Another very successful exhibition was held over the weekend of
14th/15th November, despite the atrocious weather during setting-up on the
Friday and the exhibition itself on Saturday!
As is now usual we had a quiz for the under-16s, designed principally to get
them looking more closely at the layouts. This year we six children answered
all the questions correctly and as there was just one prize, a Thomas the Tank
Engine set donated by World of Model Railways, Mevagissey, we had to have a
draw for the winner, which was nine year old Jack, from St Austell.
Below are photos of some of the exhibits at the 2009
Exhibition.
An overall view of the Main Hall part of the show.
Stephen Austin, the well-known railway author,
had a stand about China Clay traffic.
Nigel Hicklin's "The Chocolate Train", an N gauge
model based on the Fry's siding that was at Keynsham.
Chris Down's "Ruan for the Lizard" is
an 00 scale ficticious branch line down the Lizard peninsular. On the right a
diesel "Bubble Car" pauses briefly at the Beach Halt.
"Treneglos" is an 00 scale model of the
station that might have been built there instead of at Tresmeer! On the right
a T9 and two-coach train, leaving for Otterham, approaches the viaduct.
John Bowler's new layout of a mine railway in
South Africa is still under construction.
The Hornby Railway Collectors with a display of old
Tri-ang, Tri-ang/Hornby and Hornby Dublo models.
The Brigwater and District Model Railway Club
brought their layout, Newburn. As always with a layout from B.D.M.R.C. there
was a canal with some barges at the far side.
Chris Brown's magnificent small layout, "St
Torpid's Creek", is based on the cartoons of Rowland Emmett. On the
right is a Western-style train that featured in a parody by Emmett of the
Lend-lease programme of American Aid.
Alan Gee's "Donegal" reproduces the
ambience of this typical Irish narrow gauge station as it was in the last
decade of its life.
On Saturday this stand featured a collection of
models, looked after here by Exhibition Manager John Barrett's
grandsons.
On Sunday the stand played host to Peter Lewis's '0'
gauge "Cantrell & Redlake Railway", a line representing a
modern preserved railway.
Brian Bentley's 16' x 10'
'tail-chaser' "Four Laynes" was very popular with our younger
visitors.
Cecil Newby's "Metropolitan Avenue"
featured mainly American outline models, with Thomas, Annie & Clarabel and
a nice Lionel model of a GWR Hall class.
Our long-standing friends of the Cornwall 0 Gauge Group had a
stand extolling the virtues of 7mm per foot modelling. (The plugs and cables
belong to the school!)
Below is a clip from Donegal of the railcar arriving
and then being turned:
Here is one of the road vehicles at Donegal:
Below are clips of Treneglos from the Guard's van
and footplate:
Below are clips of Treneglos trains running through
Treneglos:
Below are clips of Four Laynes:
Below is a clip from Newburn:
Below is a clip from Ruan:
Below is a clip from Cantrell & Redlake:
Below are clips from John Bowler's Mine layout
and the Hornby Railway Collectors Association:
