TheQ Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Ok It's time to Start this years list, many have been cancelled, including our own.. Though ours (Broadland Model Railway Club) was not cancelled for Covid, but the hall is no longer available. Also our club open days are a bit undecided yet again due to hall availability... For instance Hoveton Village hall is a covid vaccination centre at the moment.. So the first one is a joint open day by Thetford MRC and Bury St Edmonds MRC . Thetford & District Model Railway Society - Club Open Day Sat 12th March 2022 OPENING TIMES: 10am-4pm Charles Burrell Centre, Staniforth Road, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 3LH 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Next the remaining big show in the area .. Norwich Model Railway Club - Railway Exhibition Sat 9th April 2022 Hellesdon High School, Middletons Lane, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 5SB OPENING TIMES: 10am to 4:30pm ADMISSION: Adults £6.00 15 layouts + trade stands and demonstrations.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Thetford & District Model Railway Society - Model Railway Show Sat 9th July 2022 Charles Burrell Centre, Staniforth Road, Thetford, Norfolk IP24 3LH OPENING TIMES: 10am-4pm ADMISSION: Adults £5.00 Concessions £5.00 Family £10.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 At the moment that's it for 2022 Model railway shows in our area.. Hopefully more will turn up later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 Just a reminder, the Norwich show is on Saturday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 I remember back in the day as a young teenager when I was involved in the MRC - THE Model Railway Club, in Kings Cross, London, and the S Gauge (1/64) Model Railway Society. I was one of a very small band of Junior members, and recall actually being the first ever Junior member of the S Gauge MRS. They were a great bunch of people, including some ladies even in those days. The MRC always used to have it annual show in Central Hall, Westminster, by Westminster Abbey at Easter time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 14 hours ago, TheQ said: Just a reminder, the Norwich show is on Saturday... I am sorry to miss it - again! It is always a good one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 11 hours ago, Bikertov said: I remember back in the day as a young teenager when I was involved in the MRC - THE Model Railway Club, in Kings Cross, London, and the S Gauge (1/64) Model Railway Society. I was one of a very small band of Junior members, and recall actually being the first ever Junior member of the S Gauge MRS. They were a great bunch of people, including some ladies even in those days. The MRC always used to have it annual show in Central Hall, Westminster, by Westminster Abbey at Easter time. The Model Railway Club is still going strong.. https://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/ and you've just missed their show 19-20 March at Ally Pally.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 45 minutes ago, TheQ said: The Model Railway Club is still going strong.. https://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/ and you've just missed their show 19-20 March at Ally Pally.. Brings back memories of walking around a very dodgy Kings Cross at the time when I was around 14 years old, going up to Keen House. Also the very first time I got drunk and was 'unwell' because of it ... The clubhouse building was/is extensive, and their library of books, drawings etc was second to none. I even see the current President is someone I remember from then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 Another show, not quite on the broads but close enough.. The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Society - Model Railway Exhibition Sat 6th August 2022 Sheringham High School, Holt Road, Sheringham, Norfolk NR25 8ND, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 and another one Norfolk & Suffolk Narrow Gauge Modellers Group Open Day Sat 4th June 2022 Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall, B1062 Beccles to Bungay Road, Barsham Near Beccles, Suffolk NR34 8HA OPENING TIMES: 10.30 - 16.00 ADMISSION: Adults £3.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 and two more in October. Sun 23rd - Bressingham Steam Museum - Model Railway Show 2022 Bressingham Steam Museum, Low Road, Bressingham, Diss, Norfolk Sat 29th - Sun 30th - Halesworth & District Model Engineering Society - Lowestoft Model Engineering and Model Making Exhibition (Lowmex) Energy Skills Centre, East Coast College, St. Peters Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk A family friendly event. Displays by a diverse range of local modelling clubs - 100's of super exhibits, Model Engineering, Traction engines & Lorries, Model Railway Layouts, Boats, Aircraft, Military Modelling, Horology, Steampunk, Daleks and many more. Trade stands, Refreshments & Free Parking. Adults £5.00, Children (12 - 18) £2.00, Accompanied under 12's free. Our Beneficiary is again SOLD (Lowestoft) the workshop for the disabled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 3, 2022 Author Share Posted May 3, 2022 September Sun 11th - Halesworth to Southwold Narrow Gauge Railway Society - Blythburgh Model Railway Exhibition & Open Day Blythburgh Village Hall, London Road, Blythburgh, Suffolk The Halesworth to Southwold Narrow Gauge Railway Society first Model Railway Exhibition will be held at Blythburgh Village Hall which is situated next to the Southwold Railway Station Site. The exhibition will be held in conjunction with the station site open day with Free guided tours of the Station Site and all being well a loco will be doing shunting demonstrations on the newly laid track. A number of layouts & Exhibits will be on show in the hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 5, 2022 Author Share Posted May 5, 2022 just discovered the Model Railway Club in London is Holding an Open day May 8th . https://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/events/spring-open-day/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 26 minutes ago, TheQ said: just discovered the Model Railway Club in London is Holding an Open day May 8th . https://www.themodelrailwayclub.org/events/spring-open-day/ Ooooh - thanks for that. Didn't know they did open days ! I might well pop in, it would my first visit to Keen House in about 35 years ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 5, 2022 Author Share Posted May 5, 2022 Thought you might like that , That's why I mentioned it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 On 05/05/2022 at 12:01, TheQ said: Thought you might like that , That's why I mentioned it.. Well thank you very much indeed TheQ ! I went along to the open day a the MRC today, the first time I have been there in 35-40 years It was pretty much as I remembered it, the same, but changed. Certainly the building is a lot smaller than I remember it as a youngster ... The main layouts are different understandably, but the test tracks are the same ones from way back then, although re-laid since then. The library is in the same room, but some what expanded in volumes. The bar and lecture room are the same, almost unchanged The best thing was there were some people there that I remembered from when I was a Junior Member of the MRC and the S Scale MRS, including the current and a past President - and they actually remembered me. Had a lovely chat and catch up with them and some others. One day I might even take up railway modelling again - but not till after I get my boat !! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 9, 2022 Author Share Posted May 9, 2022 One of the Cunard vessels has a O gauge railway running round the bar, perhaps an N gauge model railway running round your future cabin? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikertov Posted May 9, 2022 Share Posted May 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, TheQ said: One of the Cunard vessels has a O gauge railway running round the bar, perhaps an N gauge model railway running round your future cabin? My brother in his home office has a raised removeable shelf sitting along the length of his desk, that he has some track and runs simple Hornby rolling stock. I can see that translating into a boat environment quite easily, run from the leisure batteries of course - but do Hornby do 'marinised' locos, controls and track ? Maybe there is an interesting niche in the market we have discovered here ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 I'm pleased to announce that Broadland Model Railway club will be holding an Open day at the Poppy Centre, aka Stalham community Gym , on the 28th August. The entrance fee I think will be about £3 to cover the hall hire costs, (accompanied children free) We hope in future to expand this into a full show... Provisionally we are also looking at having Something at Hoveton in the spring of 2023 If you've never heard of the Poppy Centre http://www.thepoppycentre.co.uk/ it's off Brumstead rd in Stalham, I think most visitors will come in off the A149 on Stepping stone lane, then turn right towards Stalham on Brumstead rd, then turn right onto recreation road to the hall. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 I can confirm further details for our club open day which is now almost a full show, as we have a guest layout, and two commercial stalls. And the club second hand stall. £3 to enter, 10:30-16:00, 6 operational layouts 4 under construction , postcode for your navigator NR12 9DE. A picture of where it is, the entrance is where it says poppy centre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 17 days to go to our show in Stalham, so I thought I'd just give you all a little reminder.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted August 24, 2022 Author Share Posted August 24, 2022 IT's reminder time.. Broadland Model Railway Clubs open day / Show is this weekend on Sunday, see details above See you there. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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