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SATURDAY 8th Supported by & SUNDAY 9th WELCOME Welcome to the 12th International N Gauge Show. Created in 2004 by a group of dedicated N SEPTEMBER 2018 Gauge enthusiasts the event has grown to become one of the leading Model Railway events Saturday 10am – 5pm dedicated to all things N Gauge. Sunday 10am – 4pm As you go round the show you will see virtually all the specialist N Gauge suppliers offering a Last admission 1 hour before closing vast range of locomotives, rolling stock and accessories. Whatever you need for your project you are sure to find it here. Make sure you visit them all to see the full range of products on Warwickshire offer. As always we have a wide selection of Modern, Steam, American and Continental layouts on Event Centre display throughout the hall with over 30 layouts to enjoy, along with five societies. Organised by: Our thanks to all of our exhibitors and the supporting companies for making this yet Meridienne Exhibitions Ltd another hugely interesting and successful N Gauge Show. We trust you enjoy your visit and and The N Gauge Team make sure to try the mezzanine restaurant for breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea – whilst still The Fosse, Fosse Way, Leamington viewing and enjoying the action! Spa, Warwickshire CV31 1XN Tel: 01926 614101 Make a note of 2019 Exhibition Manager: chris Deith www.ngaugeshow.co.uk Show Dates Layout Co-ordinators: Jayne Mansell & 14th & 15th Pauline McKenna @MeridienneEx Meridienne Exhibitions LTD Trade Co-ordinator: Becky McGrath September 2019
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E: [email protected] Digital equipment and Accessories, limited editions, W: www.modelmasters.co.uk W: www.cheltenhammodelcentre.com THE LOCO SHED Stand: 33 W: www.allcomponents.co.uk New and pre-owned model railways modelling & scenic supplies, redutex, archer European Model Railways Electronic components, lighting, tools and scenic 138 Wright Street, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 7HU PLUS DAUGHTERS Stands: 17-19 Stand: 2 T: 01204 669782 Stands: 24+25 items. 8 Britannia Court, Burnt Mills Industrial Estate, Basildon, DM-TOYS/MODELLBAHN UNION GmbH E: [email protected] Essex, SS13 1EU Stands: 57+58 CONTIKITS THE MODEL TREE SHOP PO Box 279, Ryton, Tyne & Wear, NE40 9AF Gutenbergstr. 3a, 59174 Kamen, GERMANY W: www.trainsanddiecast.com 4 David Hume View, Chirnside, T: 01268 726211 ANORACKS ANONYMOUS T: 0191 4133389 T: 0049 2307 240938 Graham Farish, Dapol, Peco, Metcalfe, Oxford Diecast. Scottish Borders, TD11 3SX E: [email protected] 141 Primrose Place, Doncaster, E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Stand: 32 T: 07793011748 W: www.plusdaughters.co.uk South Yorks, DN4 7DQ W: www.contikits.com W: www.modellbahnunion.com E: [email protected] All “N” Gauge for the UK, European, American and Japanese modeller. T: 01302 371623 Model trains, scenic accessories. MALC’S MODELS W: www.themodeltreeshop.co.uk Continental, American and Japanese items by 2-4 Pelham Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 8AR Stand: 23 E: [email protected] Arnold, Atlas, Fleischmann, Kato, Microtrains, Stands: 8+9 Scale model trees W: www.anoraksanonymous.weebly.com T: 07786 896807 REVOLUTION TRAINS Minitrix, Tomix etc. E: [email protected] Stand: 31 British, American and European N Gauge DOUBLEO SCENICS Flat 43 Azure Court, 666 Kingsbury Road, London, NW9 9AW Stand: 43 T: 01844 291128 W: www.malcsmodels.co.uk MOUNT TABOR MODELS E: [email protected] Stands: 68-70 W: www.doubleoscenics.weebly.com New and pre owned items from all leading manufacturers. Scarthin, Cromford, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3QF W: www.revolutiontrains.com E: [email protected] Stands: 13+14 T: 01629 822294 Crowd funded models for the N Gauge modeller. Static Grass Specialists and other scenic items. E: [email protected] Stand: 16 Stand: 49 MECH MODELS Continental Model Railways. Unit 9, Lancaster Park, Newborough Road, Needwood, Stand: 22 SEVERN MODELS Fine Detail GAUGEMASTER Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, DE13 9PD P O Box 785, Broseley, TF7 9FT Gaugemaster House, Ford Road,Arundel, T: 01283 575444 N BRASS LOCOS E: [email protected] West Sussex, BN18 0BN E: [email protected] 32 Crendon Road, Rowley Regis, W: www.severnmodels.com Model Kits T: 01903 884321 W: www.mech-models.com West Midlands, B65 8LE Fine scale kits of buildings, structures & miniature detailing. E: [email protected] British & American model railroad products from all the T: 01384 250478 Stand:48 Stand 48 W: www.gaugemaster.com major manufacturers. E: [email protected] Model Railway goods Stand: 35 W: www.nbrasslocos.co.uk SPC SIMPLIFIED POINT CONTROLS Stands: 10+11 N Gauge loco kits, loco parts and lineside. 100 Robin Hood Road, Coventry, CV3 3AX MEDWAY QUEEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY E: [email protected] GFB DESIGNS Gillingham Pier, Pier Approach Road, Stand: 51 W: www.spc-cov.uk 67 Boddens Hill Road, Stockport, SK4 2DG Gillingham, Kent, ME7 1RX N Gauge Now Alignment tools, test tools, control boxes/panels, electrical T: 07968 057919 T: 01634 575717 40 Windsor Road, Great Harwood, Blackburn, BB6 components for the SPC 2 wire system. E: [email protected] E: [email protected] 7RR Stand: 34 W: www.signatrak.co.uk W: www.medwayqueen.co.uk T: 01254 603965 Sig-naTrak “ACE” DCC controller and related Medway Queen promotional wagons, railway & shipping E: [email protected] STEVE CURRINN BOOKS electronic layout control products. books modelling accessories. Second hand items as W: www.ngaugemodelling.co.uk C/O Traeth Mawr, Porthmadog, LL49 9PP Stand: 54 available N Gauge publications T: 07796 863249 Stands: 63+64 Stand: 42 A variety of books GRAMODELS Stand: 47 18 Lower Tail, Watford, Herts, WD19 5DD MEGAPOINTS CONTROLLERS N –TRAIN/ELECTRA RAILWAY GRAPHICS T: 07833 364274 Waverley, Warrington Road, Northwich, CW8 2LW 5 Abbs Close Flats, Lincoln Square, Hunstanton, TTC DIECAST E: [email protected] T: 07846 409320 Norfolk, PE36 6DN 107 Nottingham Road, Derby, DE1 3QR W: www.gramodels.co.uk E: [email protected] T: 07526 487198 T: 01332 343943 Handmade resin kits for war & peace military W: www.megapointscontrollers.com E: [email protected] E: [email protected] vehicles, buildings, planes, LSWR coaches. Layout control panels and bespoke mimic panel W: www.n-train.net, www.electrarail.co.uk W: www.ttcdiecast.com All information correct at the time of going to print. www.SevernModels.com Compensating bogies. Stand: 28 Kits, Accessories and Vinyl Overlays. Ready to run model railways by Farish & Dapol, track by Peco and Stand: 53 Stand: 26 various scenic products Stands: 37+38 www.ngaugeshow.co.uk Dépôt DE CAMION FORRESTONE MOORSIDE VALLEY RAILWAY
Hatch End A Wenlock T LAYOUTS & DISPLAYS Based on the real location, on the West Coast mainline, Wenlock is a small BR (WR) branch terminus. Built north of London Euston during the 1980s. With the four using easily available items, the layout is intended An Early N Gauge Display R main lines of British Rail under a/c wires and the two to show what can be built using the range of items The display celebrates the beginning of N Gauge Watford lines of the underground makes for plenty of you can buy in your local model shop. The layout has modelling here in the UK covering pioneering suppliers. movement. Look out for the APT -P on a test run. been set in the early 1950s. One section will be devoted to early card and paper Langston Bridge G Westbrook I building kits dating from 1949 to 1970 with examples of assembled models and the added opportunity to see Full length scale model of the railway bridge that A fictitious Midlands town on a busy cross country and discuss how these kits are assembled. connected Hayling Island, near Portsmouth, to the route served by local and long distance passenger mainland. The line was operated with Terrier Tank services. A variety of freight services pass through Annston H steam locomotives until its closure in 1963. also serving the rail terminal on part of the old goods yard site. A connecting branch line terminates in one Annston is a fictitious layout based in Northern Magna Park (Lutterworth N Gauge Group) N England and will be exhibiting blue era British Rail of the stations bay platforms. Magna Park is a fictitious location but represents a stock circa 1975-1085. Being end to end there is Whartson Hall M plenty of shunt/release in both passenger and freight typical BR Midland region station at the end of steam. operation and suitable scenery. It comprises a thorough station branchline terminus Warts and all is a cut down version of Water Orton on and a small goods yard, all fed by a six road fiddle yard. the Birmingham – Nuneaton Derby Line. Depicting the three main lines and local infrastructure, it has been Atlantic Road L Melton Mowbray (North) F We are in South London in the summer of 1998. built as a 12’ x 6’ tail chasher to watch the trains go by. The joint GN & LNWR joint line opened in 1879 and Eurostars are using Waterloo International, EWS, Wickwar – Farnham & District MRC Q Virgin and Freightliner are still using locomotives final closure came in 1964. Trains on the layout inherited from BR and slam door ceps are still in use. represent those that actually ran on the line including Wickwar is a small town on the secondary mainline Visible tract is fine scale ‘Easitrac’, the third rail is excursions to the east coast on summer weekends. between Bristol and Gloucester. It is modelled as it evergreen plastic strip. Little remains of the railway and this model is a was in the early 50’s, the station was closed in 1965 tribute to its former glory. though the line is still busy. It was part of BR (M) and had many express trains passing through. Ballykeale D Middle Elmton U Set in the period 1985-2005 in the fictional valley of Middle Elmton is supposedly a small town in With DB- and OBB-mainline to narrow-gauge DD the River Blackwater Ballykeale (narrow town) resides ‘Fichtelbergbahn’/ N-Club International on a single track mainline in the Irish Midlands. Its Nottinghamshire on a joint ex MR/GCR line from Sheffield to London, a branch leads from the town to The modular layout is designed to be set up in station closed in 1963 but a variety of freight and different shapes and sizes up to hall filling events. passenger trains can be observed at this junction Bolsover. The layout is set c1962 thus allowing both steam and diesel traction to be used. Together with our partner-clubs from England and with its passing loop. Austria we are showing a German DB-mainline Bear Creek C Midland Park Way W passing several interesting scenes e.g. an Austrian Bear Creek is a fictitious slice of Western Canada with The layout shows modern images through the station junction station – starting point of the narrow gauge no specific location. I have tried to capture the main with a fiddle yard at the rear. There will be various classes line “Fichtelbergbahn”. elements of this area of Canada namely the rugged of locos running throughout the weekend including 67, mountain scenery and fir trees! Freight movement is 60, 66, 56, 47, 37, 170, 220 and 390 Pendolino. the focus of rail operations and a simple track plan Moorside Valley Railway J allows for a variety of trains to be run. A fictional heritage railway set in North Yorkshire, SOCIETIES Bescut & Walshed O themed On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway On this latest incarnation of my Blochescwic & station of Grosmont Set in the middle of winter, snow covers the area. Layout features DCC sound, with Diesel and Electric Modellers United (DEMU) HH Walshed, Bescut & Walshed, I am using the phrase DEMU is an independent society catering for all ‘Work in Progress’ literally. So, as you watch the trains many well known locomotives from various railways able to be spotted. modellers of the railways of mainland Britain in the go by you will see me deeply involved in the next Diesel and Electric era regardless of scale/gauge phase of development, just like many club members New Dalby – Research Division/ B affiliations or modelling ability. We aim to promote all around the country do on a Saturday afternoon, Ivanhoe Model Railway Society aspects of this period by exchanging information and weekday evening or whenever they can fit it in. New Dalby depicts a section of a new railway technical ideas in our quarterly magazine ‘UPDate’ and our web Black Diamonds E centre, based at the foot of the Old Dalby test. The forum. We try to cover subjects not normally seen in layout represents a situation where the operation has the mainstream modelling press and aim to be as in A layout designed to show long US trains, powered depth, informative and as accurate as possible. by multiple head end power units running through had to move away from Derby due to the area being typical American scenery. redeveloped, relocating to the form super-pit site at Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society EE Asfordby, Leicestershire. The LWMRS is based a few miles from this exhibition Burshaw North Western V in the village of Knightcote. We model in N, OO & A fictitious station and MPD on a 4 track section of Salverton – the tray layout P The outer part of the tray has a Tomeytec bus system Scalefour, and O gauge. We have a large clubroom the West Coast main line (WCML), in North West allowing layouts to remain up while being worked England, set in the early 1970’s pre- TOPS period. taking people from the museum to their cars. Above the buses the museum has a short N gauge on. We welcome new members or visitors who can Practically all locos have been renumbered and/or contact us via our website www.lwmrs.co.uk. repainted to make them correct for the period. Early demonstration railway line. The former canal basin AC electrics (81 and 85) have been created, along with has been turned into a small transport museum with The N Gauge Society CC a short Nn3 narrow gauge railway. the prototype HST, APT-E and Manchester Pullman. The NGS is a non-profit making organisation, run Dépôt de Camion BB St Elizabeth Street Z by volunteers for the benefit of N Gauge modellers. Modern image layout with station and loco depot We have several thousand members in the UK The lorry depot is set near or in the third of Switzerland and abroad, and actively welcome new members, that has French as the main language. The imaginary and also a working fairground. The layout is DCC with half the locos sound chipped and all the points are whatever their current skill levels. We’ll have our new site is near to the outskirts of a large town on a main RTR Loco on the stand this year. railway line, so allowing running both main line and controlled via ipods and iphones. suburban stock. The time period is now. Swansea Yard and Swanport X The 2mm Scale Association GG The Yard is based on the area around Swansea docks Founded in 1960, the 2mm Scale Association exists to Fellows & Minchin Freight Depot S promote finescale modelling at the scale of 2mm:1ft. Fellows & Minchin is an imaginary freight depot. The with a modified track plan. To the west of the Yard is the terminus for Swanport which serves the town Members gain access to our exclusive component range, name came from my maiden and married names. I am designed to enable simple and accurate construction. the Fellows of Fellows, Morton and Clayton – who in The Shed immediately beyond the station is based on Central Rivers, which is scratch built, and mainly To keep our members in touch we produce a bi-monthly the late 19th and early 20th Century carried goods on magazine and have a healthy internet group. the canal network. The Headquarters being in Tipton, services Voyagers. West Midlands. Titheridge Junction K WorldWide Group of the N Gauge Society FF BR Blue period 1975-1985. Trains passing through An established group dedicated to further the Forrestone AA modelling of railways outside of UK in N scale. Regular Forrestone is a small N Gauge layout based on a fictional the countryside. For further details please visit wwww.bradfordmrc.org.ukk and informative good quality magazines with specialist spur off of a South London main line comprising documents available to Members through website. of 2 platforms and a locomotive depot for a freight Two Seasons Y Magazine subscriptions open to Non-Members by company. The layout is run on DCC and is controlled Two Seasons is a layout that has two different viewing e-mail. Annual convention, exhibition, Website with with iPads and iPhones and includes locos with sound. sides. One depicts a winter scene and the other side reference documents and members layouts. depicts a summer scene. Both sides have working lights adding depth to the layout.
Make a note of 2019 Show Dates 14th & 15th September 2019