The Railway Magazine – July 2019

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rolling Rd, resin castings and wagon building.
Three layouts, Wheelchair access.

TappersTrain Collectors Club - Exhibition of
the Leeds Model Company.Bromley Common
Methodist Church, Bloomfield Rd, Bromley,
Kent. 10.30-16.00. Adult £5. This will probably
bethelasttimetheLeedsTrustexhibitthe
trust’s archives. Designated track for trust locos.
Other layouts running. Vintage trains will be
in attendance. Bring your Leeds locos to run or
display.

Crawley Signal Box Preservation Society Open
Day.Crawley Signal Box, High St, Crawley, West
Sussex. Admission free, donations welcome to aid
the maintenance of the signal box.

Heywood Model Railway Group Open Day.
Unit 4, Park Works, River St, Heywood, Lancs.
Admission free (donations appreciated).
12layoutsinNtoGscalebringyourownlocos
and stock to run, DCC in all gauges, and original
three-rail Hornby Dublin lay out.

Twickenham & District Model Railway Club
Annual Club Open Day.Kerswell Hall, Wills Cres,
Hounslow, Middx. 10.00-16.00. O, OO & N gauge
layouts plus three other layouts, demonstrations,
displays, refreshments and stalls.

SATURDAYSUNDAY, JULY 1314..........
MoorsValleyModelRailwayExhibition&
OpenWeekend.Moors Valley Railway, Horton
Rd, Ashley Heath, Dorset. 10.30-17.00. 7 layouts.
The railway will be running passenger trains and
demo goods trains. This event is free to all who
travel on the train. Driver for a Fiver will raise
money for the Devon Air Ambulance and the
Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance.
Middleton Railway Model Railway Exhibition.
Moor Rd, Leeds. 10.00-17.00. Adult £8.50, child
£3.50, family £20.

12 d, Pett, Hastings, East Sussex.10.00-16.30.
Adult £3, concession £3, family £6. Seven 7mm
scale working layouts including the group’s
continuous running track and home layouts.

Demonstrations, static displays, models and

books for sale. Refreshments. Wheelchair friendly.

SATURDAY,JULY20 ..................

SussexVintage Model Railway Collectors’

SummerVintageToyandModelTrainShow.

Knoyle Hall, Knoyle Rd, Preston Park, Brighton,

East Sussex.10.00-16.30. Adult £3. Hornby Trains,

Dublo, Trix Twin, Lionel, French Hornby, Gauge 1

among eight layouts and displays and eight

traders. Main hall has wheelchair access and

disabled facilities.

Royal British Legion Model Railway Exhibition.

Royal British Legion, Hall Lane, Chingford,

Greater London. 11.00-16.00. Adult £3, child 50p.

In aid of RAF Wings and RBL Poppy Appeals.

Seven layouts, wheelchair access.

Worldwide Group of the N Gauge Society –

2019 Annual Convention.Trinity Methodist

Church, 26 Hamilton Rd, Felixstowe, Suffolk.

10am-4pm. The annual get-together of group

members to display their diverse range of seven

layouts. 10.00-16.00. Adult £3, members free.

It will be refunded if visitors join the group on

the day.

Scarborough Area ModelTrains’ Filey Model

Railway Show.St Johns Church, West Ave,

Filey, North Yorkshire. 10.00-16.30. Adult £3.

Wheelchair access.

London and NorthWestern Railway Society

Open Day.Kidderminster Railway Museum,

Comberton Hill, Kidderminster, Worcs. Talks,

photographs, information, nameplates,

memorabilia, Jack Nelson Dioramas, and

new-build projects. Displays of models: 7¼in,

Gauge 1, Gauge O, 4mm (including four ex-Pete

Waterman locos). Running Gauge 1 live steam

on station concourse. Free admission

Pevensey Bay Model Railway Club’s 7th Model

Railway Exhibition.Pevensey Memorial Hall,

Church Lane, Pevensey, East Sussex. 10.00-16.30.

Adult £5, child £2, family £11. 15 layouts in a

range of scales.

Stibbard Railex 2019.Stibbard Village Hall &

Methodist Church, Guist Bottom Rd, Stibbard,

Fakenham, 10.00-16.00. Adult £4, concession

£1, family £10. Eight club and privately owned

layouts in various scales from across East Anglia.

Chiltern Model Railway Association -

Interactive ModellersWorkshop.Parmiters

School, High Elms Lane, Watford, Herts. Group

of experts will provide one on one and group

talks about all things railway modelling. There

will be demonstrations by invited people and

illustrated talks from guest speakers, on subjects

ranging from kitbashing to soldering, layout

photography to back scene creation. Buffet

lunch is included in £10 price. Wheelchair access.

SATURDAYSUNDAY,JULY2021......

Cupar & District Model Railway Club – 27th

Cupar Model Rail.TheCornExchange,

St Catherine’s St, Cupar, Fife. 15 working layouts,

LEGO Railway. Wheelchair access.

SUNDAY,JULY21.....................

Pevensey Bay Model Railway Club Exhibition.

Pevensey Memorial Hall, Church Lane, Pevensey,

East Sussex BN24 5LA.10.00-16.30. Adult £5, child

£2,family£11.15layouts

Stockport and District Railway Modellers’

Open Day.Club rooms, Scout Hut, Cartwright St,

Newton, Hyde SK14 4FH. 10.30-16.00. Members

will show off their modelling skills and talk

about the hobby. Stockport and District Railway

Modellersislookingtorecruitnewmembers

to help complete a new exhibition-standard

layout that will shortly debut onto the exhibition

circuit. Admission free.

Gainsborough Model Railway Society.

Florence Terrace, Gainsborough, Lincs DN21 IBE.

http://www.gainsboroughmodelrailway.co.uk

13.30-18.00. Adult £4, concession £3, child £3,

family £10.

SATURDAY, JULY 27

Barnstaple Model Railway Club 2019

Exhibition.Methodist Church Hall, Bear St,

Barnstaple, Devon. 12 layouts. Wheelchair access.

Bridport & District Model Railway Society 2019

Summer Exhibition.SirJohnColfoxSchool,

Ridgeway, Bradpole, Bridport, Dorset. 29 layouts.

N Gauge Society Charity Model Exhibition

and annual meeting.Marks Tey Parish Hall, Old

LondonRd, Marks Tey,Essex.Charity N Gauge

exhibition in aid of Colchester Critical Care Unit

featuring a range of 10 N Gauge layouts. Adult £5,

Under 12s free, members £3.

SATURDAYSUNDAY,JULY2728 ..........

Colwyn Model Railway Club annual exhibition.

Craig-y-Don Community Centre, Queens Rd,

Craig-y-Don,LlandudnoLL301TE.Saturday10.00-

17.00, Sunday10.00-16.00. Adult £4, under-18

£3.15 layouts. Refreshments.

South Coast Model Railway Club - New Milton

Hants Model Railway Exhibition.Arnewood

School,GoreRd,NewMilton,Hampshire.

Blyth &Tyne Model Railway Society - Railex

North East 2019.John Spence Community High

School, Preston Rd, North Shields, Tyne and Wear.

25 layouts, wheelchair access.

St Johns N’thusiasts Charity Exhibition.

St Johns School, Wheatly Ave, Trent Vale, Stoke-

on-Trent,Staffs.ProceedsdonatedtoMidlandsAir

ambulance. Disabled access.

SUNDAY, JULY 28 ..........................

Thirsk and District Model Railway Group

Model Railway Exhibition.Thirsk Town Hall,

Westgate,Thirsk,NorthYorkshire.12layouts.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 .....................

Taunton Model Railway Group Open Day.

Bishops Lydeard station, Station Rd, Bishops

Lydeard, Taunton, Somerset. Multi-award winning

layout Bath Green Park and layout of Bishops

Lydeard. WSR running the yellow timetable.

Books, videos and other items for possible review should be sent to:
The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle Lincs LN9 6JR
Reviews

West Riding Steam
ByDerekHuntriss
ENCOMPASSINGwildly
contrastinglandscapes
fromthebleakuplands
oftheYorkshireDales
tothetextilemillsof
LeedsandBradford
andthecoalandsteel
industriesofSheffield,
theoldWestRidingof
Yorkshireoncecoveredalmosttheentirewidth
ofnorthernEngland.
Fromarailwaypointofviewitoffered
farmorethanthedensenetworksoflines
aroundthemajorindustrialcentres,boasting
somesuperblyscenicmainlinesthroughthe
Pennines,bucolicbranchesandawidevariety
offascinatingindustriallines.
Thisnewalbum,compiledbyphotographer
DerekHuntrissandpublishedbyNeverAgain
Publishing,doesanexcellentjobofconveying
thosecontrastsover128pagesofsuperb
colourimages.
Produced to a high standard in hardback
format,West Riding Steam contains some
truly superb images of steam at work
across the region.
Included are around 40 previously
unpublished images by respected
photographer and architect Gerald Dixon,
plus many others from well-known
names, including Derek Penny, Richard
Greenwood, Bill Potter and Peter Fitton.
The images have been organised in the
form of a journey from the north-west
corner of theWest Riding, at Ais Gill, via
the QueensburyTriangle, the Standedge
route, the main centres ofWestYorkshire,

York, Doncaster andWakefield to Sheffield,

capturing the distinctive character of each

region through their trains, the landscapes

and architectural styles.

The result is not just a fine record of the

last decade of BR steam inYorkshire, but

a glimpse of a lost world – a bustling, but

begrimed world of coal-fired traditional

industries already beginning to feel the

effects of painful transition.

Highly Recommended.BJ

Never Again Publishing, 150 Farrington

Road, Wolverhampton WV4 6QL; Hardback;

128pp; full colour; ISBN: 978-1-9160733-0-2;

£22.50 + £6 p&p

BIL and the

Bulleids

THISDVDprovides

arealfeastforthose

withaninterestinthe

extraordinary‘Merchant

Navy’,‘WestCountry’/

BattleofBritain’Pacific’s

designedforthe

SouthernRailwaybyOliverBulleid.

The initial focus of the programme is

on the recently restored rebuilt‘Merchant

Navy’No 35018British India Line(BIL).

Early test runs and mainline action

(including the 2018 Great Britain Railtour)

are covered.Thereafter, all the surviving

locomotives are featured – including both

the rebuilt and unrebuilt light Pacific’s.

An amazing total of more than 30 of 140

of these superb iconic locomotives have

survived into preservation.

There is excellent archive colour and

black and white material to set the

scene, but most footage features these

locomotives’widespread working on the

main line and on preserved railways.

Special mainline highlights include BIL

and LNER B1Mayflowerdouble heading

in the snow at Birkett Common earlier

this year, and the spectacular final steam

working up from Folkestone Harbour in

2008 behind rebuilt‘West Country’

No 34027Taw Valley.

Archive material even includes‘Merchant

Navy’No 35017Belgian Marinehauling

the‘Royal Scot’shot during the 1948

Locomotive Exchanges.

The first class commentary is informative

and appropriate and there are interesting

interviews with both owners and restorers.

Strongly recommended.RSS

Railfilms Ltd 2019, PO Box 9004, Sidmouth,

Devon EX10 1BJ; http://www.telerail.co.uk; DVD

Approx 75 minutes; £20.00

Halesworth–aSuffolk

Transport Hub

ByRobShorland-Ball

THEHalesworthtoSouthwoldNarrowGauge

RailwaySociety(HSNGRS)isactivelyworkingto

reopenastretchofthelong-closed3ft-gauge

SouthwoldRailway(SR)throughtheBlythe

ValleyinSuffolk.

Topromoteitsactivities,thesociety

haspublishedthisA4-formathistoryof

Halesworth’srailwaysbyformerNational

RailwayMuseumheadRobShorland-Ball.

In its heyday Halesworth was a vital

transport hub for Suffolk, having links with

London as well asYarmouth, Lowestoft,

Norwich and the

Suffolk coast via the

Southwold line.

Naturally, the book

opens with a chapter

on how the town grew

thanks firstly to the

River Blythe and the

Blythe Navigation,

then with the arrival

of the Halesworth, Beccles & Haddiscoe

Railway in 1854.

The book then moves through the Great

Eastern Railway era and the links with

the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire

Railway, before turning its attention to the

narrow gauge line to Southwold.

The latter’s history takes up a good

50% of the 32 pages, including archive

photographs and maps for illustrative

purposes.

The final few pages are dedicated to

the HSNGRS and its progress to date,

particularly around the site of Bird’s Folly

engine shed.This section includes photos

of the site clearance work underway.

As a potted history of Halesworth and

the SR the book works very well, and

should appeal to those with interests in

this part of East Anglia and its railways.

Overall, the production is good,

although some photos and maps appear

grainy or pixelated on the matt paper.

Copies can be bought online at:

http://www.halesworthtosouthwoldrailway.

co.ukGBH

HSNGRS, 2 Renhold Road, Wilden MK44

2QA; Softback; 32pp; 297x210mm; ISBN:

978-1-5272-3769-8; £9.95 + £1.50p&p