kimitrain Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 Sat 4th - Sun 5th September 2010 Andover Model Railway Club - Modelex 2010 John Hanson School, Floral Way, Andover, Hampshire SP10 3PB OPENING TIMES: SAT 10am-5pm, SUN 10am-4.00pmADMISSION: Adults £4.00 Concessions £3.00 Children £3.00 Family £9.00 A great day out that will appeal to the model railway hobbyist and family alike. A good selection of Model railway layouts and traders will be on offer. Prices are being held for the fourth year running as follows. £4.00 for Adults £3.00 for concessions and £9.00 for a family ticket. Please buy a programme when you visit the exhibition as all the profit from the programme sales will be donated to Hampshire Air ambulance. Opening times are, Saturday 10:00-17:00 Sunday 10:00-16:0 List of Layouts Attending : Albany G - Alton 2000 00 - Brockleigh N - Chedway 00 - Foxstow 00 - Frogpool 0 - Grove Dale N Longmoor N - Lulworth Camp & Westport Gasworks 00 - Manston Airport 00 - Masham TT - Padstow N - Portminster 00 - Smallcombe 00 - Soberton 00 - Stapleforth Mainline N - The Gretton & Wenlock Railway 0-16.5 - Wantage 0 - Weydon Road 0 List Of Traders Aar Models Brians Trains - Kyteslights Carriage & Wagon Models - Modellers Mate D & P Models - Neil Cresswell Plus Daughters Falcon Figures - Rural Railways Jbs Model World - Keith's Model Railways - Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society Kevin Robertson Books - Kismets-kits www.amrc.hampshire.org.uk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 Thanks for that. I quite like this show and hadn't realised it was this weekend! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimitrain Posted September 2, 2010 Author Share Posted September 2, 2010 Thanks for that. I quite like this show and hadn't realised it was this weekend! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimitrain Posted September 2, 2010 Author Share Posted September 2, 2010 hope to se you there thanks Jaeson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 I'll be there helping with Neil Rogers' Oakdale (a small-ish US HO switching layout using our modular system) which isn't on that list above but is on the website! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimitrain Posted September 3, 2010 Author Share Posted September 3, 2010 I'll be there helping with Neil Rogers' Oakdale (a small-ish US HO switching layout using our modular system) which isn't on that list above but is on the website! This weekend very frendly show, and i will be on our club layout frogpool Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fursty Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Hi all Looking forward to Andover Model Railway Club's Modelex 2010 tomorrow. Thanks for joining us Glorious NSE. I hope you will enjoy the weekend and Oakdale keeps you entertained, will pop over to say hello over the weekend. I have my list of jobs so will be sure to be kept busy (Assistant to John Bruce on his EM gauge layout "Works Yard", Hall marshal and helping with the catering) as per usual the exhibition weekend is going to be over before I know it. I hope that some of the fellow RMWebbers can make it to Andover this weekend. Please post any feed back if you do get to come. Cheers all and hope to see you over the weekend. If you see a blonde haired bloke with a name badge saying Martin Sebon please say hello as that's me. All the best Fursty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Temeraire Posted September 3, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 3, 2010 Plan to be there around 11am tomorrow with Hampshire Hog. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimitrain Posted September 4, 2010 Author Share Posted September 4, 2010 bumping up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 I'll be there tomorrow, but just as a visitor - Kuppla Yard is having a rest before next weekends exhibition at Worthing. Glad to learn that there will be at least one HO layout. DaveB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Really enjoyed the show. Layouts were excellent, was good to see a bit of LGB running too. Ordered a couple of wooly jumpers from Kismet Knits for the kids. Picked up a load of track for a fiver for my nephews prospective layout and a few bits for me including a Bratchells mark 3 DVT for £17. Bit of an impulse buy but it's been really nicely painted in I/C Swallow livery. I'm sure we'll be back next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fursty Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Thank you for the post Gents Kintbury Jon, glad to hear you had a good day and found some bargains. look forward to seeing you both tomorrow. heres to a safe trip to sunny Andover. All the best Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 a few bits for me including a Bratchells mark 3 DVT for £17. Bit of an impulse buy but it's been really nicely painted in I/C Swallow livery. Uugh, I cannot remember how much I paid for mine when new but I am sure they put a bigger dent in my piggy bank than that. Still, it was a great show with some smart new layouts this year. Well worth a visit, even if Kintbury Jon has nabbed all the best bargains already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintbury jon Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Uugh, I cannot remember how much I paid for mine when new but I am sure they put a bigger dent in my piggy bank than that. Still, it was a great show with some smart new layouts this year. Well worth a visit, even if Kintbury Jon has nabbed all the best bargains already. Well he did have three of them for sale so maybe the other two are still there. I'm not sure whether people would want them based on the Hornby release (excluding me!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest notascoobie Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 bumping up Kimitrain, Please check your PMs. Regards, NAS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Many thanks to the Andover club for your great hospitality over the weekend. We had a good show, we discovered a few freightcars have magnetic wheelsets so "bounce" on the uncoupling magnets, and had a minor wiring issue with one point but other than that it worked really well all weekend. Nice to meet and chat to many of you over the weekend as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fursty Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Thanks for the kind comments Martyn cheers to all that made it to the show and hopefully you all enjoyed it. If you do have any other comments, be it the catering, signs, or layout to trader balance, it would be great to hear them so we may be able to improve things. Cheers all and hopefully see you alll next year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Catering-wise, from memory we had hot food when we visited a few years back, but the exhibitors packed lunches were perfectly adequate (much better than some places we've visited) - I understand there is now an issue with using the school facilities for cooking? If so what you did is probably the best solution really! Plenty of tea/coffee vouchers too which was appreciated. The burger van for the visitors seemed to be doing a roaring trade - I thought it was useful to have them open before the show opens as well as from what I could tell they also did a roaring trade in bacon rolls for exhibitors before the show opened! My impression from a quick visit on Saturday morning was that it was well cooked and that price versus product was quite good there as well (nice big "two hands" roll with lots of bacon for I think £2.50) so I can't see much cause for complaint there either. Maybe those aren't your ideal way of catering the show, but both looked reasonably successful ways of meeting the needs to me. Road signage was pretty good, the only thing I wondered was is your local council very sympathetic? I know down here the local club can't put up signs as the council doesn't like it - one year they ended up with a council chap being paid to follow them round taking them down again, it's always nice to see our tax money being spent well! I didn't see any problems with either layout/trader balance, or trader type balance, or even layout type balance, plenty of variety, maybe a bit of a Southern bias but then that's the local thing so probably to be expected, there was a gorgeous North Eastern Railway? TT scale layout right next to us though so it was far from being overwhelmingly Southern or too predictable! All in all a very nice show in a very nicely presented (and very accessible - very kid friendly, very wheelchair friendly) modern venue. Well done guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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