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Model Railway Exhibition
Saturday 5th until Sunday 6th Jun 2010
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| This show gets bigger and better each year! Presented by Erith Model Railway Society the show will let you see the very best in scale railway modelling. 22 incredibly detailed model layouts will represent locations from around the world while over 50 trade stands will be selling everything the model railway enthusiast needs from books and tools and of course model railways. There will also be modeling demonstrations this year.This exhibition is one of the best around and among the wonderful layouts attending, three will be military themed, particularly appropriate given the Museum’s subject matter.Stand No 18, ANELIAN ROAD & DOVINGTON CAMP. Aneilan Road is a small country station that still retains a small yard which is served by ‘speedlink’ tripworkings. Dovington Camp has been rationalised over time but maintains a link for the movement of fuel, stores, munitions and military vehicles. Stand No 22, LULWORTH CAMP & WESTPORT GAS WORKS.Lulworth Camp is an Army base near the imaginary town of Westport in Dorset where tank crews are trained in gunnery. It is near Westport Gas Works, at the back of the town. Each has its own railway system, linked to the Southern Railway. The period is the mid-1940s. Stand No 33, ROWLAND’S CASTLE. This model railway depicts a country station on the Hampshire/Sussex border as it may have appeared in 1944 when troops were preparing for D-Day. Using visual reference from 1930s pictures and maps. Some of the major village buildings are represented including 3 pubs and a chapel. This part of Hampshire is heavily wooded and the large forestry areas surrounding the area were ideal to hide the troops and military equipment. This layout contains part of a forest showing tents and troops at rest within a forest of fir trees. Train compositions are based on historical research and first hand accounts of the time. Connoisseurs say this is one of the best layouts you will ever see. |
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