2004 Exhibition
The SHMRC 2004 exhibition was held on Saturday 6th March 2004 at the Admiral Lord Nelson School, Dundas Lane, Portsmouth.
LAYOUTS
In the 1950s, Aireborough was a conurbation of residential and industrial township, close to Leeds and Bradford; "Carlton" was part of this community. The industry produced Crompton Parkinson light bulbs and motors, Silver Cross prams, Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop and Sooty and Sweep. It was served by Leeds City Transport and West Yorkshire Busses, and Bradford buses ran not far away. The models are 4mm scale and all are motorised as is the Octopus (British Road Services Leyland Octopus) and the mechanical horse (Scamell MH6) and other articulated and rigid lorries.
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Chagford South Western is a mythical Dartmoor terminus of a branch which the LSWR might have built from Yeoford. The track layout included features from Ilfracombe, Swanage and Eggesford, and the buildings are based on the LNWR in Devon. The Edwardian period branch timetable, operated with period rolling stock, is fully displayed for the viewing public to see what is happening.
Clatterford is based loosely on Dunmow in Essex on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Bishops Stortford to Braintree, and is set in early BR days. The layout consists of a single-track branch line with a through station and a fiddle yard at each end. The line passes through a cutting in open countryside, over a river and into the station, which comprises two platforms on a passing loop, a small goods yard and a goods shed. Rolling stock is a mixture of scratch built, kits, and proprietary stock converted to EM gauge. The rolling stock consists of a mixture of pre-grouping, grouping and BR stock in grouping and BR liveries and is operated to a standard sequence.
The model was inspired by a visit to the Peak District of Derbyshire, in particular, Monsall Dale and Millers Dale. These had all once been part of the Midland Main Line that ran through the Peaks between Derby, Buxton and Manchester. The setting for the model is completely imaginary, the intention being to create a model that , in a small space, gives as realistic impression as possible of that magnificent railway, with its deep limestone cuttings, viaducts and distinctive railway architecture. The scenic area is L-shaped with two viewing positions. The first scene is of the town and station of Hobbiton. The station is fictitious but its buildings are all based on prototypes at Bakewell and Hassopp, both former stations on the line. The second scene is of a deep limestone cutting and a five-arch viaduct . Trackwork is Peco. All structures are scratch-built, except for the signal box which is a Ratio kit. Locomotives are a mixture of ready-to-run and whitemetal kits. The wagons are mostly kits but the coaching stock is Farish ready-to-run.
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Hope-under-Dinmore is the latest EM layout from the South Hants Model Railway Club. The layout is still under construction, but is now fully operational and the buildings and scenery are well under way. Signals are installed and the operating mechanisms, memory wire based, are being set to work. At the exhibition a set sequence will be operated consisting of both LNWR and GWR passenger and freight trains. All trains are pre-grouping. The layout is based on the joint LNWR/GWR Shrewsbury to Hereford line, at a fictitious station located just to the North of Dinmore tunnel.
Pagham Harbour is a minor port somewhere on England's southern coast. In the years following the Great War many small railway companies fell on hard times. The Pagham Railway and Harbour Board were no exception. In spite of this the Company still managed to operate some passenger and goods services along its overgrown tracks.
Pagham is named after a real place on the South coast of Sussex, but the railway and its surroundings are an "alternative history" of the area. Details have been drawn from a wide variety of light railways, standard as well as narrow gauge. The model is built to the popular scale of 4mm to 1 ft, on a gauge of 9mm (often called 009), which represents a full-sized gauge of 2 ft 6 in.
This South Eastern Railway branch terminus was on the Isle of Grain, in north Kent between the Thames and Medway estuaries. It opened in 1882, with high expectations of developing into a major cross channel port, as well as being a rival, to the London Chatham and Dover Railway's route to London from Sheerness, on the Isle of Sheppy, the S.E.R ran a connecting ferry.
The traffic did not materialize and Port Victoria remained undeveloped, the "temporary" pier and buildings were not replaced. With the working union of the SER and LCDR into the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899, the station no longer served any purpose, except as the terminus of a little used branch line. Port Victoria had no road access and was some way from the village of grain.
Port Victoria has been modelled during its busiest period, following a major fire which destroyed the pier at Queensborough, on the Isle of Sheppy, in July 1900. The Zeeland Steamship Companies mail service to Flushing, Holland, was then diverted to Port Victoria, the day service for six months and the Night Mail boat for three years. The ferry service to Sheerness also operated for part of this time. The period modelled is between October 1900 and June 1902. As far as possible the model is scale size, being built from original drawings and photographs.
Saffron Street was located on the fictional Middlesex Junction Railway, a cross London line constructed in the last quarter of the 19-century, linking London's major railway arteries to the north of the city, similar in many ways to both the North and West London Railways and modelled around how it appeared in 1964.
Being based on an urban location with space being at a premium any railway would in reality squeeze through townscape either above or below ground level. On Saffron Street, the railway runs above street level on arches running nearly the whole length of the model. Buildings in the foreground provide framed cameos with trains being glimpsed through roofs and chimneys.
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The layout represents the bay platforms of a junction station in North West Surrey. In 1845 the London and South Western Railway were approached by the residents of Cobham to connect the small market town with the London to Southampton main line. Owing to other commitments, the company refused and it was another forty years before Cobham got it's station on the newly constructed Guildford New Line.
The model assumes that the 1845 scheme was built and that the junction was between Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge. All the structures are built on L&SWR prototypes and have been chosen to fit the period modelled.
Tetley Sidings is a fictional interchange between canal and railway, conceived as a quick to build, minimum space, shunting layout, using automatic couplings for hands-off operation.
Kipford is a pure model railway and shows what can be achieved in a relatively small space. The layout runs at the exhibition with Thomas the Tank stock as an entertaining layout for our younger visitors. The layout is for sale. If interested please contact David Smith at the exhibition.
Three Mills is a fictitious branch line terminus, based on British Railways in the 1950s and set in East Anglia. Stock is scratch built or from the 3mm Society's 5 year plan range.
Westcliffe and Hollybank is a modern image layout and is a combination of two separate layouts designed to run as one when required. Further details of the NFMS layouts can be obtained at www.btinternet.com/~a.n.sinfield/nfmrs_home_page
Hollybank Depot
Hollybank depot is a diesel and electric Railfreight depot
situated in the north west of England close to the West Coast Main Line. The
depot features a loco shed, a diesel refueling point with the oil storage tank
and rail tanker unloading facilities nearby. The locomotives and wagons are
mostly ready to run models which have been modified, detailed, repainted and
renumbered plus a few
items built from kits. The diesel locomotives have been fitted with roof grilles
and fans where appropriate and most of the locomotives are fitted with internal
batteries and directional lights represented by L.E.Ds.
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TRADERS
Trainz is a PC software package that allows modellers to create 3D landscapes and populate it with buildings, railways, roads and terrain features. The second module allows full train driver simulation operating locomotives by in cab controls or model railway controls. The third module, Paint Shed, allows locomotives and stock to be repainted in alternative colour schemes. Additional software is included for the design and construction of locomotives and stock, though with over 100 in the box and a further 2000 available for free download there is little need to design your own.
Portsmouth model shop dealing in Hornby, Bachmann, Farish, Heljan and selected second hand goods.
Specialists in card modelling supplies. We are manufacturers of Prototype Models, Howard Scenics and ModelYard ranges, and stockists of all major UK-made card kits in the popular model railway scales. We also stock basic modelling materials, tools and top quality drawing instruments, including the remarkable Magic Color lining system.
Agents for S&D Models fine-scale scenic accessories.
Mail Order service. Trade and export enquiries welcomed.
Specialised tools, quality secondhand magazines and 4mm finescale components. Tools include rolling machine, rivet press, wheel and gear pullers and wheel quartering tool.
Motorail Books are transport and military book specialists who
also sell videos and railway magazines, model railway items, tools and
accessories.
At this exhibition Motorail Books will be selling railway books, railway
magazines and railway videos. Also available will be a good selection of
aviation and A.F.V. books for the increasing number of 'general modellers'.
Specialised tools, quality secondhand magazines and 4mm finescale components. Tools include rolling machine, rivet press, wheel and gear pullers and wheel quartering tool.
Specialised tools, quality secondhand magazines and 4mm finescale components. Tools include rolling machine, rivet press, wheel and gear pullers and wheel quartering tool.
Dave Hammdersley of Roxey Mouldings has been designing finescale coach kits since 1972. His speciality is the Southern Railway and its constituent companies, with a comprehensive range from the 1870s to the 1960s, including EMUs. Other railways are not ignored with kits covering the GWR, Metropolitan and Somerset & Dorset. Particularly popular are the Isle of Man narrow gauge coaches and the 'Exotic Locos' collection. Also on display is his invaluable range of etched and cast accessories and detailing parts. All kits are in 4mm '00' gauge, but many are also available in 7mm '0' gauge.
Incorporated into the Roxey Range are Chatham Kits wagons and carriages, ex Albion Models locomotives for GWR and MSWJR and Roxey Omega 7mm scale locomotives. In addition to his own products Dave also supplies '0' Gauge kits, wheels, track and accessories; Precision Paints, Carrs solders and fluxes and Mashima motors, gearboxes and motor bogies. Mail order is a speciality, please ask for a price list. VISA, ACCESS and MASTERCARD are accepted.
Specialised tools, quality secondhand magazines and 4mm finescale components. Tools include rolling machine, rivet press, wheel and gear pullers and wheel quartering tool.
Quality secondhand magazines and 4mm finescale components. Tools include rolling machine, rivet press, wheel and gear pullers and wheel quartering tool.
Steam Age will be selling a wide range of secondhand and new
items including:
Specialist tools etc from Britains top supplier, Expo Drills and Tools. Comprehensive range at competitive prices plus many "show special" offers.
SOCIETIES
The Medway Queen Preservation Society aims to restore the 1924
paddle steamer "Medway Queen". For many years the ship brought
pleasure to holiday-makers and seaside day-trippers. During the war she saw
service as a minesweeper, and at Dunkirk she brought back 7000 troops from the
beaches and is reputed to have shot down 3 enemy aircraft! The Medway Queen was
withdrawn from service in 1963 and is currently in need of considerable (and
urgent) restoration work.
The society's immediate priority is to raise the £1,500,000 needed to rebuild
the hull to modern safety standards, as the first stage of a complete
restoration to working order. It would then be possible to find a suitable
static use for the ship while he next stages are planned in detail. New members
and offers of help are always welcome. Please pick up details from this stand.
The Urie S15 Locomotive Society are the owners of the only two surviving LSWR railway engines designed by Robert Urie. Both 4-6-0 locomotives are based at Ropley, Hampshire, and we are raising funds for the restoration of ex-Barry 30499 to running order on the Mid-Hants Railway. We have a selection of new and second-hand books, videos and other items of railway interest at reasonable prices.
The Society is keen to hear from anyone who is willing to donate any books, videos, model railway equipment etc to assist us."
Last updated 14th March 2004
