1927 Model Railway Exhibition
Note this is a sub-section of Model Railway Club.
The annual Exhibition of the Model Railway Club was opened at the Kingsway Hall in April 1927. On one side of the room, on a long track, was running a large model of a Baltic tank engine of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Tilbury Section, worked by steam, with paraffin as fuel. There were trains of all sorts and sizes, from model locomotives, large enough to haul several passengers, to engines small enough to be held on the palm of the hand, sections of railway lines, stations, including an excellent reproduction of Poplar Station, signal boxes, and tunnels.
A section of a complete railway, made by two brothers, embodied an Underground station and a countryside station, the latter including level-crossing gates, a Post Office pillar box, and a white line for the guidance of motorists. One of the most interesting of the exhibits was a model of a tank locomotive used on the Southern Railway, made by Mr. A. Knock, from rubbish found in a dust destrurtor. Its approximate cost, without labour, was 27s.