The Chasewater Railway Model Railway Group and two Exhibitions

The Chasewater Railway Model Railway Group and two ExhibitionsA stroll along the platform and a turn towards the Tri Rail shop takes you to Platform 1 and the much improved Bric-a-Brac shop and the Model Railway coach. The Model Railway Group is still using whatever funds are available to improve and extend the rolling stock.

Now, at the end of October, looking towards Christmas and the Santa Specials with 2 layouts in the Heritage Centre. One will be a small ‘00’ gauge and the other, a more extensive ‘G’ gauge layout, the base for which is now being put together.

Coming very shortly, the Burton Modelrailex 2011,

November 6th 2011 at Burton Albion FC, Pirelli Stadium, Princess Way Burton-on-Trent, DE13 0AR.

Full details below:Later in November comes the big one at the NEC – Warley National 2011,  Sat and Sun 19th and 20th

Trent Valley Model Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition Video Clips

Trent Valley Model Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition video clips are now on youtube.  This is the first of two videos, the second will be on youtube tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/tordy64

Trent Valley Model Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition, Lichfield September 10th 2011

Trent Valley Model Railway Society

Model Railway Exhibition

Lichfield – September 10^th 2011

Quite a few events were happening on this weekend and I did manage to visit two of them.  Firstly I made a flying visit to the Trent Valley Model Railway Society Model Railway Exhibition at the Wade Street Church Hall, Lichfield– I really couldn’t miss this one, the hall is where I first started school at Meredith House School, over sixty years ago. 

On entering the show, visitors were given a free booklet containing a plan of the layouts and lists of the exhibitors and traders.  A first class touch – I only wish that I could have stayed longer to make better use of it!  All the exhibitors had excellent layouts, whether big or of the smaller variety. 

Briefly, they were: Aylett End, Chalford,Deesdale Road, Highly Unlikely, Overkill, Thomas the Tank Engine, Waldkirsch and Z Line.  The traders were: 12 voltsdc, Derby Trees and Scenics, Keith’s Model Railway, Loughborough Model Centre, Sansome’s Model Railways, not to mention Wickson’s Travel.

Full use was made of the hall and it seemed to be building up to a very good attendance on the day, and well deserved.

 I shall have a collection of video clips linked to the blog in the next day or so.

 

Chasewater Railway News – Easter 2011

 In spite of the Railway not being able to cross the causeway (due to circumstances entirely beyond their control), there was still plenty of activity at Chasewater over the weekend.  ‘Linda’ and ‘Asbestos’ were both in steam running to the causeway and back and giving brake van rides, and the Hunslet was in action shunting at times.  Easter Monday saw an Easter Egg Hunt well organised and run by the Junior Section and judging by the number of parents and children about this seems to have been well supported – grand job!In the Heritage Centre the W59444 carriage is nearing completion with the reupholstered seats now in place – very smart!I popped in to see the Model Railway Group again this week; it’s good to have it running regularly although with one or two slight hitches at the moment.  I would imagine that the problems will start to get sorted out when the Bank Holiday Season is over.  I must admit that I look forward to the time when more model steam engines are running – my personal preference over diesel, sorry.In the Museum there have been a couple of new additions – a Block Instrument with bell box, LNER origin and a new brick for the collection of colliery bricks.  This was an anonymous donation of a Bretby Colliery brick – I must admit that I didn’t know where Bretby Colliery was so it was duly ‘googled’ and found to be in South Derbyshire – I was also surprised to see a photo of one on ‘flickr’!

Chasewater Railway Model Railway 2011

A bit About the Model railway

Today I paid a rare visit to the Narrow Gauge carriage, I’d heard that it’s had a change of management so I thought I’d have a look.The first surprise was the coat of paint – making the carriage look much more respectable!

Inside, at the moment, it still looks the same.But there are plans for alterations – hopefully starting after Easter.Also, it is hoped to have the model railway running each weekend.I was hoping to get back later when models of steam locos would be running, but I had to leave it till next time.

Best of luck, lads.

Chasewater Model Railway

I was wandering around the Brownhills West station complete with camera when it occured to me that I had not seen the model railway on Platform 1 for a while.There were a couple of model diesel trains in action.The layout has developed since the last time that I saw it – its looking good at the moment, well worth a visit!  Should be running this Sunday at the Charity Day on the railway.