RAILEX 2008 Model Railway Exhibition

Stoke Mandeville Stadium, Harvey Road, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP21 9PP
Saturday 24th May 10.30-5.30
Sunday 25th May 10.00-5.00
Adults Ł6.50, Senior Ł5.50, Children Ł4.00
Sunday only - up to 2 children admitted free with an accompanying paying adult or senior.

Download Railex Advance Ticket Form Here, and save on the Entrance Fee!

Railex continues to build on its high quality reputation with our 2007 show having an increase of 7% of visitors over the previous year. This confirms our aim to be one of the major model railway exhibitions in the country. It will be held over the same Whitsun (or late spring) bank holiday weekend.

Don't take our word for it, check what other people have said about last year's show, and also see photos and videos of Railex 2007 by checking out the following links.
Photos R&DMRC, RmWeb.
Forum reports, RmWeb, The Railway Channel,
You Tube Videos: Railex Part 1, Railex Part 2, Railex Part 3, Railex Part 4.

Download Railex 2008 Floor Plan Here!
We have invited around 25 layouts in scales up to and including 7mm Scale (O Gauge). The lists below only contain layouts, trade and demos if attendance has been confirmed in writing.
As in the past three years we have included around 50 specialist manufacturers and traders all dedicated to the support of the model railway hobby. Within the trade selection you can purchase ready to run models, kits, tools, transport books and videos. We also pride ourselves in supporting many of the specialist cottage industries selling there own range of products that you are unlikely to find at many other shows, but are so important to the model railway hobby in general.
Please watch this space over the coming months for the very latest updates.

Why not down load our Railex 2008 Poster to display in your club room or at your exhibition.

Layouts Confirmed to date (February 2008)

7mm Scale

Bucks Hill, O Gauge, Kevin Wilson, Bucks Hill is based on Pontrilas between Hereford and Pontypool in the Welsh marches,the station area is a pretty accurate rendition of the original whilst the two corners are fictitious. The line in this period(mid 1930s) was joint GWR LMS and most of the rolling stock reflects this but expect to see other regions represented.
Camp 93 - Parsons Lumber Company, On30 Gauge, Richard Turner, Prototypical logging operations in Washington State, USA. A DCC with sound - listen to steam whistles and the clanking of pistons as the locomotives navigate the layout.
Penpoll Quay, O Gauge, Luton Model Railway Club, Set in the 1950s the layout depicts a small Cornish quay on the river Fowey and gets its name from Penpoll Creek half way between Fowey and Loatwithiel.
Steamwinders & Sawdust, On3 Gauge, Murray Reid, Set in the Three Chop Highlands in the Sierra-Nevada's, with Shays, Heislers and Climaxes hauling logging trains to from One Cut Mill.
Stoney Middleton, O-16.5 Narrow Gauge, Malcolm Hine, Set in his favourite location of North Derbyshire, the line runs from an interchange with the Midland Railway at Bakewell via Baslow. The layout plan is based on Wantage from Iain Rice's inspirational book Light Railway Layout Designs.

4mm Scale

Dewsbury Midland, OO Gauge, Manchester Model Railway Society, The layout is based on the Midland Railway's West Riding Lines project, proposed so that its Anglo-Scottish expresses could avoid Leeds. This junction station is modelled, as if the project had been completed in British Railway days.
Farkham, OO Gauge, St Johns Mickleover Model Railway Group, A fictitious suburb of the Stoke-on-Trent conurbation in the midlands. The railway running through the area is a secondary line with freight being the main traffic and only occasional passenger services. The aim of the model has been to portray the period 1988-1995.
Fisherton Sarum, 4mm Scale OO Gauge, Graham Muspratt, A Southern Railway MPD layout set between 1946 and 1949 using Salisbury (as it has a family connection) as the inspiration for the layout and the basis for the structures on the layout.
Keyhaven Quay, 4mm Scale OO Gauge, Andy York, The Milford-on-Sea closed in 1965 whilst the line was open for goods traffic to the quay remaining open until 1967 until the closure of the Freshwater branch over on the island. The model will be based on the latter years of this little remembered operation.
London Road, P4 Gauge, John Redrup and Jol Wilkinson, A freelance L&NWR small urban terminus, set in the very early 1900s.
Maindee East Engine Shed, P4 Gauge, Steffan Lewis, Based on a real location in South Wales that was in fact an engineers' yard, with a typical "Loan-Act" shed in a busy 1961.
Ripper Street, 4mm Scale OO Gauge, DEMU Thames Valley Area Group, Based in North London, features 3rd rail electrification into a dark & dingy (and very delapadated) terminus very similar to Broad Street in London in the late 1970s.
The Gresley Beat, OO Gauge, Cliff Parsons, Set a few miles outside of Kings Cross, portraying the LNER in the 1920s and 30s.
Thornbury Hill, OO Gauge, Bruce McIntosh, Represents part of the London to Brighton main line as it leaves the suburbs. The period depicted is cica 1962, allowing electric, steam and diesel hauled passenger and freight trains.
Western Road Diesel Depot, P4 Gauge, Mike Anson, Set in the long hot summer of 1976, the depot's structures are all based on prototypes found on the Western Region at that time.
Widnes Vine Yard, OO Gauge, Wirral Finescale Railway Modellers, The layout is based on the junction at the Widness end of the former St Helens Railway where the controlling signal box Widness 1, know locally as Vine yard, dating from the late 1990s to the contempory scene.

2mm Scale

Bodmin, N Gauge, Ray Slack & Ian Hibbutt, A delightfully modelled and highly accurate model of this GWR Cornish prototype.
Oceanside, N Gauge, High Wycombe & District Model Railway Society, Set on the American far West coast, Oceanside depicts an actual place but a fictitious setting between Los Angeles and San Diego.
Stoney Lane Depot, N Gauge, Grahame Hedges, Set during the late 1980s in urban South London, with a main line on a viaduct and a depot below lossley based on Stewarts Lane.
The Broadway, N Gauge, Alan Lawrence, Set in the period between the two world wars, this Tram layout is meant to be a town somewhere in East Anglia. In fact it is based on Ilford Broadway after the 1923 alterations, with a lot of modellers licence.

Manufacturers and Traders Confirmed to date (April 2008)

247 Developments: Etched name and numberplates, plus detail components and complete kits.
All Components: All the electrical bits that you need to wire your layout.
Bill Bedford Models: Sprung W irons, loco chassis kits and etched components for 4mm scale.
Brilliant-Baseboards: The Modular ‘Open Grid’ Baseboard System for… Model Railways, War Gaming, Slot Car Racing, and Architectural Modelling.
C&L Finescale: Track components and the Carrs range of solders and fluxes.
Comet Models: 4mm Loco and coach kits plus motors, gearboxes and other detail parts.
Dart Casting/MJT: Figures, rolling stock kits, road vehicles, you will find it all here.
D&E Video & DC Kits: Plastic kits for D&E modelling plus railway videos & DVDs.
Dragon Models: Have a range of approximately 35 7mm and 5 4mm etched brass kits, together with a range of some 65 PO wagon transfers, and 30 Pre Group company wagon transfers.
Eileen's Emporium: Tools, sheet metal, rod, tube and any thing else you need for scratch building.
Exactoscale Limited including the P4 Track Company: 4mm & 7mm, wheels, gearboxes and track making equipment.
Finney and Smith: 3mm scale etches for some Great Eastern Railway locomotives.
Freestone Model Accessories: Everything you need for structure modelling.
Golden Arrow Productions: Locos not supplied by the main manufactures.
Gramodels: Suppliers of quality resin Military Vehicles/Equipment from 2mm to 7mm.
G.W. Models: George Watt's wheel press, quartering jigs and rivet tools.
Hobbyview: A selection of transport DVDs.
Ian's Trains: Pre-owned OO & N rolling stock.
Intercity Models: Manufacturers of highly detailed scale rolling stock and accessories of the post steam era.
International Models: Suppliers of Ready to Run in gauges TT, HO, HOe and HOm and Scenic Materials covering all scales.
Judith Edge Kits: 4 & 7mm scale brass kits for industrial diesels.
Kevin Robertson Books: A wide range of books and videos from the specialist transport publishers.
London Road Models: Designing and manufacturing of 4mm locos and rolling stock etched kits.
M.A.R.C. Models: Loco hauled coaches rtr, SR EMU's rtr, coach kit manufacturers.
M.B. Models: Lima and Bachmann RTR ranges.
Model Loco Resprays: Your models repainted in to your chosen livery.
Model Signal Engineering: Etched and cast signalling components in 2mm to 7mm scales.
Modern Structures in Miniature: Modern building kits.
N Brass Locomotives: Brass kits for N gauge.
N-Gauging: Specialist supplier of Quality N Gauge Model Railway Products that bring your layout to life.
Neal's N-Gauging Trains: A selection of American N Scale rolling stock.
No Nonsense Kits: Producer of multiple unit kits and the old MTK range.
Parkside Dundas: Produce an extensive range of rolling stock kits, mostly wagons from the post group period, from 2mm to 7mm.
Peter Cowan: Pre-owned books and magazines.
Plus Daughters: N & Z gauge RTR and detailing parts.
Phoenix Precision Paints: Authentic colours for railways in tinlets and sprays.
Rail Express: A magazine for railway enthusiasts, historians and diesel & electric era modellers.
Railwayania: RTR, spares, transfers and the replica range of coaches.
Roger Carpenter Photographs: Looking for that picture of a station or piece of rolling stock, you should find it here.
Roxey Mouldings: Mostly southern railway kits in 4 & 7mm scales.
Rural Railways: Detail components in OO and N if its made you will find it here.
Skytrex: RTR 'O'gauge wagons, hoppers, vans and BR suburban coaches.
Sunningwell Command Control: Digitrax DCC systems and decoders.
Tools 2000: Comprehensive selection of tools for all your model making.
Totally Trains: Most ranges of RTR locos and rolling stock.
Unit Models: Specialising in high quality, cast resin model railroad accessories, many at pocket money prices, in N, HO and OO gauges.
Wild Swan Publications: Great Western Journal and Model Railway Journal too name two.

Societies Confirmed to date (February 2008)

RMweb: Liveliest railway modelling forum in the UK. Andy will be in attendance all weekend!
DEMU Society: For the modeller of the post-modernisation plan era British railway system.
Scale 7 Group: Modellers work to a scale of 1:43.5, 7mm to 1ft, and use true-to-prototype track and wheel standards.
S Scale Society: S scale is 1:64th full size, or 3/16 inch to 1 foot and is the only modelling scale in the UK not to mix metric and imperial units of measurement.
Scalefour Society: Caters for the needs of railway modellers working to the scale of 4mm to the foot (1:76.2).

Demostrators Confirmed to date (February 2008)

Brian Daniels O Gauge Diesel Modelling
Phillip Hall 4mm Scale Carriages
David Holt Locomotive Kit Construction
Paul Marshall Potter Weathering

Venue & Location

For those who have not visited Railex before the whole exhibition is staged in the modern and fully disabled assessable Stoke Mandeville stadium. All exhibits are contained within a massive 20,000 thousand square foot sports hall (the size of twelve badminton courts); this has the best lighting you are likely to find anywhere.
The floor area within the stadium allows us to bring some very large layouts that other shows would not be able to accommodate; we have also small and medium sized layouts too. We like to pride ourselves that all layouts appearing are the very highest quality and are invited on merit alone We provide wide aisles allowing access to all points of the show avoiding pinch or congestion points; allowing a relaxed atmosphere to view layouts or to chat with traders or demonstrators.

Advance Tickets
We shall again offer advanced tickets providing a discount over the standard door entry prices; details will be available from January 2008.
Tickets can be purchased on the day from the Stadium main reception desk 45 minutes before the opening time, as both the café and seated viewing gallery will be available from this time for those who wish to relax before the show opens.

Refreshments
Refreshments and hot meals are available from the cafe in the foyer, although sandwiches and light snacks can also be purchased from the licensed bar adjacent to the indoor bowls area (accessible via the doors by the gym). The bar has plenty of space and seating and provides a quiet haven away from the main café and exhibition area to relax.

Directions to the Exhibition
Stoke Mandeville Stadium is located just one and a half miles from Aylesbury town centre and situated directly behind Stoke Mandeville Hospital (both the hospital and stadium are within the town of Aylesbury). Click Here to Download

Car Parking
Parking at the William Harding School and the Stadium car park at is free. The main stadium car park becomes extremely busy from opening to lunchtimes on both days. For those arriving after 10am till around midday we strongly suggest you head directly the Railex overspill car park first.
Our car park marshals who will be at both car parks will endeavour to find you a place, so please be patient and follow the instructions they may give you, they may also request you wait for a minute or two while another visitor leaves. Remember it is for your benefit they are there and they are doing the best they can to help you park, last year although very busy we were able to direct everyone to a vacant parking space for all those who followed our marshals instructions.

Directions to William Harding School Car Park - adjacent to Stadium HP21 9TJ
Car parking is at the William Harding School Hazelhurst road/Elm Farm Road just off the A413 Wendover Road. If coming from Aylesbury town centre follow signs for Wendover, Amersham, London A413, do not follow signs for Stoke Mandeville hospital go straight through the one way system and traffic lights past Esso garage on left, around half a mile further turn right in to Elmhurst road following yellow Railex signs. If coming from Wendover direction follow the A413 toward Aylesbury, turn left approx ˝ mile after the Bedgrove Road roundabout. Click here for Map. Once parked the walk to the stadium via the pedestrian tunnel directly to the exhibition is less than a two-minute walk.

Directions to Stadium Car Park HP21 9PP
Follow road signs to Aylesbury then pick up signs for Stoke Mandeville Hospital (these are clearly marked from all major roads). Stoke Mandeville Stadium & Olympic Lodge are sign posted close to the hospital, turn by the Co-op and High Tide fish and chips in to Harvey Road, the stadium is located at the end of this road. If using the stadium car park, please abide the rules and do not park in the disabled parking bays unless you are entitled to. Click here for Map

By Train
If coming by train alight at Aylesbury railway station. Aylesbury is served by a fast and efficient Chiltern Railways service from London Marylebone or change at Princes Risborough if coming from the north via Birmingham Snow Hill or Banbury, or catch a 280 bus from Haddenham station to Aylesbury Bus Station. Taxis are available from the station forecourt to the stadium a single fare should be around Ł3-Ł4, although buses run from the adjacent bus station.

By Bus from Aylesbury Bus Station/Town Centre
Buses from Aylesbury bus station to Railex are available on many frequent bus routes, details below. We recommend the 54 services, as this is the most direct and quickest bus service from Aylesbury Bus station (Town Centre) to Railex and return, but is only available on the Saturday.

Route 54 (Saturdays only) From Aylesbury Bus Station Bay 3
You need to ask for Elm Farm Shops this is less than a five-minute walk from the bus stop under the railway directly into the stadium and Railex, and avoids any part of the hospital grounds completely. This stop is very close to our overspill car park at the William Harding School and is only an eight-minute bus trip from the bus station to Elm Farm bus stop. We will clearly sign post from bus stop to Railex.
Buses depart Aylesbury bus station at 10 minutes and 40 minutes past each hour and arrive at Elm Farm shops at 18 minutes and 48 minutes past each hour. Return service is 25 minutes and 55 minutes past each hour.

Route 300 (Saturday & Sunday) Aylesbury Bus Station Bay 6
Depart Aylesbury bus station at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour and arrive at Stoke Mandeville hospital Entrance 2 at 21 and 51 minutes past each hour. Return service departs Stoke Mandeville hospital Entrance 2 on the hour and half hour.
Sunday service is hourly with the service departing Aylesbury bus station at 10 minutes past each hour. Return service leaves at 38 minutes past the hour.

Route 65 Aylesbury Bus Station Bay 6 (Saturdays only)
This service runs direct to the Stadium/Guttman Road leaving Aylesbury bus station at 10.22, 12.22 & 14,22 arriving at the stadium at 10.28, 12.28 & 14.28
Return times leave the Stadium/Guttman Road at 10.35, 12.35 & 14.35

Route 9 (Saturday & Sunday) Aylesbury Bus Station Bay 4
The most frequent service running every 10-20 minutes Saturday & Sunday, this bus is indirect and round the houses and takes around 20 minutes from the bus station to the main hospital entrance. The walk from the main hospital entrance to Stoke Mandeville Stadium and Railex is a ten-minute walk though the hospital corridors, unfortunately we are unable to sign post though the hospital itself but ask for Entrance 2 or Stoke Mandeville Stadium at reception and staff maybe able to point you in the right direction.

Find out more
Look out for press releases and advertisements on Railex 2008 nearer the time but make sure to note Railex 2008 in your diaries now.
We will endeavour to update this page as often as possible adding new layouts, demos traders and useful information, although if you do require to contact us regarding Railex in the meantime then email our exhibition manager David Lane.

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