2012 Swindon Railway Festival
The Big GWR Event of the Year
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
Twenty of the country's finest GWR and BR (w) layouts are heading to the Museum for the 2012 Hornby Magazine sponsored Swindon Railway Festival on 15 and 16 September. Now in its eleventh year, the Festival brings together the country's finests layouts, demonstrators and traders.
The Museum welcomes back the impressive displays from model giants Hornby and Bachmann, and celebrity modeller and pop music legend Pete Waterman will be at the show.
We look forward to seeing you at the home of the GWR this September.
Meanwhile, here are details of this year's Festival.
Swindon Railway Festival 2012 Layouts
O Gauge
- Lelant Saltings (Historical Broad Gauge Layout)
- Bleadon (Col. Stephens Light Railway)
- Pystyll-Graig-Ddu (Taff Vale)
- Western View (Great Western Engine Shed and Station)
- Aber Emyln (Welsh Valleys Railway)
- Test Track (Bring your models to run on this layout)
- Graig Wen **NEW LAYOUT** (Great Western Collery Screens)
- Working 'O' Gauge Cranes
- Nancleare Harbour (Narrow Gauge)
00 Gauge / EM / Scale 4
- Hungerford (Scale model of Hungerford Station GWR)
- Wales Rails Rain and Steam **NEW LAYOUT** (Diesel era)
- Yardley
- Bluchel Street (Diesel era)
- Denroyd (London North Western)
- Llawryglyn (Cambrian)
- Corris 1930 (Narrow Gauge)
S Scale
- Grove Ferry Junction (Col. Stephens Light Railway)
2mm Fine Scale
- Union Pass (American Modern Railways)
- Bodmin (Great Western Station)
- Tucking Mill **NEW LAYOUT** (2mm layout)
Displays
- Traction Engines
- Bill Slaymaker (Display of Rail Motors)
- Mike Little (M&SWJ, Southern + Others Models)
- Dennis Feltham (Display of mainline running steam locos)
Swindon Railway Festival 2012 Demonstrations
- Paul Jones - Wagon Kit Building
- Waverney Group - Scratch Building + DCC Hand Soldering
- Chris Baston - Transfers and Kit Building
- Warren Shepherd - Boiler Rolling
- Andy Duncan - White Metal Soldering
- Mike Gough - G Scale Demos
- Chris Dunn - 4mm Loco Construction
- Dave Walker / Liz Marsden - Large Scale Modelling + Painting & Lining
- John Coulter - S Scale Modelling
- Roger Manton - Weathering
- Bob Brown - 3mm Scale Modelling
- Richard Brown - Scratch Building 7mm Wagons
- Derek Mundy - Signalling
- Dave Baverstock - N Gauge Modelling
- Fred Lewis - 7mm Modelling
- John Taylor - Patterns for Panto-graph Milling
- David and Sylvia White - (Slaters Plastikard) Inside Motion Crank Axles
- Brian Tole - 7mm Building
2012 Festival Traders and Societies
Hornby Magazine www.hornbymagazine.com
Picture Pride Displays www.picturepridedisplays.co.uk
Squires Model & Craft Tools www.squirestools.com
Just Like The Real Thing www.justliketherealthing.co.uk
Hornby Hobbies www.hornby.com
Bachmann Europe www.bachmann.co.uk
Oakwood Press and Visuals www.oakwoodpress.co.uk
Kernow Model Rail Centre www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com
The Signal Box www.thesignalbox.co.uk
Severn Valley Railway www.svr.co.uk
6024 Preservation Society www.6024.com
6880 Betton Grange Society www.6880.co.uk
West Somerset Railway www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk
Didcot Railway Centre www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk
Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway www.gwsr.com
Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways www.festrail.co.uk
Rodbourne Community History Group www.rodbournehistory.org
Friends of the Swindon Railway Museum www.fosrm.org.uk