2024
De Havilland Model Railway Society have appeared at the following-
Welwyn Garden City 20th April with Mosquito Falls, Moth Eaton, Ludwick Shed, Bobsden, Jupiter Depot, Havil Junction and Shabbey Road
Beccles on 1st June with Mosquito Falls
Bramfield on 22nd June with Ludwick Shed, Moth Eaton, Middleton, Bobsden and Shabbey Road
Mill Green Museum on 20th July with Moth Eaton, Mosquito Falls, Bobsden and Shabbey Road
Shoeburyness on 3rd and 4th August with Moth Eaton.
We will also be appearing at the St Albans Model Engineering Show on 28 September with Ludwick Shed and Shabbey Road, also Chelmsford on 19 Oct with Bobsden.
2023
So far this year, De Havilland Model Railway Society have appeared at the Mill Green Museum and held their annual exhibition at the Ludwick Way Merthodist Church. See home page for the gallery link. We also organised a show in the Bramfield Village Hall, Bramfield and ran Moth Eaton and Shabbey Road at the St Albans Model Engineering Show.
2022
LAYOUT DONATION
Peter Cabon has recently donated
two very nice layouts constructed by his late brother David. David was a
lifelong railway enthusiast and skilled model maker.
The layouts, one being an OO gauge and the other a two
part N gauge, were built by David in his flat in Welwyn Garden City. The task of
removing them was complicated by the size of the layouts, neither having been
built with removal in mind. A certain amount of deconstruction was required to
negotiate the tight bends in the hallway.
The OO layout (Munlochy Town) has now been given to one
of our younger members, who now has it ensconced in his bedroom, much to his
mother’s delight!
The N gauge which is basically two individual layouts
connected by a shared fiddle yard (Dale Road and Daleside) have now been adopted
as the societies N gauge layout.
The larger part, Dale Road was too large to fit through
the club doors, so the decision was made to cut it in half and re-join it using
catches. This has now been carried out and modifications are now being made to
make it more suitable for exhibitions.
The second part, Daleside will be developed as a
separate layout.
Our many thanks to Peter Cabon and family for the
donation and we hope that we will be able to keep his brother’s fine work alive
for many years to come.
Exhibition 2022
After 2 years of disappointment due to the pandemic, our 2022 exhibition was a great success.
Thanks to the organisation skills of our exhibition manager Phil Bicknell all went to plan despite a layout dropping out at the last moment.
Fourteen layouts were on display, Albanrail, Nonsuch, Kinross, Crocklemouth, Little Salkeld, Rixworth Green, Harvey's Wharf, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Swchwungischerplatz, Shabbey Road, Frindsbury Hill, Moth Eton and Havil Junction. We also had four trade stands, Joe Lock, Kevin's Trains, Keith's Model Railways and Ron's Totem Signs. The Railway Correspondence Society, The Locomotive Club of Great Britain and the St Albans Signal Box were also all represented, not forgetting UK Railtours our long standing sponsors.
The Ludwick Way Methodist Church as usual supplied the teas, snacks and lunches and of course the venue. Our thanks go to Chris, Joyce and all their helpers for making it possible.
Our thanks also go to all our members who worked hard to put on the display and to clear away after the exhibition.
We have already started planning our 2023 event, which will be on Saturday 29 April 2023. We look forward to seeing you then.
The 2020 CMRA Exhibition
De Havilland MRS attended the 2020 CMRA Exhibition in January, exhibiting our OO Middleton Layout and our Shabbey Road childrens layout, donations by children and their parents made £86 for the Isabel Hospice.
The Denis Moore Cup
Judged by DHMRS members Malcolm Olver and David Cross, the 2020 winner of the Denis Moore Cup was Milton Keynes Model Railway Societies Brinklow an N, 2mm scale 9mm gauge layout based on the Trent Valley Line.
The 2019 CMRA Exhibition
Judged by DHMRS members Malcolm Olver and David Cross, the 2019 winner of the Denis Moore Cup was Tollesbury Quay. The layout was built by Martin Stringer and is based on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.
Strange goings on at the club! members appear to be
constructing hundreds of baseboards and muttering 'Hatfield' under their breaths.
Our new O gauge layout Moth Eaton is progressing and should be ready for display in 2019.
Our Fry's Halt layout has been extended. The finished layout appeared at our exhibition on 22 April 2017
