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The Auckland Marklin Club’s model train show, which it has been putting on at Whangaparaoa Hall annually since 2015, has become so successful that it is now the major event on the club’s calendar.
Local Auckland Marklin Club member Philip Wrigley says the hall is a great venue, and the show gets tremendous support from the community.
The Marklin Club is all about model trains, which chuff and wind their way through detailed scenes made by members. However, the show is also open to different kinds of modeling, so that local groups such as Hibiscus Radio Flyers, can participate.
Graeme Beeson of Gulf Harbour will be there again with his warship models. A feature this time will be his 2.5m-long model of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse. Graeme will also have a ship under construction so that visitors can watch the painstaking process of building an exact replica.
New to the show is Gulf Harbour Radio Yacht Club with its radio-controlled vessels and the Auckland Central Model Railway Club. Hibiscus Radio Flyers will be back with a selection of powered model aircraft.
The North Shore Model Rail Club, the largest north of the bridge, will have a bigger ‘layout’ of track this time, local n-gauge enthusiasts will run their personal layouts and there will be train displays that children will be able to operate.
Marklin’s own display will have new segments, including a narrow-gauge logging railway running above the main line and a city scene behind the main station giving nearly 2m of perspective behind the running trains.
Philip says that the ‘fiddle yard’, where trains are assembled, was popular with children last year and will be included again.
The Model Train Show is on July 15 & 16 at Whangaparaoa Hall, 10am–4.30pm. More info: see What’s On.
