Barry and Penarth Model Railway Club

Open Day - Saturday 15th November, 2003

  • The Club's next Open Day will take place on Saturday 15th November 2003 in the Cadoxton Conservative Club, Vere Street, Cadoxton, Barry.

  • The exhibition will be open from 11.30am until 5.00pm. Admission £1.50, children and OAPs 75p.

  • All four of the club's fixed layouts will be on show and fully working. This is the one chance in the year to see them all alive and working. There will be at least six other layouts from N-gauge to O-gauge, including four personal layouts of club members. We hope the test track will be available again this year, but intend to show more members layouts, including the award winning Devil's Creek, Brian Scoulding's latest Canadian diorama - Walker's Ridge and Cwmderi, which didn't make it to the Penarth show at the last minute. Helstow, built many years ago by Brian S., is scheduled to make a re-appearance.

  • The event will be supported by local traders and preservation groups. The club's special edition Dapol wagons will also be on sale. Refreshments will be available.

    The exhibition will be held on the first and second floors of the Con. Club, which has no lift access. This may cause a problem for some members of the public.


    The following club and members layouts are scheduled to appear:

  • Horton General, the club's main OO-gauge British outline layout. This is now fully functional, so that trains will run from the lower level bay platform right through to the branch terminous on the uppermost level with about three circuits in between. Likewise, the engine shed should be completely operational. Our younger members have now fully linked from their room onto the top level branch line and so will operate a DMU shuttle to the bay platforms of Holton Junction (Upper).

  • Tafsil, the club's main O-gauge layout, whereby the fixed boards (four road engine shed and curved viaduct sections) in three rooms are linked to the portable station boards operating as a country terminous. Both walls behind the engine shed have now been painted. (Not too many people remember the coal pit alongside Chepstow Castle - artistic licence!!!). The chance to view this alone is well worth the entrance fee. A wide variety of GWR steam will be in operation, including many locos taken over from the valleys railways at grouping. Look out for some migrants from other railways!!!

  • Cadoc Bluffs, an American HO-scale layout depicting an imaginary line in the foothills of the Rockies. Both steam and diesel hauled trains will run, probably with one or two old-timers as well. The back scene round three sides of the room is really impressive - thanks Dave!!!

  • Machynlleth, an N-gauge layout with this important Cambrian Railways junction station as it was in the 1930's. There is even a trace of the narrow gauge Corris Railway to be seen at the front of the layout. The room has some photos of the modern day station taken in Summer 2000. Surprisingly quite a lot of the trackplan and buildings still remains.

  • The Quarry layout, one of the club's OO9 narrow gauge layouts. Quarry locos work the upper layers with a selection of mineral wagons. Passenger and freight workings share the lower section.

  • White River Pass. Another American layout, this time in N-gauge. This was donated to the club by a member, but an extension board has been completed and will be on show in the clubrooms for the first time. This completely extends the operating possibilities.

  • Devil's Creek. An oldtime american layout in HO-scale, featuring a passing station on a single track line in the foothills of the Rockies. There are extensive freight facilities and a spur into a mine. Spend some time just looking for the many cameos on this beautifully modelled award winning layout.

  • Walker's Ridge. A working diorama of a British Columbian logging community built in memory of the late Capt. Bill Walker. Lots of exquisite detail which is to be expected of Brian Scoulding

  • Cwmderi: A make-believe 4mm/00 gauge layout from our father and son members, Gwynne and John. The layout features a branch line terminous, with an small quarry and an adandoned coal mine. The layout is set in the early 1960's and makes its first appearance outside its owners' garage.

  • Helstow . A portable OO gauge layout depicting an imaginary sea-side terminous in the West Country, where the Southern and Great Western Railways meet. This layout, under new ownership, hasn't been seen in the clubrooms for many years.


  • For further details contact me david@murky.net