Warley at Statfold 12th & 13th October 2024

[Chris M]

Bond Lane will also be at Statfold. This is a most interesting 00 layout.

[Chris M]

Here is the latest list of layouts complete with stand numbers:-

A11 Borington by the Sea - BR Blue, O gauge

A13 Inver - Irish NG 7mm scale, 21mm track

A15 Abbey Light Railway - 7mm narrow gauge

A17 Barack Works - Preservation repair works 7mm scale

A18 Worcester South Quay - O gauge

A20 Weekend Yard - O gauge

A21 Pulsons Amalgamated Munitions - Industrial O gauge

A22 Rumbow Edge - 7mm Narrow gauge

A23 Burford - UK Outline HO layout

A25 Spllraintal - Tyrol based N gauge layout

A27 Broadwater Junction -1950's BR N gauge layout

A29 Cwm Bach and Llados Halt - N gauge branch line. First public appearance.

A30 Small World Layouts - 3 x Micro layouts in N gauge

A31 Gravely Oak - Modern day N gauge terminus and works

A32 Gibben Quarry - N gauge passing station

A34 Monument Lane - N gauge 1950’s Brum

A36 Le Vieux Hameau - French 50s-60s HOe 9mm

J01 Bachmann Thomas Layout - kindly provided by Bachmann

J02 The Quarry - N gauge

J03 Jacksfield WMRC Student Layout - Under construction by Warley junior members OO 16.5

R02 TT120 Layout

R12 Rock Hill Yard - USA based HO layout

R13 Oberdorf - II German/French 1920-45 N scale

R14 St Fayre - French 1908 HOm

R15 Seaford Promenade - 1950's OO gauge

R16 Dagnall End - BE Southern Region OO gauge

R17 Eardley Mor Halt - based on the SVR Eardington Halt 00 gauge

R18 Clayton End Signalman - BR blue era OO gauge

R19 Portishead TMD - Modern Image TMD OO

R29 Brunel's Atmospheric Railway - Diorama

S01 Orfe Quay - Harbour shunting EM 4mm scale

S02 Hadley Town - EM branch line layout refurbished especially for our show.

S08 Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae - 1920's Brecon S7 33mm

S13 Bond Lane - a bit different and well worth watching 009 & OO

S15 Port William - NG Quarry 009

 

The demos

S06 Chassis Building George Brodie & Midland Wagons Paul Clarke

S09 Enigma 3D Printing - Paul Parkes

S10 Sutton Coldfield Model Makers

S14 009 Society West Midlands

S16 Soldering - Bob Bishop

S17 DCC Workbench - Nigel Smith

S18 Painting & Lining - Ian Rathbone

S19 Weathering Demo - Neil Podbery

 

The societies

A19 GOG Village

A35 The N Gauge Society

R01 Wythall Transport Museum - providers of the free bus service to Tamworth station

R05 B17 Locomotive Trust

R11 National Model Railroad Association, British region

R22A MERG West Midlands Area Group

R28 Darjeeling Himalayan Rail' Society

S03 EM Gauge Society

S04 Signalling Record Society

S05 Midland Railway Society

S07 Scale 7 Group Ron Pitts

S11 3mm Society

S12 Scalefour Society EMAG

 

And a list of trade exhibitors which I hope will be ok with the mods

A04 Peco Publications & Publicity Ltd

A05 Bachmann Europe PLC

A06 Connoisseur Models

A07 Greenwood Models

A08 Bachmann Europe PLC

A09 Dundas Models

A10 LMS Patriot Company Ltd

A12 Harvey's Hobbies

A14 Ragstone Models

A16 LCUT Creative

A24 Squires Tools

A26 DMG Technical Ltd

A28 Hereford Model Centre

A33 C & L Finescale

A37 Book Law Publications

A38 Procast

A39 Travelling Art Gallery

A40 Bomber County Models

R03 GLR Bespoke Services Ltd

R04 Trains4U Ltd

R04A Transport Photos

R06 Jos Creations

R07 Deltic Preservation Society

R08 Online Models Ltd

R09 Holder Collectables

R10 Sawyer Models

R20 Roger Carpenter transport photographs

R21 Model Railway Trader

R22 Replica Railways

R23 The Paper Chase

R24 MMR Model Kits

R25 Connoisseur Wrenn

R26 Rail Express

R27 Anoraks Anonymous

 

Both Warley Model railway club and Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust are registered charities and any funds raised will remain with these charities.

[Chris M]

At Warley club we are getting excited about our exhibition at Statfold Barn next month - 12th & 13th October.  I'm looking forward to a few free train rides on the Statfold Barn railways, all visitors will be able  to have as many free train rides as they want. This venue and show feels so much more comfortable than the NEC. The NEC was great for Warley club but I think pretty much all of us at Warley Club are glad to have downsized to something more easily manageable. I'm very pleased that the Warley National slot at the NEC has been taken up by Warners/BRM and look forward to visiting that show in November as a paying customer.

 

Back to our Warley at Statfold show. From the layout list above we have three layouts that have never been exhibited before -  Seaford Promenade Station in 00, Musgrave Hill an N gauge layout in an aluminium flight case and Cwm Bach & Llados Halt a new N gauge layout. At the other end of the timescale this will almost certainly be the last time that O gauge layout Inver will be see in Britain. 00 gauge Eardley Mor Halt is only on its second public viewing and there are currently no plans for this layout to go to any other exhibitions. Eardley Mor Halt appeared in Model Rail last year. So, despite being smaller (and more relaxed), there are quite a few rare viewings at this year's show.

 

I don't have any photos of Seaford Promenade or Musgrave Hill because they are so new. I've got photos of Cwm Bach & Llados Halt because its mine.

Passenger train leaving Cwm Bach

 

Railcar approaching the river

 

A pair of railcars at Llados Halt. The is nothing much at Llados which is how it got its name but you have to say it backwards. Yes I know its a straight copy of Dylan Thomas' idea.

 

Both Warley Model railway club and Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum Trust are registered charities and any funds raised will remain with these charities.

[Chris M]

I've managed to get some photos of Eardley Mor Halt. This should look quite familiar to anyone who has been to Eardington Halt on the Severn Valley Railway. The station building has since bene replaced by a better one which looks much more like the one at Eardington. 

 

The builder of the layout has got bought models of all the cars he has owned over the years.

 

Looking through the bridge at the end of the layout. Obviously you wont get this view at the exhibition.

 

 

Edited September 4 by Chris M