (sorry!). But you will get free sandwiches and unlimited tea. 

 

Best Wishes,

Mat 

 

 

Edited February 6, 2023 by MatP
More information from Sandy Lane owner.

[MatP]

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus / Happy St. David's Day!

 

I have a couple of layouts to announce (and about half-a-dozen more awaiting final confirmation). I think we have enough layouts on our 'long list' now, assuming all goes to plan, but we would still welcome trade enquiries.

 

The first layout I have to announce is Chwarel Cwm Bach in 00-9. As the name implies, it is a compact model of a quarry - a slate quarry, complete with working incline and other automated features. Models of some of the Bala Lake Railway locos in their quarry incarnations will be running, including Bachmann Quarry Hunslets (possibly repainted into a darker shade of red - oof!). 

 

Chwarel CB was built by our Society Chairman. Another of his prolific stable of slate industry layouts, ‘Chwarel Tegid’, appeared in the December 2022 edition of Railway Modeller. The picture of Chwarel Cwm Bach shows the layout as it currently stands, with a little bit of work still to do. 

 

Another layout I am very pleased to announce is Millhouses, which was a very popular exhibit at our 2022 Show and is making a second visit to Bala. Millhouses is a continuous-run N gauge layout featuring steam-diesel transition era, main-line trains, running through an industrial landscape in Northern England. 

 

All best,

Mat P. (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary / Bala Model Show Organiser)

[MatP]

Hello All,

 

I have another fine layout to announce, but before I do that, I should say that the Bala Model Show will be open from 10.00 to 16.00 on both Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2023. I will add such a note to the top message in this thread as well.

 

The next layout to join our portfolio, by kind permission of the Edinburgh and Lothians MRC, is called Tal-y-Bont. It is to 0-16.5 scale and will be exhibited in its largest permutation: 34' x 12'. It is being exhibited in Wales for the first time.

 

Tal-y-Bont depicts a fictitious Welsh railway linking a slate quarry to a main line station, via an intermediate stop where the quarry engines hand over their trains to larger ones. At the far end of the line, there are exchange sidings with the standard gauge. Many of the buildings on the layout are models of actual Welsh prototypes. 

 

More information, pictures and video footage are available by going to: http://www.elmrc.org.uk/talybont.php 

 

We will also put some pictures up on the Bala Show's own website, as soon as we can: https://bala-lake-railway.co.uk/events/model-show/  

 

I have three more layouts which are fully or almost fully booked, which will be announced over the next few days.  On the basis of layout offers we have received so far, we will almost certainly match or exceed last year's layout tally (21). However, we would very much appreciate some more trade enquiries (and if you own a model business within a parsec or two of Bala, and you haven't had a private message from me already, you probably will be getting one soon!).

 

Best Wishes,

Mat 

Edited March 7, 2023 by MatP

[MatP]

Good morning!

 

I have another two layout announcements for the Bala Show. The first is 'Porth Penrhyn' in 009 and 00. This layout has been acquired by one of our members and a small team is working to get it fully operable. It might have a limited functionality at the Show but we all felt it was definitely worth inviting as it is quite something to behold. It's a model of the harbour end of the Penrhyn Quarry main line so a perfect place for a Bachmann 'Linda' or 'Charles' to be seen. Currently it's about 12'x2' and one of the main jobs is to build a new fiddle yard, which will probably take it to about 16'. 

 

The second layout is a model of the Llangollen Railway in 00 gauge. It has been cleverly compressed so as to fit into a remarkably small space (the layout is 12' x 3' and double-sided). Several stations from the Llangollen Railway, including the new terminus at Corwen, are featured. The layout is designed partly so that younger visitors to the Show can get involved in operating it. Video footage of the layout is available by clicking on this link and fast-forwarding to 19 minutes:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFugJZ9Ijzg&t=1357s

 

The particularly observant reader will have noticed that we also have an N gauge model of Llangollen station coming to the Show. I don't know how common it is to have two models of the same station in two different scales at the same event...  Please be assured that I have checked with experts in quantum physics to make sure that no universe-destroying paradoxes will result from these two layouts being exhibited together.

 

Best Wishes (especially if there's heavy snow where you are),

Mat P. 

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by MatP
YouTube link for Llangollen added

[MatP]

Good Afternoon Folks,

 

I am very pleased to announce that "All Components" will be coming to the Show. This firm sells and manufactures electrical and electronic equipment for model railways, such as their own range of controllers, as well as selling tools, scenic materials and all sorts of other useful things for building a layout. Additionally, they specialise in Gauge 1 modelling and will have models and accessories in that scale for sale.

 

Please see their website at: https://allcomponentsltd.co.uk/

 

Mat P. 

[ColinK]

I’m already booked up for that weekend this year, but might be interested in bringing a layout (or two) next year.

[MatP]

Hi Colin,

 

Thanks for your interest. If you could send me an email at modelshow@bala-lake-railway.co.uk, I will add you to the contacts list for when we start  recruiting for 2024. We haven't decided the precise dates for the September 2024 Show yet  - it will probably depend on how our shift forward by a week in 2023 works out in terms of ticket sales, and what our regular traders have booked next year. 

 

All best,

Mat P. 

[MatP]

Good Morning All,

 

The Show flyers are being printed. Nothing else to report today!

 

Mat

 

 

 

[MatP]

Hello All,

 

I have a couple of layout notices for you today. Firstly, making a return to our show by popular demand, is 

Mikesbiltom and Fredby Depot. I don't have any pictures for you just yet, but this 00 Gauge layout is 24 feet x 5 feet and continuous run. It features depot operations and intensive main line train services, set in a fictitious location in the present-day North West of England. Locos take it in turns on the main circuit before popping back to the depot for a wash and brush up.

 

The second layout is called 'Pentrefelin'. It is built to TT3 scale, standard gauge, and set in Central Wales in about 1960. Ex-GWR and ex-LMS steam locos are featured alongside new BR diesels. The station has a single platform and the goods loop and sidings for coal and agricultural produce show what is really keeping the place open - for the time being... Vintage TT3 items and modern kits supply the rolling stock. 

 

Oh, and whilst I'm here I hope nobody will mind me saying that the Bala Lake Railway will be open from 1st April and that there will be several special events in that first month, including, if all goes to plan, the return to steam of both 'Alice' and 'Holy War'.

 

Regards,

Mat (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary / Bala Model Show Organiser)

[MatP]

Good Afternoon,

 

I have another trader to add to the Show list - MPB Models from Droitwich Spa. This company, apart from other things, retails large scale and live steam models. They also sell new and secondhand models in 2mm, 4mm and 7mm scales, narrow and standard gauge, and a wide range of equipment and accessories. 

 

https://www.mpb-model-supplies.co.uk/

 

I would like to express my thanks to MPB Models and indeed to all of the traders who have signed up so far - especially as the list of companies I have contacted so far is, how can I put this, well onto its second roll of parchment. I still have a few enquiries out there.

 

But I would also like to thank all those companies who can't come in 2023 or for the foreseeable but who have asked us to keep in touch, have helped us by displaying flyers or giving us advice or who have simply wished us well.  

 

(By the way, the precise date for the 2024 Show isn't set - it will be in September sometime and for next year, availability of traders will be checked before we make a decision...)

 

Best Wishes to All,

Mat

Edited April 5, 2023 by MatP
More information added

[MatP]

Good Morning All,

 

I hope you will forgive me for a quick post which is to do with the Bala Lake Railway rather than the Bala Model Show... 

 

Please have a look at the following web page for a news update from the BLR regarding the Extension into Bala Town. The Snowdonia National Park Authority planning permission meeting for the project is on 19th April and things are not looking good...

 

https://bala-lake-railway.co.uk/2023/04/13/estyniad-y-bala/

 

If you have views on this matter, may I humbly ask you to contribute a message to the SNPA using the method described on the above web page?

 

Please though, let's keep this particular RM Web thread purely about Model Show topics, if possible. Thanks. 

 

Kind Regards,

Mat P. (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Show Organiser) 

[MatP]

Good (?) Morning All,

 

You may have heard that the planning meeting yesterday for the Bala Lake Railway Extension didn't go well from our point of view. Julian Birley, director of the Lake Railway Trust, has issued a statement, which can be accessed by a link below.

 

I don't think this thread should digress onto matters not directly connected with the Bala Model Show (16th-17th September 2023), so I will move on swiftly and announce a new layout for said Show. You may have seen in a previous message that the owner of the Cambrian Coast, N gauge layout 'Sandside' had to pull out of the Show, and we wish him very well. We are now pleased to be able to announce that another Cambrian Coast, N gauge layout will be coming: Llanfarthyn, which is set in the 1970's. 

 

The station buildings are faithful replicas of those that are or were at Talsarnau (the station on the other side of the Traeth Mawr estuary from Portmeirion that you can see in the background when Number 6 is trying to escape by boat), based on the owner-builder's own surveys. Several other buildings on the layout are models of real buildings from the region. This layout's "twist" is that due to flooding on the Conwy Valley line being even worse than in reality and Barmouth Bridge being a bit better than it actually was in the 70's, several Conwy Valley line traffics have been diverted to run on the Coast, such as explosives traffic for Cookes' and Trawsfynydd nuclear material.

 

For more pictures and some video of the layout, please visit:

 

https://www.martinsrailways.uk/llanfarthyn-n-gauge

 

I have five more stands for the Show waiting in the wings and we will hopefully be able to make further positive announcements very soon... 

 

Best Wishes,

Mat P. (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Show Organiser)

 

The Bala Lake Railway.docx

Edited April 20, 2023 by MatP
Website link added

[MatP]

Hi All,

 

I would like to announce another layout that's going to appear at this year's Bala Model Show (16th and 17th September 2023).

 

The layout is a 4mm scale model of Port Dinorwic - the harbour at the western end of the Padarn Railway, where slates from Dinorwic Quarry were trans-shipped. It was built by well-known professional modelmaker Kathy Millatt and featured in the second series of 'Hornby - A Model World' on the Yesterday Channel.

 

We originally tried to persuade Kathy to come to the Bala Show, but she had too many other commitments. We therefore did what any sensible people would do in such circumstances and bought the layout. Thanks to a very generous donation, it will ultimately go on display in our Heritage Centre at Llanuwchllyn. But it will have its first public showing at the 2023 Bala Model Show. And if all goes to plan, it will be exhibited alongside a model of Porth Penrhyn (the Penrhyn Quarry harbour equivalent), also in 4mm scale.

 

For more information about the layout, and some pictures, please go to:

 

https://bala-lake-railway.co.uk/events/model-show/

 

And for some video footage of the Port Dinorwic layout, please see:

 

https://youtu.be/o_Kx85Epkg8

 

or

 

https://uktvplay.co.uk/shows/Hornby-a-model-world/series-2/episode-1/6318019620112

 

[We hope that a successful 2023 Bala Model Show will help us to raise money to resubmit our planning application to the Snowdonia National Park Authority, to extend the railway into Bala Town, after our first attempt failed. The resubmission itself is free, as long as we do it within a year of the first hearing, but (amongst other costs) many of the necessary environmental studies have an expiry date and will need to be done again].

 

Regards,

Mat P (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary and Bala Model Show Organiser)

Edited May 27, 2023 by MatP
New link added

[MatP]

Hi,

 

Here are a couple of pictures of Port Dinorwic for you. Alas, we don't have a Dinorwic Port Class Hunslet to go on it, but George B hopefully gives you an idea... 

 

Best Wishes,

Mat

 

 

Edited June 1, 2023 by MatP

[MatP]

Hi there!

 

I am pleased to announce another layout for our modelling Septemberfest: "Tony’s Forest" in 0-9 narrow gauge.

 

The layout is 11 feet by 2 feet 3 inches and depicts an estate railway. Originally built in the 1890's for harvesting timber, so the fictional history of this layout tells us, the railway has just about made it into the 1950's, mainly by being too small for any of the authorities to realise it exists, but who knows how much longer it can survive?

 

'Tony's Forest' was built by a member of Gloucester Model Railway Club (and the 7mm Narrow Gauge Modelling Association). The track is hand-built with PECO rail on copper-clad sleepers. All of the rolling stock is kit-built or heavily modified from RTR models (for instance, the coaches are re-built Bachmann 0n30 tramcars) and fitted with Greenwich automatic couplings. The locomotives have specially-designed gearboxes to allow them to potter slowly about without disturbing the wildlife.   

 

For more information, please see:

 

https://www.robinslayouts.co.uk/tonys-forest/

 

Best Wishes,

Mat P. (Bala Model Show Organiser and Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary, and sometimes the other way round)

 

[Adrian Stevenson]

Looking forward to coming to the show and seeing the railway too.

 

Cheers, Ade.

[MatP]

Thanks, Ade - hope you enjoy it.

 

Now that I'm back from a trip to collect some bits of ex-Trecwn rail to build some 600mm gauge track in my garage, as you do, I have another layout announcement.

 

There will be a second 16mm scale, narrow-gauge, live-steam layout at the Bala Model Show 2023 (in addition to 'Pentre', mentioned above). It's a modular layout comprising lots of different scenes, and there should be enough of these modules to produce a layout approximately 9m x 6m or, if you prefer to avoid John-Wilkins-based measuring systems, 29'6" x 19'6".

 

With the special permission of the modular group leader, it's going to be located in the cafeteria, in an area not normally used for tables. This was the only place big enough to accommodate it but not already spoken for. I asked the operators for special permission because the cafeteria will be operating, selling hot and cold food. This does at least mean that there will also be plenty of seating available for people who want to watch a few live-steam-hauled trains going by, even if they don't fancy anything from the menu.

 

At the same time, as the locos will all be gas-fired, there won't be any strong methylated spirit or coal smells which might put people off their luncheons.

 

The precise nature of the modules is to be confirmed: the following photo is of a typical module which may or may not actually be part of the final 'melange'.

 

Best Wishes,

Mat P. (Chief BLR Model Show Minion)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MatP]

Hello All,

 

Port Dinorwic has now been converted to continuous-run (not by me!): please see below for a video.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnguReiAsIw&feature=youtu.be

 

All best,

Mat P.

[MatP]

Hi All,

 

Firstly, I can now announce another trader for the Bala Model Show on September 16th and 17th: Enwin's Models. This company is based in the Wirral: they produce 3D-printed detailing parts and kits, from tiny but essential items up to complete locomotive body kits. They also supply laser-cut wood kits and ready-to-run models.

 

Please see their website at: https://enwinsmodels.co.uk

 

Secondly, the Bala Lake Railway Society's 'Port Dinorwic Layout Officer' (not me) has made another modification to the layout, to allow human-powered shunting to take place. Suggestions for how to animate a 4mm figure are welcome - I will pass them on. I suggested the shunting person should be fitted with a jet pack, meaning that he wouldn't have to move his legs, but my suggestion was rejected.

 

Video footage is here:

 

 

I realise that I've been drip-feeding announcements into this thread. It was not as part of a sinister scheme to keep the Bala Model Show near the top of the RM Web Exhibitions page (honest) but just as confirmations came in. However, as the roster is now more or less complete, it now seems like a good time to put up a complete list of the exhibits and traders - with the usual proviso that it is subject to last-minute changes of fortune. 

 

Layouts (in no particular order):

 

Drws-y-Nant (2mm Finescale, GWR, 16 feet x 7 feet)

Gorsaf Maes-y-Gof (0-16.5, fictional South Wales line, 4 feet x 2 feet)

Boulder Falls (N Gauge, USA preserved line, 2 feet 6 in by 1 foot 3 in)

Weaver Hill (00 Gauge: WCML present-day,19 feet by 9 feet)

Worthington Shed (0 Gauge, industrial, 3 feet 8 inches by 16 inches)

Llangollen (N Gauge, preservation era, 6 feet by 3 feet)

34th and Vine (H0, dockyard, 12 feet 3 inches by 2 feet)

Pentre (16mm Scale, live steam, 26 feet by 18 feet)

Millhouses (N Gauge, 1960's northern main line, 9 feet x 2 feet)

Beaumont Ville (00 Gauge, GWR terminus, 18 feet x 1 feet 3 inches to 2 feet)

Sandy Lane (0-9 narrow gauge and 0 Scale Standard Gauge, industrial: 8 feet x 2 feet)

Mikesbiltom and Fredby Depot (00 Gauge, main line plus depot, contemporary era, 24 feet x 5 feet)

Pentrefelin (TT3, Central Wales Line, BR steam and diesel, 12 feet x 6 feet)

Chwarel Cwm Bach (00-9 Gauge, fictional slate quarry, 2 feet 8 inches x 2 feet 8 inches)

Llangollen to Corwen (00 Gauge, preservation era, 12 feet x 3 feet)

Talybont (0-16.5, slate quarry to exchange sidings railway, 34 feet x 12 feet)

Porth Penrhyn (009 and 00, model of the Penrhyn Railway's harbour, 16 feet x 2 feet)

Llanfarthyn (N Gauge, Cambrian Coast 1970's, 6 feet x 2 feet)

Port Dinorwic (009 and 00 Gauge, model of the Dinorwic / Padarn Railway's harbour, 3 feet x 1 foot 6 inches)

Tony’s Forest (0-9 narrow gauge, estate railway, 11 feet by 2 feet 3 inches)

Live Steam Modular Layout (16mm scale, 29 feet 6 inches by 19 feet 6 inches)

 

I also have two more NG layouts (one in 009, one in 0-9) for which I am awaiting details. The former is still under construction, by a BLR member; the latter is a micro-layout which is going to go on the BLR Society Stall.

 

Trade and Society Stands:

 

Sawyer Models

North Western Models

Andrew McDougal 0-16.5 Models

All Components

MPB Model Supplies

Enwin’s 3D Models

(plus one yet to confirm)

 

Bala Lake Railway Society

Maid Marian Locomotive Fund 

 

There will also be special extra trains on the Bala Lake Railway, with a connecting vintage bus. For more information on the Show, please see https://bala-lake-railway.co.uk/events/model-show/

 

Regards,

Mat (just back from doing things to an ex-Llangollen Thompson Brake 3rd at the NNR / Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary / Bala Model Show Organiser)

[MatP]

Hi everyone!

 

The absolutely super WCML layout 'Weaver Hill', which is appearing at the Bala Show, is currently featuring in the August 2023 issue of BRM.

 

(I haven't asked its owners yet but I'm hoping they'll let me run my Class 89 on it, assuming it arrives in time. Otherwise said loco is going to get a bit bored creeping up and down my 1930's GWR shunting plank, coupled to a generator van...).

 

All the best,

Mat (Bala Lake Railway Society Secretary / Bala Model Show Organiser)