I had a look, but couldn't see any previous threads in this vein, so please let me know if I've missed something!
I just thought it might be nice to have a thread for talking about model railway exhibitions people on here have either been to or are going to go to, either as an operator or a visitor? I know we've discussed the topic several times on other threads but it could be nice to maybe even have this as a place where people can find dates and details for exhibitions they might not have otherwise heard about?
This idea came to me the other week actually, after I went to the Great British Model Railway Show at the British Motor Museum. I'd been to the museum before, but not for some time, so it was nice to have a look around at the cars (which I had very little knowledge of but it's nice to see the older examples particularly), and of course the layouts. It was the first exhibition I'd been to, and a lovely one to boot. Here are some of the photos I took - not very good, I appreciate, but it was mostly a case of seeing things I thought looked cool and going 'snap'!
(I also can't remember the names of any of the layouts - my apologies)
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This was a lovely TT gauge layout based on Portsmouth: despite not being a carbon-copy of Portsmouth Harbour and Portsmouth & Southsea stations, the likeness was uncanny and there really was some amazing modelling work on display (as there is on all of these layouts!).
This was an excellent N gauge mainline layout - the noise of the trains running round was almost as impressive as the layout itself as it really gave you the impression of them being big things moving quickly.
A really charming continental layout, which I photographed mainly because of the two gauges meeting together like that. It wasn't bigger than what you see here but still very nice.
The two ends of a GWR layout in O gauge: a wonderful study of how to make a goods area in particular look really convincing and effective.
And one of the most technically-interesting layouts (for someone with only a base-level knowledge of technical details!) was this Hornby live steam set-up. When I got there, it was the silver A4 speeding around: the other engines were warming up or ticking over, I believe. Plenty of signs telling you not to touch the 250'C engines!
And this one was simple amazing to me. I didn't get a shot of the layout itself, but it was a OO gauge end-to-end design, based around the Rail Technical Centre (or somewhere like it), I believe. The amount of scratchbuilt stock was simply amazing, and I had to get a shot of the stock set out behind it just for the APT if nothing else!
That's all I got in terms of photos from my visit.
Thanks for reading!
-Peter
I just thought it might be nice to have a thread for talking about model railway exhibitions people on here have either been to or are going to go to, either as an operator or a visitor? I know we've discussed the topic several times on other threads but it could be nice to maybe even have this as a place where people can find dates and details for exhibitions they might not have otherwise heard about?
This idea came to me the other week actually, after I went to the Great British Model Railway Show at the British Motor Museum. I'd been to the museum before, but not for some time, so it was nice to have a look around at the cars (which I had very little knowledge of but it's nice to see the older examples particularly), and of course the layouts. It was the first exhibition I'd been to, and a lovely one to boot. Here are some of the photos I took - not very good, I appreciate, but it was mostly a case of seeing things I thought looked cool and going 'snap'!
(I also can't remember the names of any of the layouts - my apologies)
This was a lovely TT gauge layout based on Portsmouth: despite not being a carbon-copy of Portsmouth Harbour and Portsmouth & Southsea stations, the likeness was uncanny and there really was some amazing modelling work on display (as there is on all of these layouts!).
This was an excellent N gauge mainline layout - the noise of the trains running round was almost as impressive as the layout itself as it really gave you the impression of them being big things moving quickly.
A really charming continental layout, which I photographed mainly because of the two gauges meeting together like that. It wasn't bigger than what you see here but still very nice.
The two ends of a GWR layout in O gauge: a wonderful study of how to make a goods area in particular look really convincing and effective.
And one of the most technically-interesting layouts (for someone with only a base-level knowledge of technical details!) was this Hornby live steam set-up. When I got there, it was the silver A4 speeding around: the other engines were warming up or ticking over, I believe. Plenty of signs telling you not to touch the 250'C engines!
And this one was simple amazing to me. I didn't get a shot of the layout itself, but it was a OO gauge end-to-end design, based around the Rail Technical Centre (or somewhere like it), I believe. The amount of scratchbuilt stock was simply amazing, and I had to get a shot of the stock set out behind it just for the APT if nothing else!
That's all I got in terms of photos from my visit.
Thanks for reading!
-Peter