Railwells 2024
15 - Layouts
7 - Demonstrations
16 - Traders
Download Railwells 2024 Guide here
Parking for both Saturday and Sunday will be available in Palace Fields Charge £4 all day. To find this location just follow the Railwells Parking signs.
Railwells 2024 including Scalefour Southwest
Organised by the Wells Railway Fraternity
The Town Hall,
Market Place,
Wells,
Somerset BA5 2RB
Please note for show parking follow the Railwells parking signs as you enter the centre of Wells, Somerset.
Saturday 3rd August, 10.30 to 5.00
Sunday 4th August, 10.00 to 4.00
Admission Adults £10.00
Accompanied Child (14 and under) Free
Wheelchair-bound Free
Children up to 17yrs £5.00
For further and up-to-date information – Organiser Chris Challis 01308 897539.
Railwells 2024 Including Scalefour Southwest and special sections for The EM gauge Society and The 2mm Association
The Scalefour, EM Gauge and 2mm society membership secretary will be in attendance over the weekend for any questions you might have.
Updated 29.07.2024
Layouts
2024 Layout list
P4 Cheddar
Andrew Ullyott
This station opened in 1869 for the part built Cheddar Valley Line
P4 Leysdown
Adrin Colenutt
The Sheppey Light Railway in the early 1930s
P4 Elcot Road
Terry and Simon Bendall
Modern Image Layout
P4 Wells Tucker Street Goods
Chris Challis
The terminus of the Cheddar Valley Line opened in 1870
S4 Buntingham
Susan Stoodley
Built by by Susan’s dad Ray Hammond to the exact scale of 4mm to the foot
PZ Zobland
Brian Harrup
Proto Z on an ironing board
Og Stodmarsh
Kevin Cartwright
Showing what can happen in the lead up to D-Day with Dads Army on hand
S Scale Blakey Rigg
Paul Green
The NER Rosedale branch on the North Yorkshire Moors
EM Dinas Mawddwy
Andy Cundick
The Mawddwy Railway Merionethshire operated by the Cambrian Railway in 1913
2mm Burnham on Sea
John Perritt
Originally built by Denis Brownly this station was the last station on the Bristol Channel by the Somerset and Dorset Railway
OO Lamsdown
Rob Gunstone>
A fictitious light railway in Kent now operated by the SE&CR pre WW1
2mm Pit Hill
Mick Simpson
A self acting incline built by the late Iain Rice and Mick Simpson
Ng Moors View
Paul Holwill
Modern image snow scene
3/4mm to the Foot, 3.53 mm gauge Sefton Park
Roger Orpwood
The Locos are so small there are no motors in them, the layout is worked by magic.
4mm Slades Green display
Maurice Still
A London Underground display, you see the station by looking in either end
Layout list updated 19.06.2024
Traders
Bill Hudson Transport Books
C&L Finescale Track
Scalefour Society Stores
Dart Castings with Monty’s figures and MJT
Taff Vale Models
Branchlines
Railway Children’s Charity book sales
Wells Railway Fraternity Book Sales, in aid of The Railway Children Charity
Attwood Aggregates attwood.aggregates@yahoo.com phone 07740381999
Roxey Mouldings
Peco
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust
Aspire Gfts and Models
Old Moorwood. Run By Steve Ehrlicher selling railway books, photos, ephemera and artifacts, in aid of Vintage Coach restoration at East Somerset Rly, Cranmore.
Blacksmith Models
Model Stock (ABS) A new name for ABS 4mm kits
The nearest cash machine is at Santander Bank in Market Place on the far side of the Town Square
Refreshments The Wookey Hub, Food all day
Updated 19.06.2024
Demonstrations
Modelling in EM
Andrew Ullyott
How to solder
Roger Sawyer
Track construction and working in S7
The Scale 7 group
2mm Association Roadshow
Paula Martin
Kit and scratch built wagons in 4mm
John Chambers
Starting in P4
Gavin Clarke
Modelling in Gauge 1
Simon Castens
Updated 19.06.2024
Please note that all details of exhibitors and traders are tentative and should be confirmed prior to the date.
‘Getting to Railwells/Scalefour Southwest by public transport
There is now a bus service to Wells from Bristol. The bus is the Mendip Xplorer service 376, marked from Bristol to Wells, Glastonbury and Street. For those travelling by train, the bus stop at Bristol Temple Meads is at the bottom of the station approach on the right. In Wells, the bus stops at ‘The former HSBC bank building at the end of Sadler Street 150 yards from the Town Hall. It is best to go to the Wells bus station or ask at the exhibition ticket office for the return journey.
An up-to-date timetable can be found on the www.firstbus.co.uk website, choosing ‘Timetables’ from the menu, ‘Bristol, Bath and the West’, and then ‘376’ for the required route and choosing ‘Find Timetables’.