MP Nicola Blackwood in Abingdon to review local trains

Thanks to Mike for a preview of the Abrail 2014 exhibition. He says …
 
Alas, the passenger service from Abingdon was closed in 1963 and when, in 1983, the MG car factory was closed, the station and railway line, that had sat there since 1856, went with it to be replaced by an old peoples home, a supermarket and a bus service.

So Nicola Blackwood, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, will have to be content with reviewing much smaller trains when she opens the Abingdon Model Railway Show. The show, staffed by a team of 170 drawn from the whole of the south of England, will bring together 25 working layouts, 20 retail trader outlets plus Club and Society stands and demonstrations to provide a veritable modelling extravaganza.

The 38th annual Abingdon Model Railway Show is the largest model railway exhibition in Oxfordshire, and is on Saturday, 1st March at the White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre, Audlett Drive, Abingdon. Entrance price is £8.00 per adult and accompanied children under 16 are free. See admrc.org.uk for more details.

(The pictures are from the blogs visit to the 2009 exhibition.)

5 thoughts on “MP Nicola Blackwood in Abingdon to review local trains

  1. Peter Del

    At last years’ exhibition, the most imaginative layout was based around descriptions of places given by Charles Dickens; surprisingly it was designed and built by a woman.
    I shall send Alastair a picture of it and perhaps he might put it on his blog.

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