Pavilion End – Newport Model Railway Society

Pavilion End at Ally Pally

23 March 2026 / Ally Pally, Pavilion End

First a couple of photos from the show showing PE in action.

Behind the scenes there were plenty of bodies as we were overstaffed for PE but happy to be away as a group. Unusually we didn’t have Jaffa Cakes as part of our provisions but Welsh cakes were a good substitute. Luke had spare time to work on some wagons for Cwm Carno.

By the end of Sunday six wagon bodies had replacement chassis. On PE no. 4248 ran the coal train for the whole show without any problems.

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Friday 13

13 March 2026 / Cwm Carno, Pavilion End, Queen's Wharf

Further work on Cwmcarno fiddle yards included darkening the run-in sections as they could be visible from certain angles, as well as glueing and weighing down the transition to the cassettes.

The remaining retaining bolts for the fiddle yards were araldited in place, some harder to get at than others, and one near impossible.

Two years ago Luke bought this model of Talyllyn’s Dolgoch at the AllyPally show. It has since been re-chassised, detailed and repainted, and is ready for the Sodbury Vale’s show at British Aerospace Filton.

Also prepared for a show is Pavilion End, ready for the 20th-22nd weekend.

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84xx day

24 February 2026 / 42xx, Pavilion End

This will be disappointing for those who are fans of the final GWR pannier tanks.

The connection is mathematical as on Monday there were two 42xx tanks in 7mm scale being worked on at the same time. Mr C was giving a much needed clean to the wheels of 4248 which runs on Pavilion End.

Alongside The Welsh Wizard was sorting out the running on a 42 belonging to Don. It was stripped right down to the frames for attention to the bearings.

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Monday 16 February

16 February 2026 / GWR four-wheelers, Pavilion End

One of our quieter meetings, with five in attendance, but only one pic to show for it. Rob F exhumed some Slater’s four-wheel coaches for potential use on Pavilion End. They look very promising but will need a bit of TLC before they run and Rob has the job in hand.

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Friday 6th

7 February 2026 / Cwm Carno, Pavilion End, Queen's Wharf

A lot of shifting of baseboards took place to get Pavilion End erected in the layout room. The layout itself worked well after its storage with all tracks working plus success with turnouts, uncouplers and signal. However, there has been some damage to fences, deterioration in buildings and velcro on the fascia supports come loose.

For Queens Wharf Luke is building a quarry locomotive and started assembling a High Level gearbox. By the end of the evening the chassis was running well.

Meanwhile, also in the layout room, electrical connections to the track work meant we were able to see the very first movement on Cwmcarno. It was not without its problems.

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Week ending 14 July 2024

11 July 2024 / Bachmann, Hunslet, Pavilion End, Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae

Monday at the club had the usual tidying up theme. Inevitably lots of bits were thrown in my workbox at the end.

The only major problem with Pavilion End at the show was the failure of a point mechanism. Its position was too difficult for an immediate fix so the drive has been positioned to come from the rear of the layout instead from under the platform. The next steps are to connect a servo onto the other end, connect the drive, disguise the tube and reposition the ground signal.

On Tuesday Luke came with some lovely NG stock from Bachmann. The loco represents the Alice class from Dinorwic Quarry and the wagons are very good too.

We took the cliched opportunity to contrast two locos, both to 7mm scale – Dave’s 42xx and Luke’s Quarry Hunslet

Friday and a much better attendance than the usual four. There were 8 of us plus one visitor.

On Pavilion End the wire-in-tube drive has been connected up and hot glued in place. It curves around so that the servo can be close to its controlling circuit board to make plugging in easier. The turnout has been tested and all is satisfactory.

When he wasn’t installing point servos TAFKASTYS spent some time grinding away on the goods shed for T’yn y Coedcae blending in some new stonework. With 9 bodies present space was at a premium, so the corridor is being used to work out how to recycle ex-LMJ legs into supports for Luke’s shunting layout, advised by Wagonman.

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Pavilion End at Penarth

5 July 2024 / Pavilion End, Penarth. Exhibition

*Pavilion End, with Mr C and Wagonman, all set up and ready to go at St Cyres School Penarth*

And on Sunday morning we performed our customary toast with cold tea.

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The second half of the year starts.

1 July 2024 / Pavilion End, Penarth

Monday is our only meeting at the clubrooms this week. Tuesday we’re on Zoom and Friday many of us ar helping Mr C set up Pavilion End at Penarth Exhibition at St Cyres School, Penarth.

Five of us made it to the clubrooms on Monday but with most of us continuing to work on he same projects we have no new photos. Sorry!

Tuesday bought our monthly electronic get together on Zoom and we had presentations from Mike E with his very appealing proposal for an American Short Line layout in 0 scale, a blatant plug for the Industrial Railway Society in the guise of info on the locos of Maritime (Pontypridd) and Varteg collieries from LBH, a fascinating selection of images of terraced houses culled from the web for research into window frame painting practice in the ’50s from Mr C and a fine collection of railway and family pictures from Stephen Bell.

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NEWGOG update

14 April 2024 / NEWGOG, Pavilion End, Tŷ’n-y-Coedcae

Pavilion End made its third appearance at NEWGOG but improved by additions to give more of a South Wales feel since its first outing. The coal train is headed by 4248, shedded at Ebbw Jct, the mixed freight is behind 666, and ex-ADR Victory tank, and the workman’s train now has three 4-wheeled coaches with real (or dubious) stories.

Ty’n-y-Coedcae was also at the show and also sported a Victory tank from an earlier era (and dubious colour). There is plenty of stock to make the yard look busy. What is stored in the fiddle yard is always of interest, particularly the Cambrian brake van – a very nice model.

*A little damage to the fiddle yard track was repaired quickly before the exhibition opened.*

*Since its last outing the halt has gained a lamp.*

*The two B&MR dropside wagons in the Engineering train are Luke’s first essays in Scaleseven.*

*TAFKATYS’s Cambrian stock looked and ran well*

And the surprise event of the day was the 1200 mm free-fall plummet.

The Ty’n-y-Coedcae entry was a Minerva Victory tank, which despite the fall, the most serious damage was this dent to one buffer. It says volumes for Minerva’s build quality.