CLASSIC narrow gauge locomotives took centre stage at the annual Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham on November 24/25.
Attendance increased by more than 10%, giving the highest visitor numbers at the show for five years, a Warley spokesman said, who added that the boost in numbers was encouraged by the exposure that the hobby has received from Channel 5’s Great Model Railway Challenge.
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On display at the show was Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0PT No. 1172 of 1922 Alpha, which worked at the Ryam Sugar Factory in Bihar, India, and which was repatriated by the award-winning Statfold Barn Railway and restored to working order in 2016.
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It was accompanied in the main hall by the War Office Locomotive Trust’s ex-WDLR Hunslet 4-6-0T No. 1215 of 1916 No. 303.
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Repatriated from Australia in 2005, it made its debut in steam at a private event at the Statfold Barn Railway on July 8, and appeared at the Apedale Valley Light Railway’s Tracks to the Trenches First World War event on July 13-15.
From the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway came Davey Paxman 4-6-2s No. 2 Northern Chief and No. 6 Samson.
At the show, model manufacturer Heljan announced its new 009 scale Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Baldwin 2-4-2T Lyn.
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