Barry and Penarth Model Railway Club

Club Open Day

will be held on Saturday 17th November, 2007

Date is confirmed - note the move from mid-October!

• It will be held at the Cadoxton Conservative Club, Vere Street, Cadoxton, Barry. (CF63 2HU) Watch this web site for further details.

• The exhibition will be open from 11.00am until 5.00pm. Admission £2.00, under 16s and OAPs £1.50.

• Three of the club's fixed layouts will be on show and fully working. Cadoc Bluff remains dismantled for this year. This is the one chance in the year to see them all alive and working. There will be at least six other layouts from N-gauge to O-gauge, including a number of personal layouts of club members.

• The event will be supported by local traders. The club's special edition Dapol wagons will be on sale. Refreshments will be available.

  The exhibition is held on the first and second floors of the Con. Club, which has no lift access - sorry.
  

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  The following club and members layouts are scheduled to appear:

  The centrepiece in the concert room on the first floor will be:

• Addersleigh Junction, the club's new OO-gauge layout, which was seen for the first time at the Bristol Exhibition in Thornbury, in 2006. This is a modern image layout of a diesel multiple unit depot, with a preserved line in the foreground. The layout operates with DCC and much of the motive power has sound. The preserved line has a number of items of rolling stock being restored and the inevitable sleeping car for volunteers.

• Wellfracombe , Simon's latest layout depicting Southern steam with sound in OO-gauge. Again operated with DCC, this has not been seen in public before.

• Tatchester , a GWR branch terminous in OO-gauge, recently acquired by Steve D., which serves as a suitable backdrop for his extensive collection of GWR railcars.

• Eagle Valley Shortline, american 0n30 narrow gauge layout from Cliff Farmer, which now includes some of the back scenes carefully removed from the original Cadoc Bluff layout.

• Porthiain. This O-gauge layout was originally built by a former club member, who tragically died of cancer at a young age shortly after this single board was completed. It has now been completely rebuilt with just the baseboard and trackwork remaining. It now depicts a small industrial scene with half-relief buildings. The layout operates as a shunting puzzle layout and you can test your own skills, re-sorting the six wagons with a little four wheel tank engine.

• Walkers Ridge. Now bequeathed to the Club, this working diorama depicting a logging scene somewhere in the Canadian or American Rockies, was built by the late Brian Scoulding in memory of former club member Capt. Bill Walker R.F.A. (retired), who died in 2002.

  The club's resident artist, Dave Woolnough, will also be present with his paints and paintings. He will be bringing Sea Breeze Road , now running as 009 narrow gauge.

  There will also be a demonstration of Digital Comand Control (DCC) of American Railroad models
  

  Upstairs on the top floor in the clubrooms will be:

• Holton General, the club's main OO-gauge British outline layout. There have been some improvements since last year, including brand new back scenes painted by our artist Dave.

• Machynlleth, an N-gauge layout with this important Cambrian Railways junction station as it was in the 1950's. There is even a trace of the narrow gauge Corris Railway to be seen at the front of the layout. The room has some photos of the modern day station taken in Summer 2000. Surprisingly quite a lot of the trackplan and buildings still remains. Some dramatic improvements have been made to the scenery, including a full sheep dog trial, caravan park, cricket match and lots of tourists.

• Tafsil, the club's main O-gauge layout, whereby the fixed boards (four road engine shed and curved viaduct sections) in three rooms are linked to the portable station boards operating as a country terminous. Both walls behind the engine shed have now been painted. (Not too many people remember the coal pit alongside Chepstow Castle - artistic licence!!!). The chance to view this alone is well worth the entrance fee. A wide variety of GWR steam will be in operation, including many locos taken over from the valleys railways at grouping. Look out for some migrants from other railways!!!

• the Kingswell Fairground, which was donated to the club last year by the late Ray Kingswell. This is an extensive fairground mainly constructed from continental Faller kits, with fully working fairground rides and lots of lights and other details.

  Traders will include Lord & Butler, P & H MODELS & MIB from Porthcawl

  In addition, club member David Dacey will be selling some of his Dapol limited edition South Wales private owner coal wagons, as well as the club's own wagons.

  
  

• For further details contact me david@murky.net

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