Alresford Festival of
Toy Trains
Alresford
Festival of
Toy Trains
Next Show
16th June 2012
Perins Community School,
New Alresford, Hampshire
SO24 9BS
Organiser: Bob Leggett 01962 733475
2011 Show Saturday June 18th
The 19th Alresford Festival of toy Trains will take place on Sat June 18th from 11am -5pm with early entry for the sales Hall at 9am.
Adults £5, Children £3, Family £14 (2+2)
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
with a Southern Theme.
Adam Heely will be running Lionel and John
Hollands with help from Colin Bailey will be doing Clockwork O gauge from
various manufacturers.
Steve Smith and Dave White with a large Tri-ang Big Big layout with all the accessories.
Owen Roberts from the Bowman Circle will be running live steam on a larger layout this year.. Bryan Pentland will as usual have a wonder collection of Tin trains including Monorails.
Trix will be represented by David Holmes with a large layout show the best of pre and post war Trix and a small layout by Clive Parker.
Neil Bowsher with first time at Alresford his Hornby Acho with Jouef and
Ge Ge trains and accessories.
Bob Leggett with an original Triang made TT display layout with accessories
Peter Corish and fellow members from the Brickish Association will be displaying a wonderful Lego layout.
Dave Lyon with his wonderful Minic Motorway layout with Tri-ang Railways.
Mark Hewitt with his neat and colourful Tri-ang OO gauge Transcontinental layout.
Nick Gillman with his Tri-ang Industrial 1960's layout
Ron Macaskie and Derek Smith and friends will be flying the flag for Dublo with a large 2 rail layout.
Brian Kirwin with his pre-grouping Hornby Dublo 3 rail layout.
Clive Gehle with a lovely Lone Star treble O electric and pushalong layout.
A Brio layout will also be available for the very young
A Hornby layout with stock supplied by Hornby will also be
available for the public to operate.
Outside, James Day with Help from Bob Beokhout will be running an 8m x
4m Playmobile garden layout.
David Lord will be with his corporate Scalextric set for visitors to race.
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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