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Waveney Valley Model Railway Club
  - Southwold Model Railway Exhibition

  • Sat 5th August 2017 - Sun 6th August 2017

  • Saint Felix School, Halesworth Road (A1095), Southwold, Suffolk IP18 6SD


    OPENING TIMES:  SAT 1000-1700, SUN 1000-1630
    ADMISSION:  Adults £7.00    Children £3.00   
    East Anglia's biggest and only two-day, club organised, model railway exhibition! Southwold is a multiscale and gauge event with around 20 layouts with demonstrations, traders and society stands. Charity raffle suppporting East Anglian Air ambulance and East Anglian Children's Hospices. Light Refreshments available; Wheelchair access to all exhibits; Free car park.
     

    CONTACT:      01502 514776
       
     
     
     
     
       
     
    List of Traders Attending :   List of Layouts Attending :
    BH Enterprises/ Buzz Models
    Coastal DCC -
    Connoisseur Models -
    Duncan Models -
    Freestone Model Accessories -
    Great Eastern Models -
    Hobby Holidays -
    Ian Kirk Kits -
    Joe Lock -
    Bob Pearman Books -
    Phoenix Precision Paints -
    Railway Photo Man -
    Rural Railways -
    Scograil -
    Squires Tools -
    Train Tech -
    Wizard/mse
      Provisional Bookings Include-
    Avyn-A-Llyin (Narrow Gauge)
    Caradon Junction
    Gresley Beat (Large 00 LNER Layout)
    North Foreland (Gauge0, Southern Railway)
    Sandford
    That Dam Railway (009 Contractors Light Railway)
    World's End
    Further Layouts and Information Them Tba
    List of Demonstrations :   List of Other Displays :
    Tba   Anglia Roads Gauge 1 Live Steam, Halesworth Model Engineering Society - Miniature Live Steam Train and Traction Engine Rides.
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Bury St Edmunds Model Railway Club
  - Bury St. Edmunds Model Railway Exhibition

  • Sat 9th September 2017

  • Thurston Sixth, Beyton Campus, Drinkstone Road, Beyton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP30 9AA


    OPENING TIMES:  10am to 4pm (LAST ADMISSION 3:30 pm 
       
     
     
     
     
       
     
    List of Traders Attending :   List of Layouts Attending :
    Keith Hadley - New and Pre-Owned Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Accessories

    Coastal DCC - Decoders, Systems and All Things DCC

    Bob Pearman - Books, Magazines and DVD's

    Layouts 4 U - Lighting and Electrical Specialists

    Dave King - New and Pre-Owned Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Accessories

    Janet Bull - Railway and Wildlife Artist

    Great Eastern Models - New, Rolling Stock and Accessories

    Fine Scale Buildings - Designed to be Used on Model Railway Layouts and Model Street and Town Scenes As Well As in Military Dioramas

    Train-Tech - Easy to Use Electronic Product For Both DC and DCC Model Railways

    Model Scenery Supplies - Specialising in Individuality Made Models

    Scograil - New, Rolling Stock and Accessories

    Mid Suffolk Light Railway Museum
      Layouts Confirmed to Date (More to Follow) Are:

    Morelock Heath
    The Wagon Works
    ?warren Hill
    Airfix Oakham
    Obervaz
    ?oldshaw
    Chaam
    Terminus All Change
    Orchard Road
    List of Demonstrations :    
    Fine Scale Buildings    
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One Model Railway Club
  - Needham Market Model Railway Exhibition 2017

  • Sun 24th September 2017

  • Needham Market Community Centre, School Street, Needham Market, Suffolk IP6 8BB


    OPENING TIMES:  10.30am - 4pm
    ADMISSION:  Adults £4.00  Concessions £3.00     
    This will be our 10th Exhibition, and this year alongside our layouts in various gauges, trade stands selling new and second hand rolling stock and scenics, we have two Societies in attendance and hands on modelling demonstrations. We are a friendly show suitable for train enthusiasts and families alike. Free car park available, however, the show is also easily accessible by public transport. Refreshments, light lunches and homemade cake will be served throughout the day.

    As this will be our 10th Anniversary Exhibition we are running a competition that any MRC can enter, and will be judged by the public on the day of the show, for more details or a booking form please see our website.

    NEW FOR 2017: FREE ADMISSION for accompanied children.

    We have test tracks for both 00 gauge and N gauge, so you can test any purchases before you go home.

    We look forward to seeing you!

    CONTACT:      07900 983508
       
     
     
       
     
    List of Traders Attending :   List of Layouts Attending :
    TBC   TBC
        List of Other Displays :
        Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
    Mid Suffolk Railway
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And there is my Own Club,

Broadland Model railway Club.

This will hold it's own club open day on August the 13th in Stalham town hall.

And it's Annual show in Alysham Jubilee Hall Saturday October the 7th 2017

 many more detail to come when we've worked it all out,,,

That's it Folks....

 

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A Model Railway Show is on in Norwich on Saturday the 11th February 12:00 to 17:00 at the United Reformed church hall just off Ipswich Road. So if you want to come in from the cold, you are welcome.

I'll be there helping display someone elses layout. but don't let that frighten you away.

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Just a reminder the big Model railway show for Norfolk is on Saturday,

- Norwich Model Railway Exhibition

  • Sat 8th April 2017

  • Hellesdon High School, Middletons Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 5SB


    OPENING TIMES:  10.00am to 4.30pm
    ADMISSION:  Adults £5.00       

    17 Layouts,  and 14 Traders confirmed together with 2 demonstrations and 5 other societies

     

     

    Full details on page 1 of this thread.

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Ok folks, Since I'm Busy reminding people about Horning Regatta Week I thought I'd also better remind you about this.

Broadland Model Railway Club are holding their Open Day on Sunday 13th of August 2107 at:

Stalham Town Hall, High Street Norwich Norfolk NR12 9AH

We do have to have a small charge for entry to cover costs.

There will be Club and Members layouts in a variety of Gauges,

We hope to have a second hand Stock and Book stall,

Tea and Coffee will be available, there is a pub across the road!!!

:no: Drop in if you're in the area, have a chat and see what we do. :no:

 

I'll update this with the entry charge  (£2 last year) and opening  hours once I've been to the club on Friday..

 

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I can confirm our entry fee is a huge £2, and the opening hours are 10:00 to 16:00.
I think we will have 6 or 7 operating layouts, 3 of which are completed. Also there will be another 3 or 4 non operational  layouts under construction / rebuild.

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Another local Show which is next weekend

 The J50 New Build Steam Locomotive Group - 2nd Model Railway Exhibition

  • Sat 19th August 2017

  • The New Victory Hall, Street Hill, Neatishead, Norfolk NR12 8AD


    OPENING TIMES:  10.00am - 4.00pm
    ADMISSION:  Adults £3.00  Concessions £2.50  Children £2.00   

     

    List of Traders

       
    Great Eastern Toys and Models
    M&GN Society
    Claud Hamilton Group
    The J50 Group

     

 

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It's just over a month to our annual show in Aylsham, so if you are out in your boats tie up at the moorings by the railway bridge  at Hoveton take a stroll up to the BVR and...

By a ticket on the BVR From Wroxham and Hoveton Station and get entry to the show for free!!

http://www.bvrw.co.u...el-rail-express

 

If you wish to travel by car...

Broadland Model Railway Club's  ( http://s643945335.websitehome.co.uk/ )

Annual Exhibition at Alysham.

Jubilee Centre, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk NR11 6JG

7th October 2017,  10:00 to 16:00

Entry,   £4 Adults,    £3 Children,    £3 Concessions

 

Limited Disabled parking on site.

ALL others at the Bure Valley Railway, Aylsham Station, Norwich Road, Aylsham, Norfolk, NR11 6BW (300 yards)

 

 

The 2017 model railway exhibition sponsored by the Bure Valley Railway will be held again in the Jubilee Centre, Aylsham, NR11 6JG on Saturday 7th October. There will be models of different gauges and sizes. These range from N gauge to 00 gauge with model steam and diesel traction as the theme.  Exhibitors will come from the surrounding counties of East Anglia.

The exhibition owes much of its success to the catering support given by the ladies.   They do a magnificent job providing refreshments for the visitors and lunches for the exhibitors, traders & our volunteer helpers.

One of the BMRC members is offering a “Loco Doctor” service this year.  If you have a loco that needs attention then bring it along for a once over and advice. There is no charge for this service.

 

EXHIBITORS.

OO Gauge

Billingborough                                   00

Binegar                                             00

Broadfield                                          00  16.5mm and 4mm:1ft

Cato Pass                                          00

East Park Depot                                 00

East Becton                                        EM 4mm/ft

Ebridge Mill                                       00 4mm Fine scale

Terminus All Change                          00/HO

34th Street                                         HO

Thomas 2                                           00

N Gauge

Buda                                                 N 1:160

Charleston                                         N

Harnser”s Loke                                  N

Oma Park                                          N

Thunder Mountain                           American N

Trenance Quay                                  N 2mm

009

Hawkins Tower Narrow Gauge       009 narrow Gauge

 

TRADE STANDS

Bure Valley Model Shop

Joe Lock Model Railways

Bob Pearman Books

Train Terrain

David Rowlands

OTHERS Stands

Advent Modellers

Malcolm Cooper

D.C.C. Demonstration and advice

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Just thought I'd roughly go into what goes into a model railway Exhibition. Though I must admit I'm not an organiser I'm just a labourer when required.

We had our annual show last week , so this week or next we will have a debrief over how it went.

Anything coming out of that will be incorporated into next Years show,  which we started planning last year, the more popular layouts need booking 2 years ahead....

We have a scale drawing on card of the hall, as each layout  accepts an invite a cutout is made to fit on the drawing.

Each owner is asked on a form,  the overall area they need and the area of the layout itself. They are also dietry requirements for the meal, the number of operators they will bring and a break down of what their expenses would roughly be required.

The main thing is the book... the book contains all the invited layouts, the reserve layouts, and the traders and societies invited. Being just a small local club we can't afford to bring in layouts from outside east anglia. So whenever someone goes to a show and sees something interesting, we hope they take a picture and details  of the layout and owner for the book. We have an arrangement with a few clubs in East anglia that each year we will normally send them a different one of our layouts, and they send theirs to ours. We also try to show one or two of our clubs  or club members layouts each year.

We try and get a range of scales, a range of interests and a range of layout sizes. So this year we had N(2mm to the foot), OO(4mm to the foot),  EM (4mm to the foot but more accurate), and 009 (4mm to the foot narrow gauge). with the Smallest layout being 2ft by 1 ft, the largest being about 20ft long.

For interests we had Thomas the tank engine, various layouts of different British railway companies, and american railway layouts and this year a totally weird ScFi layout which the kids seemed to like.

 For traders who tend to be regular each year

 We have the Bure Valley Railway Shop, for new items.

Joe Lock from down London way for Secondhand Items,

Bob Pearman from Kings Lynn for books.

Then a couple of other traders which change most years.

During the year there are checks with each layout operator that they are still coming, this year we lost one a couple of weeks before the show due to illness.

Part two will arrive shortly with the show itself...

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Our show is in a Church Hall in Aylsham. So the Friday afternoon before the show those members who can go over there early afternoon, for soon as another group has finished it's use of the hall.

Our club members take with them, banners/ notices, our trestle tables,  and lots of bits and pieces that are required.

First almost all the chairs are removed from the hall, there is over a hundred I think and some temporary staging that normally lives in there.. Then a big roll of masking tape, the drawing of the layouts and a couple of big tape measures. We then go round marking out the corners of each layout with tape,. there are also two back rooms that also need marking out.

We then layout three mains supplies into the three "Islands" of layouts that are created in the hall. There is luckily plenty of Sockets round the edge of the hall, so we don't have to worry about the layouts there. (I'll have PAT tested any extension cables as required)

Then the club layouts are installed, we normally put them in one of the back rooms, as once we start filling up they are more difficult to access carrying layouts.  Some time in the afternoon one or two local layouts, or the odd one from further afield where we have afforded to pay for overnight accomodation arrive along with some of the traders. We help them in and show them to hteir places.

We clear the back portacabin of soft furniture and layout the tables and chairs for the exhibitors meals.

By 19:00 we have finished for the day, the hall caretaker wants to go home...

 

Saturday, we arrive by 07:00 when the caretaker will arrive with the keys, We may have been via the club house in Catfield to pick up anything that has been forgotten.

We put the banners out, the A board, and another club member will be doing the grand tour putting up our road signs all over the place.

Very Shortly after the rest of the traders and layouts start arriving, all show to their places and assistance given where required to get them in.  This year no panics over power  and it all worked..

As usual a slight jiggling about of the odd layout where the dimensions declared, didn't quite line up with the details they had sent.

The Ladies arrive, these were the British Legion Ladies section Aylsham, until that got disbanded. They continue to run our tea bar and do the meals in return for  a share of the profits for their group from the show.

Shortly after it's bacon Rolls all round and a mug of coffee.

At MRC shows anywhere, you normally get unlimited tea and coffee for the exhibitors and the main meal  provided free. We are unusual in providing a bacon butty before opening time..

I issue the radios to the car park stewards and the front  desk so they can call for help if required.

10 o'clock Opening time

All the Members and co-opted helpers take their places.

2 down at the Bure Valley Railway Car park stewarding,

3 at the hall car park stewarding.

2 taking money for entry,

2 running the tombola stall,

4 running the club Layouts,

2 running club demonstration stands,

4 of us stewarding in the halls. / replacements for others when breaks are required.

6 ladies doing the food.

16:00 close the doors,

Go out and remove the banners and A board

assist in the removal of layouts to vans and cars.

remove our own layouts, and trestle tables .

Collect the radios.

Hover the Halls

Layout all the chairs for the Sunday morning service.

One club member does the grand tour again collecting all the signs.

Be out by 19:00

 Head back to the club house, deposit all the gear in piles for sorting later.

Go home around 21:00

During the week the club members will sort out all the gear and pack it away, I'll charge the radios before they get put away.

Next week debrief, which takes us back to the beginning. I've probably missed out a lot of what else goes on the back ground but then I don't see it all...

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