Saturday November 7th 2015 10:00 - 16:30
The Village Hall (& adjacent Primary School),
Thorncombe
Dorset
TA20 4NE
Admission £3 children & TRAC members free
Raffle, refreshments, snacks etc.
Free parking
Disabled-friendly
There will be about 15 working layouts covering a wide range of scales, gauges, prototype locations and time periods. These will be supported by a number of trade stands offering new & used locos, rolling stock, track & accessories, also books and railwayana.
This year we will have an area set aside for practical demonstrations & advice for both beginners and the more experienced. This will feature Bob Phelps & colleagues from Peco and members of the Buffers Bogies model railway group.
Bob is a very accomplished & experienced modeller. Prior to retirement he led the product design team at Peco and can still be found working part-time at Beer. The Buffers Bogies group will be using their "Colston Cross" layout to show what can be achieved by a group of complete novices and will be pleased to explain how they have achieved it. They meet on Wednesday afternoons at Buffers Model Railways just out of Axminster on the Chard road.
Layouts will include:
Also, there's an "exhibition within an exhibition" from SWOONS - the South-West area group of the 009 Society. They'll have a selection of working layouts, static displays and range of resource material.
Trade support provided by:
Alan Corwood A selection of railway relics, railwayana etc.
Rod Saunders Lots of good, used model railway items & accessories.
Bob Jones Books & models at prices you can't afford to refuse!
Ray Heard A small selection from Ray's huge stock of proprietary & kit-built models.