The Yorkshire Garden Railway Show is organised by the Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Ltd.
The Yorkshire Garden Railway Show on Tour!
The Roundhouse is over 150 years old, with the added attraction to visitors that all trader spaces and layouts will be set out amongst steam and diesel locomotives and items of rolling stock, displayed on the 24 storage tracks in the Roundhouse.
Visitors to the show will see the turntable in operation every hour during the show. They can also look around the rest of the Barrow Hill site, with its outside displays of standard gauge rolling stock and renovation work by the Deltic Preservation Society. You can find more information on the Barrow Hill Roundhouse at https://www.barrowhill.org.
From The Chairman : Tony Wright
The Yorkshire Garden Railway Show, our premier event. has just been held. It showcases our Group, and Garden Railways in general. For the show to go ahead and be successful we rely on a small band of volunteers to plan, liaise and organise the event. Then comes the logistics of getting the layouts to site, setting them up, marking out the floor, placing the traders' tables, and then welcoming in the traders. Only then can the pleasurable bit of playing trains take place. Afterwards the stripping down and packing everything away has to be done. All this is accomplished by volunteers with no reward other than the fun of Garden Railways. To all these volunteers you deserve a huge, huge thank you for all your efforts in making the show a success.
The show sets the traders and layouts amongst the historic exhibits in a railway building which gives the show a unique feel.
This, our second year here, was every bit as special as last year but improved because the wrinkles of last year had been ironed out. We had more space in the Roundhouse which gave a more open feel to the show and better circulation. The Yorkshire Groups' two layouts saw plenty of action with predominantly steam on Mount Dowd which was situated by the open door and meant the cool wind wind blowing in gave good steam effects. On Dixon Green/Saed-Y-Parc younger visitors could drive a radio controlled battery locomotive.
Whilst on Rhydypenderyn a number of Peter Angus locomotives were to be seen
and on Ffordd-y-Deryn a "Cracker" was doing circuits at breakneck speed!
Many traders had new products on show and Roundhouse sprung a surprise with 'Millie' making a return, albeit now internally gas fired.
We were also treated to 'Peak' 45105 and 03066 on the passenger shuttle. This was 45105's first run in preservation since withdrawal. The Deltic Preservation Society's workshop was again open and visitors could experience the driver's cab. Out in the yard other locomotives were to be seen with two more class 45 and three 37 amongst others, all this serenaded by a Gavioli organ.
