Walton-on-Thames Model Railway Exhibition 2018 - All Saints Church Hall, Hersham 29th September 2018

Walton-on-Thames Model Railway Exhibition 2018. – All Saints Church Hall, Hersham 29th September 2018

A good variety of layouts and gauges on display, we hope you enjoy.

Nitun – OO Gauge – 1965ish 3rd rail BR(S) ‘Nictun Borrud’ is a layout which was based on the US Army building a branch line during WWII. Had it been rebuilt it would have come from the Meon Valley Line to Southwick House just behind Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth.

Adlestrop – O Gauge – Set in 1918 toward the end of the First World War. It represents a village in “middle England” during the conflict, served by a branch line station.

Hampton Vale - OO9 Gauge – A rural terminal station, together with local mill and sidings.

Military (Model) Railway Display – A selection of military railway vehicles, along with a collection of tanks and similar equipment.

Holm - OO Gauge – ‘Holm’ was built with the aim of using rolling stock, buildings etc., which were readily available in model shops. The name of Holm comes from two islands, Flat Holm and Steep Holm, which are in the Bristol Channel between Barry and Western-super-Mare.

Children's Corner - OO Gauge – This is designed primarily for use by Children

Broad Pass - Z Gauge It is based on the 469 mile railroad line between Steward and Fairbanks, the one and only main line in the state of Alaska.

City Basin Goods - N Gauge – depicts a gently decaying urban freight yard in the late 1960s/early 1970s on the Western Region of British Rail.

Saint Judes Les Mines - HO Gauge – This is a minor station on the French secondaries (in British terms, a light railway) and is operated by the SNCF. There are several rail served industries, including the brickworks which features an automatic narrow gauge railway.

Questa - On30 Gauge – A small town in New Mexico, situated in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for “Blood of Christ”) the subrange of the Rocky Mountains.

Gas Lane - OO Gauge – A compact gas works setting which portrays goods operation in an industrial setting.

Coleford - OO9 Gauge based on a real railway in the Forest of Dean with History having been changed a little… The railway from Coleford to Monmouth had its origins as a 3’ 6” gauge plateway, the Monmouth Tramway carrying coal, clay and lime to the river Wye at Monmouth.

Dudley Road - OO Gauge is a small light maintenance depot on the west side of Birmingham, built on the remains of an old LMS engine shed/maintenance depot, how part of an industrial estate not far from the WCML now that the old signal box and control system has gone.

Thornhill Town - OO Gauge – This is a G.W.R branch line, based loosely on Bodmin in Cornwall.

Creeque Alley Brewery - OO Gauge. A small industrial layout using the Brewery’s own locomotives to move various wagons around the site.

We hope you enjoy the video.

Anne and Steve
Steam and Model Railways

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