**POSTPONEMENT**
 
Due to the issuing of a South of Scotland Yellow weather warning tomorrow and the localised expectation that the probability of heavy snow is 90% forecasted, we have reluctantly taken the decision to postpone the Model Rail & Layout Exhibition this weekend. Our Centre stands at an elevation of around 200-270m above sea-level so any snow forecast is likely to impact here.  Exhibitors were expected from all over Scotland & the North of England so we felt it was prudent, after last years snow, to give all as much warning of this decision as possible.
 
A lot of preparation has been undertaken for this event which we are understandingly reluctant to lose.  We will therefore seek to re-schedule the event for a suitable date in the future.  We will advise you of this in due course.
 

Event details

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
 
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 is 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: 6 layouts including debut of club Trent Lane Junction layout, trade stands, hands on demonstration.
 
Further information: www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk
or find us on Facebook www.facebook.com/NottinghamMRS
 
Layouts
 
Trent Lane Junction – Nottingham MRS– 00 Scale – Based on the complex of lines to the east of Nottingham in the 1960’s where the GNR line to Grantham and the MR line to Lincoln criss-crossed each other and is on two levels. We will be running it with steam and green diesels.
 
Springfield – Nottingham MRS – HO – Our “Anytown USA” urban switching layout males a return featuring 1980’s and 1990’s CP Rail and Maine Central trains.
 
Kozel Cement – Dave Paylor – HO Scale. Featuring Czech freight operations in the 1990’s on a freight-only branch to a cement works [CM March 2013]
 
Heath Green – Nick Palette – 00 Scale – Depicting a third-rail electrified branch line on the Southern Region of BR in the 1960’s  
 
Elmfield – Dave Westwood – N scale – Early 1960’s BR in the Black Country
 
Mount Woodville Works – Robert Milliken – P4. Features industrial railway operations at a salt glazed sanitary ware works in the mid-twentieth century
 
Demonstrations
 
“Getting Started on Scenery” – the Trent lane Junction team show how they recreated part of Nottingham in miniature
 
Modelling in P4 society/demo
 
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
 
Trade stands
 
Anoraks Anonymous
TTC diecast
Booklaw
A1 Models
Sherwood Models
Model Power Depot

Event details