The Diesel & Electric Show: The Best of Diesel Era Modelling Sponsored by Bachmann Europe Plc

[Phil Bullock]

Report from yesterdays excursion....

 

An excellent day out! The Scottish layouts - Portchullin, Georgemas and Kinmundy - caught the eye together - as always - with Worcester Road.

 

A good spread of traders - managed to spend with Keen systems and my locals at Eileens Emporium and CMC, avoided any rolling stock purchases as still have plenty of on going projects and no-one had either Bachmann Blue GUVs or a Mainline/Replica RBR in Blue/grey

 

Not sure if the attendance was enough to keep the organisers happy but did mean there was plenty of space to move round and also time for waffle with the exhibitors

 

Cark parking OK - but £10 for 3 coffees???!!! Was I ripped off???
 

Phil

[toffee]

Nice day out, room to breathe and chat without getting bashed by people's bags or children. Probably not a good day for some traders but others did ok, the show will grow if allowed to. Lovely to see the mighty Worcester Rd again and the £7.50 was worth it just for a chance to see and have a chat with Fred Phipps and see his newest wonder the tremendous D600's. Oh and the Costa coffee downstairs was £3 for a large cup so you wiz robbed Phil !

[Clive Mortimore]

I am home after a lovely day out chatting to other like minded railway modellers. Didn't buy much, it was one of those times when nothing caught my eye. Mr Dagworth tipped me off so I brought some lunch and drinks on the way to the show. Then ate them it the car before leaving the car park to come home. Layouts were all good. Sad to see it was not busy, if another one is organised then maybe a few more bods through the door would be good.

 

Nothing to do with the show but on the journey to Telford, I found myself in the wrong lane on the M6, I had to pay 4 pounds to get off the other M6. And on the way home the Little Chef near Kettering was shut, I was looking forward to having my tea there.

[Robert Shrives]

Hi ,

 A great weekend had with 3D printed treasures and FineNtrak point work, built bits on all three amusing quite a few with very small rail chairs in a 3D print B6 and C20 turnouts. I had a Tomix bus demo running as well - many thanks to the Grange over Sands boys for loan of several road vehicles after mine failed to appear in packaging - must look harder when packing next time !

 

3D vehicles includes RHTT , MRAs, Biomass conversion for GBRF hoppers, GWR railcars, 252. 33 pacer projects and new wagons and high cube containers all from members of the N gauge Forum and on here ! 3D print gurus, along with Big Ps 165 which started by quest in 3 D models - thanks!  As ever look at Shapeways and put N gauge in the search box and be amazed !!

 

Show was as has been said a good starting point and hopefully the footfall enough to encourage more shows. Venue had better than average lighting - no yellow sodium lights and no sports hal - fully carpeted - a good likeness to the old Co-op Hall shows  in manchester, and lovely and warm in the small hall, large hall with more layouts and mass of traders was really good.

 

As seen above visitor experience good - usual caveat on  venvue catering, you learn to bring and eat  your own.  Parking lots of space normally but with bike show there was an out of hall market and white van fest, but plenty of town parking very close by - rail link bus a good idea.

 

Despite being an exhibition centre upstairs is more your conference venue and is not designed for high volume movement of trade stands and layouts. but the upstairs gave the room and exclusivity  - a trade off  . Traffic control - some discussion on round the centre detours for some others got straight in - some thing for review by Mortons staff I expect.

 

I enjoyed myself and hope the other visitors did and look forward to 2017 show provided for Mortons the figures add up.

Robert       

[Phil Bullock]

That's a trek Clive - A good show though so fully deserving!

 

Sounds like you decided to dodge the suspect mob that were there on Saturday....and yup right to avoid the catering!!!

 

Phil

[Clive Mortimore]

That's a trek Clive - A good show though so fully deserving!

 

Sounds like you decided to dodge the suspect mob that were there on Saturday....and yup right to avoid the catering!!!

 

Phil

Hi Phil,

I would have liked to meet up with you, Rich, Andi and Pierre but I was working yesterday. Don't Rich's etches look good. Mr Cloggydog had one on a coach body for us to poke and prod.

[Phil Bullock]

Absolutely - bloomin' clever stuff

 

Phil

[Benjamin Brady]

Thoroughly enjoyed the show yesterday and do hope that there is another, I thought the spacings between layouts was good even, if there had been plenty more people there I don't think it would of felt crowded. The HST, NSE and wcml displays were excellent along with the layout .

 

All in all an excellent day .

[sawyermodels]

We back and unpacking after the show. Great weekend, layouts were superb, we had a great weekend on our stall. New bryford behind us was superb, thanks to mick and the guys for keeping us entertained. Look forward to doing it all again next year.

[Taigatrommel]

A great show layout wise, and I'll echo the sentiment that having plenty of circulation space between stands made for a pleasant experience.  The catering wasn't terrible, but the queues for hot food were crazy.  Still, there is a Wetherspoons a short walk away as an option.

 

I was less impressed with the trade, there wasn't too much particularly specialist.  Naturally Shawplan were there, but otherwise it just felt like a lot of box shifters. I'd have liked to have seen a transfer seller of some sort (Railtec for preference) somewhere to buy wheels, buffers etc.  Looking at the list of traders for DEMU showcase, aside from the lack of MJT/Dart Castings it's pretty much what I'd want.  Perhaps traders were wary of attendance levels at a new show?  After all, the organisers can't compel them to come.

 

Here's hoping for a repeat next year.

[Wolf27]

Two part video of the layouts.

 

 

 

Apologies for missing out Kinmundy.

 

cheers

 

Shane

[Simon Bendall]

I was less impressed with the trade, there wasn't too much particularly specialist.  Naturally Shawplan were there, but otherwise it just felt like a lot of box shifters. I'd have liked to have seen a transfer seller of some sort (Railtec for preference) somewhere to buy wheels, buffers etc.  Looking at the list of traders for DEMU showcase, aside from the lack of MJT/Dart Castings it's pretty much what I'd want.  Perhaps traders were wary of attendance levels at a new show?  After all, the organisers can't compel them to come.

 

A considerable number of small traders were invited but many were unable to attend for various reasons, including holidays (it being half term), work and various other existing commitments. Railtec was one of these. There were only a couple who didn't want to come, many others would have had they been free.

 

Thanks to those who did attend and the comments made across the weekend and above.

 

Simon

[cravensdmufan]

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Two part video of the layouts.

 

 

 

Apologies for missing out Kinmundy.

 

cheers

 

Shane

Excellent videos Shane.  Very well filmed.   Enjoyed them very much.

 

Thanks very much for posting.

[Benjamin Brady]

I agree with the comments that I would of liked to see more specialist traders there, I feel its the kind of show that would of been perfect for them. As I am not involved in the organisation or any shows I am not sure on costing's, but are these types of traders put off on the basis they it would not be profitable attending as they would not be able to shift the stock to cover cost or bearly cover costs, when maybe they have hotel and transport costs on top of the space required.

[Nobby (John)]

I think Simon has explained about the traders several posts back.

[Nick G]

 

 

I agree with the comments that I would of liked to see more specialist traders there, I feel its the kind of show that would of been perfect for them.

 

 

See Simon Bendall's post above which explains about the trade situation.

[Kelly]

Was on the DEMU stand helping out all weekend and what I saw of the show impressed me. There were a few areas that need attention (parking steward communications being one). But on the whole a good first show.

 

The mix of layouts seemed good to me, though I didn't get a lot of time to see many of them in detail. Mix of traders could have been a bit better, but found what I was after mostly (mainly small bits and tools).

 

Will look forward to going again next year hopefully. Now to rest...

[Phatbob]

I ended up going to the RAF museum at Cosford instead of the Telford exhibition on Sunday.  I took my Railway Modeller with me and was looking through it for the location details for the pratt naff.  It wasn't in the RM diary page and there was no advert!  As I was at the motorway services I looked through the model railway mags in W H SMith.  Not mentioned in any of them either.  Doh!  Pratt naff didn't recognise "The Telford Centre" so I went to Cosford instead.  It's in the POI list in the pratt naff and signposted off the motorway, so no problem.  I wonder how much patronage this show missed out on through not being advertised in any other magazines?

[Wolf27]

I ended up going to the RAF museum at Cosford instead of the Telford exhibition on Sunday.  I took my Railway Modeller with me and was looking through it for the location details for the pratt naff.  It wasn't in the RM diary page and there was no advert!  As I was at the motorway services I looked through the model railway mags in W H SMith.  Not mentioned in any of them either.  Doh!  Pratt naff didn't recognise "The Telford Centre" so I went to Cosford instead.  It's in the POI list in the pratt naff and signposted off the motorway, so no problem.  I wonder how much patronage this show missed out on through not being advertised in any other magazines?

You can't really use the lack of media coverage as an excuse for your non attendance as you knew it was on. Did you not get the address from the first post on this thread? As for the promotion in other press I'll let Si answer that but Mortons only have one railway based publication on their portfolio. Not sure how it works using competitors media to promote your own brand, I guess it's like asking Hornby to promote a Bachmann model.

 

Cheers

 

Shane

[Andy Y]

I know that the Railway Modeller doesn't accept advertising for any events held by other publishers. Mortons did advertise the show on RMweb and it was listed in BRM's diary dates this month and was advertised in Feb BRM.

 

I had intended to go on Sunday but unfortunately I was stuck at the desk herding cats.

[Moxy]

I think I may have to disagree with you Andy, the BRM Doncaster show had a half page advert in February Railway Modeller.  Surely from a magazine's point of view paid advertising for a show is paid advertising, whoever the show organiser is?

 

As has been said, it is up to Morton's where/how this show is promoted in future, but maybe now they have had the first one they can look at longer lead times/more promotion for future events.

 

Regards

 

Moxy

[Andy Y]

I think I may have to disagree with you Andy, the BRM Doncaster show had a half page advert in February Railway Modeller.  

 

Inaccuracy noted; my apologies. I know it's certainly been the case before now.

[PenrithBeacon]

I didn't go because equally good events were closer to me which I navigated to with my satnav (I wouldn't get in the car without it).

 

I have to say I don't understand the reference to 'prat nav' the postcode for the event was given in the OP.

 

Regards

[Kickstart]

Hi

 

There was an advert for the show in Model Rail.

 

The show was at The International Centre, Telford. Same place as the Gauge O Guild show.

 

All the best

 

Katy

[Clive Mortimore]

I found it even after taking the wrong M6 (and paying 4 pounds to be released), no map, no satnav, and not even the sun to navigate with. Did get a bit worried while driving on the A5 and there were signs about no kerb crawling and the traffic was going very slowly.