{"id":20213,"date":"2018-03-19T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2018-03-19T23:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T22:47:49","slug":"abrail-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20213","title":{"rendered":"AbRail 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031716.jpg\" alt=\"AbRail 2018\" \/><br \/>\nAt Abingdon and Witney College on Saturday the 42nd AbRail Abingdon Model Railway Show took place. Over recent years this exhibition has been at the leisure centre.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031708.jpg\" alt=\"AbRail 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThis year they were at a new venue at the college with the exhibition spread between the reception area, canteen, and a row of classrooms.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031711.jpg\" alt=\"AbRail 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThe great thing about the exhibition is the dedication and enthusiasm of the railway modellers who create such wonderful models. This line is&nbsp;G\u00f6ttingen S\u00fcd in Germany.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031717.jpg\" alt=\"AbRail 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThomas the Tank Engine and friends were at the fictional Sodor Island, a layout created by Abingdon and District Model railway Club.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031720.jpg\" alt=\"AbRail 2018\" \/><br \/>\nThere were about 10 stalls and 17 layouts at the show. Another layout by the&nbsp;Abingdon and District Model railway Club was Belgrave Road, Leicester. This grand station never attracted as many trains as needed and closed to passengers in 1962. But before that people from Leicester would have taken to train from here to Skegness for the summer holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Abingdon and Witney College on Saturday the 42nd AbRail Abingdon Model Railway Show took place. Over recent years this exhibition has been at the leisure centre. This year they were at a new venue at the college with the exhibition spread between the reception area, canteen, and a row of classrooms. The great thing [&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-20213","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\/20213","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=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}