dr tim Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Just a reminder, Colchester Exhibition is on Sunday 1st November 2009 at Marks Tey. Details at http://www.colchestermrc.org/exhib_summary.htm Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
easternbuzz Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Will be there for the first time since it moved Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 23, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2009 I'll be there helping with one of the layouts. It will be my first visit to the Colchester exhibition. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 It's been a long time since I was on a layout team at the Colchester show, but I found the organisers extremely welcoming and helpful. A very friendly show. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr tim Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 Thanks for the kind words. We've had to move the exhibition (part of Colchester Institute now being a building site) but hopefully we are still looking after our exhibitiors! After all, no exhibitors, no show... Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiDAS Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 :icon_wave: I shall be there with my stock from Lapston(see gallery) running on Abington End a Cambridge 31A Club layout TerryMy link Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essex2Visuvesi Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 could someone tell me where abouts on london road the community centre is? I know the area roughly. Also does anyone know what trade stands will be there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2512silverfox Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Next to the A12/A120 roundabout at Marks Tey. Slip road off to the left just after the beginning of the W bound A120. Traders on CMRC website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essex2Visuvesi Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Next to the A12/A120 roundabout at Marks Tey. Slip road off to the left just after the beginning of the W bound A120. Traders on CMRC website. Great stuff thanks I checked the multimap site and it showed the postcode as being on the A12, now looking closer I can see its te road that runs alongside. Should have gone to specsavers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr tim Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 There isn't a huge amount of parking at the Community Centre. You might be better parking at or near Marks Tey Station and walking across (there is now a pedestrian crossing on the A120) although (sadly) the weather forecast for tomorrow doesn't look good Tim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted October 31, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2009 There isn't a huge amount of parking at the Community Centre. You might be better parking at or near Marks Tey Station and walking across (there is now a pedestrian crossing on the A120) although (sadly) the weather forecast for tomorrow doesn't look good Tim. I thought there were arrangements for overflow parking at a nearby business that is closed on Sunday? Has that now been changed? I was told about this a couple of weeks ago. I'm supposed to be there early to help with the Thamesiders layout assembly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr tim Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 For Club members and exhibitors, yes there are specific parking arrangements to avoid filling all the parking before we start (but check exactly what when you arrive). We can't do that for the general public (which is where I believe the enquiry came from). Thanks Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Loaded up my trains and heading out. I'll be on the Thamesiders layout if anyone wants to say hi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenser Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 No-one's bitten with any comments , so I'll add some. Better than last year, but less well attended (last year was a bit of a scrum). The layout selection was a good deal better - at least to my 4mm prejudiced eye : last year attempted to deal with the problem of a cramped new venue by focussing almost entirely on 2mm and that didn't really work. This year had a good variety of layouts, and some very good ones among them . The balance of trade was better as well Foxup in P4 was excellent, with very fine structure work and some very good pregrouping stock. The US Z gauge layout was an excellent advertisement for the potential of Z , with very convincing scenery . Although operations didn't seem to make use of it, the design concept, with a passing loop, should allow a bit of operating potential in that a train could be parked in view awaiting something else to cross . US HO tends not to be my thing, but the Thamesiders' layout was good - however I'm not sure you can run Pennsy steam past P+ONLL and China Shipping containers without the presence of a blue Police Box.... Exchange Sidings (EM) was pleaseant , and the O gauge layout was worth a look. However I was rather less comfortable with the German narrow gauge layout for non-modelling reasons: the inhabitents seemed to be expecting a visit from the Fuhrer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 1, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2009 . US HO tends not to be my thing, but the Thamesiders' layout was good - however I'm not sure you can run Pennsy steam past P+ONLL and China Shipping containers without the presence of a blue Police Box.... This was discussed early in the day (about 8am I recall) and the appropriate diesels were out in the morning (although I like US railroads I'm rather vague about diesels). For those of us with steam engines in the afternoon I think the explanation was that it is a modular layout! My little Ma & Pa 4-6-0 at least got a run longer than my dining table. It was the first time I've ever been on the "operating" side of an exhibition so it was all new to me as I only joined the club this summer. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essex2Visuvesi Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 However I was rather less comfortable with the German narrow gauge layout for non-modelling reasons: the inhabitents seemed to be expecting a visit from the Fuhrer I like that layout... but then Im quite taken with the german steam outline. Some pics of the controversial layout in question I do want to ask the question... would you have been more comfortable had the flags and vehicles been either US or British? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightmail Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I'm glad you mentioned that, Ravenser. I too was at the Colchester Show and was momentarily taken aback by the Nazi insignia used on that layout. On reflection though, I think that has more to do with my personal politics than anything else. After all, it is perfectly normal for military modellers to create models of WW11 subjects other than Allied Forces. It's just that we are not used to seeing them on model railways. In recent years there has been a definite trend towards depicting grittier urban scenarios within the context of a layout, rather than the usual bucolic scenes. Grahame Hedges very effectively utilised the famous and controversial Wonderbra adverts on a poster hoarding on his excellent and atmospheric 'Stoney Lane Depot' to firmly place his layout in its 'period'. Similarly, swastika banners within the context of a layout depicting a Germany immediately preceeding WW11 are unfortunately just period detail, even though in both examples the originals are now considered politically incorrect. I might have been worried though if the operators were in full uniform! Interestingly (for me at any rate) both these examples powerfully convey how railway modellers have (amongst many other skills) the ability to document and subtly comment on social change. And people think we are just playing trains..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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