Meridienne Exhibitions - Leading Exhibitions for Modellers and Hobbyists

G-SCALE SOCIETY PUBLICITY LAYOUT The Society was founded in 1987 and at present has 25 area groups throughout the UK. These groups enable members to meet socially indoors and outdoors, exchange their modelling experiences and run stock on other railways. Come and watch trains whilst at the same time learn about the G Scale Society.

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HAMPTON END – G-SCALE built and run by Dale Gillard. Hampton End was a small branch line link serving a small village (Hampton End). Most of the freight that used the line was fish from the quayside. After the closure of the line many years ago, a group of local rail enthusiasts reinstalled the tracks and buildings and purchased a few foreign engines & stock. Most weekends, trains can be seen running. The buildings are from BR days. This international flair works well. Most of the trees are supplied by T&M Models. Hampton End is sponsored by Glendale Junction. Layout size 18’ x 10’. Questions are welcome at all times.

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HORNBY HISTORIC ‘O’ GAUGE LAYOUT presented by Roy Whitehouse An opportunity to see model railways from the 1930's. The collection shows many of the products of the famous HORNBY company. Not only locomotives and rolling stock but trackside essentials will be on display together with Dinky Toys and Meccano.

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MILL STREET GOODS owned by Les Sims – built by Les Sims, Ellis Thompson & Alistair George - Exhibited on behalf of Luton Model Railway Club. Mill Street Goods is a finescale “O” gauge layout. The layout is named after the street in which Luton M.R.C.’s club premises are situated. The layout represents a small inner-city goods yard in the West-Midlands set in the period 1950-56. It has been superseded by larger facilities outside the town. Consequently, it is fed by trip workings from the nearest marshalling yard that brings in goods for delivery in the local area and coal for a merchant with an office in the yard. The yard was jointly owned by the LMS/GWR prior to nationalization and the locomotives used reflect this. On occasions “green diesels” may appear during afternoon sessions..

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NATIONAL 2½" GAUGE ASSOCIATION “keeping the spirit of the past alive and looking to the future” Formed in 1975 to save the gauge from threatened extinction, the National 2½” Gauge Association now has a steady growing membership of almost 500 worldwide. A number of rallies are run each year and members have the benefit of a thriving Castings Service plus a Print and Drawing Service. New projects and revivals of older ‘lost’ designs are currently being developed, and the revived ‘Ayesha’ locomotive has recently been serialised in Model Engineer. Drawings and patterns for the ‘Horwich Crab’ are also progressing well. With some members looking to diesel traction outlines, the Class 66, is currently under development as well as research into other modern designs. Now over thirty years old, the Association looks to the future with confidence, knowing that those who are interested in these smaller working model locomotives are now well catered for. As a non profit association, we are happy to help members and non members alike.

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NEWCHAPEL JUNCTION Newchapel Junction is a finescale “O” Gauge layout representing the post grouping period and based on somewhere in the Yeovil area where the SR and the GWR ran together. The layout is largely semaphore signalled with combined electric train describer block instruments to control movements on the main line, while the branch line to a large fiddle yard is controlled by electromechanical block instruments which resemble Sykes instruments. The signals and points are interlocked, and the section signals are also locked by the block instruments. The locomotives vary from main line express passenger types to small branch line tank engines of both SR and GWR origin. The train service consists of passenger and van trains which leave the terminus, complete a few laps of the circle and then return to the terminus for their engines to be turned and run-round for the next trip. Similarly, freight trains leave the yard at Newchapel Junction, complete a few laps of the circle and then return to the yard for their engines to be changed or turned and run-round. Near-continuous shunting in the large goods yard means that each freight train has some wagons exchanged before it leaves the yard to continue its journey. Additionally, every few minutes, a train is despatched to the fiddle yard and its place is taken on the main layout by another train. Please visit our web-site at www.newchapeljn.co.uk

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NOCKINGBIGG END, THE ABINGDON GROUP LAYOUT, THE ASSOCIATION OF 16mm NARROW GAUGE MODELLERS –Layout was built in 1991. Track Gauge is 32mm. Presented by Trevor Garnham, John Smith and Colin Greenop who are members of The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge. Nockingbigg End allows the team to run Narrow Gauge trains that ran during the period of 1900 to 1935. Some Engines are models of real engines, others are freelance models. The engines are manufactured by various firms, most are gas fired and radio controlled. The rolling stock is made by the team from a mixture of kits and scratch built. The layout gives good operational scope and has changed very little over the years. You will see a variety of Narrow Gauge Engines. Lynton & Barnstaple, Welsh Highland, Welshpool & Llanfair as well as freelance loco during your visit to LSMR2010.

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NUNEATON SOCIETY OF MODEL ENGINEERS DISPLAY The largest models are 5 “and 3½" gauge, more properly the realm of the Model Engineer. Here we see a variety of locomotives in these scales mostly built by members. There are also models in 32mm N.G, 0 Gauge, G scale and Gauge 1 some built by members.

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PENPOLL QUAY owned by Alastair George – Exhibited on behalf of Luton Model Railway Club. A 7mm layout set in the 1950’s, Penpoll Quay is a small Cornish quay on the river Fowey and gets its name from Penpoll Creek half way between Lostwithiel and Fowey. It’s position upstream from the major clay port of Fowey means that Penpoll Quay deals only with the smaller coasters involved with the shipping of china clay to other parts of the country and the continent, all the large ocean going vessels being dealt with at Fowey. St Blazey supplied the locomotives for the china clay workings in the area, mainly pannier tanks of various classes. The only other classes used on the clay workings were the prairies of both 45xx and 4575 classes and a pair of either 42xx 2-8-0T or 72xx 2-8-2T, which were rarely allocated outside of South Wales, for the heavily graded line through Pinnock tunnel to Fowey

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RIDGMONT - Ridgmont is owned and operated by the “Bedfordshire Area Group” of the Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers. The layout has two running tracks with sidings and passing loops giving ample space for “Steaming Up” and storage. Ridgmont is 33 feet long and 14 feet deep and in Exhibition mode it has the full scenic treatment. We will be running a full roster of Live Steam Locos on both running tracks including at least one coal fired Loco.

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SEABURY TOWN – O Gauge presented by Mike Renwick. Seabury Town is a fictitious location based on the LMS but is also a preservation society enabling the running of non LMS stock. The layout was started to show that baseboards need not be built like bridges and you don’t require Multipin plugs. Buildings are based on actual prototypes, the station being a copy of Darley Dale and the goods shed is a copy of the one at Eckington. Look at the world’s smallest model railway layout and the working dioramas.

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STANLEY MIDLAND – some 50ft long by 24ft wide, is the portable exhibition layout, built and run by the Midland Group of the Gauge One Model Railway Association to a scale of 10mm to 1ft. Now some 25 years old it is much changed from the original concept. Modelled on a fictitious main line station, some time during the steam era, with island platforms and a marshalling yard it has a joint GWR, LMS and GCR flavour. The layout enables trains of all the regions and companies, to run together and not be out of place. While partially scenic there has to be some form of fiddle yard to store and make up the trains ready for their half hour run, hence the storage sidings on the far side opposite the station. The majority of locos are live steam, there is much interest shown when they are fired up in the steaming bay, as they fired by methylated spirit, gas or even coal. So linger a while and watch the trains go by and please ask a question or two.

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TOLCARN ENGINE SHED – After running “Tolcarn” for the last 12 years as a factitious GWR layout, I am now running it as a B.R. (W) layout in the period 1955 – 1965, with a mixture of steam and early diesels together with a few locos still bearing G.W.R. insignia. The stock is mainly B.R. (W) but you will occasionally see Southern and Midland region trains make an appearance! Thanks are due to E Lyon’s book “Great Western Engine Sheds 1947” and Chippenham’s trackplan from it.

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TTARRAG SHED - 16mm scale presented by the 16mm Garratt Owners & Operators Association The 16mm GO&OA was formed in 2002 with the aim of supporting and encouraging the ownership, operation and building of Garratts in 16mm scale. The Association meets throughout the year at exhibitions and member's garden railways. Today you can see a demonstration of the different types of narrow gauge live steam Garratt locomotives that have run on railways throughout the world. The models are either commercially available or home built. If you have any questions about Garratt locomotives or the GO&OA, please do not hesitate to ask one of the operators.

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VINTAGE GAUGE 1 TINPLATE TRAINS - presented by G1MRA Vintage Group. A working layout in electric and clockwork Gauge One. Toy Trains and accessories from the first 30 years of the 20th Century. Bing, Carette, Marklin and Bassett-Lowke are some of the names on show.

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WILLOWBROOK MARSH - 'O' Gauge - 7mm finescale Period modelled - Late 1950's to mid 1960's British Railways Midland & Eastern Region Borders. Willowbrook Marsh is a small goods depot and maltings complex, situated on the borders of the Midland and Eastern Regions of British Railways just to the north of Peterborough during the late 1950-60's period. The location is typical of the fenland scenery with plenty of space and traditional looking buildings for the area.

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