Selkent

Dont forget any Saffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff London crew, our monthly piss up and ruck, I mean social drinkies night for anyone into Model railways will be from 7pm tomorrow night Weds 20th Dec at the London Theatre, 443 New Cross Road, SE14 6TA.  2 mins from New cross BR and on bus routes 53,453 and 177.   All welcome, drinks at pub prices and we have the whole venue.  Please accept your rucksacks may be search for weapons.   We will also accept people from Kent and other parts of London and home counties.   

we have a late trader entry, Graham Glue's, a popular trade stand from last year.    Also the clubs van has been driving around the area today getting some attention.

Our free raffle prizes -  raffle tickets enclosed with event guide

* 1 year subscription to Hornby Magazine donated by The London Theatre

*  Weathering Kit

*  A shuttle controller 

*  2 tickets for London's Flying Eye donated by Rail Russia

*  Solder kit

*  2 tickets for a theatre show donated by The London Theatre

*  Bottle of Chocolate Christmas Baileys

Just to confirm it's £30 not £25, and from 9.30am to 12.30pm.      Hi RJS1977. we always have paid our stewards at all out shows, Sevenoaks, New Cross and Bexleyheath.  To be honest, it is the more cost effective option, as having 4/5 volunteers often standing around can cost more in food and drink, then having someone doing a specific role/ roles.

Hi, 

One of our helpers has to go into work, doing their main day job, so we need someone to help with the show this Sunday from 9.30am to 12.30pm.   Must be over 18 and duties will include general stewarding,  helping wheelchair users via the wheelchair ramp access door and there will be no outside duties like car park, (WE PROMISE).    You get as much tea and coffee as you want and lunch provided and of course are then free in the afternoon to enjoy the show.   Payment is £30, paid on the day and we will require a invoice.    Must have right to work in UK. 

Show is Bexleyheath, and excellent bus routes to venue and free parking.  This will be a customer facing role and will also include some time operating one of the clubs layouts, to relieve the operator (our 009 one).

If interested, please send us a email to selkentmrc@gmail.com and include your location.   

We have swapped a trader with another layout taking their space , Daisy Field which is a modern 00 gauge layout plus also a interesting DCC shuttle from Headcorn MRC

Well at least we cant be accused of being TRAINSPHOBIC,      how is your nose by the way, attend one of our model rail piss up nights for the first time and you walk away with a nose bleed.  That my friends is a good night in SE London model train world!

Two more layouts added  including 'Aftemath' WW1 trench   and  Albert Frost Coal & Coke   O gauge plus  

Exclusive show deals! 

Get your Michael Portillo figure not only in 00 but now in O gauge complete with coloured trousers and Bradshaw guide, perfect for any layout! 

Wightman & Parrish Est 1915 
Wagon 017 
Lewes 3351 
The wagons ARE LIMITED TO A RUN OF 100 MAXIMUM per Gauge 
N Gauge Standard N Weathered 
OO Gauge Standard OO Weathered

Larissa and all her team running the cafe at Bexleyheath Model Railway Show next Sunday will be wearing the T Shirts in support of the campaign

two new layouts added today including the impressive Millarville Freemo,   22ft of HO Canadian masterpiece and not seen outside specialist shows and one extra trade stand fro Southwark MRC.  Remember there is  grand free raffle with some great prizes.  

We lost two layouts today at our Bexleyheath show due to illness/bereavement and would like to offer the spaces to maybe a new exhibitor who has a transportable layout but never exhibited before  We have a max 12ft space and a max 6ft space.  All we ask is that you are in easy travel distance and the layout is fully scenic.   We can supply tables if it isn't self supporting.   We always try and give new exhibitors a chance at our shows.   The date is Sunday 10th Dec and you can set up the night before if you wish or on the Sunday morning.   You get expenses and breakfast and lunch and this a well attended show with lots of trade support.  Last year over 900 people came through the door over the day.  We have pre-sold 73 tickets for this year already and still have 3 weeks to go. 

Also existing layout operators who would like to exhibit, please feel free to contact us.  We have a list of exhibitors but nice to get some new layouts or existing layouts and operators who haven't done Bexleyheath.  

Could piccys of the layout be sent to selkentmrc@gmail.com 

Seriously though, not seen a good punch up at an exhibition since Bachmann stopped selling off their returned stock on their stand.

Normally blood spilt in the first half hour, not to mention cases of concussion from idiots with ruck sacks spinning round.

Surprised nobody's mentioned it before.

 

Ah the good old days !

 

Mind you, if someone mentioned Dakota D, that would probably start a riot !

This picture of Dakota D usually starts a mass riot.   

Our Official END VIOLENCE AT MODEL RAIL EVENTS T Shirts have arrived and will be worn by all the helpers at The Bexleyheath show in Dec,  We have chosen pink as it is a calming colour.  

Our helpers will be easy to spot as they all will be in the new t shirt,   We fully support the end violence at model railway events programme

If the show is in December this year and run by DD Exhibitions, it is  a chap called Dekota and it is usually a bit early for him to announce it yet.   The shows are under the banner now of DD exhibitions, and  you are correct DD Exhibitions Ltd isn't him,    This is a email address I have for him, not sure if it still works, it's a few years old.  I think there is a phone number for Dekota also but not sure where the next show he is running is, but scroll through UKMODELSHOPS events and you will find one of his shows with a contact number on.   He doesn't have a website yet but as operating under a business name as a sole trader, you could possibly get up to date contact info on invites he sends out to exhibitors, as they will have a address and contact details for him. 

He runs about 8/10 shows a year and has a good selection of layouts attend the shows, but not much in the way of trade stands.     

All else fails,  he isn't that hard to spot 

What happens when French layouts come to UK, do they find it odd we operate over lunch time and there is a choice of food 'Corn beef or cheese'

Weds 22nd Nov  MODEL RAILWAY FANS Get PISSed & KICK OFF  SOCIAL DRINKIES NIGHT  open invite to all the local faces and waring clubs and gauges, all welcome apart from The garden railway lot who are still banned.  If you in London, maybe you live here or have come down from the north for the day to see what the term 'Infrastructure' you heard people talking about actually looks like, pop in and enjoy a friendly pint and chat about model railways.  (they have a stash of Brown Ale for sale in the bar for visitors from far away).  Southwark MRC usually attend so could still kick off.  Starts at 7pm and all welcome.   We actually have the whole venue and it is a great social night and the venue is next to New Cross BR and on major bus routes 177, 453 and 53 and free parking and 4 bike racks.  (there is  alco free cider and lager) for those driving.  Venue is The London Theatre, 443 New Cross Road, London, SE14 6TA.   Last time Ray Branchard organised a Stripper for the night and again this month will organise a sander or a jigsaw to bring with him.  see www.thelondontheatre.com  for details.   Also can we have a few more men turn up, otherwise it's mostly women. 

Just updated layout and trader list,   Have spoken to Invicta Model Rail at the weekend and confirm they are defo attending which is great news.  Mike Pett as also stated that he will have more of the Michael Portillo oo and o figures on sale. 

The two halls are situated at the far end of the car park past 'GOAL's and next to Busy Bee.    

Weds 22nd Nov from 7pm   - Free event

These regular social nights where we have the whole venue are a great way to meet others in the model railway community over a pint and to make new friends and pass ob advice or get help with your projects.   All welcome, please not this is a social event and not a model railway building event.   Venue is two mins from New Cross BR and on bus routes 53, 453 and 177 and free parking outside from 7pm and on side streets from 6pm.   cheap theatre bar with craft ales and numerous bitters.  No need to book just turn up, all welcome, 

The London Theatre

443 New Cross Road

New Cross

London SE14 6TA

I know where you live mate. Literally less than 500m from me. I also know that b*gger all happens here. The spoons are merde, wimpy is for those keen on regurgitation, and the bloody Lidl is 5 months late in the rebuild. We also have the Door Hinge. Possibly the most CAMRA cliche micro pub in the universe. Bring it on mate.

Oi  I love my Wimpy and its next door  to a model rail shop in Welling, I often stop there for a bender in a bun before heading off to kick some arse at a model rail show somewhere.   Our local Lidl say on the sign 'being refurbished', I know it said that when it shut in Jan, but they are doing some slight alterations to the store like bulldozing it to the ground and other cosmetic things like that.   The Bexley Borough crew are well kitted out, three model shops, one big exhibition each year, one big model railway club in Erith, One massive outdoor miniature railway, the bloke who runs the garden railway shop lives here and so the local boys can get some back up if needed.   My advice is join the main Bexley boys, as we must rank as one of the most violent top rank firms in the UK.   I think one of our members even got a strongly worded letter printed in Railway Modeller in the June 2016 edition.  Other firms around the UK, be scared, be very scared. 

This is why Canadian exhibitions are normally held in hockey rinks. A couple of guys from opposing clubs disagree? They just drop their gloves and go toe to toe until they work it out of their system. 

oh Andrew C why does your profile say Boring Borough of Bexley, Bexley is great we got a massive 24 hour ASDA and 3 weatherspoons all within a bus ride of each other and a new Lidl opening soon and a WIMPY!   Seriously sort it out and change your profile as you wont like me when I am angry. 

I am going to the Uckfield show this weekend Mr Griff Griff, I think we should sort this out face to face and anyone else think they are hard enough to have a go, bring it on!  It will have to be after 1pm as have to pop to dry cleaners in morning.   No one takes liberties with a SAFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF London model railway geezer and I am a bit of a face around the local shows around SE London and parts of Kent.  I've done a bit of the secuity on the OO gauge Assoication stand to stop it kicking off there in the past.  Here is a mug shot of me, so you know who not to mess with.   

SELKENT MODEL RAILWAY CLUB  www.selkentmodelrailwayclub.weebly.com , the club part is more social drinkies every month. lol.   We have 5 people who go out with layouts at present locally and a number of model railway fans who come along to our monthly social drinkies night in SE London who have expressed a interest in helping.   So not a model railway club in the traditional sense as no membership fee.  I also ask exhibitors at exhibitions if they are interested and getting some positive comments.     BTW people can come to the social drinkies night and not have to own a layout, one is hopefully feeding the other for us, the more who come to the piss ups, soz the social night's, the more we can tell about what we do and some will be able to offer their layouts. 

If you have a layout and it is portable and easy to set up and have a few hours spare (often weekdays) once a year, we would like to know if you would be interested in visiting a local OAP day centre near you or a school or club or local community group.  

Although we are SE England based, we are wanting to work more with community groups not just around London and Kent and basically at present have more and more requests which we can't attend due to work commitments.

Our group are layout operators who by taking a model railway layout to a OAP day care centre for example, provide a great talking point to the residents who have memories of either model railway or more so, steam trains and childhood memories of rail travel which makes for a great afternoon of social chat.   We also go to community centres and schools and have a number of request from Autistic groups to attend with a layout.  

Often it will have to be a layout you can transport in a car, we confirm there will be parking for you, however not always someone there who can help you set up.  Payment for your time is a cup of tea, maybe a lunch and lots of happy people. 

Again we seek people all over the UK,  if someone new joins us that opens up a new area and we then go and promote what we do to groups in that area. 

At present we take our Welsh 009 layout out to care homes and our end to end to  Autistic groups who really engage in the operating part.   We also get asked to attend local community fun days and find these really good to promote the hobby to the public.   (I only have done three of these this year and all local to me)  It is the biggest request we get and the layouts get lots of attention, we need more layouts and operators for these requests.

We require care homes and community fairs to make sure the layout is covered in their public liability insurance

It is free of course to join our group and all we ask is you can spare some time each year and are sociable  and enjoy speaking to the public.

We have a club van which can hold 4 layouts, and often if you just want to come along without yours and help with one of the clubs layouts at a community event, that is cool.  

We also seek operators who are DBS checked to work with school clubs etc.  We have some funds to pay for your DBS check in certain areas where we don't have anyone yet.

I know this won't be for everyone and 99% of the time is spent talking to people not in the Modelling community but you come away each time with a sense of achievement. 

The big ask is to get layout operators to attend a school fate at the weekend and not a exhibition.  Trust me, having done both, it is rewarding socially. 

come and join us at selkentmrc@gmail.com

These can be bought now at a number of exhibitions - where with pride and stamp out the violence