July 17, 2024

LWMRS Opening Event – 7th & 8th September
 
https://www.lwmrs.co.uk/

Guildex 2024
 
Date: 7th & 8th September 2024
Location: Bingley Hall on Stafford County Showground. Weston Road. Stafford
Price: See below
On-line tickets:
https://www.gaugeoguild.com/onlinesales/ticketsales.aspx
Tickets 
Please note that for Guildex, we have introduced one day tickets as well as the two day tickets.
Prices in 2024 are:
One day - £15 for members & £20.00 to non-members 
Both days - £20.00 for members & £25 for non-members.  
The above prices are for advanced tickets
Prices on the door will be £2.00 extra for one day tickets and £2.00 extra for two day tickets regardless of being a member or non-member

 
We hope to have a similar Bus Timetable to that in 2023 which is below:
The provider has been confirmed and the timetable for 2024 is being finalised
 

 
Demonstrators:
14 demonstrations of a full range of modelling skills
Stands:
 
LAYOUTS SO FAR (27/07/2024)
Allerby: 7 mm Fine Scale. A fictional part of the railway system somewhere in Northern Cumbria from 1985 to 1992.
Great White River Navigation, Extraction and Steam Packet Co: American 0N16-5
Tetbury.: BR Western Region 7 mm Fine Scale A classic GWR branch line at the end of Steam.
Nafferton: 7 mm Fine Scale A large continuous run layout based in the East Riding of Yorkshire towards the end of steam
Bankgate sidings.: 7 mm Fine Scale Set somewhere in the North East
Hunslet Works: 7 mm Fine Scale, a section of the Hunslet Engine Co works in Leeds built by Andy Ross.
Johnstown: 7 mm Fine Scale minimum space circular layout. Built by the late Tony Kell to prove you don't need a lot of space for an O gauge layout.
Buffers Lock: 7 mm Fine Scale A Great Western Ent to end Branch line from the republic of Ireland
Lowery Lane: 7 mm Fine Scale, a small modern goods yard
Hadley, Stonybrook, and Swale: 7 mm O n 16-5 a fictitious narrow gauge line
weekend yard: 7 mm Fine Scale, the layout built over the weekend of last years Guildex, now fully completed
York Gauge 0 Group, Test Track: Accommodates & mm Fine Scale + 16.5 mm gauge DC and DCC operation
E M Test Track: 7mm Fine Scale accommodates DC DCC and Live Steam.

TRADERS SO FAR
1039 Models
A.W.Adams Loco Boxes
Accurascale UK
AirFramed Glass Display Cases
Amberly Components
Bill Hudson Transport Books
Brushes 4 Models
Buzz Models
C & L Finescale Track Building Systems Ltd
Connoisseur Models
Contikits
CRT Kits
D.C.Kits
Dapol Ltd
Diane Carney
Duncan Models
Easy-Build Coaches
EBMA Hobby & Craft
Ellis Clark Trains
Fine Scale Brass (UK)
Finney7
First Class Kits
Footplate Models
Gladiator
Greenwood Railway Products
Haywood Railway
Heljan
HMRS
J & M Hughes
JSModels
Lanky Kits
Latem Design Replica Railway Signage
LCUT Creative
Lightmoor Press
Marcway
Masterpiece Models
Metalsmith (Leeds) Ltd
Midland Railway Centre
Midland Railway Society
Minerva Model Railways
MMR Models
Monk's Gate Models
Moor View Models
MSC Models
Nick Tozer Railway Books
Northumbrian Painting Service
P.R.Model Railway Products
Parliamentary Trains
Peartree Engineering
Peter Clark Models
PLM Cast-a-Ways
Poppy's Woodtech
Premier Components
Primo Models
Ragstone Models
Ray Heard Model Railways
S M Models
Sanspareil ICS
SBT Developments
Scorpio Models
Shamrock Trains
Simon's Sort Out
Skytrex Ltd
Slaters Plastikard
Squires Model and Craft Tools
Steamline Ltd.
TMS Models
Torri Laser
Tower Collection Blackpool
Tower Models
Trainsporters
Walsall Model Industries
Walsworth Models
Youchoos

SOCIETIES SO FAR (27/07/2024)
7mm Narrow Gauge Association
Scale7 Group
Stafford Railway Circle
Stafford Society of Model Engineers
B'Ness O Gauge Group
Great Central Railway Society
London North Western Railway Society
Signalling Record Society
The LMS Patriot Society
Hornby Railway Collectors Association with O gauge vintage layout for visitors to run their stock on.

OVERSEAS STANDS SO FAR:
The Overseas Members information stand with Steve Lamb
Cercle de Zero (France)
Austria, Switzerland and Germany Group
Nordic Countries
 
Driving:
By Road
The Showground is situated on the A518 Stafford to Uttoxeter road some 4 miles from Stafford. Drivers from either the North or South using the M6 motorway should exit at junction 14 and follow the signs for the County Showground.

Distances in Miles
Birmingham 32 Newcastle 173
Bristol 116 Norwich 194
Edinburgh 265 Nottingham 64
Liverpool 72 Oxford 95
London 145 Shrewsbury 32
Manchester 60 York 106

By Rail
The Showground is just 4 miles from Stafford Railway Station. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line offering a direct service to London Euston with a journey time of approximately one hour and twenty minutes. It also offers direct services to Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Liverpool.

By Air
Airports - Birmingham International and East Midlands airports are both a 50 minute drive from the Showground whilst Manchester Airport can be reached in little more than an hour.
Transport:
See Driving for road details

By Rail
The Showground is just 4 miles from Stafford Railway Station. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line offering a direct service to London Euston with a journey time of approximately one hour and twenty minutes. It also offers direct services to Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Liverpool.
There is a courtesy bus service to and from the railway station both days
By Air
Airports - Birmingham International and East Midlands airports are both a 50 minute drive from the Showground whilst Manchester Airport can be reached in little more than an hour.

Oxrail 2024 is back!
Edward Feild School, Bicester Road, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 2LG
Sunday 8th September 2024
Doors open from 10:30am, and the exhibition closes at 16:00
£7 per adult.  Accompanied children are free.
 
Layouts invited are:
Tonys Forest – An O14 layout of a narrow gauge railway set in a forest
Bristol Goods Shed – A 1:43 Fine Scale ‘O’ gauge model of part of Brunel’s timber goods shed at Temple Meads, Bristol, as drawn by J C Bourne. Bossington – One of the Oxford & District MRC classic layouts. More details here. Puffin Colliery – 009 narrow gauge set in the Welsh Countryside. Donnersbachkogel – A freelance Austrian layout, located somewhere in the pre-alpine area on HO and HOe Memory Lane – Classic Hornby Dublo 3 rail as seen at Oxrail 2023 Tetsudo (Sankei) – Another return visit of this Japenese-inspired Z gauge layout Ewe – A beautifully executed 6ft model in OO  
We are also expected Hembourne, Todmorton and Scole, details of these layouts coming soon!
 
More details about each layout shall be confirmed shortly. Furthermore, we are also expecting a selection of 009 modules.
 
We shall also have traders and the following organisations available:
 
N Cresswell Model Railways
Model Railway Bits
Transport Treasury
Coastal DCC
Orwell Models
Dingo servo mounts
Pendon Museum
Chinnor and Princess Risborough Railway
Great Western Railway Society
Oxford Bus Museum
Network Rail
Great Western Railway
 
We also are being served by the Oxford Bus Museum with one of their classic busses shuttling between their base at Hanborough Station, Oxford Parkway and Edward Feild school, Kidlington
 
More information at www.oxfordmrc.org.uk/exhibitions

Rolleston Scout Headquarters is again the venue for our annual model railway exhibition. (Station Road, Rolleston on Dove, Nr Burton upon Trent, DE13 9AB). A five minute drive from the A38 in one direction and a five minute drive from Tutbury in the other direction. Exhibition is on two floors with a lift for the less abled. Fourteen layouts plus trade support. Free parking and disabled access. Refreshments available. Adults £5. Accompanied children-Free.

The 31A Cambridge Model Railway Club will be holding their 31st Annual Exhibition
 
10am to 4 pm, Saturday 14th September 2024
Comberton Village College
West Street, Comberton, Cambridge, CB23 7DU
 
Working Layouts and Trade Stands
Light Refreshments
Free Parking