RMweb Premium melmerby Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Don't tell me there are some layouts at Glastonbury too, it will take ages to get there. Mike. They use Glastonbury.seetickets.com. See tickets is based in Nottingham & is a subsidary of French Company Vivendi Ticket Factory is part of the NEC group and specialises in tickets for the venues it runs. Edited November 22, 2023 by melmerby info added Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 22, 2023 Pleasantly surprised, the Voyage system worked well and quickly! One it had got my card details sorted. Used Chrome on my computer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 22, 2023 Author Share Posted November 22, 2023 I'm picking up a Luton van in the morning and making my first journey from the Warley club to the NEC. This is the advance guard of stuff required for the NEC. On Friday I will make the same journey again with more stuff and accompanied by a lorry with a 40ft trailer. The club takes a lot of stuff to the NEC. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted November 22, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 22, 2023 Good to know! see you there . The 40 foot trailer contents makes no impression on the floor area in reality it is a big space and I cannot wait to see the zillion smiling faces on Saturday once show is up and running. A big thankyou to all who made it possible at what ever level of involvement. Robert Robert 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 11 hours ago, stan williams said: Surely railway modelling is a hobby, not a military exercise.Mind you, getting in and out of Warley has been a joke for sometime, if you had exhibited there. The moel railway show is usually not the only event happening there at the time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 20 hours ago, stan williams said: Surely railway modelling is a hobby, not a military exercise.Mind you, getting in and out of Warley has been a joke for sometime, if you had exhibited there. Yep 250 stands and a real loco all trying to pack up and leave as quickly as possible will always make for an interesting few hours on Sunday night. Everybody thinks they are special and should have priority. I always feel quite sad when he hall is empty on Sunday night. In a few hours the hall goes from vibrant with plenty of trains running and full of happy people back to an empty shell of a building with no soul. 1 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) Watching the hall going fromempty to full while putting out tables is always an amazing sight. Today miles will be walked.. tables will be placed and general exercise will be had. Look forward to seeing some long term colleagues later this afternoon. Wrap up warm today.. it will be very cold in the hall! Baz Edited November 23, 2023 by Barry O 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 Warley is fairly easy as an exhibitor if you’re patient 😉 I’ve seen shouting and stressed people arguing with other exhibitors and NEC staff and mostly because they have to be there NOW! We pack up the layout then move the transporting vehicles to the void area to load and then move the layout there and load, it’s noticeable many stands are already empty by then and vehicles are already in the aisles. Load and depart while helpers walk / bus to car park and all meet at services halfway home for a break. Many seem to want to be waiting outside with their car or van as it closes and yes you end up with a group of impatient people in a queue in a hurry with inevitable results 😆 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEAMYAKIMA Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 I will be packing my Chinese layout, BEIJIAO, into a van this afternoon and we will be one of the first there tomorrow so that we can set up early, test everything and (hopefully) be in the pub by 19.30. I am extremely grateful to the Warley club to give me a return visit, I consider it a great honour and I hope we can repay that generous gesture by entertaining as many visitors as possible throughout the weekend. The layout has made great progress since our first visit in 2019 - we even have a station sign now! I hope many of you will come and say "Ni hao" and I will be only too happy to discuss the whole Chinese railway experience. The layout is set in 2001 and "YES" there were still double-headed steam freights on the national railway system back then, but 2001 was the Chinese equivalent of our 1968 - the steam was still there in remote areas, but the clock was ticking. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Robert Shrives Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 Right about empty hall having been "last man standing" for quite a few years to see last of contractors off site. Due to transport issues it was 23.00 hrs last year. Seeing NEC staff clear hall with a forklift truck fitted with cleaning booms was fun. 30 minutes and hall was swept into a long berm and a bobcat threw pile into a Biffa roll on/ roll off skip within the hour all gone..for another year. Robert 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 The void area is great for easy loading up after the exhibition. Even though my layout will be on the far side of the hall I plan to use the void area. At a smaller show I reckon 30 to 40 minutes from end of show to being on the road when there are three or four of us who know what to do. At the Warley NEC show you have to expect it to take just a little longer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) I love being part of build up. These phots were taken many years ago but it looks the same each year, but with a better loco this year. 😊 Early Friday morning and the exhibition is nothing but a few chalk marks on the floor. The loco is always first in, as you would expect. 5164 this year. I'm sure admin will like this last photo. Edited November 23, 2023 by Chris M 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted November 23, 2023 Moderators Share Posted November 23, 2023 38 minutes ago, Chris M said: I'm sure admin will like this last photo. Blimey; 2011. 38 minutes ago, Chris M said: but with a better loco this year. And better lighting since then! 12 hours ago, Robert Shrives said: I cannot wait to see the zillion smiling faces on Saturday Why? Where are you going? 😁 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold C126 Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 23 hours ago, Chris M said: If you have had difficulty buying tickets from the Ticket Factory let me know so I can pass on any issues to the guy who deals with the ticket factory. They should be big enough and professional enough to have a near perfect ticket selling operation.. Tried again last night, and got the same 'box of doom' thus : Sigh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 Getting ready for Saturday on which I will be on the DEMU stand A20, will be working on weathering some Cavalex CDAs, along with a couple of other wagon projects. I will have the SSA, Cargowaggon, some of the china clay TTAs and a sea urchin or two on display Will also be looking to speak to current / past members about some of the changes we in the DEMU committee are currently working on, along with thoughts for the future. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 5 minutes ago, C126 said: Tried again last night, and got the same 'box of doom' thus : Sigh. Don't use Firefox. Try another browser. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSG Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 2 hours ago, PaulRhB said: Warley is fairly easy as an exhibitor if you’re patient 😉 I’ve seen shouting and stressed people arguing with other exhibitors and NEC staff and mostly because they have to be there NOW! I suspect that part of the issue is that the NEC is a professional exhibition space and is set up for professional exhibitors. At the vast majority of NEC events all, or nearly all, of the stands will be trade stands staffed by organisations who are themselves regular exhibitors at such events. So the exhibitors will know how it works, and have a good understanding of the process and the timescales involved. Warley is unusual in that it has a large proportion of non-professional exhibitors, who don't normally attend events in that kind of setup and therefore don't always know what to expect. If you're more used to taking your layout to a church hall or a leisure centre then the NEC is likely to be challenging! I've never been an exhibitor at the NEC, for Warley or anything else. But back in the day when my dad ran his farm machinery business and did a lot of the agricultural shows I used to help out with that, and the issues were similar. Basically, you have to trust that the venue operators know what they are doing and are doing their best to facilitate everybody getting on and off as efficiently as possible, but they can't (and won't) give priority to someone who thinks they can jump the queue by shouting louder. I've sat in a van doing the crossword while waiting to get access to the stand, and it can be infuriating when you were hoping to be on the road an hour ago and you haven't even loaded up yet. But it's part and parcel of the job, and people who do it for a living know that. It's the people who don't do it for a living who tend to struggle with it more. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 23, 2023 35 minutes ago, ruggedpeak said: Don't use Firefox. Try another browser. Or (temporarily) modify your tracking protection settings. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 (edited) Big stuff in the clubroom waiting for the lorry tomorrow. Edited November 23, 2023 by Chris M 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 The van at the NEC. And the loco has arrived. It was lost for about half an hour but luckily we found it! 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calnefoxile Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 7 hours ago, The Fatadder said: Getting ready for Saturday on which I will be on the DEMU stand A20, will be working on weathering some Cavalex CDAs, along with a couple of other wagon projects. I will have the SSA, Cargowaggon, some of the china clay TTAs and a sea urchin or two on display Will also be looking to speak to current / past members about some of the changes we in the DEMU committee are currently working on, along with thoughts for the future. Well you might be on A20, the rest of us will be on A40 😜😜 See you all there on Saturday & Sunday flying the flag for N Gauge within DEMU. Cheers Neal. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted November 23, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, Calnefoxile said: Well you might be on A20, the rest of us will be on A40 😜😜 See you all there on Saturday & Sunday flying the flag for N Gauge within DEMU. Cheers Neal. Apparently I cant remember a two digit number for the length of time it takes to switch from one window to another... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteScR Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 I have tried two different browsers and the advance tickets on the Ticketmaster site don't seem to be available. Have they been stopped? Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 23, 2023 Share Posted November 23, 2023 10 minutes ago, PeteScR said: I have tried two different browsers and the advance tickets on the Ticketmaster site don't seem to be available. Have they been stopped? Pete I seem to recall there was a cut off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted November 23, 2023 Author Share Posted November 23, 2023 I posted here yesterday at 10:00am to say that advance ticket cut off was 16:00 today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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