RAILEX 2018 26 & 27 MAY

[Siberian Snooper]

Some viewers whom stopped by to view Canute Road Quay apparently took longer to get to the venue than others, I can neither confirm or deny any names...

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A tasteful shot, avoiding the dangling string.

[PhilJ W]

Some viewers whom stopped by to view Canute Road Quay apparently took longer to get to the venue than others, I can neither confirm or deny any names...

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Well, I can see Paul Cram, Andy Scales and John Redrup. There is also some other person who looks vaguely familiar, but as he didn't come over over to LRM to say hello, I am not sure if it is who I think it is.

I don't think it was me though I appear in that shot, hiding behind the chap in the red shirt (Bill Bishop?), with the well laden stroller.

[Oldddudders]

I think there was only one 2mm FS layout - but this view shows what can be achieved. 

 

[81C]

Well, I can see Paul Cram, Andy Scales and John Redrup. There is also some other person who looks vaguely familiar, but as he didn't come over over to LRM to say hello, I am not sure if it is who I think it is.

The one with the beard is Captain Kernow to his left is Taz, Brinkly and the back of the head belongs to St Simon.

[GoingUnderground]

There were far too many people there who asked far too many questions and prevented me from watching trains. I think that this exhibition should be on for 3 days, 1 of them reserved for exhibitors, traders and demonstrators to walk around and watch each other do their stuff.

 

Discuss.

 

Whilst I have sympathy with your reasons, I don't think you understand the economics of exhibitions. The extra day that you propose would only increase the cost of the exhibition to the organisers, as they meet the hotel costs of the exhibitors.

 

However, if you've exhibited a layout or had a stand, then you'll already know that there is an additional day, the one before the exhibition opens to the public. This is when the larger layouts and trade stands arrive and set up. Once they've set up, exhibitors, traders and demonstrators often get a chance to see the other layouts, and make purchases from the traders as no trader is going to turn down a sale.

 

Unloading the larger layouts from a van and the setting up, and then knocking down and reloading at the end of a show, is very labour intensive, and as a result most layouts have more operators on hand than are needed at any one time during the days that the show is open to the public. In the case of the smallest layouts, often the organisers can provide relief operators. Thus all the operators get some breaks, not just for meals, etc., and it is at these times that they get the opportunity to see the rest of the show.

 

So, even if your suggestion was very "tongue-in-cheek", an extra "exhibitors only" day is not a good idea, IMHO.

Edited May 29, 2018 by GoingUnderground

[St. Simon]

the back of the head belongs to St Simon.

 

Wow, I didn't know the back of my head (which dad loves telling me is thinning!) was so recognisable!

 

Simon

[RichardS]

Well, I can see Paul Cram, Andy Scales and John Redrup. There is also some other person who looks vaguely familiar, but as he didn't come over over to LRM to say hello, I am not sure if it is who I think it is.

If only the photo showed the knees.

[RichardS]

Well, I can see Paul Cram, Andy Scales and John Redrup. There is also some other person who looks vaguely familiar, but as he didn't come over over to LRM to say hello, I am not sure if it is who I think it is.

If only the photo showed the knees.

[Horsetan]

.....managed to buy a bottle of weathering powder which I then left on the dealers stand.

I cannot for the life of me remember the dealers name, perhaps someone with more of their wits about them than myself can help.

I do not really expect to retrieve the bottle but he also had on sale brown cardboard boxes of sets of weathering materials which I would like to identify ....

 

That's Hobby Holidays.

[Mick Bonwick]

This exhibition is the best I have attended in years, a  fine selection of layouts and traders with plenty of space to circulate. Well done to the organisers!

I made a few purchases and managed to bring most of them home but managed to buy a bottle of weathering powder which I then left on the dealers stand.

I cannot for the life of me remember the dealers name, perhaps someone with more of their wits about them than myself can help.

I do not really expect to retrieve the bottle but he also had on sale brown cardboard boxes of sets of weathering materials which I would like to identify with a view to getting hold of.

Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble

 

cheers G       

 

From your description I'd guess that was Hobby Holidays.

 

Edit: Horsetan beat me to it!

Edited May 29, 2018 by Mick Bonwick

[Re6/6]

If only the photo showed the knees.

 

I had to travel with those knees on the long car journey home!

[Graham_Muz]

I had to travel with those knees on the long car journey home!

I didn’t realise they were interchangeable and you were sharing them. It does explain why I only saw you at separate times and never together...

[Captain Kernow]

That has altered my travel plans also!

 

Mike.

So you're coming after all?

[Captain Kernow]

I didn’t realise they were interchangeable and you were sharing them. It does explain why I only saw you at separate times and never together...

It's the glasses.

 

You'll have to decide which one is the mild-mannered reporter and which one is the super hero.

[Mick Bonwick]

So, even if your suggestion was very "tongue-in-cheek", an extra "exhibitors only" day is not a good idea, IMHO.

 

It was very tongue in cheek. I understand the way that exhibitions work, having attended a few as exhibitor and demonstrator, and would not expect anything like what I was suggesting would ever be seriously considered by any manager, let alone exhibitor. My attempt at humour evidently failed.

[leopardml2341]

My attempt at humour evidently failed.

Not here it didn't, I saw the jester

[Horsetan]

If only the photo showed the knees.

 

Is that a thing now?

[PhilJ W]

Is that a thing now?

No, but it means that next year we all show our knees. For that matter if we did it would it help to identify fellow RMwebbers?

[Redkiterail]

Here are my pictures from the show on saturday. Numbers seam down this year got some useful  bits and bobs

Hornsey Broadway:

 

Canute Road Quay:

 

Dock Green:

 

Hewisbridge:

 

Croft Depot:

 

The Mill:

 

Hebble Vale Goods:

 

The Summit:

 

North Ballachulish:

 

Burntisland 1883:

 

Kyle of Sutherland:

 

Herstmonceux:

 

Kirby Stephen West:

 

Harkness:

 

Foxcote New Pit:

Edited May 29, 2018 by Redkiterail

[Clearwater]

No, but it means that next year we all show our knees. For that matter if we did it would it help to identify fellow RMwebbers?

Very definitely. The oo chaps knees are 16.5mm apart, the em chaps 18 and the p4 team 18.83mm. Easy to stop a Gauge 1 aficionado as their legs are heroically far apart (see Hugh Laurie in Blackadder 3). The z gauge chap looks like his knees are clamped together.

 

RTR box openers tend to be wearing high street m&s shorts whereas a kit builder is usually spotted wearing a bespoke combo run up on his sewing machine with the zip carefully soldered shut. Both species will have weathered their shorts with application of coal dust, tea and real ale stains.

 

Makes all the difference in the world.

Edited May 29, 2018 by Clearwater

[Compound2632]

Very definitely. The oo chaps knees are 16.5mm apart, the em chaps 18 and the p4 team 18.83mm. Easy to stop a Gauge 1 aficionado as their legs are heroically far apart (see Hugh Laurie in Blackadder 3). The z gauge chap looks like his knees are clamped together.

 

RTR box openers tend to be wearing high street m&s shorts whereas a kit builder is usually spotted wearing a bespoke combo run up on his sewing machine with the zip carefully soldered shut. Both species will have weathered their shorts with application of coal dust, tea and real ale stains.

 

Makes all the difference in the world.

 

 

And the pre-grouping enthusiasts?

[Clearwater]

And the pre-grouping enthusiasts?

They’d be in Plus 4s. Anything less way too indecent for their time period: in olden times a glimpse of stocking was shocking, now Anything goes!

Edited May 29, 2018 by Clearwater

[Oldddudders]

And the pre-grouping enthusiasts?

Exquisitely lined-out, of course.

[bbishop]

'Spose you would want me in Lederhosen?

 

Bill

[Oldddudders]

'Spose you would want me in Lederhosen?

 

Bill

Since you ask - no. Men’s legs should be concealed except on the sports field, the beach or in their own backyard. Women’s legs, however, are another matter entirely......