{"id":23344,"date":"2019-10-13T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23344"},"modified":"2019-10-13T21:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T20:11:48","slug":"oxrail-2019-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23344","title":{"rendered":"OXRAIL 2019 exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101305.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe OXRAIL (model railway) exhibition was at Abingdon &amp; Witney College today. There were&nbsp;39 railway layouts; a number of trade stalls selling modelling kit; and a vintage bus giving rides outside. It was organised by the Oxford District Model Railway Club.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101320.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a chance to see <em>Ealing Road<\/em>, featured on the Channel 5 TV Series <i>The Great Model Railway Challenge.<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101323.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe <em>Snake Bend Railroad<\/em> was the largest model and was to be found upstairs in the college&#8217;s Art Workshop. Different modellers follow standards about how the modules join up and then create a model depending on who can bring their modules.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101312.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also a number of small layouts that appeared to travel in suit cases.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101326.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nThe models were enjoyed by children<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101330.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nand adults alike. People could drive the trains on some of the layouts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101318.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nA lot of painstaking effort goes into each model and I was surprised to find out how many people I know have their own model railway at home. They have gained skills in planning, engineering, woodworking, electrical circuitry and miniature painting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19101329.jpg\" alt=\"OXRAIL exhibition\" \/><br \/>\nEven though Abingdon has no railway station, there are conservatories, attics and spare rooms across Abingdon filled with tiny trees, scale buildings and model railways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OXRAIL (model railway) exhibition was at Abingdon &amp; Witney College today. There were&nbsp;39 railway layouts; a number of trade stalls selling modelling kit; and a vintage bus giving rides outside. It was organised by the Oxford District Model Railway Club. There was a chance to see Ealing Road, featured on the Channel 5 TV [&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-23344","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\/23344","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=23344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}