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From The third Open House Weekend on 7-8 April 2018 featured over 30 layouts at the Diesel Depot and The Engine House. On 21-22 July [[Kidderminster|Kidderminster station]] hosted a "''HUGE model railway''" running under the canopy. The Vintage Transport Extravaganza on 7-8 August 2021 included a live steam O gauge model railway on the concourse. Also, from 2021 an O Gauge Autumn Model Railway Weekend was held. The September 2021 event arose from the [[2020 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic | 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.
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This page give details of Model Railway and Tramway exhibitions hosted by the SVR, either as a discrete event or as part of another. Model railway layouts have often been an attraction at events such as [[Peep Behind the Scenes]] and the [[Open House Weekend]], with venues including [[Engine House|The Engine House]], [[Kidderminster Railway Museum]] and the [[Diesel Depot]].
It excludes miniature railways such as those at the early preservation era [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1965-1969#1966|Open Weekends]] and the [[Coalyard Miniature Railway]].
==Model railway exhibitions==
*Funicular Railway - entering the model railway circuit in 2017, the arduino-controlled OO-scale funicular railway is being built by a father and son team and is like nothing else attending the event. With thanks to Nicholas Bond.
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.
*16-17 April 2016 (Open House Weekend)
*18-26 February 2017 (half term week)
*17-25 February 2018 (half term week)
*15-23 February 2020 (half term week)<ref>[https://www.svrlive.com/blfeb20 Branch Lines, February 2020]</ref>
=='Wribbenhall Junction'==
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.<ref>[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bewdley+Model+Railway+Station.-a0119729280 "Bewdley Model Railway Station"] Birmingham Post via The Free Library (retrieved 26 September 2022)</ref> Following its closure, GWR 1150 left the SVR a short time later.
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