Longwood Edge

[kipford]

We thought that members of the Scalefour Society might like to know what has happened to Longwood Edge, Iain Rice’s last layout built in conjunction with Don Leeper.

It was last exhibited at Railex 2019 about 80/90% finished. After that South Hants Model Railway Club (SHMRC) member Tony Sullivan offered to help finish the layout but COVID struck. Don unfortunately succumbed to COVID in the April of the first lockdown and with Iain’s declining health the layout remained at Don’s house unchanged from its last outing. Roll on three years and Don’s wife Pauline was keen to see the layout finally completed and exhibited. Through Tony Sullivan the SHMRC offered its services to complete and exhibit Longwood Edge, the SHMRC has a long association with LNWR and L&Y layouts through its EM LNWR/GWR Hope-under-Dinmore, P4 L&Y Ogden Fold and Eastwood layouts so we thought we were reasonable candidates for the job
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Pauline has accepted the SHMRC’s offer and custodianship of Longwood Edge has passed to the SHMRC. As part of agreement, we have also taken over the custody of Hepton Wharf. Both layouts have been collected and are now in our possession.

Longwood Edge needs to be evaluated to work out what exactly needs to be done to finish it scenically and make it exhibition friendly. but it will be at the new Scalefour South East which is part of the Uckfield show on 21st and 22nd October where it will be in much the same state as it was last exhibited at Railex. The aim is to have it completed for possibly Larkrail 2024 but definitely the SHMRC show in November 2024.

Hepton Wharf is up and running after 13 years of storage, but needs some TLC. It is temporarily going to the L & Y society who are going to refresh it and exhibit it at their modellers weekend at Todmorden on 25th March this year. The layout will then come back to the SHMRC where It may be exhibited at EXPO EM Spring, that is yet to be confirmed. It will also be going to the Uckfield show and completing the year at the SHMRC show in Portsmouth on 18th November.

We will be creating layout pages on the SHMRC website within the next few weeks.

Dave Smith
Chairman South Hants Model Railway Club.

[Winander]

Hepton Wharf Scaleforum 2009
https://www.scalefour.org/shows/scalefo ... wharf.html

[Tim V]

Good news.