Alresford Festival of
Toy Trains
Alresford
Festival of
Toy Trains
Perins Community School,
New Alresford, Hampshire
SO24 9BS
Organiser: Bob Leggett 01962 733475
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2010 Show Saturday June 26th
The 18th Alresford Festival of toy Trains will take place on Sat June
26th from 11am -5pm with early entry for the sales Hall at 9am.
The show as usual will feature 20 layouts and include all the main makes
.
Howard Starkeddle and friends from the HRCA will be running a Large
Hornby O Gauge layout with stock also from recent manufactures such as Ace and
Darstaad.
Adam Heely will be running a French Hornby O Gauge layout and John
Hollands with help from Colin Bailey will be doing Clockwork O gauge from
various manufacturers.
Ashley Barton will be bringing Lima O gauge to the show for the first
time and John Dickens and Owen Roberts from the Bowman Circle will be running
live steam on a larger layout this year.. Bryan Pentland will as usual have a
collection of vintage American O gauge on low and high level including rare
Monorails.
Trix will be represented by David Holmes with a large layout show the
best of pre and post war Trix. A small Trix layout will also be on display
amongst the sales tables.
Peter Corish and fellow members from the Brickish Association will be
displaying their largest ever Lego layout at Alresford. This is a magnificent
layout which will take nine people to build.
Bob Boekhout from the Netherlands and Malcolm Pugh will also be expanding this year and probably displaying the largest Triang Series three layout for many years.
Dave and Karen White with help from Steve Smith will be setting up a 12' x 8' Triang Super 4 layout with Minic Motorway, Model Land and Arkitex Roy Savage has rebuilt his TT Layout and this will be it's first time out .
Nick Gillman and Ray Jones will have a 1950-60 layout with coal loading onto Tri-ang Ships Gary MacWilliams and his family will have their ever expanding Tomy layout with at least 10 trains running at once!
Ron Macaskie and Deker Smith and friends will be flying the flag for
Dublo with two layouts, one 3rail and the other 2 rail with Wrenn and the usual
long trains.
We will also have a demonstration of T gauge which is even smaller than
Z!
A Brio layout will also be available for the very young
Chris Cheney from Chichester Lions will be running Dublo 3 rail for the
public to Operate. A Hornby layout with stock supplied by Hornby will also be
available for the public to operate.
Outside Richard Pretious will be operating LGB
In addition to the layouts over 80 sales tables will be selling old and
new toy trains. A blues band 'WATCH OUT' will be playing during the afternoon,
Alresford Rotary will be running a BBQ and Four Marks Scouts are running the
refreshments. Real steam trains will be running to a full timetable on the
Watercress Line
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The show is the largest of its kind in southern England and aims to raise money for groups in and around Alresford. The 2009 show raised over £1,200 for charities in the area. As you will be able to see from the following pages, there are many superb working Vintage Toy Train layouts on show, of all makes and sizes, making this a treat for visitors both young and old. |
Please have a look at our other venture the:
Alresford Toy
Museum
(for a Day)
Show Details and Local Information
Dave McCarthy and Bob Leggett
2006 Show
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