York Model Railway Show, Easter Weekend, 4th/5th/6th April 2015

[Stan Williams]

Venue is The York Racecourse, Knavesmire, York.

4th/5th/6th  April 2015.

We will be exhibiting Tan Yr Allt / Dwffyr Uchaf .

Also in attendance will be the 009 Society Showcase and Publicity Stand, plus 3 other 009 layouts.

Any Society Members are always welcome to have a go playing trains, just come along and say hello.

See your there.

Stan.

[Stan Williams]

If you are coming over to the York Show and you want to start at some NG layouts, then go up to the Second Floor.

Tan Yr Allt / Dwffyr Uchaf is  Stand 114

009 Society Showcase and Publicity Stand is next door at Stand 115.

John Varleys  Ghylldale is  Stand  119.

7mm NG Association Stand is  Stand  117

Hope to see some of you there, come and say hello.

Stan.

[Stan Williams]

The layout is packed and ready to go, hopefully the roads will not be to bad late Friday Morning/ Early afternoon.

If you are visiting the York Show we are on the second Floor alongside the 009 Society Showcase & Publicity Stand.

Close by is John Varley with his Gylldale layout, Parkside Dundas and A1 Models.

Hope you can join us, please come and say hello.

Stan.

[Stan Williams]

Nice to see a number of Society Members at York, I hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did.

The Publicity Stand also booked up a number of New Members for the Society.

A number of the FR/WHR Green Vans appeared on the stand and one worked for three days on the special Peco rtr train circling the layout.

Stan.

[Hugh Norwood]

A few photographs...
Dolgoch (Talyllyn Railway)
This small diorama layout in4mm/ft on 8mm gauge track was impressive when it was first on display in 1956; and is still pretty impressive today.

[Hugh Norwood]

Ghylldale.
JohnVarley's layout depicting a quayside station on the edge of the North York Moors has been undergoing some major civil engineering as the Company has been lengthening the platforms to accommodate longer coaches (Network Rail, take note!)

[Hugh Norwood]

Tan-yr-Allt and Dwffyr

Stan Williams' and Roger Christian's layout set somewhere in the top left-hand corner of Wales...

[rod335]

I saw the TRPS Dolgoch fishtank at Warley in 2013 when I was there with Corris. I saw pictures of this in Don Boreham's book in 1963 when I was 13
and had to wait 50 years to see it! Seriously, this must have been absolutely stunning when it was built, it's still a good quality layout some 60 years later.

[cp.409067]

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Rod is correct. I saw the "fish tank" (as it was known) at one of the MRC Easter exhibitions in Central Hall. This would have been in the early 1960's. It stood out because (the modelling aside) the concept and the presentation were so refreshingly unlike the rest of the fare to be seen.

CP

[Hugh Norwood]

I'm pretty sure I saw Dolgoch a few years ago at York - but as it was part of the TR's publicity stand, I don't think it appeared on the programme. (I can't recall if it was in operation...)