South Hants Model Railway Club
2009 Exhibition
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South Hants Model Railway Club2009 Exhibition |
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The SHMRC 2009 exhibition
was held on Saturday 7th March 2009 at
Crookhorn College of Technology,
Stakes Hill Road, Waterlooville, Hampshire PO7 5UD.
LAYOUTS
Aldbury Town, P4 Aldermouth, O
Ellis Road, O Green Field Sidings, 00
Great Shefford, 00 Hepton Wharf, P4
Mellin Parva, O-16.5 Meon, EM
Sankley, P4 Widley
& St George, 00 gauge.(Thomas)
TRADERS
Carriage & Wagon Models
Kytes Lights Kevin Robertson Books
AAR Models Masterpiece Falcon Figures
Trains and Boats and Planes
Ron Lines
The layout was designed as a portable fun layout to fit into my small workroom / office as a change from my normal “S4” activities. As it was not intended to be a major project or repeat my “S4” leaning, “0-16.5” was chosen because of the availability of off the shelf track, rolling stock etc. To speed things along I enlisted the help of my colleague, Graham Gatehouse who has modeled in many scales, and so “Mellin Parva” was born.
Essential considerations were the need to be able to transport everything, including two operators in one car, ease of erection and dismantling thus eliminating the need for trailer hire and a team of operators as required with my other layouts.
The period of the layout is the 1940/1950’s but it is not set in any particular location. There is a variety of stock on show which it is hoped will make viewing interesting.
The baseboards are built with plywood ‘sandwich’ sides, solid ply ends, ply cross-bracing and MDF tops. They are aligned using brass dowels and held together by M6 coach bolts and wing nuts.
All buildings are freelance models of structures found in photographs of suitable areas. Various techniques have been used including scribed DAS on plywood frame, plastikard on foamboard or plywood as well as the usual kit-building.
Rolling stock is mainly kit built and is representative of BR (Southern Region) in about the 1950-1960s. However you may see the occasional out-of area or different period visitor. Stock is shunted according to layout rules and we try to ensure there is always something moving, although this means operation is far more intensive than is prototypical. Couplings are the Sprat & Winkle type – 4mm version - with delayed uncoupling.
There are two operator positions – one on the fiddle yard and the other ‘front of house’. With full cab control either operator can run on any section. All points are electrically operated using Fulgurex motors. The layout has a schematic control panel with indicator LEDs showing route and section settings.
Fernlea, Steeds Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent, TN26 1NQ
Telephone: 01233 633295
email: carriagew@yahoo.co.uk
We sell brand new and custom locomotives including renamed and renumbered Hornby Bulleid Pacifics, weathered coaches, various used railway items – some Bachmann and a small selection of books and badges. We also sell Diecast Oxford and Trackside 1:76 scale cars suitable for the OO railway.
Please feel free to browse our photographic collection of Bulleid Pacifics.
Sankley by Woking Miniature Railway Society Modellers
P4 (4mm/ foot) Gauge:18·83mm, Layout size : 9ft 5inx 2ft.
SANKLEY is a fictitious place a few miles to the north of Gillingham and east of Wincanton. It is a Southern station with connections to the Somerset & Dorset and the Great Western. The period is 1948-50 allowing the running of locomotives and carriages in four liveries: late Southern, the Somerset & Dorset had become London Midland & Scottish by that time, and Great Western, all waiting to be repainted, and stock already in the new British Railways colours. Goods stock could have come from anywhere.
In our imagination this “might have been” town was in a prosperous agricultural area. Freight movements reflect this but all trains are relatively short, being limited by the length of the station (and the fiddle yard behind the backscene). Passenger trains have to be no more than two carriages with push-pull and railmotors arriving quite frequently.
Why the name "SANKLEY"? Our second layout began with the second letter of the alphabet, the next layout was Thirdlev, then came Ivley (note the Roman 4), and for this one we have anglicised the spelling of the French for five.
Sankley was entered in the Scalefour Society’s 18·83 Challenge held at the Scaleforum Exhibition in September 2005 in which the layout received a Commended award.
4, Westingway, Aldwick, Bognor Regis, West Sussex
Telephone: 07973 197787
email: joekyte1@aol.com
web: www.kyteslights.com
We sell model lighting for layouts and lighting products. We have the largest display of model lights in the UK.
PO Box 279, Corhampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO32 3ZX
www.kevinrobertsonbooks.co.uk
email: sales@kevinrobertsonbooks.co.uk
Telephone/Fax: 01489 877880
Kevin is a specialist retailer in all books relating to transport, railways and railway modelling. He will have on sale an extensive collection of new and second hand railway books, covering a range of prototype subjects and modelling topics, for you to browse through and purchase. There is usually a selection of special show bargains available at much reduced prices, so come and buy early before they disappear! Kevin also publishes in his own right under the Noodle imprint, including the flagship publication title “The Southern Way”.
12, Byron Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO19 6FQ
Telephone: 023 8044 9072
Diecast Models from Basetoy, Cararama, Corgi and Oxford. Building Kits from Metcalfe, Prototype and Superquick. Jarvis Scenics, Trees, Scenic Materials and Walling. Second hand models, cars, lorries, buses and coaches.
20, Millvale Meadows, Milland, Liphook, Hampshire, GU30 7LZ
Telephone: 01428 741426
Falcon Figures have been producing detailed character railway figures in both 4mm and 7mm scales for over 10 years. All figures are produced in lead free pewter and are available painted or unpainted. Our range offers railway modellers a wide range of poses for cab crews in both OO and O scales, as well as other railway figures.
'Aldermouth' is a totally fictitious layout approximately 16' long by 2' wide portraying a Great Western Railway branch line terminus during the period 1930 -1940. As the station is also served by the Southern Railway both GWR and SR locomotives together with passenger and goods stock are in evidence. On rare occasions an LMS 'Jinty' makes an appearance.
The terminus is at one end of the layout with a 'fiddle' yard at the other. Whilst the main interest of the layout is the goods facilities a fairly intensive passenger service is also run. The motive power is a mixture of kit built and ready to run locomotives together with Steam and Diesel Railcars built from kits. Coaches are kit built and western wagon works ready to run. Wagon stock is built from Slaters, Parkside Dundas and Peco. The buildings on the layout are a mixture of kit and scratch built. The most interesting feature of the layout is that the whole length of 16-foot is a scenic frontage, with a canal scene built in front of the 'fiddle' yard.
4mm '00' Fine scale. 19 feet long x 22 inches wide.
Located just over 8 miles from Newbury, Great Shefford was
an intermediate stop on the Lambourn branch. The model depicts the station and
the surrounding landscape as it would have appeared circa 1935. Buildings and
line side features are all faithful reproductions of the prototypes based on
plans and photographs taken from "The Lambourn Branch" by Kevin
Robertson & Roger Simmonds. The landscape is produced using the techniques
demonstrated by Barry Norman in Right Track 5 and 6 Modelling Landscapes. Track
work consists of C&L flexi track with Marcway points operated by Tortoise
motors. The layout is controlled by DCC via a ZTC 511 unit, supplemented by one
of their hand held controllers, which gives the operator freedom to roam along
the length of the layout.
EM Gauge (18.2 mm) 4mm / 1 ft Scale
Meon is a fictitious layout of what might have been a L&SWR branch terminus in South Hampshire. The history of the line is based on the 1861 Parliamentary proposal for a Petersfield and Botley Railway which was to commence at a junction at Botley on the L&SWR Bishopstoke (Eastleigh) to Gosport Line to Petersfield via Bishops Waltham, Meonstoke and East Meon. It is assumed that the line was progressed only as far as the Meon Valley before funds ran out resulting in a Countryside Terminus. Later a connection to an Army Camp was added, this was most busy during the time of the Great War.
All buildings and the stock are modelled on actual prototypes that could be found on the LSWR in the period after the Great War.
The layout was started in 1983 as a smaller replacement for the club's larger East Meon layout with a view to being able to attend more exhibitions with less to carry. However, with the addition of the lighting units, the scenic extensions around the station end and the ever increasing stock boxes we now seem to take as much as did for the bigger layout.
SUBJECT: GWR through station on the Midlands branch line in 1946/7
SCALE/GAUGE: 4mm / 18.83 mm (P4)
Aldbury Town is a small GWR station on an imaginary short single-track branch line somewhere in the area of the South West Midlands where the GWR and the MR were in competition. The year is 1946 and the world of railways is getting back to normal after the war. Some rolling stock is distinctly unkempt but Swindon is once again sprucing up some of the more tatty items into the latest liveries.
Looking at the layout, to the left, out of sight, is the mainline junction whilst to the right the line continues to an end-on junction with an LMS (former MR) branch. During the second-world war the line proved a useful secondary route for coal and other important goods for the war effort. The track was re-laid by the LMS to allow the heavier trains to run, which is why there are three bolt chairs and steel rail keys on a GWR line!
The Layout was built by Robert Evans to prove to himself (and others) that building P4 track work is no more difficult than other standards and also that P4 rolling stock is not difficult to make run properly; so far the jury is still out! As I concur with this philosophy I am happy to exhibit the layout and show Robert's work.
The track work is by C&L whilst the motive power is
either re-chassised with compensated etched brass frames (steam locos) or
re-wheeled (GWR railcar). Wagons and coaches are either kits or ready to run
items suitably improved, some are compensated, some not. Structures are
predominantly Wills kits, a few of them altered or added to for a bit of
originality. As with most layouts it is not yet finished, still awaiting
telegraph poles, signal cables and point rodding all of which I hope to add.
1, Harfield Court, High Street, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, PO21 1EH
www.trainsandboatsandplanes.com
Telephone: 01243 864727
We are a traditional model shop with over 700 square feet of floor space and we stock a wide range of products supporting many branches of model making such as railway modelling, model boating, aero modelling, Scalextric, etc. We supply all of the major brands and almost 200 different brands in total. We are continually expanding our ranges.
The EMGS is the largest of the Model Railway Societies catering for the needs of modellers in 4mm fine scale railway modelling.
Many SHMRC members are active EM Gauge Members.
This is our 'Thomas the Tank Engine' layout where the young at heart and the not so young, can get some hands on experience at driving the trains. One of the locomotives has an on board camera so you can get a driver's eye view of the passing scenery.
The model demonstrates various methods which can be used to produce a working model railway using mainly proprietary items 'straight out the box', modified or simple scratch builds. Please feel free to ask. It's great fun watching the train go by
Greenfield Sidings by the Farnham and District MRC.
The club '00' group are runners 'out of the box' rather than builders of trains, so this layout has been built with them in mind. It consists of four separate circuits, (up, down,/slow, fast) with a storage yard at the rear. The slow lines have a small siding complex which leads off to cassettes, for those who like shunting. The area depicted is 'somewhere in England', where two pre-nationalisation companies join, no set time period, so who knows what will be coming out of the tunnel. As some of us are collectors, certain trains will be 'theme trains'. (Sorry for the pun!)
The scenery graduates from agricultural, to a closed station that once served a small town, but still has an industrial connection. The industry depends on the type of trucks that are being shunted at the time! Up to twenty trains of various lengths and differing make ups can be handled. As this layout is still being developed, certain details may have changed since this was written
Unit 21, Solent Business Centre, Millbrook Road West, Southampton, Hampshire,
SO15 0HW.
Telephone: 023 8036 9997
Ron Lines have on the stand a selection of good quality Model Railways for sale and part exchange. We also carry a range of switches and other electrical components for your model railway. We are very interested in purchasing your surplus model railway items or collections for cash, please enquire on our stand.
Hepton Wharf belongs in the recent tradition of truly tiny
layouts. It was built by a team of modellers, mostly over the weekend of
Scaleforum 1993, in response to a challenge, not only to build a working P4
layout in very short order, including the conversion of locomotives and stock,
but also to demonstrate that the move from finescale 00 to P4 need not be an
unduly demanding one Yes, we did manage to meet the challenge; the first train
ran after fourteen hours nine minutes and fifty-three seconds. As someone
remarked at the time: "Never in the history of model railways has so little
been built so quickly by so many!" As the "final" stage of its
development, Hepton has gained a small halt, and a fiddle yard at its other
extremity - in acknowledgement that the line was extended a short distance up
the valley to tap the mining minerals more easily. The occasional workers
carriage or railmotor may appear, but Hepton continues largely a goods yard on a
minerals line.
Articles published on Hepton Wharf:
(1) Layout Focus, P54-55 British Railway Modelling, December 1993. (2) The case
for cameos, P134-136 Modelling Railways Illustrated, Jan-Feb 1994.
(3) Developments at Hepton Wharf, L&YR, P519-522 Modelling Railways
Illustrated, June 1995.
Last updated 28 March 2009