Portable exhibition layouts needed all over the UK

[Selkent]

Selkent MRC based in London is set up not like a traditional model railway club, instead all members and it is free to join, have fully built layouts which don't actually get worked on at club nights, instead they take them to non model railway shows around the UK to old people's homes, school fetes, autistc groups, social clubs and charities plus well being events. This month we have had members with layouts at a number of school and community events and been asked recently to attend Chelsea pensioners to help set up a working model railway at their venue for them to build. we mostly get requests from se England as most of our members are in that region. We would like to expand to the whole of the UK and once we have local layouts and operators willing to give one day a year to us, we can start to approach local charities in those areas. The club has 3 exhibition layouts it takes out, personally I take out a 5ft 009 gauge fully scenic layout and typical visit would be a midweek to a oap home, where after looking at the layout and having a go, a discussion starts over tea about remembering the days of steam, basically a nice afternoon. The idea of the group is to promote the hobby to new channels and two years ago got invited to the police fed conference to show ideas for hobbies for retiring police officers although just as much interest from those with years of service to go. Remember we are not asking you to attend organised model rail shows, but shows and events where your layout would be a added attraction or a discussion starter. Actually we may ask some layouts to come to the two shows we run in London and
Kent which also promotes the hobby. So if you have a layout which can be easy to move, a car to put it in and a spare afternoon, please contact us on selkentmrc@gmail.com. For those that can get to London we have use of a great venue where we have monthly social and drinkies night and now set up a test track and hosted the oo gauge south east annual meeting a few months ago and our venue is open to other railway groups to use for their yearly meetings.  Also anyone got any old 00 track or controllers, we build 8 x 4 ovals on mdf and give them to groups to use to build their own scenic railways.   We buy the mdf and paint it black and set the track and then deliver it to community groups. 

Edited February 25, 2018 by Selkent