| Return of the Model Railway Show |
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| Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:32 | |||
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The weekend of Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November sees the welcome
return of the Live Steam Model Railway Show at the Kew Bridge Steam
Museum. The major annual event in the museum's calendar, it will
entertain families and railway enthusiasts alike with scores of model
railway trains literally puffing away under their own steam!
The show will offer visitors, in particular families, an enjoyable
experience with exhibits both old and new on display, inside and
outside the museum, working throughout the weekend. Inside the museum
there will be four model railway layouts, all of which will have real
steam engines running throughout the weekend. All the exhibits are
lavishly displayed with beautiful scenery and buildings. A great family
day out, this years' railway layouts will include:
Visitors can enjoy a ride on the museum's resident steam locomotive,
Cloister, a narrow gauge steam railway, operated by the Hampshire
Narrow Gauge Railway Society or the Ickenham and District Society of
Model Engineers, 5 inch gauge miniature railway, both offering free
rides around the museum grounds.
Visitors, both new and experienced, in railway steam modelling can
indulge their hobby or interest further and be able to discuss tricks
of the trade with resident experts. They will be a variety of stalls
supplying the modeller with all the necessary materials for purchase,
including a wide range of models, kits, drawings, photographs,
specialist books and magazines and other steam related merchandise. As
well as the layouts, the show will have many of the country's leading
railway preservation societies represented and a host of trade
exhibitors selling everything you need for a garden railway. There will
be builders of model locomotives, rolling stock, buildings, even
miniature post and telephone boxes.
Other Activities at the Museum: Free rides on the steam train
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