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Several events have been held, either as a discrete event, or as part of another. Unless otherwise stated, events have been held at The Engine House.

In July 2012, the third Peep Behind the Scenes included an "exhibition of small privately-owned model railways" upstairs in Kidderminster Railway Museum.[note 1][1].

The Manchester Model Tramway Group displayed their layout at The Engine House from 2015 to 2020. The Group’s fully-operating miniature tramway layout was the brainchild of George Oakley, who first exhibited the tramway in 1949 and who had a keen interest in both the Manchester and Llandudno & Colwyn Bay tramway systems. It is built to a unique 5/8" to 1' gauge, with models hand-built by its members.

Model railway layouts have often been an attraction at the Open House Weekend, both at The Engine House and Diesel Depot.

From 2021 an O Gauge Autumn Model Railway Weekend was held. The September 2021 event arose from the COVID-19 cancellation of the Gauge O Guild’s ‘Guildex’ exhibition, following which a small group of SVR volunteers successfully organised an impromptu ‘O Gauge Get Together’ event. An expanded September 2022 event featured nine layouts, and trade and modellers’ group stands.

In May 2022 a Spring Model Railway Weekend was held, split from the Open House Weekend. 27 layouts were in attendance in scales from 009 to 0. Highlights included Cregwir, a layout based on the Island of Sodor with characters from The Railway Series, including Thomas, Stepney, Bear and Wilbert. Other layouts on display were a ‘have a go’ live steam layout with LNER A4s, Halfpenny Green with engines local to Worcester, and Campbell’s Quarry, where a crane scooped sand up, dropped it into wagons before it was dropped off further up the line.

'Wribbenhall Junction'

Former resident GWR Toplight 'Snake C' Passenger Brake 1150 arrived at Bewdley in May 1981,[2] having been acquired for preservation by Alastair Kerr to house a model railway layout. The N-gauge layout, which was named "Wribbenhall Junction",[3] was fully automatic and had up to nine trains running simultaneously. Over the next 23 years it attracted around 300,000 visitors.

In July 2004 the Birmingham Post ran an article noting the impending closure of the display due to a shortage of volunteers to help Alastair to operate it.[4] Following its closure, GWR 1150 left the SVR a short time later.


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Notes

  1. ↑ The wording of the article in SVR News that spring suggested that 2012 was the first time model railways were included in the Peep Behind the Scenes event.

References

  1. ↑ SVR-Online SVR-Online
  2. ↑ SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
  3. ↑ SVR News 62, Winter 1981-82
  4. ↑ "Bewdley Model Railway Station" Birmingham Post via The Free Library (retrieved 26 September 2022)

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