On 16 March, the audacious scheme hatched over several pints by the air-freshener factory owner and the rock star (Cliff Pardons & Roger Daltrey) took a giant leap forward when Ashford council gave planning approval for the world's largest model-railway exhibition centre. The 2.5-acre Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre (Aimrec) will display as many as 30 enormous model railway layouts, many of them worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Independent article here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roger-daltrey-and-cliff-parsons-help-launch-world-s-largest-model-railway-exhibition-centre-a6942096.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roger-daltrey-and-cliff-parsons-help-launch-world-s-largest-model-railway-exhibition-centre-a6942096.html)
http://www.aimrec.co.uk/ (http://www.aimrec.co.uk/)
https://www.facebook.com/AshfordInternationalModelRailwayExcellenceCentre/ (https://www.facebook.com/AshfordInternationalModelRailwayExcellenceCentre/)
watch this space!
(whatever happened to the Eurostar Model on display at Ashford?)
Part of the Eurotunnel model is now here :- http://www.elhamvalleylinetrust.org/html/railway_museum.html (http://www.elhamvalleylinetrust.org/html/railway_museum.html)
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The (Late) Independent speaks!