Geoff Endacott

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Most of the line-up for Trainwest 2020 has now been announced:

Bentley Model Railway Group Present: TRAINWEST 2020 CANCELLED THE SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY CAMPUS, BEECHFIELD ROAD, CORSHAM, WILTS., SN13 9DN. TOP QUALITY LAYOUTS IN VARIOUS SCALES AND GAUGES Admission: adult £8.00, child (5-17) £5.00, group (2+3) £20.00. Sunday after 1.00pm: adult £5.00, child £2.00, one child free with each paying adult. Advance tickets: adult £6.00, party rate (10+ people) £5.00, child £3.00. Available from Trainwest, 84 Hardens Mead, Chippenham, Wilts., SN15 3AF. Send a cheque payable to Trainwest and an s.a.e. Also available to callers at the Springfield Community Campus. Online booking: https://www.wegottickets.com/f/11934 Layouts: An Clar (Nn3): Mark Fielder Atherley Narrows (HO): Chris Round Beijiao (HO): Paul Stapleton Canada Street (EM): Peter Johnson Choates Lane (N): Stuart Conlon & Tim Hitch Derwent Road (O9): Bill Flude Edge Hill (EM): Paul Segar Evercreech New (EM): Southampton MRS Fenchurch St Peter (OO): George Woodcock Fenny Stratford (OO): David Court Great White River Navigation Extraction & Steam Packet Company (On30): Norman & Meg Raven Hawthorn Dene (N): Les Richardson Heybridge Wharf (3mm): Mike Corp Oak Road (OO): Mike Buick Parsons Vale (OO): Rob Owst Port d'Etropal (1:12) Simon Dawson Schwarzsee (HO): Martin Axford Vale of Oxbury (N): Carl Woodwards Woodhead (N): Gary Atkinson Woodside (OO): Dave Spencer There are still a few gaps. Offers of potential replacement layouts are welcome. Trade and Societies: Andy Lynch Branchlines C&L Finescale David Smith Books Frome Model Centre Golden Arrow Just in Case Leigh Model Centre Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Model Electronic Railway Group Model Railway Developments N Gauge Society National Model Railroad Association Squires Model & Craft Tools Sunningwell Command Control TTC Diecast W M Collectables Wessex Wagons Woolfall's 3DP Keep logging in for further updates. Geoff Endacott

Grantham is already booked for Tainwest 2022. Geoff Endacott

Which other layouts would you like to see? I am now booking as far ahead as 2024. Geoff Endacott

There is another video: Attendance was down by 24 - not enough to worry about. We weren't helped by the lack of trains to Chippenham. There was a replacement bus service running all weekend to and from Swindon, Bath and Westbury. Numbers on our shuttle bus to and from Chippenham were down by more than 50%. This was the first year when there have been no trains at all from Chippenham in any direction. Trade is always a tricky one. We can only get the best layouts if we have enough traders to pay the bills. I expect that there will be fewer large traders next year. I hope to add to the specialist trade next year even if have to let them come for next to nothing. One advantage of the Springfield Campus is that we have a lot of room. The show never looks crowded but yesterday morning, for example, 400 people had gone somewhere. When you spread them across five halls they seem to disappear. Geoff Endacott

The answer is yes to both. Geoff Endacott

I'm tired. Geoff Endacott

We now have 90 tables. I suppose what's needed next is something to put on them. Geoff Endacott

I'm looking forward to Monday. Geoff Endacott

I wonder if we ought to put the exhibition guides on smartphones. They certainly wouldn't weigh as much. Geoff Endacott

I will ask the question for you. Geoff Endacott

The jobs have now been allocated. I am still trying to work out how the number of members we have goes up but the number of people available to do jobs at the exhibition goes down. Geoff Endacott

No, because he booked late, after the guides had gone to press. I will make sure that they are displayed. Geoff Endacott

You can catch up with him at Trainwest this coming weekend. Geoff Endacott

In that case I hope you are coming to Trainwest next weekend because two of those will be among the twenty layouts at the show. Geoff Endacott

If you wait a week to buy a ticket you will be too late - the show will (I hope) be packed up and gone. Geoff Endacott

Fenchurch St Peter has been withdrawn because the owner is ill. Stand 47 will now be Pengwynn Crossing. Geoff Endacott

It's Stand 47 which is now a mystery. I have a gap due to the ill health of one of our exhibitors. I do have a number of options, but if anyone does have a layout which they would like to offer, please get in touch. Geoff Endacott

Yes - list now amended. It was at the bottom of the page before my cut and paste and fell off! Geoff Endacott

Actually, yes, it is. Thomas will be on the Monkton Park School display. Geoff Endacott

I have a cunning plan: TRAINWEST 2019 Stands Foyer 1. Railroom Electronics 2. Frome Model Centre Brunel Room 3. BMRG Sales 4. Kannotburn 5. Squires Model & Craft Tools 6. Branchlines 7. C&L Finescale 8. Attwood Aggregates 9. John Sutton Books 10. Ray Heard Model Railways 11. Bridge at Remagen 12. Salsdorf 13. Cato Pass 14. Chewton Mendip Awdry Room 15. Bakewell Street 16. N Gauge Society 17. Enigma Quay 18. Brunswick Railways 19. David Smith Books 20. P G Models 21. Iris Guscott 22. Monkton Park School Methuen Room 23. Burton-on-Trent 24. Scratchy Bottom Halt 25. Much Murkle 26. Richard's Spares Tippett Room 27. Calstock's Halton Quay 28. Ron Lines 29. Deansmoor 30. Denton Brook Sports Hall 31. Andy Lynch 32. ABC Model Railways 33. Sunningwell Command Control 34. Model Railway Developments 35. TTC Diecast 36. Plus Daughters 37. Medway Queen 38. Along Classic Lines 39. Lord and Butler 40. Don Bishop Photography 41. Mad About Trains 42. Just in Case 43. Modelmania 44. Judith Edge Kits 45. Herculaneum Dock 46. Amiens 1918 47. Pengwynn Crossing 48. Navigation Road 49. Roundtrees Sidings 50. Birmingham Moor Street 51. Stodden Hundred Light Railway

Access was restricted in the D600 because the designers had to fit what was essentially a German locomotive into the British loading gauge. Geoff Endacott