John K Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) The East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition, on June 8th & 9th has a new venue and new dates. The show, organised by St Neots Model Railway Club, now has a bigger, better venue. We are going to the single level exhibition space in the Arena at Kettering Conference Centre, NN15 6PB, This is a permanent move following the closure of the Arena at Wood Green Animal Charity Centre. If you loved this show when it was in Godmanchester, you will love it even more now. There are 40 (yes 40!) layouts for you to see in all of the popular gauges including some continental and, many that have not been seen in this part of the country before. There will be 31 traders who will be selling all the much needed items required for making the hobby come to life, and this year, we also have six demonstrators showing you various modelling techniques, and we are pleased to welcome representatives from the local Northamptonshire model clubs and other associated societies from further afield. If you are travelling by train, the vintage bus will be doing free transfers to and from Kettering Railway Station. For those travelling by car, there will be plenty of free parking with a free bus running to overflow car parks. The show is open from 10am - 5pm on Saturday 8th June and 10am - 4pm on Sunday 9th June. Advance tickets can be purchased here: https://www.stneotsmrc.com/advanced-ticket-purchase Advance ticket holders will be allowed entry from 09.45am on both days. For more information see https://www.stneotsmrc.com/exhibition-news John K Edited May 6, 2019 by John K 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 (edited) Here is the layout list for the show 45C Westlands OO gauge Moorside Valley Railway N gauge Feltham Road MPD OO gauge Frackingham O gauge Nonsuch O 16.5NG Penna Lane TMD OO gauge Farmers Drove N gauge Coleford OO9 gauge Fryton Z gauge Hampton End G scale Chelma Canyon ON30 (USA) 1 in 48th scale Gneiss Cider Gn15 1 in 24th scale Burnham OO gauge Copper Wort OO gauge Burdale Quarry O gauge Middleton OO gauge Shabbey Road OO gauge for children to operate Smrzovka TT 3mm scale (Czech) St Martin de Boschville Gauge 1 plus 1 in 35 scale military (French) The Vale Maentwrog 4mm NG (Welsh) Dock Green Loco O gauge Zanesville HO gauge (USA) Coldharbour Lane O gauge Roberts No 2 O Gauge Tigley Yard O Gauge Cameo Callaton 2mm Finescale Zweiburg N gauge (German) Portsea 3mm Stamford East N gauge The Great Minion Railway OO gauge Fredstone Lane N gauge Bewdley OO gauge Bear Creek N gauge (Canadian) Sixpenny Handley & Bartholomew's Hollow OO gauge Wattisham & Combs N gauge Barental & Dorf HOm (Swiss) Blackgang Gauge 3 (Isle of Wight Amiens 1918 - Tracks & Trenches OO9 Priory Lane N gauge Fen End Pit G1 Edited May 6, 2019 by John K Update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 And here are the traders, demonstrators and societies Traders Gramodels Lord and Butler GC Weathering KS Laser Design ADM Turntables Keith's Model Railways Model Scenery Supplies Petite Properties Squires Model & Craft Tools Trains 4U Bob Pearman Books Joe Lock Model Railways Layouts 4 U Digitrains Cheltenham Model Centre Ten Commandments Freestone Model Accessories Plus Daughters... and Granddaughter The Little Layout Company Hobby Holidays Model Roads and Tramways (MRT) Air Framed H & A Models Megapoints Controllers Skytrex (2013) Ltd Severn Models The Craftlight Company 3D Printing Corner SM Models Ron Connor Totem Signs James Green Artist Demonstrations Card Buildings from scratch Will Heath Loco crew & figure painting GC Weathering All types of soldering Rob Bishop 7mm Kit building Jon Gardner & Robin Arkinstall Building stock and locos in 4mm Tony Wright Societies Gauge O Guild St Neots MRC Club stand B17 Locomotive Trust Battle of Britain 92 Squadron Kettering & District MRC Corby & District MRC Northampton & District MRC Northampton Society of Model Engineers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted May 6, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2019 Do the folk of Kettering know they've been 'promoted' to being part of East Anglia? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_tyne Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 On 06/05/2019 at 17:23, Alex TM said: Do the folk of Kettering know they've been 'promoted' to being part of East Anglia? Ha ha, I know; 'East Anglia' is stretching the boundaries somewhat isn't it!?! Kettering is an awful long way from Norfolk and (the jewel in the East Anglian crown!! ) sunny Suffolk! Looks like a fantastic show though, with a great selection of layouts and traders 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted May 8, 2019 Author Share Posted May 8, 2019 We always try to produce the biggest and best club run show that we can. We are not ignorant of geography, but the East Anglian name is a key part of our identity. Having changed venue and date we would be foolish to change our 'brand' at the same time. John 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted May 10, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2019 Hi John, It wasn't a dig at the show, it's identity, or the sense of geography. It was more of a gentle dig at the north end of Northamptonshire (where I once lived and worked) and it's aspirations to be something greater and better. Perhaps if I had framed it along the lines of the continued expansion of the ancient Anglian empire ....... Sorry that you needed to defend/explain the show's thinking. Regards, Alex. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 I was born in Kettering and think it’s Great there is a decent show in Kettering despite the identity crisis. Looking forward to going 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Not long now. any updates? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 6 hours ago, ess1uk said: Not long now. any updates? My ticket arrived yesterday... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains4U Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 8 hours ago, ess1uk said: Not long now. any updates? Only to say, if you can, please try and visit the show! Hosted by the St.Neots club, a big attendance would be a great show of support following the problems at Stamford last week. 2 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted May 29, 2019 Author Share Posted May 29, 2019 (edited) Just under two weeks to go so five layout reviews to whet your appetite Sixpenny Handley: This is by James Handley (age 16) It is his first layout which took 6 months to build (with his dad’s help). It is loosely based on a Southern region theme, twin track station with run around loop and a small goods yard. It includes interchangeable modular scenery, lots of recycled scenery and rolling stock . Bartholomew’s Hollow is by Nathanael Handley (age 11) and this is his first exhibition layout too. It is built to be free standing but can also attach to Sixpenny Handley to allow them to both operate together. Featuring a central turntable and engine sheds and servicing facilities, it is set at the edge of a quarry. This will also feature modular scenery. Burdale Quarry is by Tony Kell in O gauge / Scale7. Burdale Quarry was a real quarry located near Driffield in the Yorkshire Wolds. The only similarity between the real quarry and the model is the name. The layout is modelled to Scale Seven Standard, similar to O gauge but the track and wheel standards more closely represent the real thing. The layout depicts a small quarry loader, a couple of sidings and a station halt. The track is all hand built using C&L components and the points are operated using model aircraft servo motors. The fiddle yards use cassette storage. Shabbey Road by De Havilland MRS is OO Gauge. A fun OO gauge underground DIY (Drive it yourself) layout for children. Stock is largely from the ‘Underground Ernie’ family. The layout has been built using second hand buildings donated by members and this shows what can be achieved with very little expense. Please note: This is a hands-on layout intended for two children to operate, donations go to a local charity and the children will get a certificate to take home. Middleton, by De Havilland MRS is also OO Gauge. Excuding Shabbey Road, this is the society's second OO gauge layout, portraying the Middleton branch in the 1930s. The first was retired and scrapped at the end of 2012. However new lightweight boards have been constructed, track laying and basic scenery work on the new version is now complete. As the name suggests the layout is based on and closely follows the terminus of the LNER branch line from Darlington, through Barnard Castle, terminating at Middleton-in-Teesdale. The period is set in the 1930s and many excellent models of the ex-NER and newer LNER prototype rolling stock may be seen running. Advanced ticket sales close on Friday 31st May so get your order in now via our website. Follow us on Facebook and if you have specific questions - contact our exhibition manager: Jackie Kneeshaw East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition Manager 07810 861362 / 01480 454927 https://m.facebook.com/East-Anglian-Model-Railway-Exhibition-308140952659301/ https://www.stneotsmrc.com/exhibition-news Edited May 29, 2019 by John K 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_tyne Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Looks lolike a cracking show and particularly like the look of Burdale Quarry and hope to see some more pictures in due course. However the most heartening thing is undoubtedly seeing the layouts by those two young modellers. What a great thing to see youngsters active and participating in the hobby. It's very heartening, especially given the events and behaviour of another group of young people at Market Deeping; as ever, the moronic minority give the silent majority a bad name and tar all teenagers with the same brush. Well done to those two young lads and I hope they really enjoy the show! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 Advance ticket sales for the show are now closed, but we will happily take your money on the door. We are really looking forward to our first show in this super new venue. Kohn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) This time next week it will all be over. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 2019 East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition on 8th& 9thJune in Kettering. NN15 6PB Here are five more layout previews: Bewdley is by Graham Heald & Chris Manners in OO gauge. Bewdley is based on the real location at the Severn Valley Heritage Line. To the credit of SVR, very little has changed since 1862 when it opened, to the BR Western Region days and its closure in 1969. The layout depicts the station from 1958 to 1969, with three platforms providing loops to which trains could pass on the single line branches to Shrewsbury, Kidderminster, Worcester, Tenbury Wells and Hartlebury. Cameo Callaton by Mick and Yvonne Simpson in 2mm Finescale Mick says: “This little cameo was started with exhibition attendance very much in mind since while touring with my last exhibition layout, I was always being asked how easy it was to start in 2mm finescale. Enter the cameo layout which is usually quite small, very portable, doesn’t cost very much and enables the builder to exercise every discipline that building of a larger project might involve but,in generally a fraction of the time. This little project is based loosely on a prototype which existed close to the real Callerton, north of Newcastle upon Tyne, the story of which lies outside the scope of this little description”. Copper Wort by Peter Goss in OO gauge This is a working demonstration of a layout build in progress. The early 1900s represents the high point of the brewing industry in Burton on Trent, extremely busy with the bigger breweries establishing their potential with the Midland Railway network with the smaller breweries muscling in between them. To add substance to what is essentially a little-known small brewery company I have given it a few of its own 0-4-0 locomotives to support the Midland Railway locomotives running through. The layout includes a track plan based on the much larger Worthington’s arrangement to accommodate the numerous Midland Railway and Great Northern open wagons and outside framed MR vans. Dock Green by Colin and Margaret French in O gauge. This layout is a fictional O Gauge, 7mm/foot minimum space with no points. It’s based on an imaginary Industrial locomotive depot somewhere in a docklands area of the United Kingdom. The layout consists of three parallel tracks two of which are the loco depot the third being a hidden siding. To save space, there are no turnouts on the layout hence the title. A short traverser is used in the fiddle yard to enable locos to change tracks. The period depicted is the early 1950s. Watch out for PC Dixon who is continuing with his enquiries. Photograph by Paul Bason Frackingham by The Norfolk Joint Railway in 7mm Finescale. Frackingham was a sleepy Norfolk hamlet until the oil rush of the 1920s hit the district. Oil shale was being quarried and processed at Setch which prompted the English Oilfields Company to open an exploratory pit at Frackingham. This proved to be no more successful than the workings at Setch but the crushing house and retort house were constructed with a conveyor to link the two. Oil from Norfolk shale proved to have too high a sulphur content for most purposes unlike the better-quality oil shales from Scotland but production continued until the 1960s on a small scale for cosmetics manufacture. West Norfolk has a long history of minerals extraction and in 2017 trainloads of high quality industrial sand were still conveyed from the Sibelco site at Middleton. Edited June 3, 2019 by John K Typos 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted June 4, 2019 Author Share Posted June 4, 2019 For those go you coming by rail to Kettering, this is the bus that will be running the show to station shuttle service. John K 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SDJR7F88 Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 Looking forward to attending this weekend with Amiens 1918! Bit of drive ahead! Hope to see you there! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trains4U Posted June 6, 2019 Share Posted June 6, 2019 (edited) This is shaping up to be a really good show! For those interested, we will be bringing a limited stock of Revloution TEA tankers in OO, No Red triple packs unfortunately, but we have all the others in the range. though some are in 1s or 2s We will also have the remaining stock of Cavalex LaFarge PGAs, which are starting to run very low, a great selection of used rolling stock in OO for you to rummage through, and a good selection of weathered and sound fitted models, plus a load of new and used in N/OO and O gauges If anyone has any special requests, please let me know and we'll get it on the van tomorrow I look forward to seeing you there. Edited June 6, 2019 by Trains4U 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2750Papyrus Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 Does anyone know what the roadworks at the A1/A14 junction will be like tomorrow? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted June 7, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 7, 2019 9 minutes ago, 2750Papyrus said: Does anyone know what the roadworks at the A1/A14 junction will be like tomorrow? I can't see any planned closures of the junction at Brampton hut. A week or so ago I went that way and there is a new road layout taking you from the Brampton hut roundabout onto what is the new course of the A14, at the time of day I went the trafic lights were only allowing about 3-4 vehicles so it was a bit slow but it did keep moving. Coming back was no problem either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDJR7F88 Posted June 7, 2019 Share Posted June 7, 2019 (edited) Well, what day! A 3 hour journey turned into a 5 hour one, but Amiens 1918 is now all set up and ready for action! See you tomorrow and Sunday! Edited June 7, 2019 by SDJR7F88 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
south_tyne Posted June 8, 2019 Share Posted June 8, 2019 On 03/06/2019 at 09:57, John K said: This time next week it will all be over. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 2019 East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition on 8th& 9thJune in Kettering. NN15 6PB Here are five more layout previews: Bewdley is by Graham Heald & Chris Manners in OO gauge. Bewdley is based on the real location at the Severn Valley Heritage Line. To the credit of SVR, very little has changed since 1862 when it opened, to the BR Western Region days and its closure in 1969. The layout depicts the station from 1958 to 1969, with three platforms providing loops to which trains could pass on the single line branches to Shrewsbury, Kidderminster, Worcester, Tenbury Wells and Hartlebury. Cameo Callaton by Mick and Yvonne Simpson in 2mm Finescale Mick says: “This little cameo was started with exhibition attendance very much in mind since while touring with my last exhibition layout, I was always being asked how easy it was to start in 2mm finescale. Enter the cameo layout which is usually quite small, very portable, doesn’t cost very much and enables the builder to exercise every discipline that building of a larger project might involve but,in generally a fraction of the time. This little project is based loosely on a prototype which existed close to the real Callerton, north of Newcastle upon Tyne, the story of which lies outside the scope of this little description”. Copper Wort by Peter Goss in OO gauge This is a working demonstration of a layout build in progress. The early 1900s represents the high point of the brewing industry in Burton on Trent, extremely busy with the bigger breweries establishing their potential with the Midland Railway network with the smaller breweries muscling in between them. To add substance to what is essentially a little-known small brewery company I have given it a few of its own 0-4-0 locomotives to support the Midland Railway locomotives running through. The layout includes a track plan based on the much larger Worthington’s arrangement to accommodate the numerous Midland Railway and Great Northern open wagons and outside framed MR vans. Dock Green by Colin and Margaret French in O gauge. This layout is a fictional O Gauge, 7mm/foot minimum space with no points. It’s based on an imaginary Industrial locomotive depot somewhere in a docklands area of the United Kingdom. The layout consists of three parallel tracks two of which are the loco depot the third being a hidden siding. To save space, there are no turnouts on the layout hence the title. A short traverser is used in the fiddle yard to enable locos to change tracks. The period depicted is the early 1950s. Watch out for PC Dixon who is continuing with his enquiries. Photograph by Paul Bason Frackingham by The Norfolk Joint Railway in 7mm Finescale. Frackingham was a sleepy Norfolk hamlet until the oil rush of the 1920s hit the district. Oil shale was being quarried and processed at Setch which prompted the English Oilfields Company to open an exploratory pit at Frackingham. This proved to be no more successful than the workings at Setch but the crushing house and retort house were constructed with a conveyor to link the two. Oil from Norfolk shale proved to have too high a sulphur content for most purposes unlike the better-quality oil shales from Scotland but production continued until the 1960s on a small scale for cosmetics manufacture. West Norfolk has a long history of minerals extraction and in 2017 trainloads of high quality industrial sand were still conveyed from the Sibelco site at Middleton. Like the look of Dock Green and Frackingham. Hope to see more photos of both layouts from the weekend. I hope it goes well and visitors and exhibitors alike have a great time! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 8, 2019 'Smrzovka' is loaded in the car for 2 hour drive this morning. Doesn't take us long to set up. This is the layouts only show this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John K Posted June 8, 2019 Author Share Posted June 8, 2019 23 hours ago, 2750Papyrus said: Does anyone know what the roadworks at the A1/A14 junction will be like tomorrow? There are no daytime closures scheduled There are some 9pm to 6am diversions John K 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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