Railex 2018

26/05/2018 - 10:30 AM to 5:30 PM and 27/05/2018 - 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Please Note: This is an old event.

Railex 2018 Model Railway Exhibition continues to build on its high quality reputation with another exceptional show in 2017. This confirms our aim to be one of the major model railway exhibitions in the country. It will be held over the Whitsun(or late spring) bank holiday weekend.

We have again invited a number of outstanding layouts in scales up to and including 7mm Scale (O Gauge). As in the past thirteen years we have included over 40 specialist manufacturers and traders all dedicated to the support of the model railway hobby. Within the trade selection you can purchase ready to run models, kits, tools, transport books and DVDs. We also pride ourselves in supporting many of the specialist cottage industries selling there own range of products that you are unlikely to find at many other shows, but are so important to the model railway hobby in general.

Entry Fees

Adults: £9.00

Child: £5.00

Family: £20.00 (2+3)

Layouts Attending

7mm Scale

•Dock Green, O Gauge, Exhibited by Chaz Harrison, This model depicts a small goods yard in Dock Green, a scruffy industrial area somewhere in North East London, and part of the Eastern Region of British Railways.

•The Summit - Draper’s Sidings, O Gauge, Exhibited by Yeovil Model Railway Group, The layout is loosely based on the summit of the Settle and Carlisle at Ais Gill. The track layout with the lay-by sidings is close to what once existed here. The viaduct is based on the one at Ais Gill.

4mm Scale

•Burntisland 1883, P4 Gauge, Exhibited by East of Scotland 4mm Group, This was the Southern terminus of the North British Railway system in Fife and the North. Passengers and goods had to transfer to ferry boats which took them across the Firth to Granton.

•Canute Road Quay, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Graham ‘Muz’ Muspratt, Canute Road Quay is a dock / quayside layout located somewhere around the Canute Road area within Southampton Docks operated primarily by the Southern Railway between 1946 to 1949. Occasionally it can be operated in different eras such as early or late British Railways periods.

•Croft Depot, P4 Gauge, Exhibited by Duncan Wilcock, The layout is based on the 1829 Stockton and Darlington Railway’s Croft branch in County Durham, and is set in the early 1950s so I can run older pre-nationalisation and pre-grouping wagons alongside more ‘modern’ BR standard wagons.

•Ellesmere, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Phil Greaves, Ellesmere is set in the period of 1958-1962, and is situated on the Cambrian Railways main line between Whitchurch and Oswestry.

•Harkness, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Tony Bucknell, The Belford to Harkness Light Railway connected the East Coast Mainline at Belford to the small seaside village of Harkness. The layout is based on the similar line which ran from Chathill to Seahouses called the North Sunderland Railway. Trains are run in various time periods be it 1930s 40s or 50s.

•Hebble Vale Goods, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Karl Crowther, The layout is a nostalgia trip back to 1970s Halifax, despite the general industrial decline of the 1970s, it is envisaged that the yard is still kept busy with supplies for the coal depot. Other local industries are still hanging-on in the form of light engineering, confectionery, textiles and mail order catalogue businesses.

•Herstmonceux, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Andy Jones, In the early 1950s Herstmonceux was a rural country station on the former London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’s (LBSCR) “Ouse Valley Line”. The Ouse Valley line linked the London to Brighton main line to the South Coast at St Leonards.

•Hewisbridge, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Ian Porteous, Hewisbridge is a small market town somewhere in the Scottish Borders in the late 1950s, and is intended to represent the railways which were once commonplace in the Scottish Borders and much inspiration has been drawn from the Waverley route as most of the structures are based on those from various locations on that famous line.

•Hornsey Broadway, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Kier Hardy, Hornsey Broadway sets out to represent the line as it would have appeared during the early 1970s, with the junction and line from Stratford, joining the GN tracks from Finsbury Park. It features a station to the north, and a loco depot at Hornsey Road to the south, in between, is a typical north London landscape.

•Kirkby Stephen West, OO Gauge, Exhibited by Ian MacDonald & Martin Wright, This layout depicts the an actual location on the Settle and Carlisle line in the period 1955 to 1964, which covers the early part of the transition period from Steam to Diesel traction.

•Kyle of Sutherland, P4 Gauge, Exhibited by Stuart Holt, It models the passing loop station of Culrain in Ross-shire on the Far North line of the former Highland Railway from Inverness to Wick and Thurso, as it was in 1960, the trains covering the period 1955-1962.

•North Ballachulish, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Andy Cooper, Set in 1970/71 apart from passengers and freight traffic by the ubiquitous 27s and also 26s down from Inverness, there are goods workings to Kinlochleven (Presflos and Cov Hops from Burntisland) as well as a daily passenger working for the smelter workers.

•The Mill, EM Gauge, Exhibited by Jason Thomas & Chris Rogers, Minimum space industrial layout set around a textile mill on the East Lancs / West Riding border.

2mm Scale

•Foxcote New Pit, 9.42mm Gauge, Exhibited by Jerry Clifford, The layout is set in the North Somerset Coalfield. It's essentially Highbury Colliery, enlarged and rebuilt to place it into a mainline setting with exchange sidings rather than the old setting on a twig off a branch. It's now Somerset and Dorset in the early/mid 1920s.

Traders Attending

247 Developments: Etched name and numberplates, plus detail components and complete kits.

•Alan Gibson: 4mm and 7mm wheels and kits.

•ALL Components: All the electrical bits that you need to wire your layout.

•AMBIS Engineering: Manufacturers of primarily etched components for modellers for 4mm or 7mm scales.

•Bill Hudson Transport Books: Carrying a huge range of railway books both new and second-hand.

•C&L Finescale Track Building Systems Ltd: Track components and point kits.

•Ceynix Railway Trees: Handmade trees in various sizes made in the UK by a UK modeller.

•Cheltenham Model Centre: Most ranges of RTR locos and rolling stock.

•D&E Video - Realtrack Models - Legomanbiffo: Plastic kits for D&E modelling plus railway DVDs, and Fabulous Sound Decoders.

•Dart Casting: Figures, rolling stock kits, road vehicles, you will find it all here.

•Eileen's Emporium: Tools, sheet metal, rod, tube and any thing else you need for scratch building.

•Golden Arrow: Locos not supplied by the main manufactures.

•Gramodels: Suppliers of quality resin Military Vehicles/Equipment from 2mm to 7mm.

•Green Scene: For all your scenic modelling needs.

•High Level Kits: Producer of state-of-the-art 4mm scale kits of the more appealing and unusual industrial locomotives.

•Hobby Holidays: A husband and wife team offering "Hobbies with Hospitality".

•Ian's Trains: Pre-owned OO & N gauge rolling stock.

• Isinglass Models: Suppliers of fine scale LNER drawings used and recommended by modellers for over 40 years.

•Judith Edge Kits: 4 & 7mm scale brass kits for industrial diesels.

•London Road Models: Designing and manufacturing of 4mm locos and rolling stock etched kits.

•M.A.R.C. Models - Electrifying Trains: Loco hauled coaches rtr, SR EMU' s rtr, coach kit manufacturers.

•Minerva Model Railways:Ready to run O gauge locos.

•Model Railway Developments: Wagon and Coach underframe kits and bits, pre-assembled sprung buffers and white metal figures.

•Modelu: Specialising in high resolution 3D printing of scale figures and detailed component parts.

•N Brass Locos: Brass kits for N gauge.

•PenBits Model Railways: A range of etched brass kits for adding sprung suspensions to proprietary 4mm scale diesel locomotives.

•Plus Daughters: N & Z gauge RTR and detailing parts.

•Radley Models: Provides resin and white metal kits (ex Harrow Model Shop) for tube and surface kits for London Transport railway models.

•Replica Railways: RTR, spares, transfers and the replica range of coaches.

•Road Transport Images: A range of resin-bodied/whitemetal road vehicle kits.

•Roger Carpenter Photographs: Looking for that picture of a station or piece of rolling stock, you should find it here.

•Roxey Mouldings: Mostly southern railway kits in 4 & 7mm scales.

•Rumney Models: Offer a range of finescale kits and components for the late steam / early diesel modeller.

•Severn Models: Create model kits in etched brass, ideal for model railway builders.

•Shawplan Model Products: Manufacturer of British Rail Modern Traction 2mm, 4mm and 7mm Nameplates and Detailing Kits.

•South Eastern Finecast: Cast white metal locomotive kits in 4mm scale.

•Sunningwell Command Control Ltd: Digitrax, Soundtraxx, North Coast Engineering, Train Control Systems (TCS) and CML and other products.

•Taff Vale/Dragon Models: Have a range of 7mm and 4mm etched brass kits.

•Tim Horn Lasercut Baseboards: Manufacturer of baseboards, precision scale replicas and layout accessories.

•Tools 2000: Comprehensive selection of the Expo Drills and Tools for all your model making needs.

•Wild Swan Books Ltd: All the Wild Swan books and Magazines can be purchased here.

•Wizard Models Ltd: Specialise in providing kits and components to our fellow model railway enthusiasts, particularly in 4mm and 7mm.

Contact Details

Contact: David Lane (Railex Manager)

Website: www.railex.org.uk

Email Address: View Email Address

Telephone: 01296 437475

Stoke Mandeville Stadium
Stadium Approach
Aylesbury
HP21 9PP

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