Wolverhampton MRC Exhibition, 5th/6th November

[Dikitriki]

Hi,

It's the Wolverhampton MRC show this coming weekend.

Wolverhampton Model Railway Club

13 attending Layouts the list is:-

ALSTONE QUAY - 0.16.5 Narrow Gauge exhibited by Terry Robinson

Alstone Quay

FRANKLIN – 0n2 Gauge - North American Narrow Gauge exhibited by Bob Harper

MADELEINA- 0n16.5 Gauge – Latin American Narrow Gauge exhibited by Ned Williams
BOWLEGGETT MANOR– 009 Gauge – English Narrow Gauge exhibited by Peter Cullen
HERGEST– 009 Gauge – A narrow gauge line near the England/Wales border exhibited by Peter Cullen
LOCH TAT– N Gauge – A depiction of the West Highland line in Scotland exhibited by Adrian Lambourne
LONGNOR– 0n16.5 Gauge – An extension of the Leek & Manifold Railway in North Staffordshire exhibited by Hugh Williams – Longnor at Wolverhampton – Stafford Railway Circle

STEAM ON THE CAMBRIAN – 00 Gauge – The former Cambrian Railway in BR days exhibited by Frank Collins
LOWFIELD – 00 Gauge – A small city centre terminus station exhibited by Cliff Homer
MARTINS HILL – N Gauge – American short line in Oregon exhibited by Mike Bartleet
DOLGELLY (1922) – 0 Gauge – The prototype location just after grouping exhibited by Phil Craythorn
MERTHYR RIVERSIDE – EM Gauge – Fictitious goods station in Merthyr Tydfil exhibited by Wolverhampton MRC

SODOR- 00 Gauge - An opportunity for children of all ages to drive the trains yourself.

(Thomas layout)

Confirmed Traders



Railwayania/Replica Railways

Book Law Publications

All Components

Kevin’s Trains

Nigels Trains
Lcut Creative

Other Attractions



Modelling demonstrations



including Tony Wright and Chris Dunne - 00 gauge loco construction.
Richard Lambert - O gauge loco construction


Display of large scale live steam models

Light refreshments

It's a nice friendly show, so come along and say hello.

Richard

 

[Pencarrow]

We exhibited at the show last year and unfortunately at times the exhibitors outnumbered the punters. I hope the local advertising is better this year and they get more through the door.

Mind you it didn't help that the school was also hosting some sort of football tournament and they took all the parking. Not much the club could do about that.

Good to see the Stafford club's Thomas layout still going strong. We built that many moons ago as a testbed for using very thin plywood for the boards. It proved a point and has hopefully entertained loads of kids (and adults) in the intervening years. Somebody please get a photo of Tony Wright driving it!

 

[simond]

What point did it prove?

Best
Simon

 

[Pencarrow]

What point did it prove?

Best
Simon

That robust, structurally sound baseboards could be built out of braced thin ply contrary to the wisdom of the day which was heavy duty materials should be used. It did attract a fair bit of comment during construction from the wise old sages that the approach was foolish and would never last.

 

[simond]

Ah, good. So aeroplanes can fly...