{"id":13480,"date":"2015-03-02T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2015-03-02T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:32:32","slug":"39th-annual-abingdon-model-railway-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13480","title":{"rendered":"39th Annual Abingdon Model Railway Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030108.jpg\" alt=\"Model Railway Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Branch line, as it looked in 1948, was on display on Saturday at the 39th Annual Abingdon Model Railway Exhibition. The branch line has been constructed over the last 10 years with the help of hundreds of photographs (many viewable at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonbranch.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.abingdonbranch.co.uk<\/a>).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030106.jpg\" alt=\"Model Railway Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nNear The Abingdon Branch line was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radleyhistoryclub.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radley History Club<\/a>, with their book &#8220;Radley People and the Railway&#8221;, together with railway memorabilia.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030107.jpg\" alt=\"Model Railway Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaahs.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Area Archaeological and Historical Society<\/a> were also there with pictures of Abingdon Station.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030111.jpg\" alt=\"Model Railway Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe show was a mixture of railway layouts, modelling traders, and societies. There were 50 stalls in all. The cup for the best layout was presented, by Cllr Mike Badcock, Chairman of the Vale, to St. Ruth, which is based on Penzance station.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15030114.jpg\" alt=\"Model Railway Exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe St. Ruth model depicts a typical day in September 1965, with a beach in the foreground, and houses rising behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Branch line, as it looked in 1948, was on display on Saturday at the 39th Annual Abingdon Model Railway Exhibition. The branch line has been constructed over the last 10 years with the help of hundreds of photographs (many viewable at www.abingdonbranch.co.uk). Near The Abingdon Branch line was the Radley History Club, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}