The Southampton Model Railway Society held its 2024 exhibition over the weekend of 27th/28th January at the Barton Peveril College, Eastleigh. I visited on the Sunday, (quieter than the Saturday apparently) and enjoyed videoing, in 4K for the first time, an interesting selection of layouts.
Featured in Part 1:
00:00 Southampton MRS Exhibition 2024 Part 1 Intro.
00:37 Portsea - 12mm gauge (TT3); 3mm scale - Paul Hopkins. Portrayal of Portsmouth Town & Harbour stations and approaches in the post-nationalisation era.
06:30 Hayling Island - 00 gauge; 4mm scale - Richard Pretious, Alton Model Railway Group. Portrayal of the line on Hayling Island in the years before closure.
10:58 Radcliffe Road - 0 gauge; 7mm scale - Southampton MRS. What was once a through station is now a terminus in the late steam/early diesel era. Work in progress.
12:30 Harkness - EM gauge; 4mm scale - Tony Bucknell. Based on a light railway to a small coastal village in Northumberland.
15:40 Foxbury - 0 gauge; 7mm scale - Richard Burkert, SMRS. Based on a fictitious GWR branch line in the 1930s.
17:07 Fence Houses NCB - 00 gauge; 4mm scale - Ian Forsyth. Busy NCB shed in the coalfield area southwest of Sunderland.
22:10 Wimborne - 00 gauge finescale; 4mm scale - Wimborne Railway Society. Representation of the line through Wimborne station in the mid 1950s to early 1960s.
Music: Late Night Train by Vans in Japan (free YouTube download).