doctor quinn Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) Hi Everyone and a Happy New Year, here are the full details for the Nottingham Spring Show 2020 Nottingham MRS Spring Show Saturday & Sunday 14 & 15 March 2020 Organiser: Nottingham MRS Venue: Highbank Community Centre, Farnborough Road, Clifton, Nottingham NG11 9DG. Open: Sat 10:00 – 17:00 Sun 10:00 – 16:00 Admission: adults £4, children £1 Venue amenities: refreshments, level access throughout, How to get there Public transport - Nottingham Express Tram (NET) to Holy Trinity tram stop By Car – M1 Jct. 24, use A453 to Clifton. There is some on-street parking or use the free parking at Clifton NET Park and Ride which signed from the A453 (Satnav NG11 8BF). NET offers a £1 Clifton Shopper ticket for the tram from here to the venue tram stop. Features: 9 layouts including the return of the iconic Deepcar, trade stands and hands on demonstration. Layouts Deepcar - Nottingham MRS'S Iconic OO Scale Woodhead Layout Featuring Kitbuilt 1500v DC Electric Locomotives and Scratchbuilt Overhead Electrification. Ryburgh - Nick Palette OO Scale. East Anglian Branchline Set in the Steam to Diesel Transition Era. Wouldham's Chalk Pit - Graham Clark - O Scale. 1970s Industrial Steam Set in Essex Splott – Paul Spencer - P4. South Wales steel in the 1980s https://splott4mm.wordpress.com/ Albion Estate Railway- Bill Bateson Gn15. Lincolnshire Potato Railway Set in the 1950s Antwerpse Viskaai - Dave Paylor - HO Scale. Featuring Belgian Freight Operations in the 1990's in Antwerp Docks Blue Heron Paper - Andy Gautrey HO Scale. Nocturnal Switching Operations in the Pacific Northwest of the USA Tamaro - N Scale Set in the Italian Speaking Part of Switzerland Cwm Hapus - Nottingham MRS OO9. Welsh narrow gauge Demonstrations “Getting Started” – the NMRS team show how they recreated part of Nottingham in miniature Creating Model Buildings and the Miniature Landscape” – David Wright from Dovedale Models will be showing his techniques for modelling the natural and built environment using readily available materials https://www.dovedalemodels.co.uk/ Trade stands Anoraks Anonymous https://anoraksanonymous.weebly.com/ TTC diecast https://www.ttcdiecast.com/ Booklaw https://www.booklaw.co.uk/shop/index.php Sherwood Models http://www.sherwoodmodels.co.uk/prestashop/ Model Power Depot Mount Tabor Models http://www.mount-tabor-models.co.uk/ Further information: www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk or find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/NottinghamMRS All the best Nick Poster 2020 v1.3.pdf Edited January 11, 2020 by doctor quinn Add layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Err, Nick, Trent Lane Junction made it's debut last year, major club layout is,as you rightly point out, Deepcar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 Thanks Neill now edited Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 27, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2019 Are we going back to the future then, says 2019 in the first post on my magical picture machine! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 59 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Are we going back to the future then, says 2019 in the first post on my magical picture machine! Mike. As long as your De Lorean travels forward in time as the same speed as the rest of us! (Now edited) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 I shall be taking the drive-it-yourself Blue Heron along with a few as yet untested innovations.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 Will Trent Lane Junction be viewable? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 10 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Will Trent Lane Junction be viewable? Mike. Unfortunately not Mike as we wouldn't have space. However you will be able to see TLJ at an event on Easter Saturday in Netherfield, Nottingham to make 50 years since Colwick shed closed 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2020 1 hour ago, doctor quinn said: Unfortunately not Mike as we wouldn't have space. However you will be able to see TLJ at an event on Easter Saturday in Netherfield, Nottingham to make 50 years since Colwick shed closed Thanks for the information. I was thinking of coming over around that weekend and combining the show with family visits etc, and TLJ would have killed two birds with one stone. Regrettably Easter weekend gets very expensive flightwise, so I shall keep my powder dry until next year maybe? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 (edited) A couple more moody black and white pics of Andy Gautrey’s Blue Heron switching micro. Edited February 6, 2020 by doctor quinn Duplicated pic 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Blue Heron is also available in colour, and will be making its debut testing the new variable height support. It is also part of the Nottingham exhibition's "Have a go" theme where visitors can act as the Engineer or Switchman to solve the Inglenook puzzle. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted February 23, 2020 Author Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) Hi everyone, It's now less than 3 weeks to our Spring Show and here's a selection of shots of our club layout, Deepcar that will exhibited at the show in calssis Rail Blue era Tony Wright courtesy BRM Tony Wright courtesy BRM Hayden Reed Edited February 23, 2020 by doctor quinn Photo credits 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted March 7, 2020 Author Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hi Everyone, It's now just a week to our Spring Show and we have an update of how to get to us, How to get there Public transport Tram - Nottingham Express Tram (NET) to Holy Trinity tram stop Bus - NCT Number 48 from Beastmarket Hill or the Railway Station to Holy Trinity By Car M1 Jct. 24, use A453 to Clifton. There is some on-street parking or use the free parking at Clifton NET Park and Ride which signed from the A453 (Satnav NG11 8BF). NET offers a £1 Clifton Shopper ticket for the tram from here to the venue tram stop. There are roadworks on the A52 Ring Road at Clifton Bridge and we recommend any visitor driving from the City direction to use Trent Bridge and then Wilford Lane or use Lady Bay Bridge and the A52 Ring Road to reach the A453. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Also for the benefit of the older visitors, that includes me by the way although should be behind Deepcar at least some of the time, I don't think out of town bus passes are valid on the tram. Nottinghamshire ones are fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 3 hours ago, great central said: Also for the benefit of the older visitors, that includes me by the way although should be behind Deepcar at least some of the time, I don't think out of town bus passes are valid on the tram. Nottinghamshire ones are fine. Correct = "Only Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council issued passes are valid for free travel on trams. Pass holders from other council areas need to purchase a concession return tram ticket from the tram stop ticket machines" https://www.thetram.net/concessionary-pass.aspx 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted March 9, 2020 Author Share Posted March 9, 2020 Hi Everyone, The pdf exhibition guide and plan are now available to download Guide1page.pdf floorplan.pdf 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted March 11, 2020 Author Share Posted March 11, 2020 (edited) Our Exhibition Manager Graham Clark has been preparing his new layout "Wouldham's Chalk Pit" for its debut at our show. Industrial O gauge featuring "modern" (post '68) steam - come and see it this weekend. Edited March 11, 2020 by doctor quinn 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC1 Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 UPDATE - Tamaro, the N gauge layout based on the Italian/Swiss border, will not be coming as its owner, Hugh Griffiths, is ill. Fortunately, it isn't the dreaded virus, though it is very timely given that Italy has closed its borders! We wish Hugh all the best for a speedy recovery and will try and book Tamaro for 2021. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC1 Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 LATEST NEWS The show is still on (though, as stated in last post, minus one layout) and we look forward to meeting you at the show. However, if you think you might have the virus (ie. you have a cough or a temperature), please DON'T COME and risk spreading it. We will be holding another show here next year and would love to have you there then. For those of you who don't have symptoms, the show goes on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC1 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 just got home from setting up the show. We spent some time doing repairs to the OLE on Deepcar. While doing this I realised that our model OLE has not been up 4 years longer than the real thing was! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, GWC1 said: just got home from setting up the show. We spent some time doing repairs to the OLE on Deepcar. While doing this I realised that our model OLE has not been up 4 years longer than the real thing was! ??? Surely you mean it has? The layout was 'strung' in 1990-91, the real Deepcar was energised in 1954 and decommissioned in 1981 along with the rest of the route, apart from the Manchester-Hadfield section. Edited March 13, 2020 by great central Add last sentence 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted March 13, 2020 Author Share Posted March 13, 2020 Has now been up 4 years longer perhaps? Anyhow we’re open tomorrow - see ya there! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWC1 Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 sorry about my post with the spurious 'not' in it. I seemed to be plagued by auto correct! Just back from the first day of our Nottingham show. It went very well. I had plenty of willing volunteers wishing to have a go at shunting the train or digging the chalk and loading it on my chalk pit layout. An interesting thing about inviting visitors to operate your layout is that you can get to sit and watch the layout while they do the work! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Young Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 3 hours ago, GWC1 said: sorry about my post with the spurious 'not' in it. I seemed to be plagued by auto correct! Just back from the first day of our Nottingham show. It went very well. I had plenty of willing volunteers wishing to have a go at shunting the train or digging the chalk and loading it on my chalk pit layout. An interesting thing about inviting visitors to operate your layout is that you can get to sit and watch the layout while they do the work! And great fun it was too! Thank you. Have spent this evening trying to decide on how I can fit a working digger into my embryonic layout or whether I need to build a separate industrial layout... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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