Railwells 2022
14 Layouts
13 Demonstrations
22 Traders
20 Displays
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 2022 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 13th August, 10.30 to 5.30
Sunday 14th August, 10.00 to 4.30
Admission Adults £8.00,
Accompanied Child (14 and under) Free,
Wheelchair users & Child up to 17yrs £4.00
For further and up to date information – Organiser Chris Challis 01749 938362
Railwells 2022 Including Scalefour Southwest and special sections for The EM Gauge Society and The 2mm Association
It is three years since there was a model railway exhibition in Wells Town Hall, this year’s Railwells show will be held on August 13th and 14th. There has been no show for the last 2 years due to Covid.
This year’s event has turned out to be very special. Out of the 14 layouts attending there will be 2 layouts of stations on the Isle of White. Ventnor West in 0g showing as it would have been just before D Day, and Ventnor Town in P4 built in an old quarry, the carriages running on this layout are exact replicas that would have run on this Island line at the beginning of June 1960.
Also attending will be Iain Rice assisting Mick Simpson showing how to build an incline in 2mm called Pit Hill. Finally, the East Dorset Gang of Four is bringing their layout of Flintcombe in P4, a fictitious branch of the Somerset & Dorset set in Dorset, the gang will include Dickie Paget who is 101 years young.
Updated 08.08.2022
Getting to Scalefour Southwest/Railwells by public transport
There is now a half hourly 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 HSBC bank 150 yards from the Town Hall. For the return journey, it is best to go to the Wells bus station or ask at the exhibition ticket office.
The one exception to the half-hourly schedule is there is no bus on Sunday at 1700 hrs; it skips this time from 1630 to 1730 and then goes on half-hourly. The bus is normally a comfortable double-decker, appropriately in a dark shade of Somerset and Dorset Railway blue.
P4 Ilkley Engine Shed 1958 – Pete Tarver
P4 Great Bardfield – Dave Hawkins
Layouts
2022 Layout list as at 16.05.2022
P4 Flintcombe
East Dorset Gang of 4
A Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway fictitious branch set in 1930’s Dorset
P4 Wantage
Robin Gay
A real country railway that ran along roads and verges
P4 Yard No 2
David Barrett
A London area goods warehouse with coal yard
P4 Ventnor Town
Andy & Mathew Gannon
An accurate model of the Isle of White station built in an old quarry
EM Edge Hill
Paul Segar
LMS and BR shed coded 8A in Liverpool
Og Ventnor West
Kevin & Judy Cartwright
A depiction of the station prior to D-Day with military vehicles in abundance.
Og Arun Quay
Gordan Gravett
Set near Littlehampton West Sussex in the 1950s
Og Newton Heath Works
Mike Baker & Martin Finney
Ball clay industrial layout set in the isle of Purbeck Dorset
Og Hobson’s Brewery
Built by Bob Alderman
A very small brewery layout
3mm Heytbridge Wharf
Michael Corp
A fictitious light railway from the Great Eastern main line built to 14.2mm gauge
Ng South Walton
Simon Challis
New South Wales Government Railways northern single line in the early 1980s
2mm Bath Midland Shed
Jerry & Kim Clifford
Bath Queen Square (Green Park) loco shed set before the 1930s
2mm Modbury
Ian Smith
North Devon. Great Western Railway set in 1906, track is Baulk Road
3/4mm scale Sefton Park
Roger Orpwood
Trackbed drive layout, as there are no motors in the locos. An 8’ x 1’ Midland terminus set in the early 1900s
Traders
Traders booked to attend Railwells 2022
Lynton & Barnstable Railway Sales
Bill Hudson Transport Books *
C&L Finescale Track
Scalefour Society Stores
Taff Vale & Dragon Models
Eileens Emporium
Dart Castings with Monty’s figures and MJT
Aspire Gifts & Models
Branchlines
Wells Railway Fraternity Book Sales, in aid of The Railway Children Charity
Modelu,(scanner will be in operation)
Attwood Aggregates
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway Co Ltd (Midsomer Norton)
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust (Washford)
Refreshments Daniels, Wells. Food all day
Demonstrators
Demonstrations booked to attend Railwells 2022
Modelling in EM
Richard Slyn
How to Solder
Roger Sawyer
Track construction & working in S7
The Scale 7 group
2mm Association Roadshow
Paula Martin
Kit and scratch built wagons
John Chambers
Starting in P4
Gavin Clarke
Modelling the Diesel Era
Terry Bendall
Pit Hill 2mm scale incline
Mick Simpson & Iain Rice
Displays
Displays Etc. booked to attend Railwells 2022
Scalefour membership and promotion Steve Carter
Brownsmyths, Main Street, Beckley, Rye, E Sussex, TN31 6RG. Pn 01797 260192
Somerset & Dorset Railway Joint Railway Co Ltd; info at www.sdrt.co.uk
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust: info at www.sdjr.org
Scale 7 Group membership Sec. Ron Pitts, 30, Wroxall Road, Solihull, W. Mids., B91 1DS. Phone 0121 705 4138
Wells Railway Fraternity; info at www.railwells.com
Display & membership details
EM Gauge Society; info at www.emgs.org.
EM Gauge Society Membership Michael Spearing
Pendon Museum www.pendonmuseum.com
Railway Children Charity
www.railwaychildren.org.uk
Please note that all details of exhibitors and traders are tentative and should be confirmed prior to the date.
The Railwells programme will be available to download a week before the show.
EM Sheepcroft – Stu Davies