FestiRail Model Railway Exhibition

07/07/2018 - 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Please Note: This is an old event.

The whole of the Community Centre is taken over for one day as part of the Princes Risborough Town Festival Week. Allowing the Club to display various model making demonstrations, along with a number of layouts to include, Okehampton (O), Aylesbury Town (P4), Loughborough Road (OO) and the Shunting Puzzle (O), plus please note we are proud to present the last ever full public showing of Geoff Williams’s iconic 1:76 scale Aylesbury LNWR layout. This fifty-five year old model of the former Aylesbury High Street station (once situated where Vale Park is today) represents faithfully the whole station complex - including engine shed, goods yard and adjoining gas works - as it would have looked in the year 1911. Built to a very high standard of realism the model achieves a convincing sense of scenic depth through the decreasing perspective of the background building, and provides a possibly the last opportunity to view a pre First World War scene of Aylesbury. Being originally built into Geoff’s loft the layout has since been adapted for public viewing, for its appearance at FestiRail, which it is anticipated will attract considerable interest both from local residents and from the wider exhibition-going public - particularly as this opportunity is un-likely to be repeated by the Club. Light refreshments will be available. Only disabled car parking places are available at the Community Centre, therefore all other visitors are required to park in the Mount Carpark in Stratton Road (Follow brown Leisure Centre signs to just past St. Mary's Church). Please note that this is pay and display. Half hourly bus service from Aylesbury or High Wycombe. 15 minute walk from Chiltern Railway station with regular trains from Birmingham, Banbury, Aylesbury or London Marylebone, 25 minutes drive from M40 Junction 6 via B4009.

Entry Fees

Free Entry

Layouts Attending

The following layouts are down to be setup and running:

•Aylesbury LNWR, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, Set in the Edwardian era circa.1910, the layout depicts the whole of the station (old High Street station long since gone) complex with engine shed, goods yard and gas works, amongst the back drop of the town.

•Aylesbury Town, P4 Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District MRC, See our under construction scale model of this station, set in the 1950s/60s, this will allow a mix of stock, GC, Metropolitan, LNER, GW, BR etc, with both through trains and stopping services(north & south), with local trains for Amersham, plus branch trains to Princes Risborough.

•Loughborough Road, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Alan Paley, 3 railways, the Melton Mowbray and Nottingham Railway, LNWR and Midland had access to a cramped terminus at Loughborough Rd. So the time period is 1900 to 1930 with MR, LNWR and LMS stock.

•Okehampton, O Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, The whole scenic section, with station, engine shed and yard area of our large southern layout, where a variety of locos can be seen shunting about.

•Shunting Puzzle, O Gauge, Exhibited by Risborough & District Model Railway Club, Come and test your skill on our Shutting Puzzle, there is a small cost to enter, but the fastest time will win a prize.

Contact Details

Contact: Paul Wright (Chairman)

Website: www.rdmrc.org.uk

Email Address: View Email Address

Telephone: 01844 275 748

Community Centre
Wades Park
Stratton Road
Princes Risborough
HP27 9AX

This event is being organised by Risborough and District Model Railway Club