2011 Exhibition
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Wimborne Railway Society’s
next model railway exhibition
WimRail 2011
will be held on 16–17 April 2011
(the week before Easter)
at Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne
B3082 Wimborne Road, Wimborne
BH21 4DT [map]
| Admission times | |
| Saturday April 16 | 10.30–17.00 |
| Sunday April 17 | 10.30–16.30 |
| Admission fees | |
| Adults | £4.00 |
| Seniors | £3.00 |
| Children (5–17 years) | £1.00 |
| Under 5s | Free |
| Family (2+2) | £9.00 |
Confirmed layouts and traders include:
| Layouts | Scale & Gauge | Details |
| Camberwick Green | 45mm gauge (G scale) | |
| Wimborne Garden Railway | 45mm gauge (G scale) | A temporary layout, laid out using LGB track. |
| Frogpool | 7mm:1ft, 32mm gauge (O) | Great Western Railway branchline terminus. |
| Moonhill Depot | 7mm:1ft, 32mm gauge (O) | Modern image depot, with DCC control. |
| Wadebridge | 7mm:1ft, 32mm gauge (O) | A layout set in the 1860s. |
| Gretton & Wenlock Railway | 7mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (O-16·5) | A freelanced narrow gauge layout. |
| Lakeview | ¼in:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (On30) | A minimum-space, narrow gauge American layout. |
| Dunvant | 4mm:1ft, 18.2mm gauge (EM) | A busy LMS through station. |
| Wimborne | 4mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (OO) | The society’s model of its home station. |
| Margate Road | 4mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (OO) | A live steam layout. |
| Churn Ranges and East Ilsley | 4mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (OO) | An essay in modelling the rural landscape in a 1945–1955 setting. |
| West Clayton | 4mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (OO) | A modern image branch terminus. |
| Thomas’s Junction | 4mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (OO) | |
| Llaniog Town | 4mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (OO-9) | A freelanced Welsh narrow gauge layout. |
| Tan-y-Bwlch | 4mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (OO-9) | A station on the Ffestiniog Railway. |
| Yard No. 6 | 3.5mm:1ft, 16.5mm gauge (HO) | Part of a large industrial plant in 1970s United States. |
| Grove Dale | 2mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (N) | An imaginary modern image layout, with two main lines and passing loops. |
| The Long Line | 2mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (N) | A 1940s Great Western layout set in Devon. |
| Ring Road | 2mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (N) | An modern image mainline layout. |
| Griswald | 2mm:1ft, 9mm gauge (N) | A layout with a Swiss mountain theme. As seen in the April 2011 Continental Modeller. |
| Traders | |
| Ray Heard | Secondhand models in all scales, especially kit-built OO and O locomotives. |
| Modellers Mate | Suppliers of scenic materials, tools, metals, plastics, glues etc. |
| G & W Models | Quality secondhand OO gauge locomotives and rolling stock. |
| John Hayden | Local railway artist selling paitings, prints, and greeting cards. |
| Railroom Electronics | For all your railway electronic and electrical needs. |
| AAR Models | Specialist die-cast vehicles and plastic kit suppliers in N and OO gauges. |
| Colin Caddy | Local photographer selling a wide selection of prints from his railway archive. |
| Railwayania | For all the latest R-T-R products from Hornby, Bachmann, Heljan, etc. Plus accessories, spares, own brand items, etc. |
| Model Railway Solutions | Manufacturer of flat pack baseboards, backscenes and lighting gantries for your model railway. |
| Wimborne Railway Society | Second hand items from members’ collections. |
| Demontrators |
| Tom Rayer – The Weatherman. |
| Paul Mays – buildng locomotive and rolling stock kits. |
| Society Stands |
| Wimborne District Society of Model Engineers |
| Purbeck Minerals and Mining Group |
| Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society |
| 6695 Locomotive Group |
| Wimborne Railway Society |
Light refreshments will be available throughout the exhibition.
Free heritage bus service from Wimborne Square.
Free (but limited) car parking at the school.
Last updated: 2011 March 22
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