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CIRENCESTER MODEL RAILWAY SHOW

 5 & 6 SEPTEMBER 2009

  
 
    
  INTRODUCTION  
 

    
  Cirencester's largest model railway show to date was held at Deer Park School, Stroud Road, GL7 1XB, as a joint venture between local modellers and members of Cirencester Railway Society. Among the high quality layouts on display was East Lynn, pictured above.
  
 

    
  Cirencester's largest model railway show to date was held at Deer Park School, Stroud Road, GL7 1XB, as a joint venture between local modellers and members of Cirencester Railway Society.  Among the high quality layouts on display was East Lynn, pictured above.
  
 

    
  LAYOUT AND ATTRACTION REVIEW
  
 

    
  OAKINGHAM by Peter Messent

O Gauge 7mm Scale		  
 

    
  Adams Radial Tank, pictured above in plain Southern Railway black, was built in 1885 by Neilson & Company of Glasgow - late a constituent of the North British Locomotive Company. Originally used for inner suburban passenger work, these Class 415 4-4-2T locomotives were designed by W. Adams who was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London & South Western Railway from 1878 to 1895.
  
 

    
  This house-friendly fictitious location represented an ex LSWR branch terminus with the GWR having running powers from their own branch "off scene". There was a regular shuttle service from a junction on the west country main line as well as a through service from Waterloo. The SR and GWR branch trains - up to 3 carriages or 9 goods wagons in length - interconnected and could be strengthened with milk or parcels vans. Oakingham is in fact an 18th Century spelling of Wokingham and visitors familiar with the Reading to Ascot stretch of the Southern Railway in Berkshire might well have recognised the layout station buildings as being based on those once standing on the Up platform at Wokingham. The signal box was based on an LSWR design at Claygate. Southern and GWR vehicles on the 18' x 4' layout were kit built with some scratch built carriages.

Adams Radial Tank, pictured above in plain Southern Railway black, was built in 1885 by Neilson & Company of Glasgow - late a constituent of the North British Locomotive Company. Originally used for inner suburban passenger work, these Class 415 4-4-2T locomotives were designed by William Adams who was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London & South Western Railway from 1878 to 1895.

Displaced by electrification, the entire class were scrapped by 1927 with the exception of two which were retained to operate the Axminster to Lyme Regis branch, where sharp curvature made the use of anything other than Class 415 impossible. Many other classes were tried, but they either couldn't cope with the heavy loaded holiday trains, or were too inflexible for the many curves.

However, the locomotive originally numbered 488 by the LSWR had been sold to the military during the first World War, and in 1919 was sold on to the privately run coal-carrying East Kent Railway. In 1946 it was bought by the Southern and overhauled to provide relief for the other two Lyme Regis engines, and the three operated the branch until 1960. Numbered 30583 by British Railways it has been preserved on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex from 1961.		  
 

    
  SAINT PANTALEON LATRONCHE by John Cox

0-16.5 Gauge 7mm Scale
  
 

    
This 5'6" x 2' layout was inspired by a trip to the Languedoc region of the south of France with visits to a couple of narrow gauge preserved lines. It set out to portray a small village terminus on a narrow gauge line at the head of a valley in the Languedoc mountains. Steam hauled passenger and mixed trains ran the service while a small diesel shuttled between farms and vineyards bringing fruit and vegetables for transfer to the main line at Montpelier. Grapes and olives were processed locally and and sent away in barrels. Buildings were scratch built from photos or from plans in the French narrow gauge magazine "Voie Libre".


  This 5'6" x 2' layout was inspired by a trip to the Languedoc region of the south of France with visits to a couple of narrow gauge preserved lines.  It set out to portray a small  village terminus on a narrow gauge line at the head of a valley in the Languedoc mountains.  Steam hauled passenger and mixed trains ran the service while a small diesel shuttled between farms and vineyards bringing fruit and vegetables for transfer to the main line at Montpelier.  Grapes and olives were processed locally and and sent away in barrels.  Buildings were scratch built from photos or from plans in the French narrow gauge magazine "Voie Libre".  
 

    
  EAST LYNN by Trevor Nunn

S Gauge 1/64 Scale
  
 

    
  On the locoshed turntable - in front of a roughly grassed incline leading to flattened reeds on the riverbank - is 1004, one of the ten 2-2-2 locomotives built in 1893 following a previous batch - numbered 770-779 and outshopped in 1891 to the design of James Holden, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Eastern Railway from 1885 to 1907. These Singles in turn were based on Holden's 1888 experiment of removing the side rods of Class T19 2-4-0 721.
  
 

    
  East Lynn was a small seaport somewhere in north west Norfolk, served by the Great Eastern Railway.  Principal trains headed south over the single line swing bridge to a junction on the main line to London.  A branch line headed east with running powers over the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.

Set around 1900, passenger trains consisted almost entirely of six wheeled coaches while incoming goods traffic was mainly coal and general merchandise - with livestock and agricultural produce heading the other way.  The quay also supplied coal, fish and imported timber for onward railway delivery while the rail served granary featured wagon turntables and chain shunting.

All locomotives, rolling stock, track and buildings were hand built to finescale standards with all vehicles having compensated or sprung suspensions and all locomotives had flywheels.  Similarly, most of the buildings on the 4mm ply baseboards of the 20'6" x 5' 7" layout featured hand painted bricks and signals and points were operated from a mechanical lever frame using cranks and rods under the baseboards.  Cab control was used for section switching with feedback controllers to achieve precise handling.

On the locoshed turntable - in front of a roughly grassed incline leading to flattened reeds on the riverbank - is 1004, one of the ten 2-2-2 locomotives built in 1893 following a previous batch - numbered 770-779 and outshopped in 1891 to the design of James Holden, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Eastern Railway from 1885 to 1907.  These Singles in turn were based on Holden's 1888 experiment of removing the side rods of Class T19 2-4-0 721.

The twenty new-built Singles worked joint line expresses to York and in 1896 began non-stop running to North Walsham using oil firing and Charles Rous-Marten ( famous for timing Great Western 3440 "City of Truro" ) found that the GER Singles climbed Brentwood Bank more rapidly than their 2-4-0 ancestors.

A century before our current interest in recycling, energy efficientcy, and the environment, Holden first developed oil burning for stationary boilers at Stratford Works before applying the technique to suburban and express locomotives, starting with 2-4-0 760 Petrolea in 1893. Before being poured into the longitudinal tanks on each side of the locomotive tenders, this oil was a waste product that the Great Easten Railway had previously discharged into the River Lee.

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  THE BREWERY by Ian Manderson

EM Gauge 4mm Scale
  
 

    
  The Brewery was built for the 2002 DEMU small layout competition which among other things stipulated that the entries must not exceed an area of 654 square inches and have at least one working point. However, The Brewery was also designed for a life beyond the competition as a display arena for a variety of weathered shunters ( including Hunslet built Class 05 D 2595 ) and wagon types, some of which are scratch built. The grain uploading shed and hidden sidings were linked by a space-saving traverser and the main building, loading dock and grain unloading building derived from the Walthers meat packing warehouse kit. The 5' x 18" baseboard - which also features a sector plate - was built as a single unit with legs that plugged into pockets underneath.
  
 

    
  The Brewery was built for the 2002 DEMU small layout competition which among other things stipulated that the entries must not exceed an area of 654 square inches and have at least one working point. However, The Brewery was also designed for a life beyond the competition as a display arena for a variety of weathered shunters ( including Hunslet built Class 05 D 2595 ) and wagon types, some of which are scratch built. The grain uploading shed and hidden sidings were linked by a space-saving traverser and the main building, loading dock and grain unloading building derived from the Walthers meat packing warehouse kit. The 5' x 18" baseboard - which also features a sector plate - was built as a single unit with legs that plugged into pockets underneath.  Click on picture for more.  
 

    
  YEOFORD JUNCTION  by John Nicholas

EM Gauge 4mm Scale
  
 

    
  Yeoford, 11 miles west of Exter, was the London & South Western junction station for lines to Plymouth and North Devon, the actual divergence being a mile west of Coleford Junction signal box. The wide arches and spacing between platforms were inherited from the Broad Gauge of the North devon Railway. The LSWR extended the station as part of its double track main line to Plymouth, adding bay platforms and a small marshalling yard.
  
 

    
Yeoford, 11 miles west of Exeter, was the London & South Western junction station for lines to Plymouth and North Devon, the actual divergence being a mile west of Coleford Junction signal box.  The wide arches and spacing between platforms were inherited from the Broad Gauge of the North devon Railway.  The LSWR extended the station as part of its double track main line to Plymouth, adding bay platforms and a small marshalling yard.

Modelled in Edwardian times, local passenger and goods trains from Exeter were operated along with through passenger trains or coaches from from Waterloo, Down goods trains from Nine Elms and stone trains from Meldon Quarry. Slower trains were sometimes shunted into sidings to let faster services through while luggage and parcels were transferred between platforms on trolleys via the foot crossing.  Locomotives hauling the mainly non-corridor stock were in the most part by Adams and Drummond.

All the main features of the curved station were incorporated, with sidings reduced in length to compress the original 3/4 mile section for display on a 16' x 2' 6" layout.  Extra bridges were also incorporated to get trains "off stage" at either end behind the sidings.  All bridges and buildings were hand built, based on the North devon and South Western structures at Yeoford.  track was hand built using EMGS components.  Locomotives - with Portescap motors - and rolling stock were mostly kit built with some scratch building.
  
 
 
  PALLET LANE by Rob Owst

00 Gauge 4mm Scale		  



Pallet Lane was an imaginary BR station set around 1977, inspired by the Severn Beach to Bristol branch and built on baseboards recovered from two forklift pallets. The line would have continued beyond Pallet Lane in pre Beeching times but the oil and cement terminals justify its continued survival and that of a DMU passenger service. Already known for his modelling demonstrations at St Margaret's Hall, Rob Owst had made a particularly fine job of the "distressed" scenery at Pallet Lane, especially the corrugated iron platform shelter which was weathered with real rust! The cement terminal was based on that at nearby Lawrence Hill and the fuel oil siding on the 8'6" x 1'6" layout was similar to ones around Shirehampton. Pictured above being watched by a white cat is Rob's fine model of the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company's Class 128 diesel parcels unit W55991, seen previously under construction at Cheltenham in April 2009.



Pallet Lane was an imaginary BR station set around 1977, inspired by the Severn Beach to Bristol branch and built on baseboards recovered from two forklift pallets. The line would have continued beyond Pallet Lane in pre Beeching times but the oil and cement terminals justify its continued survival and that of a DMU passenger service. Already known for his modelling demonstrations at St Margaret's Hall, Rob Owst had made a particularly fine job of the "distressed" scenery at Pallet Lane, especially the corrugated iron platform shelter which was weathered with real rust!  The cement terminal was based on that at nearby Lawrence Hill and the fuel oil siding on the 8'6" x 1'6" layout was similar to ones around Shirehampton. Pictured above being watched by a white cat is Rob's fine model of the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company's Class 128 diesel parcels unit W55991, seen previously under construction at Cheltenham in April 2009.
 
 
  CAEAU UCHAF by Barnhill Model Railway Club

00 Gauge 4mm Scale		  
 
 
   Caeau Uchaf was a fictitious town on the South Wales coast some thirty miles west of Swansea depicted in the steam and green diesel era of 1958-1968. Although on Western Region, it was also served by London Midland Region freight and passenger trains via the direct line from Shrewsbury, such as that pictured having been brought in by English Electric split-headcode Class 40 D325 . A new deep-water oil terminal was being built nearby, currently linked by a small branch from the station. Other branches from the valleys and the coast also terminated at Caeau Uchaf's bsy station. Track and pointwork on the 18'6" x 8' layout was Peco Code 100 with Seep point motors and electric uncouplers to ensure a minimum of handling. Barnhill Model Railway Club meets near Chipping Sodbury and full details can be found at www.barnhillmrc.co.uk.  
 

  
  Caeau Uchaf was a fictitious town on the South Wales coast some thirty miles west of Swansea depicted in the steam and green diesel era of 1958-1968.  Although on Western Region, it was also served by London Midland Region freight and passenger trains via the direct line from Shrewsbury, such as that pictured having been brought in by English Electric split-headcode Class 40 D325 .  A new deep-water oil terminal was being built nearby, currently linked by a small branch from the station.  Other branches from the valleys and the coast also terminated at Caeau Uchaf's bsy station.  Track and pointwork on the 18'6" x 8' layout was Peco Code 100 with Seep point motors and electric uncouplers to ensure a minimum of handling.  Barnhill Model Railway Club meets near Chipping Sodbury and full details can be found at www.barnhillmrc.co.uk.                                                                                                                                      

 		    
BELLEVUE by Steve Hole

00 Gauge 4mm Scale




 A last minute replacement for Eddie Whitlock's Plank Lane on Saturday was this charming modern image front operated DCC layout with a single line on the upper level leading to a single platform station and a small shunting yard below. Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon built  Bo-Bo 33 065 "Sealion" is seen here in the Civil Engineer's "Dutch" livery of British Rail.


PLANK LANE by Eddie Whitlock

00 Gauge 4mm Scale

The North Eastern Railway opened its ( real ) engine shed at Ferryhill, County Durham in 1881 to house a dozen or so goods engines, but the allocation had risen to about 20 0-6-0s at the time of the Grouping. It remained fairly constant, along with the addition of two Class G5 0-4-4s, until 1935 when it housed the allocation displaced by the closure of Shildon engine shed in that year. Ferryhill itself survived for only two more years before closure, although it enjoyed a brief claim to fame during World War II when exhibits from the National Railway Museum at York were sent there for safe keeping.

The North Eastern Railway opened its ( real ) engine shed at Ferryhill, County Durham in 1881 to house a dozen or so goods engines, but the allocation had risen to about 20 0-6-0s at the time of the Grouping. It remained fairly constant, along with the addition of two Class G5 0-4-4s, until 1935 when it housed the allocation displaced by the closure of Shildon engine shed in that year. Ferryhill itself survived for only two more years before closure, although it enjoyed a brief claim to fame during World War II when exhibits from the National Railway Museum at York were sent there for safe keeping.

There was a second ( fictitious ) engine shed at Ferryhill, called Plank Lane. This shed was built on a site originally occupied by a small depot of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. That railway was overtaken by the NER in 1854 and the depot was retained and enlarged to house freight locomotives used to service the coal fields of County Durham and North Yorkshire but, unlike its NER counterpart, it survived much longer - mainly due to its location in the triangle formed by the lines to Stockton and Darlington that gave better access to diverging routes and removed the need for a turntable. Therefore the allocation of goods locomotives moved from NER Ferryhill to Plank Lane. It also meant that I did not have to build a turntable!

Its reasonable proximity to Darlington works to the south ensured that it could also be used by locomotives on running in turns after attention, thereby allowing a variety of locomotives to be seen visiting the depot for checking and servicing before turning on the triangle and returning to Darlington.

The scene you see is sort of 1946 - ish when the LNER was embarking on its renumbering scheme. The shed has seen some refurbishment after the ravages of wartime austerity and is in reasonable condition. Some locomotives have been through the works and reappeared with the new numbering system, while others wait for such attention.


BROCKLEY ACRES by Alan Postlethwaite

00 Gauge 4mm Scale
 

    
  Brockley Acres for me is not so much a layout as an idea in action. It has no defined shape but its track plan can be build and rebuilt to suit any exhibition venue. In the case of Deer Park School the spirit of Hornby Dublo and Trix Twin was realised by an outer goods loop with Stroudwater Quay, Ebley village and a branch terminus at Grove also represented on the 22' x 7' 3mm MDF baseboards covered in green baize cloth.
  
 

    
  Brockley Acres for me is not so much a layout as an idea in action. It has no defined shape but its track plan can be build and rebuilt to suit any exhibition venue. In the case of Deer Park School the spirit of Hornby Dublo and Trix Twin was realised by an outer goods loop with Stroudwater Quay, Ebley village and a branch terminus at Grove also represented on the 22' x 7' 3mm MDF baseboards covered in green baize cloth.

Set around 1950, it depicted an imaginary BR heritage line running between Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire with express passenger, local passenger, push-pull, breakdown and a wide variety of goods and parcels trains.  

The 28 regular locomotives and guests were all steam apart from LMS 10000, Britain's first main line English Electric diesel and 150 items of rolling stock also occupied nearly five scale miles of Peco track.  Using On-Track twin analogue controllers the Stationmaster controlled the Anticlockwise Main Line and the Terminus while the Yardmaster controlled the Clockwise Main Line and the Outer Goods Loop.  Together as many as six locomotives could be running at any one time. 		 
 

    
GILBERT JUNCTION by Chris Hopper

H0 Gauge 3.5mm ( 1/87 ) Scale


Gilbert Junction has established quite a reputation for itself on the Gloucestershire exhibition circuit with its combination of "hands off" operation with Kadee couplers and Peco US Code 83 track. Unlike its appearance at Cheltenham in October 2007 however, the 16' x 2' switching layout was based on the West Coast of America not far south of the Canadian border with signalling and industry to match.


Gilbert Junction has established quite a reputation for itself on the Gloucestershire exhibition circuit with its combination of "hands off" operation with Kadee couplers and Peco US Code 83 track.  Unlike its appearance at Cheltenham in October 2007 however, the 16' x 2' switching layout was based on the West Coast of America not far south of the Canadian border with signalling and industry to match.

During 1955-1965 the line was operated by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad and a subsidiary of the  Port Washington Terminal Railroad.  There were also visiting locomotives from the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Milwaukee Road.  Traffic included passenger and milk trains and kit built freight cars serving a factory and a paper mill with a wood chip loader over one of the tracks.  Most of the stuctures were scratch built from US prototypes.


CONEYGAR LANE by John Thomas

TT Gauge 3mm Scale
  
 

    
  The real Coneygar Farm is in the Coln Valley near Quenington about six miles east of Cirencester and this curved 8' x 8' layout depicted part of the East Gloucestershire Railway that that was proposed but never built. It would have run from Cheltenham to Witney via Fairford with a junction to the Midland & South Western Junction Railway somewhere between Compton Abdale and Withington. With both these companies amalgamated into the Great Western Railway, the trains were a mixture of GWR, Southern and Midland on services between the Midlands and South Coast as well as London.
  
 

    
  The real Coneygar Farm is in the Coln Valley near Quenington about six miles east of Cirencester and this curved 8' x 8' layout depicted part of the East Gloucestershire Railway that  that was proposed but never built.  It would have run from Cheltenham to Witney via Fairford with a junction to the Midland & South Western Junction Railway somewhere between Compton Abdale and Withington.  With both these companies amalgamated into the Great Western Railway, the trains were a mixture of GWR, Southern and Midland on services between the Midlands and South Coast as well as London.

The real East Gloucestershire Railway was incorporated on 7 July 1862 but when initial GWR backing ceased the company only managed to build the 14 miles between Witney and Fairford, which opened on 15 January 1873.  Of the rest of the 50 mile route, earthworks at Cheltenham were eventually to be used by the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway, running via Bourton on the Water.  The 14 mile branch between Witney and Fairford was officially transferred to the Great Western Railway on 1 September 1890 and in1906 used for trials with the GWR's Automatic Train Control system.
  
 

    
  SHIREHAMPTON by Phillip Tudor

N Gauge 2mm Scale
  
 

    
  The 4' x 2' layout had been upgraded with new track and accessories since being built by Phillip's father. As Bristol declined as a port, Avonmouth Dock was proposed at the mouth of the river and The Bristol Port Railway and Pier Company formed to connect the new dock to the City. Opened in 1865, the line was doubled in 1903-1907 and the company was based at Shirehampton. During the 1920s contractors building Portway used the imposing station as their railway base but in 1965 general goods services were withdrawn and an oil depot was built in the yard with 800 tons of storage. In 1967 Shirehampton became an unmanned halt with the line being singled and the signalbox closing in 1970. The model depicted Shirehampton in 1986 before the demolition of the original station buildings in 1997.
  
 

    
  The 4' x 2' layout had been upgraded with new track and accessories since being built by Phillip's father.  As Bristol declined as a port, Avonmouth Dock was proposed at the mouth of the river and The Bristol Port Railway and Pier Company formed to connect the new dock to the City.  Opened in 1865, the line was doubled in 1903-1907 and the company was based at Shirehampton.  During the 1920s contractors building Portway used the imposing station as their railway base but in 1965 general goods services were withdrawn and an oil depot was built in the yard with 800 tons of storage.  In 1967 Shirehampton became an unmanned halt with the line being singled and the signalbox closing in  1970.  The model depicted Shirehampton in 1986 before the demolition of the original station buildings in 1997.  
 

    
  CRAFT DEMONSTRATION by Peter Moore
  
 
    
  Peter builds fine scale locomotives and rolling stock in both 0 and 00 gauges. He is an LNER specialist and has modelled a section of the LNER main line at his home. "One he made earlier" was 00 gauge Garratt 2395 seen running past an ex LMS 4F and a GWR 3201 Class 0-6-0 on Brockley Acres.
  
 
    
  Peter builds fine scale locomotives and rolling stock in both 0 and 00 gauges.  He is an LNER specialist and has modelled a section of the LNER main line at his home. "One he made earlier" was 00 gauge Garratt 2395 seen running past an ex LMS 4F and a GWR 3201 Class 0-6-0 on Brockley Acres.

In 1910, the Great Central Railway initiated the design of a 4-cylinder Garratt. This was probably based on a pre-existing 0-8-0 design (LNER Class Q4), but over time the design evolved to use a 2-8-0 wheelbase (LNER class O4 ROD ) instead. 

This was approved by the LNER in 1924. Initially there were plans for two such engines, although only one was built. Between the initial order in 1924 and construction in 1925, the designed was amended by Nigel Gresley to use 3 cylinders at each end, and to use some of the motion from the O2 Class.

The unique 2395 was built by Beyer, Peacock with frames were laid on 1st June 1925 and was delivery to the LNER on the 21st, ready to be displayed in shop grey at the Stockton & Darlington Centenary celebrations on 1st July 1925. After the celebrations it was painted in black, and entered service in August 1925.

No. 2395 was the only Garratt ever to serve with the LNER. It was the first mainline Garratt to enter service in Britain, and it was the most powerful British locomotive of any type.

No. 2395's prime duty was to bank coal trains up the Worsborough Incline between Wentworth Junction and West Silkstone Junction. This incline was about 3.5 miles long at about 1 in 40. Typically coal trains of 60+ wagons arrived from Wath pulled by an O4 with either an O4 or an L1 as a banker.  2395 would then come off its siding and couple up behind the banker. Once at West Silkestone Junction, No. 2395 would uncouple, and return to Wentworth Junction. The train would continue to the main Sheffield to Manchester main line at Penistone, whilst the other banker would usually remain until Dunford Bridge. Previous to No. 2395's arrival, two O4s were used as extra bankers, to give a total of three bankers!

The Silkstone tunnels were notoriously bad for air quality. The Garratt being at the back would suffer the worst and espirators were tried which took air from near rail-level. However the locomotive crews objected to sharing equipment, and the trial stopped.

The water was very soft, so a protective layer of scale could not build up in No. 2395's tubes. Corrosion was thus a problem, and she was retubed in 1926. In 1927 the firebox was cracked and in  1928 further firebox corrosion was found. A chemical solution was tried from 1928, and this appears to have helped the corrosion problems. However, 2395 still spent 9 months of 1930 out of service for reasons unknown.

No. 2395 was renumbered 9999 in March 1946, and then became 69999 with Nationalisation. Despite these number changes, she kept the small 2395 cabside numberplates until withdrawal.

In 1949, it was realised that a new boiler would be required soon. However, the forthcoming electrification scheme of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Wath lines meant that this would only be economic if alternative work could be found. 2395 also tried out on the Lickey Incline in 1949-50 and again in 1955. Despite conversion to oil burning in 1952, neither trial was a success. 

No. 69999 was withdrawn in December 1955 with a final mileage of 425, 213 miles. Official accounts describe the final withdrawal being due to the failure of the oil conversion, and widespread unpopularity amongst engine crews. However, anecdotal reports also talk of the London Midland Region's loading gauge restrictions and resulting platform damage.


 
 
    
  CRAFT DEMONSTRATION by Peter Gentle  

   As well as being a keen 3mm scale modeller, Peter has made a number of fine scale buildings for the famous Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire. Pendon, north of Didcot, was also represented by its own display stand featuring this impressive model of a thatched wooden barn.  
 
 
As well as being a keen 3mm scale modeller, Peter has made a number of fine scale buildings for the famous Pendon Museum in Oxfordshire.  Pendon, north of Didcot, was also represented by its own display stand featuring this impressive model of a thatched wooden barn.

  Traders at the show included Modelmania, Stewart Blencoe Books  and Freestone Model Accessories with other display stands by Ffestiniog Railway and Swindon Model Railway Club.  Stewarding was by Friends of Deer Park School and refreshments by Selsley Church Social Committee.