Well its been over a week now since the Manchester Show. I have to say it was on the whole a great weekend and thanks must go to my able helpers for the weekend firstly my Mum and Dad and also Roger, Mark (GWMark) and his son Daniel from the High Wycombe and District MRS who gave up their weekend to help me operate the layout.

The new venue for the show seemed to be pretty good, certainly makes unloading and load easier and quicker than the old venue and is a nice well lit sports hall in which FS was centrally located next to Andy and the RMweb stand (not that I got to speak to Andy much over the weekend!) I know that the MMRS know that the catering at the venue needs a little tweaking for next year (as separate serving area for the exhibiitors would greatly assist) I am sure as a venue it will prove a good move for the Society in the future.

On the whole , after a shaky first hour on the Saturday morning when the layout seemed to behave like a bag of bolts, things seemed to go pretty well and was nice to chat to a few members of RMweb and also puting some faces to names of members of the Semg who came along to say hello. The inititial ruinning issues we sorted after a few board joints were adjusted follwing the hall obvisouly being pretty cool overnight but rapidly warming up in the morning (to pretty much too warm in the afternoons)

Follwong spending money at Langley models and International models some additional loco crew and foliage was added as the weekend progressed.

All in all a great weekend and thansk to the members of the MMRS for their welcome (latext gloves....don't ask....or work it out from the exhibition thread...no I really didn't have an allen key on my person) and hospitality.

Once again thanks to my operating crew, the next outing for FS is January 2011 at the Guildford show.