Exmoor Coast Minehead Model Railway Exhibition - 1st June 2024

For best results/quality, watch in HD. This video was filmed by https://www.railwayscenics.com. The show was held by the Exmoor Coast Railway Modellers at The West Somerset College, Minehead, UK on the 1st June 2024. A great show filled with 16 layouts as well as 5 demonstrators and 13 traders.

The layouts featured in the videos are as follows:
1) Kleine Albula (HOm) - A fictional passing loop station, many of which can be found largely single-track network of the Rhatische Bahn in S.E Switzerland.

2) Great Snoring (4mm/OO) - A fictional branch from Fakenham that was sleepy until the Americans opened a small airbase close to this village, and when they went the traffic declined but still retains a few through passenger workings to Norwich.

3) Keane's Cove (3.5mm/HO) - A sleepy waterfront with a small freight station that brings light goods to and from the cove, including the lighthouse.

4) Bodmin General (2mm/N) - Set in the steam era of mid/late 50s. This is a through working terminus, from Bodmin Road to Wadebridge.

5) Mill End (7mm/O) - A fictional setting in the Midlands or N/East to illustrate an O gauge layout can be compact, providing practicality and enjoyment.

6) Boardesley North (2mm finescale) - This features the route of the Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway to join the London and Birmingham Railway, but the junction was never actually made.

7) Glenfile Whisky (4mm/OO) - A small industrial-based layout, ideal for the smaller rooms that are common in many of today's homes - folds away into a file box.

8) Ewe (4mm/OO) - Inspired by the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, Ewe is a small goods-only terminus in the cameo style championed by the late Iain Rice.

9) Shobrooke Road (4mm/OO) - This shows a supposed preserved station in mid Devon joining the SR & GWR (can also be viewed in our Barnstaple Model Railway Exhibition Video)

10) Woodland (4mm/OO) - Inspired by Martin Brent's layout Arcadia, Woodlands in an actual place in Dorset but had no railway connection. It is a simple terminus with basic facilities.

11) Lower Exbury (4mm/P4) - This represents the terminus of the S. Hants Light Railway in July 1952 & represents a "twig" serving a river wharf and off scene brick works. By 1952 the future was uncertain and only light traffic remains.

12) Avon Mills 1990 (4mm/OO) - Set in the Bristol area arounnd 1990 this features a small suburban station with a wealth of details including figures and wildlife (owls, seagulls, butterflies, hedgehogs, rabbits, rats and foxes). All locos have been renumbered to represent correct prototypes for the area and period.

13) Baytree Road (4mm/OO) - A fictitious location on the Taunton-Barnstaple line close to Morebath. It offers a modest station building, goods shed and signal box, plus a small depot facility which were added when the Barnstaple sheds were closed.

14) Bodmin Moor (7mm/O) - A work in progress to illustrate the owner's style and methods with painting the backscene in their usual medium of oil paints. Each rock in the hill was laid individually, similar to the construction of the stone walls with each stone being laid individually to replicate the normal building of a dry stone wall.

15) Abercynon Fach (4mm/OO) - A WR DCC highly detailed loco depot incorporating sound set between 1955 and 1968.

0:00 - Introduction
0:04 - Kleine Albula (Hom)
1:09 - Great Snoring (4mm/OO)
2:22 - Keanes Cove (3.5mm/HO)
4:23 - Bodmin General (2mm/N)
6:05 - Mill End (7mm/O)
6:27 - Bordesley North (2mm finescale)
7:10 - Glenfile Whisky (4mm/OO)
7:45 - Ewe (4mm/OO)
8:02 - Shobrooke (4mm/OO)
8:42 - Woodlands (4mm/OO)
9:22 - Lower Exbury (4mm/P4)
10:21 - Avon Mills 1990 (4mm/OO)
11:54 - Baytree Road (4mm/OO)
13:20 - Bodmin Moor (7mm/O)
13:33 - Abercynon Fach (4mm/OO)
15:01 - Railwayscenics.com

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