Salisbury and South Wilts Model Railway Exhibition 2019.

 Teignford-3mm will be appearing.

  Saturday 18th and Sunday 19thMay 2019.

10.30am - 4.30pm

Michael Herbert Hall

South Street, Wilton, Salisbury SP2 0JS

Adult: £5.00 Child: £2.00*

	Layout	Gauge	Remarks
1	TEIGNFORD	3mm	British Railways layout in South Devon
2	AUDIO VISUAL DISPLAY	SSWRS	Extensive personal collection on show
3	LOWE QUAY	OO	South East London Quayside Yard in 1960s
4	ASTLEY  GREEN COLLIERY	N	Lancashire 1950s -60s layout
5	SWANWICK QUAY	OO	1960s Southern Region layout
6	INS N OUTS	N	GWR layout with an important visitor
7	DEMONSTRATOR	Signals	How to make scratch built signals
8	NICTUN BORRUD	OO	Freelance continuous run layout 1950s-60s made from “scraps”
9	NICTUN 2K	OO	Freelance continuous run layout mirroring Nictun Borrud but in the year 2000
10	OAKWOOD	N	Freelance layout
11	CHILDREN'S HAVE A GO	OO	A very famous engine for children to have a go at running
12	PARRACOMBE	OO/OO9 NG	Lyndon and Barnstaple layout 1920s
13	MERSTONE	OO	Isle of Wight Branch Line Junction
14	WISTERIA COLLOP	OO9	Freelance Somerset layout in 1970s
15	DEMONSTRATOR	Etched Brass	How to make an etched brass kit
16	FOLLY LANE	OO	DDC sound equipped layout running the Flying Scotsman
17	GARDEN RAILWAY	G	Local Member’s Garden Railway
18	SSWRS Sales Table	SSWRS	Lots of bargains
19	SSWRS Test Track	OO/N	Bring your own locomotive or test run your latest purchase
	TRADE		Trader / Business Base
1	RAILROOM ELECTRONICS		Ewareham Dorsety
2	FROME MODEL CENTRE		Frome
3	RON LINES		Southampton

3mm Thumper!

 Whilst preparing Teignford for it's forthcoming outing it is only natural to have a session playing trains.

The magnetic couplings have been checked and appear to work well.
The operation is somewhat localised, by that I mean it is over a small area and the axles can be attracted by the magnets. However, it is only during an exhibition that you truly understand the operational constraints.

Anyway, I took the oportunity to give the Thumper a run up and down the station area and so I am looking forward to completing it- must get the 4mm version out for comparison.

The 009 Challenge.

 After much deliberation I have ordered and received the pair of baseboards from Norfolk Heath Works and am very impressed with the quality of the product.

The board has been embellished with the 009 Society logo- sorry about the poor image but I don't want to unwrap them before I can assemble.

The two packs are shown below and await assembly and creative juices to flow!

Skytrex 0 Gauge fire buckets.

Quick and easy one today- a whitemetal casting of three fire buckets hung on a wall mounted stand for adding to Cringle Street Goods.

Representing fire buckets filled with sand, they are a good representation of the prototype.

And ,for a fiver, good value.

Worsley Works 009 GVT Clerestory Coach.

Well, after a long time the final addition to the GVT fleet has been completed.

My painting skills aren't what they used to be so I will have to live with it.

Destined to join the Peco GVT coaches but with a freelance slant, this will complete the coaching stock rakes to be pulled by the tram locos

3mm Scale BR&CW Type 3.

 This class 33 or BR&CW Type 3 has had a change of ownership a few times.

My co-operator had taken this  slightly started shell and transformed it, with a Geoff Halliwell motor bogie , into the model seen before you.

Although it is outside my era, it just may be suitable for working with the Bulleid coaches-seen below.

Anyway, I must get the swap side of the deal out of storage ready for the Dorset group meeting on Saturday

Awaiting the go ahead signal from Teignford on a summer excursion.

3mm Bulleid Q1.

Well, the Q1 has finally been finished and has done a few trips up and down Teignford.

Seems to work well after the tender wheels were gauged correctly and some sideplay added to the centre tender wheels. Just waiting for the smokebox numberplate and shed code from Narrow Planet

So, once Teignford is up and running it would appear that the Southern Region has gained some running rights- bring on the Bulleid coaches!