Competitions
Previous Winners
Congratulations to :-
Mr Nash from Lincolnshire
Mr Wilson from Warwickshire
Mr Catterson from Derbyshire
Mr Grainger from West Midlands
Mr Heath from Ireland
Who each win a pair of tickets to this year's event
Congratulations to Mr G Monteath from Troon who has won a 1:72 scale diecast model of a Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S.2B, XW896 RAE, Farnborough, 1987. Mr G Monteath correctly answered 'West Freugh' to the question 'Before moving to Farnborough in 1975 where was XW896 based?'
Bachmann Branch-line OO gauge BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-0 number 76053 with BR1B Tender (DCC Ready) locomotive.
She correctly recognised that '72B' was the correct answer to the question 'In 1962 76053 carried a Salisbury shed plate, what was the code for that shed in 1962?'
In our Aviation competition to win a Bravo-Delta model of Concorde G-BOAF in flight, we had a winner all the way from Malta who correctly knew that the '2nd march 1969' was the first flight date for Concorde 001 F-WTSS.
An entry from Macclesfield was the eventual winner in our Railways Competition which gave away a set of 8 DVDs "Glory Days of Diesel" . They received this smashing prize by correctly knowing that 'Class 40s' were the British Railway diesels with the nickname 'Whistlers'.
An entry from Alresford in Hampshire was the successful winner of Sukhoi Su-27. This book is the latest volume in Ian Allan Publishing's 'Famous Russian Aircraft' series, in which the doyen of writers on Soviet/Russian aviation, Yefim Gordon, describes in depth the development, operational career, history and variants within the Su-27 family.
The applicant successfully answered 'Flanker' to the competition question 'What is the NATO code name for the Su-27?'
An entry from East Leake in Leicestershire was the winner of our Railways Competition during the summer. For correctly knowing that '1954' was the year that the British Transport commission 'Railway Modernisation Plan' was published. They won a copy of Blue Diesel Days & Green Diesel Days'.
An entry from Nottingham was the eventual winner of our hugely popular Aviation Competition back in the Autumn. They received the 'Britain at War DVD' which contains 'The Blitz Years 1939-1941', 'The Long Years 1942-1944' and the 'The Victory Years 1944-1945'. For correctly knowing that 'Overlord' was the code name for the D-Day operation, they picked up this 8 box set DVD containing over 3 hours of footage.
In our Railway competition, a successfully applicant from Wadebridge sent in answers - Snow Hill, New Street and Moor Street which correctly answered the question 'What were the three central Birmingham stations in Steam Days called?'.
The winning prize was a DVD box set containing 6 Steam Railway DVDs from Green Umbrella.
