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In August 2013 the SVR held a two-day "Vintage Toy and Train Expo" at The Engine House.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2907 SVR-Online Forum]</ref>.
 
In August 2013 the SVR held a two-day "Vintage Toy and Train Expo" at The Engine House.<ref>[https://forum.svr-online.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2907 SVR-Online Forum]</ref>.
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The first [[Open House Weekend]] on 16-17 April 2016 included 12 layouts at The Engine House and Kidderminster Railway Museum. These were advertised as:
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*Broadwater Junction - based on a coastal or estuary line, trains pass a disused wharf and a junction for a branch into the hills. With thanks to Warley MRC N Gauge Group
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*Steam on the Cambrian - two layouts into one: the Cambrian Coast Railway pre 1965 at Morfa Bach, continuing to Penmaenpool MPD. With thanks to Frank Collins
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*Brewery Lane - a compact 009 narrow gauge layout with a small brewery in an industrial area. With thanks to Ellesmere Model Railway Club
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*Meres & Mosses Light Railway - based upon Ellesmere Wharf, a 009 narrow gauge layout connecting the Wharf, via the Mere to Whixall Moss's peat workings. With thanks to Ellesmere Model Railway Club
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*Arrowmouth - a seaside town on the North West coast featuring the London North Western mainline before electrification between 1963 and 1968. With thanks to The Redditch Model Railway Club
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*Gravelly Lane - fictional narrow gauge locomotive, serving a quarry based in the Midlands. With thanks to Ben Powell
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*East Wheal Dream - possibly part of the Cornwall Mineral Railway in the 1920s, with an emphasis on the typical buildings, each built a stone at a time. With thanks to Keith Thompson
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*[[Bridgnorth in N gauge|Bridgnorth]] - based on our own Station in Bridgnorth, pre-preservation in the 1950s and 1960s. With thanks to Anthony Minchin, West Midlands 'N' Gauge Club
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*[[Arley in N gauge|Arley]] - based on our own Station in Arley, pre-preservation in the 1950s and 1960s. With thanks to Anthony Minchin, West Midlands 'N' Gauge Club
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*[[Victoria Bridge in N gauge|Victoria Bridge]] - the iconic structure on the Severn Valley Railway in miniature. With thanks to Will Jarman
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*[[Bewdley in N gauge|Bewdley]] - based on our own Station in Bewdley in the preservation era, modelled in 'N' gauge. With thanks to TMRG.
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*Llantwy - '009' narrow gauge layout depicting a Welsh country town in the 1930s. With thanks to David Jeanes.
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The '''Manchester Model Tramway Group''' have displayed their layout at The Engine House on a number of occasions between 2015 and 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. Visits have included:
 
The '''Manchester Model Tramway Group''' have displayed their layout at The Engine House on a number of occasions between 2015 and 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. Visits have included:
 
*16-22 February 2015 (half term week)
 
*16-22 February 2015 (half term week)
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*16-17 April 2016 (Open House Weekend)
  
 
Model railway layouts have often been an attraction at the [[Open House Weekend]], both at The Engine House and [[Diesel Depot]].
 
Model railway layouts have often been an attraction at the [[Open House Weekend]], both at The Engine House and [[Diesel Depot]].

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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].

In August 2013 the SVRSevern Valley Railway held a two-day "Vintage Toy and Train Expo" at The Engine House.[2].

The first Open House Weekend on 16-17 April 2016 included 12 layouts at The Engine House and Kidderminster Railway Museum. These were advertised as:

  • Broadwater Junction - based on a coastal or estuary line, trains pass a disused wharf and a junction for a branch into the hills. With thanks to Warley MRC N Gauge Group
  • Steam on the Cambrian - two layouts into one: the Cambrian Coast Railway pre 1965 at Morfa Bach, continuing to Penmaenpool MPDMotive Power Depot. With thanks to Frank Collins
  • Brewery Lane - a compact 009 narrow gauge layout with a small brewery in an industrial area. With thanks to Ellesmere Model Railway Club
  • Meres & Mosses Light Railway - based upon Ellesmere Wharf, a 009 narrow gauge layout connecting the Wharf, via the Mere to Whixall Moss's peat workings. With thanks to Ellesmere Model Railway Club
  • Arrowmouth - a seaside town on the North West coast featuring the London North Western mainline before electrification between 1963 and 1968. With thanks to The Redditch Model Railway Club
  • Gravelly Lane - fictional narrow gauge locomotive, serving a quarry based in the Midlands. With thanks to Ben Powell
  • East Wheal Dream - possibly part of the Cornwall Mineral Railway in the 1920s, with an emphasis on the typical buildings, each built a stone at a time. With thanks to Keith Thompson
  • Bridgnorth - based on our own Station in Bridgnorth, pre-preservation in the 1950s and 1960s. With thanks to Anthony Minchin, West Midlands 'N' Gauge Club
  • Arley - based on our own Station in Arley, pre-preservation in the 1950s and 1960s. With thanks to Anthony Minchin, West Midlands 'N' Gauge Club
  • Victoria Bridge - the iconic structure on the Severn Valley Railway in miniature. With thanks to Will Jarman
  • Bewdley - based on our own Station in Bewdley in the preservation era, modelled in 'N' gauge. With thanks to TMRG.
  • Llantwy - '009' narrow gauge layout depicting a Welsh country town in the 1930s. With thanks to David Jeanes.


The Manchester Model Tramway Group have displayed their layout at The Engine House on a number of occasions between 2015 and 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. Visits have included:

  • 16-22 February 2015 (half term week)
  • 16-17 April 2016 (Open House Weekend)

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 SVRSevern Valley Railway 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 LNERLondon & North Eastern Railway 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,[3] having been acquired for preservation by Alastair Kerr to house a model railway layout. The N-gauge layout, which was named "Wribbenhall Junction",[4] 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.[5] Following its closure, GWRGreat Western Railway 1150 left the SVRSevern Valley Railway a short time later.


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Notes

  1. The wording of the article in SVRSevern Valley Railway 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 Forum
  2. SVR-Online Forum
  3. SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition
  4. SVRSevern Valley Railway News 62, Winter 1981-82
  5. "Bewdley Model Railway Station" Birmingham Post via The Free Library (retrieved 26 September 2022)

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