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The South Hants Model Railway Club will host the annual Portsmouth Model Railway Exhibition on Saturday 16th November 2024 at:
Admiral Lord Nelson School on Dundas Lane, Portsmouth, PO3 5XT
Opening time between 10:30 and 16:30.
As usual we have a carefully chosen selection of top-class model railway layouts and demonstrators, supported by a loyal band of traders and ‘gauge’ societies. But this year it is a bit special as we have two layouts built by the late Iain Rice.
There is limited parking at the school, but the Ocean Retail Park opposite the school has free unlimited parking (except for McDonalds which has a time limit).
We are aware that money is tight for many people and we have tried to keep our admission prices as low as possible at £7 for adults with accompanied children (under16) going free. Card payment facilities will be available.
Layouts
Longwood Edge (4mm scale P4 gauge) – Presented by SHMRC
The layout was designed and built by Iain Rice for, and with, Don Leeper and was heavily featured in Iain’s Cameo Layouts book. A two level layout set high up on the western fringe of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. The top level is LNWR and the low L&Y. Sadly, like Iain, Don is no longer alive and the SHMRC are indebted to Pauline Leeper for allowing us to become custodians of the layout on condition that we finish and exhibit the layout. A lot of hidden work has been undertaken to get the layout exhibition friendly and we are now working on completing the scenic’s.
Trerice (4mm scale, P4 gauge) – Presented by Jerry Clifford
Trerice the second of the Iain Rice layouts is another Cameo layout which depicts a typical set of Cornish ‘pan’ china clay dries and their associated railway facilities as they would have been around 1960. The buildings are all models of originals in the Goss Moor area of Cornwall, and the railway is based on the Wenford Bridge branch near Bodmin. This layout and other elements of Iain’s modelling have survived through the good offices of Rice family members and a small group of his close friends who feel the historical importance that was Iain’s contribution to the hobby and more particularly the fine scale branch of it should be preserved, for others to enjoy.
Inspired by Friedrichstrasse (3.5 mm scale, HO gauge) – Liphook & District MRC
Friedrichstrasse is a station with a complicated past. Today it still is a major station, but for 40 years was also a frontier post – the boundary between East and West Berlin. A busy station, it is served by a mixture of local s-bahn services, outer suburban, express, and ‘inter-zonal’ (services to West Germany) trains. All supported by a busy tram service. This continuous run model is not a slavish copy of Friedrichstrasse; more an impression of the area and the types of trains seen in Germany (mainly the East) during the late 1960s and 1970s – the period when this layout is set.
Oak Road (4mm scale OO gauge) – Mike Buick
Another continuous run layout set in recent times. A double track mainline running between Westbury / Bridgwater and Plymouth that passes through a village / town called Oak Road somewhere in either Somerset or Devon and to the side of the station is a single road virtual quarry with a run round loop. Expect to see XCountry HSTs and Voyagers along with First Great Western stock and some 66s / 59s with IOAs.
Brighton East (4mm scale EM gauge) – David Smith
Brighton East depicts a Southern Region Rail terminus in the period loosely around 1998 to 2003 where 3rd Rail EMU’s prevail on passenger services. Inspired by Brighton Kemp Town, what if it had retained some passenger service’s (they ceased in the 1933) and had never been shut (it closed to goods traffic in 1971), been electrified and then had a second tunnel bored to allow direct access to Lewes? This is not a prototypical rendition, but hopefully gives the flavour of Brighton in the small space restricted terminus setting that was Kemp Town.
Clinkerford (4mm scale P4 gauge) – Paul Hutfield
A P4 exhibition layout based on Cinderford Station in the Forest of Dean and featuring other notable building and scenes from the Forest of Dean, including Bicslade Wharf and Stone works, various buildings from Parkend, Whitecroft and Mitcheldean, not to mention the Forest itself completing the scene. Built originally by John Darch, the layout is now owned by Paul Hutfield and exhibited in conjunction with friend’s from the Glevum and Bristol BS4 P4 Area Group’s.
Kyle of Lochalsh (2mm finescale) – Pete Matcham
Kyle of Lochalsh was originally built in Barcelona, Spain as a micro layout capable of being transported via boxfiles. It was first exhibited in 2010 at the Burgess Hill Model Railway Club annual exhibition having being flown in by hand luggage the day before. The intention was to try and capture an extract of Kyle of Lochalsh through the inclusion of the bridge, ramp, station and quayside. The layout era begins late 70’s to capture the overlap between class 24s and class 26s with the gradual replacement by class 37/4’s.
Moors View (2mm scale, N gauge) – Paul Holwill
This layout is a representation of the former L&SWR route from Exeter to Plymouth which loops around the northern edge of Dartmoor, and Moors View itself is set somewhere between Lydford Junction and Tavistock North station. The centrepiece of the layout is the nine arch viaduct which has been built on a gentle curve. With the exception of the road vehicles, the layout is quite date neutral. This means that it is easy to run a wide range of stock and we plan to operate through a long period from 1950s steam through to early 1990s diesels.
Penmaenbach (4mm scale, OO gauge) – Chris Hopper
Penmaenbach is a self-contained shunting layout built using a custom-made Grange and Hodder baseboard kit and PECO Code 75 00 Bullhead track. It is a simple set of sidings which can be used as an “Inglenook” shunting puzzle (using wagon cards if required) as well as a connected branch line and small halt to add operational interest. The overall setting is inspired by the railways of North Wales but the layout gives us an opportunity to use a wide variety of rolling stock from the 1980s and later when the BR Rail Blue era was ending. Other stock including Civil Engineers wagons may appear from time to time.
Portskerra (4mm scale, EM gauge) – Tim Tincknell
Portskerra is the terminus of a ficticious Highland Railway branch line on the north coast of Scotland. Although a branch to Portskerra was proposed as a Light Railway in 1898, and some surveying work carried out, the line never progressed beyond that. The model uses buildings of typical Highland style and the track layout has features of other Highland termini incorporated. The time period is spring 1915, the increase in traffic due to the Great War bringing many wagons from ‘foreign’ companies to this normally quiet line.
Rodmell Green (4mm scale, 9mm gauge) – Allen Etheridge
Rodmell Green is a representation of a typical narrow gauge cement works railway, inspired by the various works in and around the south east that once existed. The layout gets it’s name from the main buildings, which are loosely based on the ones that used to be at Rodmell cement works near Lewes in East Sussex. Operation is based around the idea that the cement company are working two smaller quarry faces to serve the works. Loaded wagons arrive from either tunnel, the locomotive will then run round the wagons and propel them through the tipping shed where the wagons are unloaded. Once empty the wagons are returned to the quarry to be reloaded.
The Wantage tramway (4mm scale, P4 gauge) – Robin Gay
The layout is model of the Wantage Tramway as it appeared in the early 1290s. At this period there was a regular passenger service between Wantage Town and Wantage Rd. GWR station. The WT also had a freight contract with the GWR to deliver and pick up all goods around the town and district. This resulted in at least three return goods trains being run each day along the tramway. On market days there would be extra trams would run and even a cattle train, so it is on one of these days that I have decided to portray the tramway for the extra interest.
Widley and St George 4mm/ft, OO gauge - SHMRC
Our layout for the younger visitors. Come and drive trains pulled by Thomas, Percy and friends. A small fee is payable to pay for the layout upkeep.
SCATS 4mm/ft, OO gauge - SHMRC
Located on the club stand a BR Southern region based Inglenook shunting puzzle which all visitors are to try their hand at shunting on.
More details of the layouts can found at: SHMRC 2024 Exhibition Layouts
Traders
Book Law Publications
Coastal DCC
Squires Tools
Model Railway Developments
C&L Finescale
Dingo Servo Mounts
London Road Models
Tim Horn Lasercutting
The Model Shop
Wheels of Southsea
Modelstock – (ABS 4mm range)
Societies
EM Gauge Society
2mm Fine Scale Society
Scalefour Society
MERG
Demonstrators
Soldering: Roger Sawyer
Scenic Modelling: Roy Hickman
From 3D CAD to 3D Print: Duncan Redford
SHMRC Club Stand
If you are interested in learning more about our club, please come and visit the
club stand and talk to one of the members who can tell you all about us and what we have to offer.
More details of layouts, traders, demonstrators and societies, plus details of how to get there, can be found on the Club's website - Exhibition – SHMRC
Please note this list is correct as of 14/08/24
Admiral Lord Nelson School on Dundas Lane, Portsmouth, PO3 5XT
Opening time between 10:30 and 16:30.
As usual we have a carefully chosen selection of top-class model railway layouts and demonstrators, supported by a loyal band of traders and ‘gauge’ societies. But this year it is a bit special as we have two layouts built by the late Iain Rice.
There is limited parking at the school, but the Ocean Retail Park opposite the school has free unlimited parking (except for McDonalds which has a time limit).
We are aware that money is tight for many people and we have tried to keep our admission prices as low as possible at £7 for adults with accompanied children (under16) going free. Card payment facilities will be available.
Layouts
Longwood Edge (4mm scale P4 gauge) – Presented by SHMRC
The layout was designed and built by Iain Rice for, and with, Don Leeper and was heavily featured in Iain’s Cameo Layouts book. A two level layout set high up on the western fringe of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. The top level is LNWR and the low L&Y. Sadly, like Iain, Don is no longer alive and the SHMRC are indebted to Pauline Leeper for allowing us to become custodians of the layout on condition that we finish and exhibit the layout. A lot of hidden work has been undertaken to get the layout exhibition friendly and we are now working on completing the scenic’s.
Trerice (4mm scale, P4 gauge) – Presented by Jerry Clifford
Trerice the second of the Iain Rice layouts is another Cameo layout which depicts a typical set of Cornish ‘pan’ china clay dries and their associated railway facilities as they would have been around 1960. The buildings are all models of originals in the Goss Moor area of Cornwall, and the railway is based on the Wenford Bridge branch near Bodmin. This layout and other elements of Iain’s modelling have survived through the good offices of Rice family members and a small group of his close friends who feel the historical importance that was Iain’s contribution to the hobby and more particularly the fine scale branch of it should be preserved, for others to enjoy.
Inspired by Friedrichstrasse (3.5 mm scale, HO gauge) – Liphook & District MRC
Friedrichstrasse is a station with a complicated past. Today it still is a major station, but for 40 years was also a frontier post – the boundary between East and West Berlin. A busy station, it is served by a mixture of local s-bahn services, outer suburban, express, and ‘inter-zonal’ (services to West Germany) trains. All supported by a busy tram service. This continuous run model is not a slavish copy of Friedrichstrasse; more an impression of the area and the types of trains seen in Germany (mainly the East) during the late 1960s and 1970s – the period when this layout is set.
Oak Road (4mm scale OO gauge) – Mike Buick
Another continuous run layout set in recent times. A double track mainline running between Westbury / Bridgwater and Plymouth that passes through a village / town called Oak Road somewhere in either Somerset or Devon and to the side of the station is a single road virtual quarry with a run round loop. Expect to see XCountry HSTs and Voyagers along with First Great Western stock and some 66s / 59s with IOAs.
Brighton East (4mm scale EM gauge) – David Smith
Brighton East depicts a Southern Region Rail terminus in the period loosely around 1998 to 2003 where 3rd Rail EMU’s prevail on passenger services. Inspired by Brighton Kemp Town, what if it had retained some passenger service’s (they ceased in the 1933) and had never been shut (it closed to goods traffic in 1971), been electrified and then had a second tunnel bored to allow direct access to Lewes? This is not a prototypical rendition, but hopefully gives the flavour of Brighton in the small space restricted terminus setting that was Kemp Town.
Clinkerford (4mm scale P4 gauge) – Paul Hutfield
A P4 exhibition layout based on Cinderford Station in the Forest of Dean and featuring other notable building and scenes from the Forest of Dean, including Bicslade Wharf and Stone works, various buildings from Parkend, Whitecroft and Mitcheldean, not to mention the Forest itself completing the scene. Built originally by John Darch, the layout is now owned by Paul Hutfield and exhibited in conjunction with friend’s from the Glevum and Bristol BS4 P4 Area Group’s.
Kyle of Lochalsh (2mm finescale) – Pete Matcham
Kyle of Lochalsh was originally built in Barcelona, Spain as a micro layout capable of being transported via boxfiles. It was first exhibited in 2010 at the Burgess Hill Model Railway Club annual exhibition having being flown in by hand luggage the day before. The intention was to try and capture an extract of Kyle of Lochalsh through the inclusion of the bridge, ramp, station and quayside. The layout era begins late 70’s to capture the overlap between class 24s and class 26s with the gradual replacement by class 37/4’s.
Moors View (2mm scale, N gauge) – Paul Holwill
This layout is a representation of the former L&SWR route from Exeter to Plymouth which loops around the northern edge of Dartmoor, and Moors View itself is set somewhere between Lydford Junction and Tavistock North station. The centrepiece of the layout is the nine arch viaduct which has been built on a gentle curve. With the exception of the road vehicles, the layout is quite date neutral. This means that it is easy to run a wide range of stock and we plan to operate through a long period from 1950s steam through to early 1990s diesels.
Penmaenbach (4mm scale, OO gauge) – Chris Hopper
Penmaenbach is a self-contained shunting layout built using a custom-made Grange and Hodder baseboard kit and PECO Code 75 00 Bullhead track. It is a simple set of sidings which can be used as an “Inglenook” shunting puzzle (using wagon cards if required) as well as a connected branch line and small halt to add operational interest. The overall setting is inspired by the railways of North Wales but the layout gives us an opportunity to use a wide variety of rolling stock from the 1980s and later when the BR Rail Blue era was ending. Other stock including Civil Engineers wagons may appear from time to time.
Portskerra (4mm scale, EM gauge) – Tim Tincknell
Portskerra is the terminus of a ficticious Highland Railway branch line on the north coast of Scotland. Although a branch to Portskerra was proposed as a Light Railway in 1898, and some surveying work carried out, the line never progressed beyond that. The model uses buildings of typical Highland style and the track layout has features of other Highland termini incorporated. The time period is spring 1915, the increase in traffic due to the Great War bringing many wagons from ‘foreign’ companies to this normally quiet line.
Rodmell Green (4mm scale, 9mm gauge) – Allen Etheridge
Rodmell Green is a representation of a typical narrow gauge cement works railway, inspired by the various works in and around the south east that once existed. The layout gets it’s name from the main buildings, which are loosely based on the ones that used to be at Rodmell cement works near Lewes in East Sussex. Operation is based around the idea that the cement company are working two smaller quarry faces to serve the works. Loaded wagons arrive from either tunnel, the locomotive will then run round the wagons and propel them through the tipping shed where the wagons are unloaded. Once empty the wagons are returned to the quarry to be reloaded.
The Wantage tramway (4mm scale, P4 gauge) – Robin Gay
The layout is model of the Wantage Tramway as it appeared in the early 1290s. At this period there was a regular passenger service between Wantage Town and Wantage Rd. GWR station. The WT also had a freight contract with the GWR to deliver and pick up all goods around the town and district. This resulted in at least three return goods trains being run each day along the tramway. On market days there would be extra trams would run and even a cattle train, so it is on one of these days that I have decided to portray the tramway for the extra interest.
Widley and St George 4mm/ft, OO gauge - SHMRC
Our layout for the younger visitors. Come and drive trains pulled by Thomas, Percy and friends. A small fee is payable to pay for the layout upkeep.
SCATS 4mm/ft, OO gauge - SHMRC
Located on the club stand a BR Southern region based Inglenook shunting puzzle which all visitors are to try their hand at shunting on.
More details of the layouts can found at: SHMRC 2024 Exhibition Layouts
Traders
Book Law Publications
Coastal DCC
Squires Tools
Model Railway Developments
C&L Finescale
Dingo Servo Mounts
London Road Models
Tim Horn Lasercutting
The Model Shop
Wheels of Southsea
Modelstock – (ABS 4mm range)
Societies
EM Gauge Society
2mm Fine Scale Society
Scalefour Society
MERG
Demonstrators
Soldering: Roger Sawyer
Scenic Modelling: Roy Hickman
From 3D CAD to 3D Print: Duncan Redford
SHMRC Club Stand
If you are interested in learning more about our club, please come and visit the
club stand and talk to one of the members who can tell you all about us and what we have to offer.
More details of layouts, traders, demonstrators and societies, plus details of how to get there, can be found on the Club's website - Exhibition – SHMRC
Please note this list is correct as of 14/08/24
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