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Title:
Model Railway Exhibition
When:
Saturday 10 March 2012 - Monday 26 March 2012  11.00 - 16.00
Category:
Community Events

Description

Model Railway Exhibition

By Wingfield Railway Group

Location: Cromford Mill Yard

FREE ENTRY

See the history of model railways with enthusiast David Down. 

Wingfield Junction: A fictitious '00' gauge layout set in the North Midlands in the 1960's operating steam and diesel trains that may well have been seen in the area.  The junction station provides connections from the busy main line to local towns, freight access to a nearby steelworks and excursion trains to the local preserved railway.

Kirkby-in-Furness: Set around 1900-1920 in north Cumbria the layout, in '00' Finescale, sees trains from the Furness Railway, the Midland Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway prior to all being absorbed into the LMS in 1923.

(Closed Mondays 12th and 19th March).

 

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