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We are very pleased to confirm Salisbury & South Wilts Railway Society will be bringing their N-gauge exhibition layout "Bodmin General" to Exmoor Rail 2024.

Bodmin General is set in the British Railways Steam Era in the mid 1950’s. The station is a through working terminus, on the Western Region line from Bodmin Road to the “withered arm” of the Southern Railway at Wadebridge. The model is based on measurements taken at the site. The main station building is still in existence as a railway preservation area. All other buildings have been  recreated from photographs and descriptions published in books. These have been covered in real stone gathered from the site.

I shamelessly grabbed the image below from the S&SWRS web site at https://sandswrs.co.uk/layouts/bodmin-general and btw, S&SWRS have their exhibition in Wilton this coming weekend, 18 & 19 May, 2024 - http://sandswrs.co.uk/exhibitions/salisbury-south-wilts-railway-society-exhibition-2024/

We're very pleased that Ray Norwood @RAY NORWOOD will be joining us at Exmoor Rail 2024 this year with his latest project, Bambridge, which we understand is a kind of homage to Bembridge on IoW. This is a work-in-progress and the first time it has ventured out of chez Norwood and we are looking forward to seeing how this latest piece of Ray mastery is shaping up.

Doubtless, in usual Ray style, he'll be only too pleased to talk about Bambridge, or answer any questions that you may want to ask. To help ensure he can keep on going, we've located Ray near the catering area, with a ready supply of English tea!

We can confirm our supporting acts so far for Exmoor Rail 2024

Societies & Demonstrations

The Weathermen - showing how to go about, well, weathering of course

Yeovil Railway Centre - Heritage museum & shop information

EM Gauge Society - Discuss the many benefits of membership, more than good-looking track

Traders

Harvey's Hobbies - Extensive selection of pre-owned railway models

Mudmagnet Models - Not only 3d printed, exquisitely detailed models & accessories, but various demonstrations as well:

 - https://mudmagnet-models.sumupstore.com

Railway Scenics - Wide range of tools, materials, scenic supplies, electrical items:

 - https://www.railwayscenics.com 

Platform 3 Models - Layout design & construction services and select tools & accessories

Moor View Models - 3d printed figures & printing service, further accessories, scenery materials and a selection of pre-owned locomotives & rolling stock:  

 - https://www.moorviewmodels.co.uk

G. L. Railways - Bespoke services and innovative accessories such as magnetic couplings:

 - https://www.glrailways.com

David Smith Books - Previously owned railway books and photographs

Just in Case - Wide range of model display cases 

John May & Brian Long - Die-cast cars, lorries & vans to model railway scales

Wessex Wagons - Limited edition model wagons, loads, books and pre-owned wagons

We have added our 17th layout exhibiting at Exmoor Rail on 1 June this year, David Greenwood is bringing his latest, never before seen in public, OO layout, "Avon Mills 1990". In David's words:

"Avon Mills is set in the Bristol area around 1990. The layout features a small suburban station, a rail-served industry and a stabling point for diesel locos. All the locos have been renumbered to represent prototypes seen in the area at the time. All are fitted with DCC sound. There are loads of details to spot - a famous old lady on the platform, wildlife including rats and butterflies, and correct Bristol buses for the period crossing the bridges."

We hope David rounds up all his rats at home time!

35 minutes ago, Gilbert said:

As I will be visiting as a member of the paying public can I assume the venue is walkable from the WSR station?

It's about 1.5/2km, depending how quick you walk, say 25 minutes. 

There is a bus that comes up from town, I think it wears the number 28 and runs half hourly. Bus timetables though are a bit of a mystery to me, so best double check.

Thanks Ian and since you're quite local, forgive me a shameless plug for Exmoor Rail 2024 - if you fancy a day trip to Minehead on 1 June. 😀

Cheers,

Rob.

Hello Everyone, I figured it was high time I introduced myself - my name is Rob and I am an aspiring railway model maker. As in, as much as I would like to have my own layout etc., all the usual life things seem to conspire to hinder my progress. I have several little projects on the go, but no real progress.

I've come back to the hobby after a 30+ year hiatus and still have a very old white metal Baby Deltic kit to finish off, the one that warped in every conceivable direction. Maybe I shouldn't have hung onto it, but it is kind of sentimental.

Being based in Minehead, I can be found most Wednesday evenings hanging out with the Exmoor Coast Railway Modellers, which is where I get to at least have a go at this varied hobby.

I have managed to dabble a little over the last few years, building short lengths of EM and P4 trackwork including turnouts to test a couple of conversions to each. Mostly it all worked (best to ignore the smoking Lima 33) and ultimately I concluded EM is for me. Probably. 

Tinkered a bit with MERG DCC and put Zimo decoders in a couple of locos to get a feel for it, but probably won't go with DCC immediately.

Whatever layout I build is going to be quite small, a couple or three metres of scenery kind of thing.

If you look too hard, you will see I have been a largely silent RMWeb member for a while, just dipping in occasionally. There is a lot of interesting and valuable material amassed here and thank you to everyone who has contributed to it, I have managed to waste hours reading through it.

Exmoor Rail 2024 is on Saturday 1 June 2022 in Minehead at the local college.

Recently added to our list of exhibitors is Jim Allwood with his Apa based project, 2mm fine scale, "Bordesley North". 

As Jim says, he has shamelessly plagiarised "Apa Park", using an Ikea "Apa" toybox for this unusual micro-layout. Unusual, in that to the left of the fiddle yard is another micro-layout, previously a container terminal when it appeared at Warley in 2022, we've been told it may be something different by the time it arrives in Minehead!

The main Exmoor Rail 2024 announcement can be found here:

And for those of you that remember our attempts in 2022 to coax the Pacer to move. Yes,  it lives!

Looking forward to seeing all our exhibitors, traders and visitors,

@exmoordave David & @robkRob