35th Model Railway Exhibition

Saturday 3rd October 2015St Peter’s Church, Sudbury

www.sudburymrc.org.uk

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Chairman’s WelcomeOn behalf of the members of Sudbury Model Railway Club, welcome to our 35th exhibition. Along with trade stands that we hope will meet your model and accessory requirements, on display are layouts and models that we feel represent the best in railway modelling.

A successful exhibition cannot happen without the support of the layout owners who have devoted many hours to creating them and have had to be up very early this morning, the traders, who are also early risers in order to bring the wide range of items they have on offer, and last but not least all the club members who have contributed. Special mention must however go to the wives and partners who have provided that most essential area of the show ‘the refreshments’ and to James who has brought everything together.

New members are always very welcome to join us at our club night, each Friday evening at Little Cornard Village Hall. It just remains to say thank you for coming and we all hope you enjoy your visit and will be back with us next year on Saturday 1st October 2016.

Brian HemmingsChairman, Sudbury Model Railway Club

FRONT COVER PICTURE: Stanhem Quay, a OO gauge layout constructed by members of Sudbury Model Railway Club, at our 34th exhibition in 2014.

Layouts & Trade Stands1. TOMBOLAStop and try your luck here for the prizes on the table.

2. BUTLEY QUAY (009) ! ! ! ! ! PETER REDNALLThe layout was built to a fairly strict budget with the majority of buildings scratch built, but closely modelled on Suffolk examples. The station and its adjacent small town is an imaginary small port on the Suffolk coast served by a 2ft 3in gauge light railway.

3. OBERVAZ (HOm)! ! ! ! ! ! MARK ELLISObervaz is a fictional layout based on the operations of the Rhätische Bahn (RhB) in Graubunden, Switzerland. Period modelled is 2000 to the current time.

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4. MULLDALE (O-16.5) ! ! ! ! ! DAVID COATESMulldale is a 7mm (1:43) scale industrial scene incorporating 16.5mm track (2ft 6in narrow gauge) set somewhere in Northern England in the late 50s and early 60s. The railway serves to move raw materials / goods around the Mulldale Castings & Engineering Co. and other small businesses set betwixt a canal and high-level main line viaduct. This layout, with the exception of ancillary vehicles, is kit / scratch built with no prototypical references.

5. JOHN DUTFIELD MODEL RAILWAYS! ! ! ! ! TRADE STANDOn sale today is just a small selection of the new and secondhand items available. Our website is www.johndutfieldmodelrailways.co.uk. Mail order a pleasure. We also stock Scalextric, plastic kits and books. Registered with Trading Standards ‘Buy With Confidence’ scheme. Our advert can be found on page 6 of this programme.

6. BASTOGNE RUE DE CLERVAUX (HO) ! ! ! ! PHIL COLTONBastogne is a small town in the eastern Ardennes region of Belgium near the Luxembourg border. It is famous for the major battle that was fought there in WWII as part of the Battle of the Bulge. All this is behind us as the layout is set in the year 2000+.

There were two stations in Bastogne, but they were closed some years ago because there was no money to renew and update the line. My scenario for Bastogne Rue De Clervaux is an imaginary third station in the town. Once it was through station on a northwest to south SNCB line from Namur and Marche en Famenne to Aron. Today it is a terminus as the track to Arlon is now closed.

A branch line from Wiltz in Luxembourg also enters the station from the east bringing trains from Kautenbach and the city of Luxembourg. Not yet electrified this line brings diesel units and loco hauled stock to the station.

In the good yard, are general freight facilities, a banana ripening warehouse and a small container terminal. This brings a steady stream of freight trains and a variety of different types of wagons. Altogether a very busy small town centre station in Belgium showing buildings in the typical art deco style. Recent events have overtaken my invented scenario. SNCB have just announced that they are to reopen Bastogne station and create a link to Luxembourg via Wiltz. A rare case of modelling being ahead of the game.

7. STODDEN HUNDRED LIGHT RAILWAY (O) ! ! ANDREW JONESA depiction of a rural railway on the borders of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, in the mid 1930s, just before everything changed with World War 2.

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Serving the market town of Kimbolton and the villages of Pertenhall and Swineshead, this is a branch (twig?) off the main line which runs from the iron ore pits around Kettering to Great Barford near Sandy, where connections are made with the LNER & LMS.

Being an economically stretched railway, the SHLR had to make do with cast off locomotives and passenger coaches from the more major railways or industrial users. With the light traffic 0-4-0 and 0-6-0 tank locomotives became the norm. Because it was always short of operating engines, deals were struck with engine manufacturers for them to come and trial their new locomotives out of the public gaze. This was a time when new technology, in the form of petrol and diesel locomotives was gaining ground, so there were the occasional appearances of modern traction in SHLR trains.

8. HADDERTON (N) ! ! ! ! ! BOB SUTHERLANDHadderton is a fictitious location on the Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway, depicted in BR days circa 1960. The station is typical of those on the line, with GWR style buildings, two perfectly straight platforms and two through tracks. The station includes a bay platform for a branch line. There is also a small goods yard, which features fully functional shunting operations.

Scenic features include a farm, a brewery and a sewage works. Locomotives and rolling stock from the former LNER, GWR and LMS can be seen, together with items of BR origin. This layout has recently been completed by the Felixstowe Area Group of the N Gauge Society.

9. THE CONVERTIBLE LAYOUT (OO) ! ! ! COLIN WHITELOCKI built this layout very much as an experiment - this layout is intended to provide a suitable setting for a fairly diverse collection of stock; by changing the station building, goods shed, station running-in board, ground frame and starting signal I aim to adapt the layout to suit whatever I fancy running at the time. Currently I have three sets of buildings (Somerset & Dorset, Midland and Western Regions) and others are set to follow. A typical exhibition day could see the layout starting off as S&D and changing to the WR by lunchtime. The track plan is intentionally simple - I wanted a small through station with a fairly spacious, uncluttered feel. The station buildings and structures are mostly scratch built; one or two of the smaller buildings have been adapted from kits.

The scenery features autumnal colours as a change from the more usual summer setting. Nearly all the locos and stock are ready to run items, which are being detailed and weathered as time permits.

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10. BILL BOURNE’S RAILWAY ROUNDABOUT TRADE STANDI have been dealing in model railways since 1973. Modellers among you will remember my shop ‘Railway Roundabout’ at Collier Row (Romford) from 1975 to 1984. Nowadays, although having reached retiring age, I still get pleasure from buying old or neglected toys, refurbishing them, and selling them to collector friends, some of whom were teenagers when we first met. Although we do not sell from our home address, you can phone and find out where we will be next. That would be at a toyfair, swapmeet or model railway exhibition. Bill’s advert can be found in this programme on page 9.

11. STRATFORD ROAD (OO) ! JOHN DOYLAND, COLCHESTER & DISTRICT MRCSet in the East End of London in the period 1955 to 1968 (Era 5). A secondary line having a local passenger and freight service, but which on occasion also accommodates diverted mainline traffic. The track is Scaleway, the points are hand made using C&L components operated using Fulgarex motors. Electrical control is via a power and switch box. This has been adapter to allow the use of NCE controllers operating on DCC.

Both steam and early diesel motive power is typical of the area. Stock is a mixture of ready to run and kit built, a great number being much modified Airfix wagons. Very little escapes detailing or modification of some kind. Buildings are scratch built or from the Scale Scenes range and are typical of the Stratford area. The signal box is based on the one which used to stand at the entrance of the Polygon works north of the Chingford line platform at Stratford Station.

The board to the left (as viewed from the front) is a new additional as is the embankment to the front of the other two boards. The embankment gives more of a depth of view to the scene as would have been the norm in this area. Backs of houses given an urban feel to the area.

A further board has been added to the right. This now has a new station building based on the one which was at Canning Town. A major road over the railway and extended platform below lead the tracks along a new cutting to an art deco style tunnel mouth. A local pub and church lend an authentic atmosphere. Automatic colour light signalling has been installed together with a working banner repeater signal. This is interlocked with the points to allow realistic operations to be undertaken.

12. SUDBURY MODEL RAILWAY CLUB! ! ! ! CLUB STANDClub members will be demonstrating various skills. If you have any questions, or wish to find out more information about the club, please ask.

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13. WOLPERTINGER HBF (N) ! ! ! ! PAUL SMITHWolpertinger Hbf is a European N-gauge (1:160) DCC layout set in the south-east of Germany in the current DB era (Epoch VI). The layout which consists of a seven platform main station (Hauptbahnhof), local servicing depot centred on a working Fleischmann turntable and a small S-bahn stabling point. The layout features extensive overhead catenary which is a mixture of Sommerfeldt and scratch built.

The layout was conceived as an exercise in representing modern mainline operations in a tight space, whilst still allowing operational interest. Rolling stock is Era 5 / 6 representing modern European passenger and freight operation over the last 10 years, from Fleischmann, Minitrix, Kato, Hobbytrain and Brawa. The layout is operable as two elements, each with a discrete fiddle yard; there are three through mainlines which pass through the station, with a further four terminating bay platforms, served by a seven road fiddle yard. To the rear of the station is the local suburban S-bahn platform served by a separate fiddle yard, which has a small stabling point beyond the station for both modern EMUs and short loco-hauled trains.

14. POULTER BANK (OO) ! ! ! ! ! DAVID O’ROURKEPoulter Bank is a fictitious locomotive shed, situated in North Nottinghamshire. It was built by the Midland Railway to house a small number of locos for local passenger workings and trip workings to local collieries. Over the years it has become a servicing point for freight locos, to work mainly coal trains to the South via the Midland Mine Line, Great Central and the LNER via Lincoln, Spalding and March.

The depot has been upgraded for this purpose, with the construction of a coaling tower, an ash plant and an extra water tank. The shed has a 60ft turntable which is capable of turning 2-8-0 8Fs, 04 locos and 2-10-0 9Fs (just!). All buildings are scratch built or modified kits and the turntable is by Roco. Poulter Bank featured in the May 2011 issue of Hornby Magazine.

15. MECCANO MODELS! ! ! ! ! ! RONALD FRITHVarious working static Meccano models from the 1920s to the present day.

16. MID-SUFFOLK LIGHT RAILWAY ! ! ! PRESERVATION SOCIETYThe Mid-Suffolk Light Railway Museum is Suffolk’s only standard gauge preserved railway. Situated at Brockford Station just off the A140 near the Mendlesham Mast, the museum together with our onsite shop and restaurant are open every Sunday from 11am to 5pm from the beginning of May until the end of September. Details and dates for steam days and other special events can be found on our website at www.mslr.org.uk.

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BILL BOURNE'SRAILWAY ROUNDABOUT

would like to purchase your surplus

MODEL RAILWAYSHORNBY - LIMA - BACHMANN - TRI-ANG

PLUS

ANY OLD TOYS & LARGER TIN TRAINS

FOR SALE

GOOD QUALITY 2nd HAND MODEL RAILWAYS

COLLECTORS ITEMS IN ALL GAUGES BY

HORNBY DUBLO - HORNBY ‘O’ GAUGE - TRIANG ‘OO’TRIANG ‘TT’ - GRAHAM FARISH - TRIX TWIN

DINKY TOYS - RAILWAY RELATED ANTIQUES, ETC

Railway Roundabout enquiries to:

“The Walnut Tree”, Egremont Street, Glemsford, Suffolk, COIO 7SA

Tel / Fax: (01787) 280452

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17. MARROWBONE JUNCTION (OO)! ! ! GEOFF FENNINGMarrowbone Junction is a fictional location in West London set in the early 60s and features both steam and diesel operation. It represents a small terminus serving both mainline and commuter traffic, with a through local branch line and an adjacent parcels depot. The layout features a station to fiddle yard arrangement where the fiddle yard is a 6ft long, with 8 road, rotating traverser which is situated beneath the engine shed which serves the station. This arrangement provides a layout 18ft long with the full length being modelled.

18. MODELLERS MATE !! ! ! ! ! TRADE STANDThe tools and scenic ranges needed to turn your train set into a model railway.

19. ABER EMLYN (O) ! PHIL ABBOTT, GREAT YARMOUTH & DISTRICT MRC A finescale O gauge GWR layout based in South Wales, which is largely the work of four members of the Great Yarmouth MRC. We run trains representing the 1900s and 1930s eras including some from Welsh companies absorbed by the GWR in 1923. Empty coal trains arrive to be filled up in the colliery (off scene) with real coal. These are interspersed with a regular sequence of passenger and freight trains. The trackwork is all hand-built as are the buildings and scenery. Locomotives and rolling stock are largely built from kits.

20. PHIL COOPER - SUDBURY MODEL RAILWAYS ! ! ! TRADE STANDA wide range of new and previously owned model railway items, including track and scenic accessories. We also carry a wide range of Hornby and Lima spares. Please ask.

21. REFRESHMENTSTime for a drink and a slice of one of our splendid home-made cakes.

Sudbury Model Railways 

Your local supplier of good quality secondhandmodel railways, model buildings and scenic items.

 Good quality model railways always wanted.

Contact Phil Cooper on:

01787 372559

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