Madder valley railway special running days @ Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham

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Location:- High St, Long Wittenham, Abingdon OX14 4QD
John Ahern's historic railway will be running on a select few days a year to help preserve this incredible creation.
he Madder Valley Railway layout was built by John Ahern between 1941 and 1951 and is an historic relic of the early days of scenic railway modelling. It pioneered the idea of placing a model railway in the context of the towns and villages that it was built to serve, together with the countryside through which it ran. In the early days of railway modelling it showed others what could be done, and remains an inspiration to the modelling hobby today.
After John Ahern’s death in 1961, Pendon Museum was happy to accept the Madder Valley Railway layout to accompany the Museum’s own model displays, The Vale Scene and Dartmoor Scene, and help place these exemplary models into context of the scenic modelling hobby.
Unlike the Vale Scene, where each building and structure is an historically accurate and exact representation of a real building, Madder Valley was never intended as a replica of an actual scene. It features buildings that were derived from real ones, without necessarily being exact copies of their originals. The rolling stock was also “a mixed bag” (as John Ahern put it), which included models of narrow gauge locomotives from the Isle of Man, Wales and Devon built to run on 16.5mm gauge track alongside models of standard gauge stock, some of them based on real light railway vehicles as well as some freelance models.

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The event runs from 11:00 to 16:00 on the following dates.
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