{"id":15844,"date":"2016-03-19T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2016-03-19T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T18:55:52","slug":"the-long-dubs-and-abrail-2016-at-the-leisure-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=15844","title":{"rendered":"The Long Dubs and Abrail 2016 at the Leisure Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031914.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis\" \/><br \/>\nFour tennis coaches are raising money for Sports Relief 2016 by attempting to break the World Record by playing tennis doubles for 60 hours.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031903.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis\" \/><br \/>\nThey were still going strong at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre early this afternoon. You can sponsor them at <a href=\"http:\/\/my.sportrelief.com\/sponsor\/thelongdubs\">The Long Dubs<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031905.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis\" \/><br \/>\nCoupled with that, also at the Leisure Centre, the annual Abingdon  model railway exhibition, ABRAIL 2016, was full steam ahead.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031908.jpg\" alt=\"Abrail\" \/><br \/>\nThere were 25 railway layouts. Millanford, made by Abingdon model railway club members, can be seen above.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031911.jpg\" alt=\"Abrail\" \/><br \/>\nThe largest layout, Leicester Belgrave Road in the 1950s, was also made by members of Abingdon Model railway club.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031909.jpg\" alt=\"Abrail\" \/><br \/>\nThere were not just the railway layouts. These two gentlemen have created a very detailed street scene with moving buses and trams. It depicts life in the 1940s. An unexploded bomb is being dealt with in one back garden while people are shopping nearby.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031917.jpg\" alt=\"Abrail\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also stalls selling modelling kits and equipment, such as these Humbrol enamel tinlets. They range from Aircraft blue to Tank Grey.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag16\/16031916.jpg\" alt=\"Abrail\" \/><br \/>\nAfter the exhibition visitors returned to the overflow car park in Abingdon Science Park to catch their transport back, including some on the Morris Motors Band Bus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four tennis coaches are raising money for Sports Relief 2016 by attempting to break the World Record by playing tennis doubles for 60 hours. They were still going strong at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre early this afternoon. You can sponsor them at The Long Dubs. Coupled with that, also at the Leisure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","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=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}