Basingstoke The 2017 Show - the Best-in-Show layout

[Dog Star]

I am starting the annual event topic early this year primarily because the local county council has withdrawn support for the community web-sites and hence the Club web-site has a new address and a new format - change brings confusion so I am starting early to cope with queries. So the new web-site address for the show is:-

BNHMRS Annual Exhibition

and for the home page is:-

Basingstoke & N Hants MRS

If you find yourself on the home page then there is a navigation pane available by clicking the three horizontal lines in the top left corner of the home page. This web site is a new construction in 2016 and so there may be some funnies / errors to be addressed - please let me know if you find issues with the web-site.

At this stage the lists of layouts and traders are slightly fluid... updates to the web site shall be included here.

regards, Graham

 

[Dog Star]

Here is a list of those layouts which have confirmed attendance at the 2017 show. I have tried to provide links to web-pages which feature pictures of the layouts... sometimes the owner of a layout provides such a link and where that is not the case then a search of the internet is necessary. Please note that the links included here are provided in good faith and based upon either information provided by an exhibitor or results supplied by a search engine. Neither the Basingstoke & NHMRS nor those acting for the Basingstoke & NHMRS are responsible for the content of any web pages that are accessed using the links in this thread.

In N-gauge...
Barton Hill, EWS/RES Depot
Watercress Line (the Mid-Hants Railway)
Wickwar Country village`

In 2mm-FS...
Camford Jcn, set in the early 1990s
Welton Down, 3rd Rail Electric 1991

In 4mm scale (00 / H0 / EM) ...
Bath Green Park S&D, set in the 1960s
Brighton East Network South East
K Street Yard Urban Freight USA
Calderwood, Lancashire & Yorkshire set in 1910
Lowe Quay
Navigation Road, NE London Industrial

In 4mm scale narrow gauge...
Wantage Tramway 1920's tramway

In 7mm scale (0-gauge / S7 / Narrow gauge) ...
Charmouth Light railway terminus (narrow gauge)
Durham Road MPD Diesel Depot
Frogpool, GWR Branch set in the South West
Porters Lock, GWR through station
Tom's Wharfe, Bygone era (5.5mm )

In Gauge-3...
Warton Road, Preserved country branch


Details of traders to follow...

regards, Graham

 

[Dog Star]

And so to the first layout of the 2017 show to be featured... Wantage Town. Basingstoke Club has had a Wantage Town layout at a previous show although a different layout in a different scale (step forward Phil, @phileakins) - maybe one day we can present yet a third model of this iconic prototype (calling Steve, @Stevesopwith).

I am grateful that I have been provided with a number of photos of this 4mm narrow gauge interpretation of Wantage albeit choosing which images to use (first) is a difficult task. All photos in this post are copyright of and supplied by Richard Holder.

Most modellers may think "Jane"... or even "Shannon" when considering the WTC Rly., few recollect this "tram" engine. A nice portrait of a 4mm engine on 9mm gauge track.






Too clean? probably.
Plastic sheen to the sunflowers? yes.
Obvious building line at ground level? oh dear.

Forget the niggles, enjoy the fun aspect of the last photograph... the modelling is rather good as well.

 

[Dog Star]

To continue with the narrow gauge theme, Charmouth is attending our 2017 Show. Dave Taylor (@dltaylor) brought Bridport to our show a couple of years ago and I asked him to return with Charmouth solely on the basis of the quality of Bridport. I have a surfeit of wonderful images of Charmouth courtesy of Dave so I shall be sharing the pikkies over several posts.

This photo is lovely modelling... no marks for recognising the architectural style of the building (oh, go on, post your answers here).


The same part of Charmouth as in the previous photo, from the other direction.


Many years back the MRJ published a series of articles on the building of Inkerman Street and one of the contributors, might have been Barry Norman, commented about how one could just know that "Paul had been there before", this was a reference to some of the details / views which were being included in the model. When I saw the next photo I was reminded immediately of how I reacted to the MRJ comment - this could well have been one of Paul's visions.

Just enjoy the simplicity..., the ordinary-ness..., of the scene - how often does our modelling include such opportunities?


regards, Graham

 

[Pencarrow]

One of my all time favourite layouts.

 

[Dog Star]

Whilst my main interest in railways lies with the Edwardian era and Churchward the modelling interests of my Son have caused me to take notice of models of more recent railways and Navigation Road is a good example of British railways in the late 1960s / early 1970s... a period when the decline of Victorian influence on the infrastructure and operation was just about complete.

Navigation Road is set in the North-east of London, somewhere in an industrial area. I am not sure how the Cl.33 got there, not worried because this first picture is very pleasant on the eye. The canal appears to be modelled nicely and the house to the right hand corner warrants investigation (this photo is a tease in that respect).

Photo supplied to Basingstoke Club by the layout team, copyright acknowledged.

I have been supplied with several "close-up" observations of details on Navigation Road and this image is a cracker. OK, ignore the coupling, just feel the texture of the rust over the replacement panels. I shall be asking questions of the builder at some point during our show.

Photo by Rob Score of the Basingstoke club.

regards, Graham

 

[Dog Star]

The Basingstoke Club is very aware of the changing age-profile of club members and of those who attend railway exhibitions - and that lots of people talk about what can be done (or, more accurately, that something must be done). This year the Basingstoke Club is taking a step to encourage families and young people to come to our show through a reduction in admission charges.

Last year the admission price for children was £4.00, this year the price is £3.00.

Last year the admission price for families was £14.00, this year the price is £12.00.

regards, Graham

 

[Dog Star]

Another show, another layout from the Peter Clark / Jim McGeachy stable. I think that we have had at least four visits from these guys in the last seven years... always a good exhibit, always worth the floor space.

Unusually for an exhibitor, I have not been given a layout plan and that makes writing captions somewhat interesting. In this photo one may be excused for thinking that the key element is the Duff... my eye was drawn to the pigeon loft although I shall understand if Peter (@FiftyFourA) wishes to offer an alternative name with a North East flavour.


The idea of photo shots across the tracks / down an alley seems to be popular for the layouts this year (see an earlier post for Charmouth).


Allotments / vegetable patches are in numbers for 2017, (see an earlier post for Wantage Road). I like this view and shall be keen to see how the photo compares to the real thing.

 

[Puddlejumper]

Personally I would call it a pigeon cree rather than a loft & it ought to be painted in garish stripes....

 

[FiftyFourA]

Hi Doug ... the 'bait' was for me as I mentioned the correct name to Graham while viewing 'Billingham' at Warley. I agree to the paint scheme as well, although weathering should also be applied (thinking about the pigeons there)

Peter

 

[Dog Star]

I agree to the paint scheme as well, although weathering should also be applied (thinking about the pigeons there)

As you said Peter, black and white stripes with pigeon weathering on all sides... so white all-over maybe.

 

[FiftyFourA]

Sorry mate - I have a genetic aversion to black and white stripes . Now red and white stripes is another matter .

But the weathering properties of pigeons is only bettered by seaguls

 

[Dog Star]

I have a genetic aversion to black and white stripes . Now red and white stripes is another matter .

So Peter (@FiftyFourA), these stripes over those stripes?

Returning to the subject matter of this topic, for this coming week we are going stateside with K Street Yard which represents a small, urban, goods yard. I quote from the Carshalton & Sutton MRC web-site (link at the top of this page):-

"A Milwaukee Road HO switching layout set between the late fifties to early seventies. Fictional location in the north of Spokane, Washington State. Because of competition from the Burlington Northern and Great Northern the mainline to the yard was never built, instead it had to rely on the original steeply graded line which threads its way between the buildings."

and:-

"The buildings are a mixture of Walthers and Bachman kits ... . The buildings have all been modified and not built straight from the box."

I like the way that this photo offers "angles" on the buildings and the trackwork. Is there really an alley-way off of the road on the far side of the crossing?


The crossing features in this photo as well as in the previous image... clearly the yard master is not worried about the freight cars delaying the passage of motors. Another alley behind the buildings?


Both photos courtesy of David Smith. This is a layout that I shall put close to the top of my list of "must view".

 

[Dog Star]

Time to start next week in this week...

The initial version of this post announced, wrongly, that Tucking Mill is a layout at the Basingstoke 2017 Show. Photos and comments have been removed for possible use in the future..

 

[queensquare]

Tucking Mill is indeed just south of Bath but it's not appearing at the Basingstoke show in 2017 so I'm a bit confused as to why it's on this thread.

Jerry

 

[Dog Star]

Tucking Mill is indeed just south of Bath but it's not appearing at the Basingstoke show in 2017 so I'm a bit confused as to why it's on this thread.

Jerry

And so am I - I shall have to seek guidance from he who does the bookings.

 

[queensquare]

And so am I - I shall have to seek guidance from he who does the bookings.

I think we are there in 2018 but I will have to check my diary

Jerry

 

[Heather Kay]

What's that lurking behind the log-loaded wagon? A Pixar Cars fan is in the operating team, I suspect!

 

[Dog Star]

I apologise to Jerry for announcing, wrongly, that Tucking Mill is to be at the 2017 show, there has been a disconnect in communication between members of the Basingstoke Club exhibition committee.

 

[queensquare]

What's that lurking behind the log-loaded wagon? A Pixar Cars fan is in the operating team, I suspect!

Just spotted that, its the little red tow truck from Cars. Fellow 2mm member Simon Grand was helping out and I'm pretty sure it was his son, aged about six at the time, who had the models. there were two or three different ones dotted around the layout and they were to roughly 2mm scale. All good fun!

Jerry