Scaleforum 2018 Exhibition Guide

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd September 2018

Stoke Mandeville Stadium Stadium Approach Mandeville Road Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP21 9PP Scaleforum 2018

Scaleforum 2018

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd September

Stoke Mandeville Stadium Stadium Approach Mandeville Road Aylesbury Buckinghamshire HP21 9PP

Opening Times Saturday 22nd September 1030–1730 (Advance ticket holders from 1015) Sunday 23rd September 1000–1630 (Advance ticket holders from 0945)

Admission (weekend ticket) Scalefour Society members £8 Guests £10

ELCOME TO SCALEFORUM 2018, the Scalefour Guidance and security W Society’s flagship show. Once again we are pleased to The exhibition help desk will be found next to the Scalefour bring you some of the best in 4mm scale railway modelling, and Society stand close to the main entrance, and this should be you can be assured that as always we have the careful mix of the first point of call for anyone who has any query about the layouts, demonstrators and traders for which Scaleforum has show or where to find a stand. Committee members and the always been renowned. Our spacious venue has everything on organizing team will be wearing name badges. Stewards will one level and there is space to stop and admire the layouts and be found around the exhibition and can be identified by blue even have a chat as well. tabards. If you need help, directions, or have an emergency The organizing team hopes that you will have a very please ask at the help desk or seek the assistance of any enjoyable time at the exhibition. Layouts on display cover steward. Please look after your own coats and bags and report a wide time frame from the pre-Grouping era to the more anything suspicious. contemporary scene, and this year we have a particular focus on developing necessary skills and expertise, showing how Lockers are located in the corridor to the left of the main those new to working to P4 standards have been able to achieve hall entrance. The lockers accept an old pound coin – which success with their model making. These are shown under the is returnable – or a token can be purchased from the stadium ‘Beginners at Work’ banner and are presented by Society reception for £1. members living in Scotland. These specialist demonstrations are complemented by the Area Group demonstration, provided First aid will be provided by stadium staff. In the event that this year by the Area Group where almost all members this is needed, please ask staff at the help desk, or any steward. of the group offer a range of demonstrations including several layouts under construction. A public address system will be in operation and can be used While Scaleforum is organized primarily for the members to relay urgent messages. If you need to get a message to of the Scalefour Society, we welcome the many visitors who someone please ask at the help desk or the Society area. are not members and hope that you will find much of interest. For those who may be interested in joining the Society, the Photography is permitted but please ask layout operators membership stand will be found in the Society area close to the before taking pictures. Please note that the use of tripods is main entrance to the hall. Anyone who joins at the show will get restricted to the official photographers working on behalf of the a reduction on their admission fee. Society and accredited magazine staff only. We would ask that We aim to provide an opportunity for all those who are photographers ensure that their activities do not restrict the interested in model railways to meet, talk, exchange ideas and viewing of layouts by visitors. be impressed by the high standard of modelling on display. To encourage discussion there are no barriers around the layouts Accessibility so please feel free to talk to layout operators and to those who The building was designed for use by athletes who use are demonstrating, since sharing information is what the show wheelchairs or who have other mobility difficulties and is is about. all on one level. There is good provision for toilets for those with disabilities. Wheelchair users, who may not be able to General information see all the layouts clearly, will be admitted at the same rate The show is all on one level which makes it easy to find as for Society members. Carers who assist people who have everything and to move around. All the exhibits will be found registered disabilities will be admitted to the exhibition free of in the main hall with refreshments found in the café just off charge. In order to give care to those with disabilities we would the entrance foyer. For those who want a seat, there are chairs ask that anyone who uses a backpack to carry it, or store it in and tables around the hall and also please feel free to use the one of the stadium’s lockers, in order to avoid the risk of harm viewing gallery which is accessible by a lift and stairs near to to wheelchair users. the main entrance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the stadium building. Name badges Printed name badges are available for any Society member who Places of interest in and around Aylesbury requires one. To obtain a badge please contact the Membership Beyond Scaleforum there is much of railway interest to see Secretary Steve Carter (contact details can be found on page around Aylesbury. At Quainton, about six miles to the west of 2 of Scalefour News) in advance of the exhibition to order your Aylesbury, is the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre located badge and collect it from the membership stand when you at the former Great Central Quainton Road station. HP22 4BY. arrive. The centre has the former LNWR Rowley Road ii Scalefour News No. 209 Left: We look forward to welcoming Scalefour Society members and guests to Scaleforum 2018!

Right: Scalefour Society Deputy Chairman, Paul Willis, discusses getting started in P4.

Below: An overall view of the hall at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. from Oxford as its centerpiece exhibition building and includes the Scaleforum weekend from 1030 to 1530. Located next to much of interest from the GC, Metropolitan and LNE railways. the railway station, the Centre offers lots to those interested See www.bucksrailcentre.org or telephone 01296 655720. in the GWR. The address is Railway Centre. Didcot, At Leighton Buzzard, about 10 miles north of Aylesbury, is . OX11 7NJ and more information is available on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway. Built to 2ft www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk or telephone 01235 817200. gauge, this fascinating line was originally built in 1919 using For places of interest for the rest of the family the following redundant materials from the WW1 Western Front in France, attractions are close to Aylesbury: to move sand from the quarries to the north of the town to the Waddesdon Manor is a large country house in the village standard gauge branch line that went from Leighton Buzzard to of Waddesdon five miles to the west of Aylesbury. Built by Baron Dunstable. The railway has a large collection of steam, diesel Ferdinand de Rothschild between 1880 and 1883, the house is and petrol locomotives and will be operating a passenger- now owned by the National Trust. See www.waddesdon.org.uk carrying service on the Sunday of Scaleforum. Page’s Park or telephone 01296 653226 Station is in Billington Road, Leighton Buzzard. LU7 4TN. See Ascott House is another former Rothschild house, also www.buzzrail.co.uk or telephone 01525 373888. now owned by the National Trust, situated just outside the About 10 miles to the south of Aylesbury will be found the village of Wing which is about 10 miles north of Aylsbury. See Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway. This former www.ascottestate.co.uk or telephone 01296 688242 GWR branch line has its base at Chinnor station, which has Woburn Abbey and Safari Park are at Woburn, about 15 been completely rebuilt by volunteers. Chinnor station is off miles north of Aylesbury. The main house is open from 1100 Station Road, Chinnor, Oxfordshire. OX39 4ER. The railway to 1600 while the Safari Park is open from 1000 to 1700. See runs a passenger service on weekends during September. www.woburn.co.uk/abbey A talking timetable is accessible on 01844 353535, or see www.chinnorrailway.co.uk Acknowledgements A little further away, about 22 miles from Aylesbury, will The organizing team wishes to thank all those Society members be found the well-known Pendon Museum, a must-see place and our guests who have brought layouts or who have provided for all those who appreciate fine modelling. The museum is demonstrations and displays or provided trade stands, and the open at weekends from 1100, and can be found at High St, staff of the Stoke Mandeville Stadium for their support in staging Long Wittenham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX14 4QD. See this event. We would also like to thank the Committee of the www.pendonmuseum.com or telephone 01865 408143. Scalefour Society for their support in the planning leading up Near to Pendon at Didcot is the Great Western Society’s to the event. Particular thanks are due to the Scalefour Society , which will be open on both days of Publications Team, who has designed and produced this guide.

September 2018 iii Scalefour Society Area and Awards Exactoscale Products The Scalefour Society has invited us to relaunch our products at Scaleforum and, while we do not envisage normally having an Exactoscale Products stand at exhibitions, we are very pleased to accept the invitation. We intend to have P4 carriage and wagon wheels, together with a limited range of products. Come along and have a chat about our plans and your requirements. As we will have no facility for processing card payments all sales will have to be on a cash basis only. More information will be available soon on exactoscale.com

Left: Scalefour Society Membership Secretary, Steve Carter, on the Society stand.

Below: Ted Scannell tests his radio-controlled GWR 14xx to destruction on the Devon Riviera Area Group’s oval test track.

Scalefour Society area The York Trophy The Society area is the place where you will find members of The York Trophy is presented in memory of the late Ken York the Committee, so if you are already a member do stop to have and is awarded to the layout which in the opinion of those a chat. We will be pleased to deal with any queries that you attending is the most interesting or gives the most pleasure. might have or suggestions about how the Society is run and This means exactly what it says and does not necessarily mean how we might do things better. If you are not a member, come the best technically or the best-modelled layout. Therefore an and talk to us anyway, find out what the Society is all about incomplete or beginner’s layout has as much chance of winning and consider the benefits of membership. More importantly, if as one which is complete or well established. The trophy will you have any queries about any aspect of railway modelling be awarded to the layout gaining the most votes from visitors this is the first port of call to ask for assistance. If we cannot to Scaleforum; please take time to cast your vote on the form help immediately we will point you in the direction of someone issued to you on arrival. who can. In the Society area you will find our Membership Secretary, Scalefour Stores Steve Carter, who will be pleased to tell you all about Jeremy Suter will be found with the Society’s own Stores membership, deal with queries from existing members and stand in the Society area. On sale will be the essential gauges enrol new members. necessary for accurate modelling to P4 standards, along with materials for building your own trackwork including filing jigs. The Deputy Chairman’s Cup aims to encourage technical For fans of third and fourth rail systems, the Society’s correct innovation in railway modelling. The award will be made to an profile conductor rail and supports will be available together individual or to a company who, in the opinion of the judges, with other essential items for working to P4 standards. has produced an innovation, device, jig or other modelling aid that enhances or improves railway modelling or makes a Test track process easier, quicker or more accurate. Details of the entries Both the Devon Riviera and Nottingham Area Groups’ test for this event will be in the Society area. tracks will be available for members to test their stock or, dare we say, have a bit of fun with some extended running. The The Members’ showcase will be found in the Society area Devon Riviera Area Group’s oval test track includes one circuit and allows members to display their models. Any member of to 00 standards alongside its four P4 circuits. the Society can put models on display. Anyone wishing to enter the competitions or put items in the showcase should contact Terry Bendall who will provide details of what is required.

The Eileen’s Emporium Prize The Eileen’s Emporium Prize is sponsored by Derek Russan of Eileen’s Emporium and will be awarded for the best example of a scratchbuilt model of any type seen at the show. The prize consists of a £50 voucher to be spent at Eileen’s Emporium. Entries may be made at Scaleforum and may be a model on a layout, on a demonstration stand or anywhere else within the show. The model should be essentially scratchbuilt from any materials but the use of bought-in items such as wheels is permitted. The judges will be looking for the item that best exemplifies the Society’s approach to finescale modelling.

The Model Railway Journal Chalice The MRJ Chalice was established in 1986 to mark the Society’s tenth anniversary and is awarded by Cygnet Magazines Ltd. No formal entry is required as the judges, who are appointed by MRJ, will select the winner from anywhere in the show; on a layout, from one of the trade stands, demonstrators or another competition. The judges will be seeking models which show excellence in 4mm scale modelling. iv Scalefour News No. 209 Layouts

Burnham-on-Sea

Presented by the former Avon & Somerset Group of the Scalefour Society and Friends

UTHORIZED BY ACT of 1855, the Burnham Extension of the the mind-numbing application of individual slates. Electrically, A Somerset Central Railway opened to public traffic in May the layout follows conventional cab control practice, and adopts 1858. Located at the end of a line from Highbridge, Burnham the principle that train movements will normally be towards the became the only passenger terminal station actually belonging driver having control. to the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, into which the Somerset Point and signal control has received considerable attention. Central evolved. The prototype incorporated some highly unusual features, Within twelve years of the demise of most of the S&D in including operation of running line points by hand levers on 1966, members of the Scalefour Society’s Avon & Somerset the ground, such points being released from the signal box. Area Group conceived the re-creation of Burnham station as a Additionally, all movements involving the excursion loop were group project to be executed to Protofour standards. From the controlled from a ground frame also released from the box. To outset the Group’s ambition was to exhibit an accurate scale reproduce this on the model we have adopted a mix of electrical replica of the station, with no compression. This resulted in a and mechanical . model having an overall length of about 31 feet, including a Trains are signalled between Highbridge and Burnham using fiddleyard 12 feet long. Probably reflecting Group members’ bell codes unique to the Burnham Extension. personal acquaintance with the S&D from the 1950s onwards, We have always sought to achieve as much authenticity as it was also decided to represent the station and its workings as is reasonably practical in the layout’s operation. The passenger they existed in the period between 1948 and 1954. service aims to reproduce, with appropriate coaches, the The layout was exhibited in an incomplete state on various carriage working diagrams we assume to have been employed. occasions in the 1980s and early 1990s. Thereafter it languished The operating sequence covers a single Saturday, including a in storage until an anniversary exhibition at Edington in January single goods working involving traffic not only into the yard at 2004, after which it was returned to store until its perpetrators, Burnham but also the two private sidings on the Extension that now widely dispersed, resolved in 2015 to complete the scenery respectively served the Apex and the Colthurst and Symons and return it to the exhibition circuit. Brick and Tile Works. Saturday working also supplies a pretext The layout was conceived at a time when many technological for excursion traffic, normally involving a full-day excursion aids to today’s modelmakers were unknown. originating at Poole and a half-day excursion frequently from a Burnham’s construction is very much a reflection of what Western Region starting point. was current wisdom at the time; in that sense we make Motive power to work all these services reflects S&D no apology for its ‘retro’ feel. Trackwork was made from allocations of the early 1950s; Johnson 1P 0-4-4T’s and 3F components supplied by the Scalefour Society using the Brook 0-6-0 engines known on the S&D as Bulldogs being prominent Smith form of construction. Most of the locomotives and rolling performers. An LMS 4F 0-6-0 and Ivatt 2-6-2T are also likely stock are built from the kits available at the time, in a range of to put in appearances. Information about the working currently materials. All buildings are scratchbuilt, primarily from styrene in progress is provided by means of a computer-controlled sheet. In many cases, roof slating has been accomplished by display.

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September 2018 v Cadhay Sidings Presented by Chris Gough

ADHAY SIDINGS is a first attempt at building a layout to P4 plywood sleepers/timbering, built in-situ onto printed templates C standards and is being displayed as part of the ‘Beginners from the excellent Templot software. Turnouts are servo- at Work’ display. Construction of the layout has been described operated but via working point rodding from the signal box on on the Society’s Scalefour Forum under the thread title ‘Finally the running lines. The signals, also servo-operated, are fully made a start in P4’, and was shown under construction at functioning and at the running line facing point, the PW team Scaleforum 2015. The layout now returns in a substantially have helpfully left off the timbers so you can see the working complete format. point lock and treadle. Control uses the MERG CBUS system Cadhay Sidings is set in East Devon during the summer of and DC train controllers. The railway is operated to a working 1930 and is a model based upon the Sidmouth branch of the timetable, using block instruments and bell signals. Southern Railway. It imagines that a couple of rural industries Locomotives are a mix of kits scratchbuilt and adapted RTR, have sprung up on the banks of the River Otter at Cadhay and (almost) all typical of the period. Rolling stock is a mix of kits a new set of sidings has been put in close to the (real) Cadhay and scratchbuilt items with a small number of re-wheeled RTR crossing gates. The crossing has accordingly been upgraded coaches and vans. All the scenery is scratchbuilt and includes with a new signal box and the signalling adjusted to facilitate the factories, Cadhay Farm and the confluence of the rivers the additional traffic movements using second-hand ex-LSWR Otter and Tale. apparatus. Not much is now left of the railway in the vicinity of the Regular local passenger workings run along the single line model but Cadhay Crossing gates are still extant, residing between Sidmouth on the SR West of England mainline (forever closed across the line) in the hedges that now bound and the resorts of Sidmouth and Exmouth (the branch splits south the road just north of the bridge over the rivers Otter and Tale. of Cadhay). Through coaches from Waterloo are also a regular feature along with local and stopping freight services, with shunting services for the sidings generally provided by the SR. Cadhay Sidings is a first attempt at building in 4mm scale to P4 standards and has taken around three years to be exhibition- ready. With the exception of a short test piece of plain track, the layout represents very first attempts at hand-built track and pointwork. It uses Exactoscale LSWR functional chairs with (12ft x 3ft 6in)

vi Scalefour News No. 209 Brunswick Yard Presented by Pete Degnan

RUNSWICK YARD is a layout based on a fictitional location DRS, GBRF and Network Rail examples. The wagons will be a bit B somewhere in the Midlands in the period from around of everything on the network heading through for maintenance 2010 to the present day. The layout is currently still a work- and repair. in-progress and when fully built will have a 3ft fiddleyard at each end. Operation of the layout sees wagons being brought MAINTENANCE in from the viewer’s left-hand side en route to a wagon works SHED located beyond the right-hand exit point. The yard also consists of a number of stabling points for repaired wagons and visiting stock, and is also home to a small maintenance depot. The stock being assembled for the layout roster will consist mainly of (6ft x 1ft)

Tredethy Wharf Presented by Ian Johnson

REDETHY WHARF is Ian’s first layout for over 30 years, built handmade from florist’s wire (coated with Artex), with foliage T to evaluate his ability to work to P4 standards and to create from Heki. Static grass from various suppliers has been used, a model that portrays a location, though slightly fictional, to an along with rubberised horsehair, seamoss and/or postiche for acceptable standard. The inspiration for Tredethy Wharf came bushes and brambles coated with various flock powders from from two photographs, one of a Beattie Well Tank crossing the Green Scene and Tremendus. The bufferstop is scratchbuilt, road at Hellandbridge, and the second of a Beattie Well tank modelled on the one that was at Dunmere Wharf. The cottage shunting wagons at Tresarrett Wharf. and barn are modified Wills kits. Locomotives are converted Ian’s alternative history for this location is that the owner RTR with either a drop-in wheel set or complete new chassis. of Tredethy Manor held a large number of shares in the Bodmin Wagons are a mixture of kit built and converted Bachmann. and Wadebridge Railway during the early years of the line, There is still much to do; along with a few scenic improvements which enabled him to use his influence to have a wharf there is a need to add to the locomotive roster and improve the constructed the other side of the River Camel where the railway wagon fleet to include more that would have been seen on the crossed the road between Tredethy and Helland. The model branch. is set at Hellandbridge but uses modeller’s licence to move the wharf siding from behind the cottage to the other side of the road and, to add a little extra interest, to add a loop like Tresarrett Wharf. All track has been made by staining plywood sleepers, gluing plastic chairs in place and using code 75 steel rail. The trees are (14ft x 2ft)

September 2018 vii Flintfield Presented by Vincent de Bode

LINTFIELD HAS BEEN in existence as a layout for many years F and we are very pleased to welcome Vincent de Bode and his team from the Netherlands to Scaleforum for a repeat visit. The layout is an interesting one with a lot of innovation such as jigsaw scenery, one-piece backdrop, adapted Alex Jackson couplings and bouncing signals. Flintfield represents part of the Great Eastern Railway in the year 1910. It is an imaginary place in Suffolk with the trackplan and most of the buildings being based on those that were located at Eye on the GER branch line from Mellis. Operation is a bit unusual; the goods yard is operated from behind the layout, the operator standing on a platform (the transport crates) peeping over the backdrop, while the passenger loop is operated from the front of the layout. The layout is not operated in a prototypical manner – it should be one engine in steam, but it is nice to have an excuse to show a lot of rolling stock with a lot of shunting. Particular aspects of the layout to be noted are: backdrop in one piece (painted by Len de Vries); no easily-visible baseboard joints (thanks to jigsaw construction); adapted AJ couplings which are made from 0.2mm steel wire to make them as unobtrusive as possible; slow bouncing signals and some other moving things which you can look for.

(18ft x 3ft 6in) Kerrinhead Presented by Gavin Clark

ERRINHEAD REPRESENTS an imaginary, slightly atypical, locos are among those used on the layout. Others including Jim Ksingle track ex-LYR branch line in the mid 1920s, somewhere Roberts, Tim Lewis, Tudor Watkins, David Beale, Jeff George, in the hills that cover the eastern edge of Lancashire and the David Sutton and Simon Bolton have contributed and are among western edge of Yorkshire. Traffic consists of local passenger and members of the operating team along with Gavin’s family. goods services, an occasional excursion or express, and coal and gasworks traffic which arrives and then is taken back out along an imaginary spur to the colliery and gasworks. The baseboards are generally constructed as a jigsaw, with baseboard edges along scenic boundaries. They also needed to be of reasonably small size to facilitate getting them in and out of the railway room at (23ft 6in x 3ft) home. Stone walls have been produced in a number of different ways: embossed plasticard, carved plasticard and carved DAS. All were painted using enamel paints. The layout is controlled entirely using DCC, including all pointwork, signals, uncouplers and the turntable. The control panel uses the Society lever frame, and all control goes along, in this case, the NCE Cab Bus from the panel to the layout. MERG kits have been used for feedback from the layout to the control panel for route indicators. The layout is exhibited with the help of friends in the local Scalefour Society Area Group, also known as the Marches Finescale Group, in Shropshire. Despite the layout being entirely the owner’s responsibility, there have been invaluable suggestions and help from other members of the Group, in particular Geoff Taylor who made some of the buildings, and the late John Bailey, who was influential in getting the trackwork built in time for its first exhibition in 2015, and whose LNWR viii Scalefour News No. 209 Lower Rose Goods Presented by Stephen Howe

HE MODEL is intended to represent a rural goods depot he lives and he has spent some time exploring its overgrown T during the interwar years. The much-loved and much- remains. This valley, like others around the Perranporth area, missed Chacewater to Newquay line was the ‘poor relation’ of has seen considerable mining activity over the years, some of the two railways that went to Newquay. Many would argue that which continued into the early twentieth century. About a mile when Beeching swung his axe in 1962, he cut the wrong route and a half south of Treamble and higher up the valley, lie the and that in many ways the Chacewater line, serving the popular remains of Wheal Hope, a speculative copper and lead mine resorts of St. Agnes and Perranporth and the various halts in begun before 1820 and worked intermittently during the first between (which are now surrounded by numerous holiday half of the nineteenth century. With no commercial success, campsites), would have been the more economically viable of operations ceased sometime in the 1870s. In his scheme of the two branches rather than the steeply-graded route from Par things, Steve imagines that Wheal Hope had lived up to its which now constitutes the modern line to Newquay. name and become a somewhat more prosperous concern than The line had its origins way back in 1849 when Joseph Treffry, was actually the case - so much so that the Cornwall Minerals a local landowner and entrepreneur, built a horse-operated Railway extended its Treamble branch up the valley to service tramway to convey minerals from the important mines of East the mine’s needs. The Treamble branch slumbered on quietly Wheal Rose near St. Newlyn East to the coast at Newquay, then until after World War 2 when it fell into total disuse and was little more than a huddle of cottages perched above the stormy finally dismantled in 1956. North Cornwall coast. The Cornwall Minerals Railway rebuilt the tramways to make them suitable for locomotive traction and an extension LOADING LOCK UPS WEIGH to Treamble and the iron mine at Gravel Hill was opened in DOCK BRIDGE 1874. The Treamble branch closed in 1917 and the rails were lifted and sent to France to help with the war effort but due to an upturn in the mineral market, the line was reopened by the GWR in 1926. The Treamble branch was officially closed on 1 January 1952 although there had been no traffic over it since 8 August 1949. The track was not removed until 1956. YARD Steve has a special interest in the Treamble branch as the OFFICE site of its terminus lies a mile or so down the valley from where (10ft x 1ft 4in)

Bristol Area Group Layouts Paul Townsend will be showing his layout both companies as well as feeding the NG line right of the station show where the tiny canal Dartmouth, under construction and set in the to Plymouth on the South Hams Railway. connects the River Dart to the town ‘Boatfloat’. GWR broad gauge era, featuring mixed gauge Locos and stock track. All of the baseboards will be on show are borrowed from with track laid and mostly working, although Chris Jones and Ashley Paul Townsend’s Dartmouth progress is always slower than Paul would Philips, and Ashley hope. The model is set in the period around (who is building a 1875 and its historical origins lie with earlier model of Box station) Acts of Parliament granting rights to build will be available with the South Hams Railway from Plymouth in Paul for questions all standard gauge and sponsored by the LSWR weekend. The lovely together with the Totnes and Dartmouth Broad model of Olton Bridge, Gauge Railway sponsored by the South Devon awarded the Eileen’s Railway. Due to a recession these railway Emporium Prize for companies failed to raise the capital so their best scratchbuilt construction was delayed by 150 years. model at Scalefour The baulk road turnouts are built on a North a few years laser-cut baulk road fretwork using a new ago as a posthumous method Paul has developed. Some of the credit to Mike Jolly, is plain track has been left exposed to show the now incorporated into construction system but should allow moving the layout. BG trains over the weekend. Some transverse- The curious sleepered mixed gauge track gives access to cutouts in the the carriage sidings and MPD for baseboard to the

September 2018 ix Demonstrations Show and Tell The demonstrations and help desks at Scaleforum are an essential part of what the exhibition is all about. This year we have a special focus on ‘Beginners at Work’, alongside some individual demonstrations on selected topics and a special Area Group demonstration from members of the Bristol Area Group.

Beginners at Work This demonstration will be presented by Society members from Scotland. Members of the Starters Group, a group of individuals who are all starting their own layouts at home for the first time, will be on the stand showing examples of recent work. Most are, or have been, members of either the West Scotland 4mm Group or the East of Scotland 4mm Group and had developed some expertise but required assistance and additional knowledge to broaden what they had already learned in order to be able to build their own layouts. This assistance has been provided through training courses which have been co-ordinated by Allan Goodwillie and which have been described on Above: Ian Terrell, of the East of Scotland 4mm Group, demonstrates the Society’s vee the Scalefour Forum. They have included the basics filing fixture. of building locomotives, making track, baseboard construction and other topics, and the training material can layouts and three of these will be shown in various stages of be found and accessed by any individual or similar start-up construction. group. Founder of the group, Allan Goodwillie, will be present, Two layouts in an early stage of development are from Paul and he will be happy to talk about the informal approach and Bannerman, who favours the rarely-seen Highland Railway the development of layout design and construction within a and will be bringing along a number of projects he is currently reasonable period of time (three to four years). Alongside the working on, and from Paul Hutfield who will be demonstrating stand is member Chris Gough’s layout, illustrating what is being the early stages of his Radstock project and the research and achieved. planning that has already taken place for this small diorama The whole idea of the group is to have lots of individual with bigger aspirations. This includes the importance of breaking layouts, some for home use only, some for exhibition, totally down a project into small achievable milestones, succession dependent on whatever the individual wants for themselves. planning at an early stage and ideas for flexible presentation. The group acts as a facilitator and helpmate for the individuals All being well there may even be some experimentations with involved. Those who may wish to start a similar group in their 3D printing! own area will find some useful advice and encouragement from Other demonstrations as part of the display will include any of the members on the stand as well as a willingness to Gordon Ashton demonstrating Templot, with a chance for discuss the usefulness of this approach and what might be visitors to try things for themselves, Richard Lane with an required for a similar start-up. example of the Group’s GOYA project (you will have to ask him what that stands for) and also including ideas for layout The Area Group Demonstration, presented by the Bristol lighting, and Mark Humphreys who will be demonstrating Area Group a range of different kitchen-table type approaches to solve A demonstration by an Area Group of the Scalefour Society has everyday issues like removing surplus solder without losing been a feature of Scaleforum for the past three years and this detail, forming complex shapes in sheet metal and improving year we are pleased to welcome almost all the members of Hornby Mk1 coaches. Further inspiration for model making will the Bristol Area Group, who will be covering a range of topics. come from Noel Anderson who will be covering train operation Several members of the Group are in the process of constructing and Nigel Newling who will be reviewing the options for

This small floating harbour is locked still today. The next layout is from Robin Gay. terminus (the upper yard). The other two Paul’s bridge crossing will be some form of Having previously completed Rolvenden, Robin phases will feature the lower goods yard and a bascule bridge – ideas for detail are still will have his new layout on display. small country road section. developing. Now close to completion, and with trains After the passenger service ceased, the The small section of backscene displayed in operation, the layout is based on the well small cramped goods yard at the terminus employs techniques shown by Paul Bambrick known Wantage Tramway which served the was kept busy with coal for the gas works, at Missenden; this will eventually extend town of that name in Berkshire, linking it with two local coal merchants and steel for the the full length of the layout. Overhead the GWR station 2½ miles away. It started off Wantage Engineering Company. It has been lighting will use LED strips suspended on as a horse-drawn tramway in 1875 but later claimed that this company fabricated parts for an aluminium extruded beam to minimize became the first tramway in Britain to employ the liner Queen Mary which would have been required supports, and some of this will be in steam traction. taken on the tramway, but this has yet to be place for this show. From the start it carried goods and proven. The model is currently driven by passengers along the edge of country roads. Robin was hoping the scenery and buildings conventional DC with MERG CBUS controlling The passenger service ceased in 1925 when the would be further progressed than they are, but turnouts, etc. It will eventually use DCC, GWR introduced a local connecting bus service, researching and making individual building fully signalled with some of that new-fangled but it continued to operate a goods service, takes a long time. Some of the buildings are interlocking just insisted on by the Board retaining its contract with the GWR until 1945. curently just card mock-ups, waiting to be of Trade in 1875. This broad gauge model In this capacity it handled most of the freight replaced by the final model. All the trackwork is believed to be the first to be exhibited using its own fleet of horse-drawn wagons and though is finished and fully functional, so a where modern electronics supports Victorian hand carts, picking up and delivering around sequence based on the 1923 timetable can engineering and the layout will be capable the town and area from its upper and lower be operated. At least half of the goods train of semi-automatic operation by one person. goods depots. movements you see will be shunting between The automation under development will be Robin plans to model the tramway in three the station yard and the lower goods yard, off- illustrated in the N gauge ‘Pseudo Dartmouth’ phases; on display at Scaleforum is the part- scene and not yet modelled. displayed alongside the P4 version. built first phase, Wantage Mill Street passenger At the lower goods yard there was a siding x Scalefour News No. 209 constructing the coaches required to assemble representative extensive use of the flatbottom track and turnouts developed GWR cross-country train formations of the post-WW2 era. by Society member Colin Craig. Robert will be assisted by David In addition, Martin Goodall will be demonstrating the Furmage and will have a range of suitable locos and rolling ‘Burford’ coupling – an automatic magnetically-operated stock on display in addition to two of his baseboards. coupling which he has developed. The coupling comprises a hook and bar, with an advance uncoupling facility, and is entirely Missenden Abbey Demonstation home-made with the components bent up from wire. The loop The well-known Missenden Abbey Railway Modelling courses is pivoted, while the hook is a fixed component. Advance are much in demand and have a justifiable reputation for uncoupling is an optional extra, which is achieved by means of excellence. As a change from the usual publicity stand, this year an ‘overrider’ located above the hook. In a recent development, we welcome Missenden stalwarts Mick Bonwick and Andrew this overrider has also been hinged, so that advance uncoupling Eaton who will be demonstrating some of the techniques that can take place without having to back away before propelling are included in the courses and showing some of their personal the uncoupled vehicle to the place where it is to be left. Etching model making. In addition to admiring the skills on display the of the loop is a possible future development, but commercial stand will give an opportunity for those who are contemplating production is unlikely to be viable. attending such a course to learn more about what happens. Finally, as part of the Area Group display we are delighted to welcome Gordon & Maggie Gravett who will be showing the scenic techniques they have developed for Pempoul and more recently for Arun Quay. In recent years, the use of static fibres has become an effective way of producing grass, and there will be the opportunity to try this technique out for yourself and see other ways to enhance a scene. Gordon and Maggie will also demonstrate techniques for making lineside buildings using lightweight foamboard and DAS modelling clay, with walls scribed to represent stone patterns.

Plain and simple locomotive chassis construction Paul Gittins Paul has been modelling to P4 standards for many years and will be showing his approach to chassis construction; a pragmatic one which draws on the principles put forward many years ago by Mike Sharman. Paul will be showing how, using readily- available components, an absolute beginner in P4 can complete a running locomotive chassis in a reasonable time.

Mechanical operation of points and signals Howard Bolton Many visitors will have seen Howard’s layout Minories, shown at Scaleforum last year, and will have admired its fully- interlocked lever frame and functional point rodding. Howard will be demonstrating the design and construction of his lever frame and how mechanical interlocking can be included. His impressive 75-lever frame will be on display.

Modelling the Diesel and Electric Era Robert Austin Robert is part way through the construction of a model of Shirebrook in Derbyshire. Until fairly recently the area saw much coal traffic from local pits and there was a large diesel Above: One of the features incorporated into Howard Bolton’s new lever locomotive depot. Robert is seeking to recreate part of this scene frame design is the ability for levers to be fitted and removed after the frame in miniature with an accurate model of the track layout and and locking have been assembled.

for Clark’s Mill, which sent several covered more coal merchants. Along with all the other Ilkley; the first was adjacent to the station but wagons of flour daily to Huntley and Palmer’s requirements of the town the tramway was thus was deemed too dirty and smoky, so in 1892 biscuit factory at Reading. There was also an kept busy with all sorts of goods traffic. Some of this one was built a few hundred yards away. Anglo American (ESSO) oil terminal and a few the trains were up to 15 wagons long. Ilkley was a sub-shed of Manningham (itself Peter Tarver will under Leeds Holbeck) and so in 1957 was be present with his transferred into the North Eastern region of layout Ilkley which is British Railways. The shed closed in 1959 with under construction. the dieselization of local passenger services in The layout is a the area. Stanier 3P 2-6-2s were the mainstay representation of Ilkley in the late 1950s, but an L&Y Radial tank and engine shed (West an Ivatt tank were also based there. Other loco Yorkshire) where the types seen on shed in the late 1950s were MR Midland and North 1P 0-4-4s and Ivatt Class 2s (tender variant). Eastern Railways met. Midland 2Ps, J39s, D49s and G5s were regular Locos from both of visitors earlier in the 1950s. these companies and This layout was inspired by the Scalefour their successors used Society Standard Gauge Workshop, and Bristol the shed, though ex- Area Group’s GOYA initiative, though its size is LNER use ended in larger than either. It started as a quick proving 1954 with the services exercise, as Peter had yet to complete a layout from Ilkley via Otley to in P4, but upon learning that the Midland Leeds being taken over Railway Study Centre in Derby Silk Mill held the by LMR engines. drawings for the shed, things got a bit more The shed was the serious! The layout is quite compressed but is Robin Gay’s Wantage second to be built in hopefully recognizable.

September 2018 xi Guest Layout and Visiting Societies

Leighton Buzzard

Built by the late Peter Denny Presented by Tony Gee

E ARE VERY pleased to welcome Leighton Buzzard, part built in EM gauge. The first Buckingham model was started Wof the late Rev. Peter Denny’s Buckingham branch and in an age when almost nothing was available through the representing the very dawn of finescale modelling. Some trade and even timber for baseboards was rationed, so Peter of the buildings and rolling stock were present at the very developed a policy of making things himself, which he continued first public showing of an EM gauge layout in 1948 and are through his modelling career. Peter Denny did exhibit part of celebrating their 70th anniversary this year. Everything you the layout just once, at the Model Railway Journal show in see was built, mostly from scratch, by the late Rev. Peter 1990. A special fiddleyard was constructed to allow Leighton Denny. Buzzard to be exhibited as a stand-alone layout and it is this Peter Denny started work on his Buckingham Branch in arrangement that is seen at Scaleforum. The layout is now in 1947 and he was still modelling and holding regular operating the care of Tony Gee who will be operating it with a group of sessions into his nineties. Buckingham was one of the very friends. Scaleforum presents a rare opportunity to see this earliest finescale 4mm scale layouts and one of the first to be unique layout on public display.

CATTLEDOCK PAPER MILL FLOUR MILL STATION GAS WORKS

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Visiting societies for conversion to 21mm gauge P4 standards. The main Society We can all learn from others, and so we welcome the following website is www.irrs.ie where details of regular meetings of the societies to Scaleforum: London area can be found.

Diesel and Electric Modellers United The LMS Society Formed in 1998, DEMU is the essential society for anyone The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company was interested in accurate modelling of the diesel and electric formed as a result of the enactment of the 1921 Railways Act, railway scene. The Society’s magazine Update is rapidly which grouped 115 railways into four main line companies. The becoming a valuable resource of essential information to assist grouping took effect from 1st January 1923, when the ‘Big those interested in modelling the contemporary scene or recent Four’ companies came into existence; the other three were the history of the UK rail network. Members of the society will be London and North Eastern Railway, the Southern Railway, and on hand to explain the benefits of membership and you can be the . sure of seeing some high-quality modelling on the stand. Since the formation of the LMS Society in 1963, its members have recorded much of the ‘what’ of the LMS, with numerous Irish Railway Record Society books and articles surveying the locomotives, carriages, NPCS The Society was founded in 1946 to record history and current and wagons, as well as the of station buildings, affairs on railways throughout the whole island of Ireland. goods sheds, signal cabins, and so on. More recently, however, After nearly 70 years we have extensive archives of original we have tried to develop our work and link the ‘what’ with the material on all aspects but until a few years ago this was only ‘why’ – how the Company was managed and by whom – so as available to members visiting the archives in Dublin. A few to develop a picture of a living and working railway. years ago we received most of the contents of the GNR(I) Our efforts are not concerned solely with full-size prototype Dundalk drawing office and began a programme to digitize matters and the written word; the founders of the Society the locomotive drawings to make them more accessible. There were mainly dedicated railway modellers and the society are many more years of work to complete this project but we they established was largely aimed at enabling modellers to already have detailed sets of drawings available for half of portray the LMS more accurately and easily. This aspect has the GNR(I) fleet. We have also started on carriage and wagon never been forgotten and Society members have always been diagrams for the GNR(I) and the GSR, architecture drawings actively involved in helping firms develop kits as well as RTR for various lines, and more modern vehicles from the 1960s. models. We will be showing examples of all of these including some If you think you can actively contribute to our work and available for sale. aims, then please visit our website at www.lmssociety.org.uk Irish modelling will also be represented on the stand with or email [email protected] Alternatively you can examples of excellent RTR models, partly scratchbuilt models write to our Honorary Secretary, Mr Arnold Tortorella, 38 The as well as short-run accurate kits for Irish wagons, all suitable Forge, Braidpark Drive, Giffnock, Glasgow. G46 6LB. xii Scalefour News No. 209 Floorplan

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Trade Stand Finder 247 Developments 6 Isinglass Drawings 3 – etched name and numberplates, detailing components – LNER drawings, 3D-printed kits Alan Gibson (Workshop) 1 Judith Edge Kits 11 – kits, wheels and accessories – etched locomotive kits All Components 23 London Road Models 26 – electrical and electronic components – etched locomotive and rolling stock kits Ambis Engineering 5 Mega Points Controllers 28 – etched kits and components – servo-based control systems Attwood Aggregates 33 Model Railway Developments 13 – ballast, scenic dusts – detailing components, accessories Bill Hudson Transport Books 19 Modelu – Design, Scan, Print 32 – new and second-hand books – 3D scanning, figures, detailing parts Branchlines 22 Mousa Models 30 – etched kits, motors, gearboxes – etched and cast kits, components Brassmasters Scale Models 10 Penbits Model Railways 17 – locomotive, underframe and detailing kits – etched locomotive bogie kits C&L Finescale Track Building Systems 24 Phoenix Precision Paints 20 – trackwork components – rolling stock kits, solders, paints Cheltenham Model Centre 7 Prickley Pear Products 4 – general stockist – etched rolling stock kits Crecy Publishing Ltd 18 Roger Carpenter 31 – railway books and periodicals – railway photographs Dart Castings 29 Roxey Mouldings 25 – detailing components, scenic supplies – etched rolling stock kits, supplies Dave Bradwell 16 Rumney Models 2 – etched locomotive and rolling stock kits – etched locomotive and wagon underframes Eileen’s Emporium 35 South Eastern Finecast 21 – tools, paints, scratchbuilding supplies – locomotive and road vehicle kits, building materials Extreme Etchings/Shawplan 15 Tim Horn Baseboards 14 – detailing components, Laserglaze, paints, transfers – laser-cut baseboards G W Models 8 Wild Swan Books 34 – rivet presses, rolling mills, tools – railway books and periodicals High Level Kits 9 Wizard Models 12 – locomotive kits, drivetrain solutions – rolling stock and signal kits, components, supplies Hobby Holidays 27 – tools, paints, scratchbuilding supplies

September 2018 xiii Traders 247 Developments Dart Castings (Brian and Nadine Mosby) Stand No. 6 (Nigel Hate) Stand No. 29 1 Pen Y Banc, Seven Sisters, Neath. SA10 9AB 17 Hurst Close, Staplehurst, Kent. TN12 0BX Telephone: 01639 701583 Telephone: 01580 892917 Website: www.247developments.co.uk Website: www.dartcastings.com Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Alan Gibson (Workshop) Dave Bradwell (Colin and Pat Seymour) Stand No. 1 Stand No. 16 PO Box 597, Oldham. OL1 9FQ South Muirnich Cottage, Gorthleck, Inverness. IV2 6YP Telephone: 0161 678 1607 Fax: 0161 785 8208 Monday to Telephone: 01456 486377 Friday 0830–1800, Saturday 0900–1300 Website: www.davebradwell.co.uk Website: www.alangibsonworkshop.com Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Eileen’s Emporium All Components (Derek Russan) Stand No. 35 (Tony and Christine George) Stand No. 23 Unit 19.12, Highnam Business Centre, Newent Road, Upper Owlbury House, Upper Owlbury, Montgomery, Gloucester. GL2 8DN Powys. SY15 6SZ Telephone: 01531 828009 Telephone: 01588 638678 Website: www.eileensemporium.com Website: www.allcomponentsltd.co.uk/contacts/ Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Extreme Etchings/Shawplan Ambis Engineering (Brian Hanson) Stand No. 15 (Alan Austin) Stand No. 5 2 Upper Dunstead Road, Langley Mill, Nottinghamshire. The Old House, 80, Westgate Street, Shouldham, Kings NG16 4GR Lynn, Norfolk. PE33 0BH Telephone: 01773 718648 Website: www.ambisengineering.co.uk Website: www.shawplan.com Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Attwood Aggregates G W Models (Jonathan Attwood) Stand No. 33 (George Watts) Stand No. 8 Telephone: 07581 119781 11 Croshaw Close, Lancing, West Sussex. BN15 9LE Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01903 767231

Bill Hudson Transport Books High Level Kits (James Hudson) Stand No. 19 (Chris Gibbon) Stand No. 9 Station Yard, Matlock, Derbyshire. DE4 3NA 14 Tudor Road, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. DH3 3RY Telephone: 01629 580797 Telephone: 0191 388 2112 Website: www.billhudsontransportbooks.co.uk Website: www.highlevelkits.co.uk Email: [email protected] Branchlines (Brian Osborne) Stand No. 22 Hobby Holidays PO Box 4293, Westbury, Wiltshire. BA13 9AA (Phil Atkinson) Stand No. 27 Telephone: 01373 822231 The Spinney, Low Street, Beckingham, Doncaster, South Website: branchlines.blogspot.com Yorkshire. DN10 4PW Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01427 848979 Website: www.hobbyholidays.co.uk Brassmasters Scale Models Email: [email protected] (John Jennison) Stand No. 10 PO Box 1137, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. B76 1FU Isinglass Drawings Website: www.brassmasters.co.uk (Andy Edgson) Stand No. 3 Email: [email protected] 27 Grange Road, Toddington, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. LU5 6BZ Telephone: 07973 768080 C&L Finescale Track Building Systems Website: www.isinglassmodels.co.uk (Phil Reid) Stand No. 24 Email: [email protected] 125 Reaver House, 12 East Street, Epsom, Surrey. KT17 1HX Telephone: 01372 748490 Judith Edge Kits Website: www.finescale.org.uk (Judith and Mike Edge) Stand No. 11 5 Chapel Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. S71 3LE Cheltenham Model Centre Telephone: 01226 722309 (Trevor Morgan) Stand No. 7 Website: www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/calalogues/judithedge.html 39 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. GL50 1DX Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01242 523117 Website: www.cheltenhammodelcentre.co.uk London Road Models Email: [email protected] (John Redrup) Stand No. 26 PO Box 643, Watford, Hertfordshire. WD24 5DZ Crecy Publishing Ltd Website: www.londonroadmodels.co.uk (Kevin Robertson) Stand No. 18 Email: [email protected] 1a Ringway Trading Estate, Shadowmoss Road, Manchester. M22 5LH Mega Points Controllers Telephone: 0161 499 0024 (David Fenton) Stand No. 28 Website: www.crecy.co.uk Waverley, Warrington Road, Cuddington, Cheshire. CW3 2LW Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07846 409520 Website: megapointscontrollers.com Email: [email protected] xiv Scalefour News No. 209 Model Railway Developments Roxey Mouldings (Hubert Carr) Stand No. 13 (Dave Hammersley) Stand No. 25 87 Copthorne Road, Leatherhead, Surrey. KT22 7EE 58 Dudley Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. KT12 2JU Website: www.emardee.org.uk Telephone: 01932 245439 Email: [email protected] Website: www.roxeymouldins.co.uk Email: [email protected] Modelu – Design, Scan, Print (Alan Buttler) Stand No. 32 Rumney Models 3 Tyny Sarn, Llanwnog, Powys. SY17 5JF (Justin Newitt) Stand No. 2 Telephone. 07887 803737 3 Warren Terrace, Trellech, Monmouthshire. NP25 4PH Website: www.modelu3d.co.uk Website: www.rumneymodels.co.uk Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Mousa Models South Eastern Finecast (Bill Bedford) Stand No. 30 (Dave Ellis) Stand No. 21 745 High Road, Leytonstone, London. E11 4QS Glenn House, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, East Sussex. Telephone: 020 8133 7547 RH18 5DZ Website: www.mousa.biz Telephone: 01342 824711 Fax: 01342 822270 Email: [email protected] Website: www.sefinecast.co.uk Email: [email protected] Penbits Model Railways (Ian Penberth) Stand No. 17 Tim Horn Baseboards c/o 12 Fieldside, Long Wittenham, Abingdon. OX14 4QB Stand No. 14 Telephone: 01865 407395 9c Millers Close, Fakenham Industrial Estate, Fakenham, Website: www.penbits.co.uk Norfolk. NR21 8NW Email: [email protected] Website: www.timhorn.co.uk

Phoenix Precision Paints Wild Swan Books (Chris Stapleton) Stand No. 20 (Simon Castens) Stand No. 34 Orwell Court, Wickford, Essex. SS11 8YJ Titfield Thunderbolt, 3a Upper Lambridge Street, Telephone: 01268 730549 Larkhall, Bath. BA1 6RY Website: www.phoenix-paints.co.uk Telephone: 01225 462332 Email: [email protected] Website: www.wildswan.books.co.uk

Prickley Pear Products Wizard Models (Paul Tasker) Stand No. 4 (Andrew Hartshorne) Stand No. 12 Blackdown Mill House, Mill Lane, Punnett’s Town, PO Box 70, Barton upon Humber. DN18 5XY Heathfield, East Sussex. TN21 9HX Telephone: 01652 635885 Mobile: 07788 940312 Telephone: 01732 368911 Website: www.wizardmodels.ltd Email: [email protected] Roger Carpenter Stand No. 31 407 Highters Heath Lane, Hollywood, Birmingham. B14 4TH Telephone: 0121 430 8769

Bring and Buy Stand As Scaleforum approaches, don’t forget to start setting aside commission and pay you the balance. You can keep an eye your surplus items for sale on the Bring and Buy stand which on how things are going and reduce (or raise!) your prices gives members an opportunity to dispose of unwanted items at any time. Please read carefully the notes on the back of and allows others the opportunity to acquire a bargain. The the form relating to the labelling of items, together with the Society retains 10% commission on items sold but there is conditions of sale. All items are deposited with the stand no fee on unsold items. manager entirely at the owner’s risk and the Society accepts Items for sale should be listed on the Bring and Buy no liability regarding the condition or suitability of items sold form. This can be downloaded from the Society’s website at on behalf of a member. www.scalefour.org Two versions of the form are available; Please note the following points about the operation of a PDF version for printing off and completing by hand, or the Bring and Buy stand. Items for sale may be handed in at an Excel spreadsheet which will allow the calculations to any time, but in order to give everyone an equal opportunity be done on a computer. Any member who does not have to buy, selling will not start until 1030 on the Saturday, access to the internet can obtain a form from the Scaleforum and 1000 on the Sunday. This will apply to visitors and all Organizer, Terry Bendall, 123 Plantation Road, Leighton exhibitors. All goods must be paid for at the time of purchase; Buzzard, Bedfordshire. LU7 3HJ. Copies of the form will also the setting up of a running account is not permitted. Books be available at Scaleforum. will be accepted for sale but these must be on railway-related Simply list your items on the form, decide how much you subjects, either the prototype or modelling, and be in good want for them and label the items accordingly. Sales can be condition. of one item or many, and there is no limit to the amount that Members are advised to consider the presentation of can be offered for sale. The seller sets the price but members items to be sold. Items that are well wrapped in plain, closed of the Bring and Buy team will be able offer advice on prices if boxes are likely to attract less interest that those that can required and will lower the price for unsold items if requested be easily seen. Small items may need to be placed in clear to do so by the seller. Bring the items and form to the Bring and plastic bags. Buy stand where they will be booked in and offered for sale. Please note that the stand does not accept magazines, Items can be entered into the Bring and Buy and removed at videos or DVDs for sale, or models in scales other than 4mm any time during the course of the exhibition. scale. At the end of the day, or whenever you wish, we tally up all the items you have sold, deduct the Society’s 10%

September 2018 xv Travel Directions Directions to Scaleforum for some taxi companies in Aylesbury are given below: Stoke Mandeville Stadium is located one and half miles from Falcon Taxis Telephone: 01296 580000 Aylesbury town centre and situated directly behind Stoke Email: [email protected] Mandeville Hospital. Aylesbury Taxi Service Telephone: 01296 350007 Website: www.taxiaylesbury.co.uk By Car Cabs 4 U Telephone: 01296 580506 Website: www.cabs4u.com If travelling by car, follow the standard A & E hospital road signs on the approach roads into Aylesbury. These will lead to the Buses depart from the town centre bus station located under stadium. In addition, there will be special Scaleforum direction the Friars Square shopping centre; five minutes walk from signs posted within the last mile of your journey. the railway station. To access the bus station, exit from the Free parking for Scaleforum visitors is available at Stoke railway station through the booking hall, turn right and walk Mandeville Stadium in marked bays. Although there are up the slope. The bus station is on the other side of the dual signs indicating that parking is limited to three hours, the carriageway road. number plate recognition cameras will be switched off during Scaleforum. We have permission to use one of the car parks Route 9 – Arriva (Saturday only) This service departs from in the adjacent hospital and there will be access to this car Bus Bay 4. Buses depart Aylesbury bus station at 05, 25 and 45 park from the stadium site. Stewards will be on hand to minutes past each hour; journey time 14 minutes. The return direct you. service departs Churchill Avenue at 04, 24 and 44 minutes past each hour until 1644, then at 1703, 1733 & 1759; journey time Trains 17 minutes. Train times given are taken from the Chiltern Railways tinyurl.com/y7tgohvn published timetable. The Scalefour Society cannot accept any responsibility for any delays which may be due to changes in Route 300 – Arriva (Saturday & Sunday) This service departs the published timetable as a result of engineering work, railway from Bus Bay 7. On Saturday buses depart Aylesbury bus operating incidents, or changes made by the train operating station at 05 and 35 minutes past each hour; journey time 7 company. minutes. The return service departs Churchill Avenue/Stadium Approach at 18 and 48 minutes past each hour until 1648, then Saturday at 1722, 1752 & 1817; journey time 11 minutes. The Sunday Travel to/from London Marylebone via Amersham service is hourly with the service departing Aylesbury bus On Saturday trains depart from London Marylebone at 27 and station at 05 minutes past each hour; journey time 7 minutes. 57 minutes past each hour. The journey takes just under one The return service departs Churchill Avenue/Stadium Approach hour. at 41 minutes past the hour; journey time 10 minutes. Return trains from Aylesbury to London Marylebone depart tinyurl.com/y844acsh from Aylesbury at 18 and 48 minutes past each hour. The journey takes just over one hour. Route X30 – Arriva (Saturday only) This service departs from Bus Bay 7. Buses depart Aylesbury bus station at 1015, 1215 Travel to/from London Marylebone via High Wycombe & 1415; journey time 7 minutes. The return service departs On Saturday trains depart from London Marylebone at 13 Churchill Avenue/Stadium Approach at 1158, 1358 & 1558; minutes past each hour. The journey takes just under one hour journey time 11 minutes. ten minutes. tinyurl.com/y844acsh Return trains from Aylesbury to London Marylebone depart from Aylesbury at 29 minutes past each hour – with the Route 165 – Z&S Transport (Saturday only) This service exception of the 1530 service – and the journey takes just over departs from Bus Bay 1. Buses depart Aylesbury bus station one hour five minutes. at 1022, 1222 & 1422; journey time 6 minutes. The return service departs the Barnard Crescent stop at 1035, 1235 & Sunday 1435; journey time 10 minutes. Travel to/from London Marylebone via Amersham tinyurl.com/y846mqju On Sunday trains depart from London Marylebone at 57 minutes past each hour and the journey takes just under one hour. Return trains from Aylesbury to London Marylebone depart from Aylesbury at 18 Aylesbury Ba rna minutes past each hour until 1518, then 1½ miles rd C every half-hour. The journey takes just re s c e over one hour. n Footpath

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Churchill Avenue Taxis can be found immediately outside Bus Princes Risborough Stop 9 the main exit from the railway station Wendover 400 yards through the booking hall. Contact details (A4010) xvi Scalefour News No. 209