kevpeo Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) The F.M.R.C's next show will be - The 57th Model Railway & Transport Exhibition Saturday & Sunday, the 12th & 13th October 2019. Barrow Sixth Form College, Rating Lane, Barrow-in-Furness, LA139LE. TIMES: 10.00 am until 5.00pm, both days. ADMISSION: Adults £6.00 Concessions £4.00 Children £3.00 Featuring model railway layouts, traders, model engineering, model aircraft and model ship displays. Tombola and Raffle. Free Car Parking, Excellent Catering, Free Bus Service from Barrow Railway Station and Town Hall. All info subject to change. Layouts Swisspass - Ho & Hom Thomas - 00 Pengullow. Cornish - 00 Laramie Engine Terminal, USA - 0 Gauge Triang.- 00 High Stamley - 009 Bere Banks - 00 Ketton Cement - N Upper Cwmtwych - N Sheffield Grimeside - OO - tbc Trade D&E Models Pooleys Puffers Baby Bitz Crafty Hobbies Broughton Rail Along Classic Lines Simon Mott Contact - The Exhibition Manager - 01229 583595 Edited July 30, 2019 by kevpeo 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted April 9, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 9, 2019 Date in my diary, I hope get there. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevpeo Posted July 1, 2019 Author Share Posted July 1, 2019 OP now updated. Kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Hello everyone, Its not that long now until I get a trip back to my home town to what is always an excellent show put on by all involved at FMRC. Two members of our group have had their layouts invited, Martin with his superb 2mm finescale layout Ketton Cement at what is planned to be it’s outing as it makes way for his new projects coming down from Scotland Keith is bringing his excellent 4mm creation of Bere Banks all the way up from Devon. Will also be nice to get my new 37 from John & Shelagh at Crafty Hobbies in person for a change instead of sending my mum in! see you all soon Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phatbob Posted October 2, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2019 Roundhouse and I will be there helping our mate Mike with his Tri-ang layout. Do pop in and say hello. Always a great show and well worth the trip. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 Not long now, i'm there helping on Pengullow, usually a good show, come and say hellooooooo! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 It's tomorrow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phatbob Posted October 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 13, 2019 It's today. Get down here quick if you've not been already, or you'll miss it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted October 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 13, 2019 I managed to get a day off today and the wife wanted a ‘day out’, so we agreed to go to Barrow. As the club had arranged a bus service linking the town centre, railway station and exhibition, we would normally have gone by train. However Northern Rail are simply too unreliable on Sundays to risk, so we went by car instead. Got to the exhibition at 1118, perfect for the wife to get the 1130 exhibition bus into town. No sign of it by 1145, so I had to run her into Barrow. Not a good start. The plan was for her to catch the 1430 bus back from Barrow; she got to the stop at 1420, but again the bus didn’t appear so I had to curtail my visit to the show to go and rescue her. It was cold and wet and understandably she was not happy. Makes going to further exhibitions more difficult. Anyway, onto the exhibition, it was superb, with two halls full of excellent and interesting layouts, all of which were being operated well. While I’m not really a fan of 2mm scale layouts, Ketton Cement was superb, as were 00 layouts Pengullow and Bere Banks with their sound fitted diesels. Swiss Pass is just awesome. High Stanley showed great scenic modelling and proved that 009 can run well. The old Triang layout was interesting and showed just how far the hobby has progressed. In the smaller hall. Jewal Line, a OO light railway was a fascinating use of a small space and gave me more ideas. Pretty good trade stands but none had the items I was after (a couple of old Lima Mk1s and some weathering paints). I had lunch at the show and it was some of the best exhibition catering I’ve come across. Proper Cumberland sausage in a giant yorkshire pud with peas, chips and gravy - tasty and good value. listening to fellow visitors it was clear the ‘The Great Model Railway Challenge’ TV show had encouraged people to go to the exhibition. Sounded like they were enjoying it too. Although one very young child was confused because a dmu didn’t have a chimney with smoke coming out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRDBLUE17 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Hi everyone, Just wanted to post my thanks to Ian/Kev and everyone at FMRC for inviting our group with Ketton Cement and Bere Banks. We had an excellent weekend as always at one of the friendliest shows in the country. Great selection of layouts and trade. Good food and a great Saturday night out too. We hope to see you all again next year. thanks Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted October 16, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 16, 2019 I glad Ketton Cement and Bere Banks were there, both great layouts and friendly operators, I spent ages talking to the chap operating Ketton. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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