Show Guide 2019

Welcome to the 2019 Nottingham MRS Spring ShowThank you for supporting our new venture, our first Spring Show. We have tried to keep up the high standards that we set with our previous show, with quality layouts, trade stands and demonstrations. We hope that you like the new show.

This guide is a first for us – it is designed to be viewed on a smart phone and is not available in print. This enables us to include colour pictures and material that is not possible in print, such as website links.

A feature which we introduced in our last show that proved popular was 'Getting Started'. We have kept this feature in our new show and we hopeto not just inspire you to create your own models, but actually give you a chance to try out modelling here at the show. There are two demonstration stands showing how to model scenery and buildings and the demonstrators will be pleased to let you try some of the techniques. Of course, most of us build our models so as to be able to run them. Our Springfield shunting layout is designed with operation in mind and the operator will be pleased to show you how to use a simple digital controllerto shunt wagons into the correct sidings.

We hope you will be inspired to extend your interest in this creative hobby. If so, you would be well advised to join with like minded modellers at your local club. Here in Nottingham, we have our own clubrooms in theMapperley area of the city and we meet every Tuesday evening. We would be pleased to welcome you at the club. Please speak to any of the stewards or see our advert at the end of this guide.

The LayoutsTrent Lane Junction ................................................................................................ 3Kozel Cement ......................................................................................................... 4Springfield .............................................................................................................. 6Mount Woodville Works ........................................................................................ 7Elmfield .................................................................................................................. 9Heath Green .......................................................................................................... 11

Trent Lane JunctionStand: 3Owner: Nottingham Model Railway SocietyPeriod: 1950s & 60sScale: OO (16.5mm gauge, 4mm:1ft scale)Trent Lane Junction is a new layout by the Nottingham MRS. It represents the railways that led east out of Nottingham, namely the Midland Railway, The Great Northern, the Nottingham Suburban and the London & North Western. Very little of this is left today. The Suburban was the first to close in 1941, the LNWR freight branch closed in 1960 and the GNR closed in 1968. The layout is based on the premise that all these railways were still operational in the early 1960s, and when the layout if fully completed, the trains run on it will closely represent the actual workings on this once busy part of the railway network.

Actual distances have been compressed to fit the key features in, and thenumber of tracks on the final approach to Nottingham have been reduced, to create a manageable layout.

The layout is 28’ long, built on softwood frames in 6’ sections to reduce the number of joints, with an ‘open top’ to reduce weight. A variety of scenic products and techniques have been used. The trackwork is OO gauge, on code 75 rail. There is no straight or level track on the layout and following the unusual prototype, trains run at three different levels.

The stock is a mixture of kit built and proprietary.

Kozel CementStand: 4Owner: Dave PaylorPeriod: mid 2000sScale: HO (16.5mm gauge, 3.5mm:1ft scale)Originally conceived by Alan Wardman, Kozel has been a round a number of years, I purchased it in 2018, and set to work tweaking the layout, which included revamping the scenery, adding a number of new details as well as extending the layout by 18” to give a larger headshunt, which helps move wagons from one side of the inglenook to the other, after many years of being a straight Cement work, Kozel has now been gifted a set of offices as well as some undercover storage for bagged andpalletised loads.

Kozel is based around the mid 2000s with a mixture of Czech (CD Cargo and CD) Cement trains as well as some from other operators including DB ( Deutsch Bahn).

Most mainstream Czech classes of diesel loco are catered for as well as some less common, as well as a few private locos including the works own V15 shunter.

SpringfieldStand: 9Owner: Nottingham Model Railway SocietyPeriod: 1980-1999Scale: HO (16.5mm gauge, 3.5mm:1ft scale)

Our “Anytown USA” switching layout set in a big city switching district andfeaturing 1980’s and 1990’s CP Rail and Maine Central trains. We use DCC control and most of the locos are sound equipped, the buildings are adapted from a wide variety of sources to give a gritty urban feel, the track is Peco code 100 with wire rod point control. Come and chat if this sounds like your kind of railroad!

Mount Woodville WorksStand: 13Owner: Rob MillikenPeriod: 1960sScale: P4 (18.83mm gauge, 4mm:1ft scale)

Mount Woodville Works is a fictitious salt glazed products manufacturer producing a variety of wares but mainly drainage pipes. It is set during the mid 1960’s just before its closure.

All the track is hand built and to P4 standards and wired for DCC operation.

The buildings and kilns were scratch built from styrene sheet and strip, embossed sheets and various metal sections. The clay tipping wagons, not being available in kit form or off the shelf were also scratch built. Locomotives and other rolling stock were made from kits.

There is a display by the local group of the Scalefour Society beside this layout. The society exists to support modellers in this scale www.scalefour.org.

http://www.scalefour.org/

ElmfieldStand: 14Owner: Dave WestwoodPeriod: 1960sScale: N (9mm gauge, 2mm:1ft scale)

Elmfield is a small town in north Worcestershire on the edge of the Black Country, which kept itself very much to itself until coal was discovered in the early 19th century. It was then dragged kicking and screaming into the industrial revolution by the arrival, first of the canal, and then by the railway in the 1880’s by way of a branch from the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton at Stourbridge Junction. The coal ran out in the 1920’s, but by then large deposits of fireclay had been found, and the production of firebricks and pipes had become the main industry.

Photo by Tony Wright, Courtesy of BRMThe model depicts the station and exchange sidings in the early 1960’s before the Beeching axe removed the passenger services in 1964. The use of firebricks and clay pipes was also in severe decline and goods traffic ceased completely on the closure of the works in 1967.

Track is Peco code 55 ballasted with real granite and operation is by standard DC using two Modelex controllers. Cab control enables either controller to operate any part of the layout.

The baseboards are 50mm insulation board with a softwood frame and topped by wood fibre insulation. The same insulation board forms the basis of the scenery and after carving to shape is covered with filler and finished off with scatters from various suppliers. The trees are largely from the Woodland Scenics foliage range supplemented with some home- made. Buildings and structures are mainly scratch built or Scalescenes kits.

Locos and rolling stock are mainly from Dapol, Farish or Peco with somewagons constructed from N Gauge Society kits.

Heath GreenStand: 15Owner: Nick PalettePeriod: 1960sScale: OO (16.5mm gauge, 4mm:1ft scale)

Heath Green is a small 4mm scale OO gauge layout based in the south of England on the former Southern Region. It portrays a small rural branch line terminus with many characteristics of the location shown in the trains, buildings and lineside features.

It is set in the mid 1960s as the end of steam on the SR approaches. Train services are local passenger provided by a 2-BIL emu and steam hauled workings and general freight predominantly steam hauled with occasional diesel.

The layout measures just over 9ft in length and 16 inches in width. Trackwork is Peco code 100, ballasted and weathered, and control is by DCC.

The DemonstrationsStand 2. Getting Started. Nottingham Model Railway Society members show how to create scenic effects. Please feel free to join in and try your hand at some of the techniques.

Stand 11. Demonstration by David Wright of Dovedale ModelsDavid will be demonstrating how to model convincing buildings, structures and landscapes. The demonstration will concentrate to show how Das Modelling Clay can be applied and then scribed to create realistic masonry and hard landscaping. David will also explain and show how scrap materials have been used to construct most of the models on display, before concluding with the painting and weathering techniques he uses.

The Hay Wain Diorama

www.dovedalemodels.co.uk/

http://www.dovedalemodels.co.uk/

The Trade StandsStand 1. TTC Diecast. Formerly Loughborough Model Centre, TTC stocka varied range of discounted model products. Their retail shop is in Derby, with free parking right outside. www.ttcdiecast.com

Stand 5. Nottingham MRS club members sales stand. Club members' surplus items offered for sale as seen. Grab yourself a bargain!

Stand 6. Booklaw. One of the UK’s leading publishers and stockist of railway and other transport books Booklaw also stock an extensive range of CD’s and DVDs. www.booklaw.co.uk/

Stand 7. Anoraks Anonymous. Pre-owned British, European & American outline model railway & diecast specialists.

Stand 8. Model Power Depot. Local supplier of second hand models.

Stand 10. Sherwood Models. Nottingham’s only model shop, conveniently situated in the north of the city. www.sherwoodmodels.co.uk

Stand 12. A1 Models. Makers and retailers of the well-known range of kits and detailing parts for diesel and electric locos and other rail vehicles.Visit their Ebay shop: a1models-doncaster.

http://www.sherwoodmodels.co.uk/http://www.booklaw.co.uk/http://www.ttcdiecast.com/

Interested in joining us?Nottingham Model Railway Society is always open to new members. We are an active group of modellers in the Nottingham, and surrounding, area. We have our own club rooms in the Mapperley area to the north of Nottingham City centre. We have a number of projects underway at the moment.

Our big new layout, Trent Lane Junction, is being shown here today for the first time, but we also have other layouts in a variety of scales.

Ilkeston Town is based on the LMS station in that town in the 1930s. It features an authentic track plan and station buildings as well as models of the gas works, shops and houses that were in the vicinity.

The diesel and electric scene is represented by two large layouts with a third under construction. Deepcar portrays the electrified Woodhead line in the 1960s and 1970s and features authentic, working, near-scale overhead depicting the 1500V DC system. Streatham Mainline depicts a suburban London station in the 1980s and 90s, with Network SouthEast trains as well as freight services and a London Underground line. This layout features third rail DC electrification.

Carstairs Junction is another large diesel and electric era layout. It is based on parts of an older model but has been completely rebuilt and rewired for DCC operation using the MERG CBUS system. This layout is currently under construction and will feature near-scale 25kV AC overhead electrification, thus completing our 'set' of models of all the main types of electrification.

We also have an O gauge group whose layout, Market Witham, is based on former GN lines in Lincolnshire and features scratchbuilt buildings based on those at Louth.

Member's interests and knowledge cover many aspects of railway modelling and we are happy to offer help and advice. The society has a comprehensive library with many useful reference books.

Interested? - to find out more please ask one of the stewards or visit our website www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk

http://www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk/

Trent Lane JunctionKozel CementSpringfieldMount Woodville WorksElmfieldHeath Green