Our 2004 exhibition was held at Collinwood Road United Reformed Church on 19th November 2004.
Stands at the exhibition included:
- The Oxfordshire Railway Society brought their stand. They have many lectures, films and discussions on various railway topics during the year.
- Letterkennny (OOn3) is based on the C.D.J.R.C which was the largest narrow gauge system in the British Isles with 125 miles of 3ft gauge lines. The model represents the Donegal Station as it was in the 1940s and 50s. A full range of rolling stock can be seen from pioneering railcars to the massive 2-6-4T locomotives.
- Hedges Hill Cutting (N) is set in South London suburbia during the early 1990s. It depicts the Network South East period of operation with third rail.
- Chertonwell (N) is the Oxford and District's Model Railway Club's new N Gauge Layout. It is set somewhere in the South Midlands. The timeframe is rather vague but shows a wide variety of club members stock from the humble tank engine to the mighty expresses which will thunder through.
- Hochstein (HO) is a representation of a small terminus station on the edge of a medium sized industrial town which could be found anywhere in Western Germany in the 1960s
- There was a layout with no name which is an American ΒΌ scale, 1.48 layout based on the Spaghetti Western films of the 1960s and 70s. This is railway modelling with a definite western twist
- Thamesmarsh Tramways (4mm) depicts a typical 1930s / 1940s street scene somewhere in the London area with many working 4mm trams
- Kingston Regis (OO9) depicts Edwardian England at its most beautiful. The layout has many handmade buildings and various scenic cameos along the length of the layout.
- West Harptree (3mm) is an actual village in North Somerset; it is the terminus of a fictitious G.W.R. branch line with its junction at Hallatrow on the Bristol and North Somerset Railway. The period is set sometime between the wars when the pace of life was somewhat slower than today.
- Hawkhurst (N) represents the town as it would have been in the 1950s and 60s in the time of British Railways However the engine shed, open on the layout, was closed in 1931
- Zedudrive Loops (Z) is based on the Marklin battery starter set, which consists of an oval of track. Visitors are invited to have a go at being the Fat Controller, Signaller or engine driver.
- Yewdriven Circles (N) uses Kato N Gauge track, it fits on a folding table and consists of two ovals of track. Again come and test your skills.
- East Lynn (S) represents a small town and seaport somewhere in northwest Norfolk about 1903 served by the Great Eastern Railway, with occasional trains from the M & G.N.J.R. All the locomotives, rolling stock, buildings, track etc have been hand built. There are no ready to run models only a few kits available in this scale
- Ste. Mararethe (4mm NG) depicts an Austrian narrow gauge branch line and is returning by popular request.
- Hookwood (EM) depicts a small country station about one mile north east of Oxted as it might have looked if the extension to Oxted had been completed.
- Millanford (4mm) is built to 4mm OO Gauge (16.5 track width) but to fine scale standards. The layout was inspired by years of watching the former Great Western locos, still in the magnificent Green, but now under British Railways.
- The City of Oxford Society of Model Engineers showed off some of their stock which is run locally at Cutteslowe Park.
Here are some pictures of the exhibition
