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coombe junction - Withdrawal


bcnPete

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It is with regret, that last week I contacted the 2mm Association to formally withdraw Coombe Junction from the Golden Jubilee Layout Challenge at the 2FS EXPO this coming July, in the main, due to the logistical/financial complications of getting the layout from Barcelona to Oxford for a 48 hour period.

 

I would welcome an opportunity one day to exhibit it in the UK and it will keep progressing but I should just like to thank everyone for their interest in the layout to date.

 

Pete

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Hello Pete

 

Unfortunate but understandable. I hope you will continue to share the layouts development with us.

 

Michael

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Absolutely. I can imagine the difficulty in getting Coombe to the UK. I hope it does get here one day, but in the meantime please keep us updated with progress. It's a cracking project.

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Hi Pete,

 

That is a shame but please don't stop the progress on this layout as it would be great to actually be able to see it finished one day at an exhibition!

 

Mark

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a great shame although understandable still hope to be there with line No4 but have similar reservations to you and Oxfords only 150 miles away ...

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Unfortunate but understandable. I hope you will continue to share the layouts development with us.

 

Michael, Thank you. Yes, CJ will still continue and the comments received by the forum maintains my motivation - Pete

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Absolutely. I can imagine the difficulty in getting Coombe to the UK. I hope it does get here one day, but in the meantime please keep us updated with progress. It's a cracking project.

 

Ian, Thanks also for your kind comments. The idea of simple transportation began to change as originally it was just a layout built on 3 Ikea shelves stored out of the way in our spare room but once the high backscene was introduced (as per the 1:10 scale model) the 'flat pack' packaging for transportation became redundant - Pete

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That is a shame but please don't stop the progress on this layout as it would be great to actually be able to see it finished one day at an exhibition!

 

Mark - Thanks also - As above, it never set out to be an exhibitable layout and by luck the overall size of the 3 shelves just squeezed themselves into the rules set out by the GJLC but due to the kind comments received on this forum since I started it, I would like to try and get it to exhibition standards. Without the forum, it would probably today still be 3 boards with a track plan drawn out on them! Pete

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a great shame although understandable still hope to be there with line No4 but have similar reservations to you and Oxfords only 150 miles away ...

 

Thanks Nick - I am coming to the EXPO as a visitor so am hoping to see your layout. I was thinking that if I still lived in London, then I could have chucked my layout in the back of a car and driven to Oxford...but then again....when I was living in London I had no room for a layout :rolleyes: Pete

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