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I can see the Maudslay Pub from here....

Life-Like used to supply Volvo bumpers and harpoons on their US HO range...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Life-like-trains-HO-gauge-GULF-oil-tanker-wagon/113674747396?hash=item1a778afe04:g:VpYAAOSwJFRcfqtP

Nice Rapide. I miss seeing the classic fleet now they've moved from Coventry.

FWIW, I was also stewarding on both days and generally found the public to be understanding of the situation and thankful for additional help and advice when offered. There were one or two who seemed overly "wound up" and unable to appreciate that us volunteers were working hard to make the best of a bad situation. I'm not sure if these are the same people who manage to have a gripe at the show every year or at life in general when their Bus is late or Tesco's have moved the tins of Beans to a different aisle, but I didn't witness anything of an extreme nature.

My first impression of the sports hall was the lighting was set to "dim", which would have been fantastic to enhance well lit layouts or those with theatrical effects, but obviously less so for traders. Whether it was intentional or not, the tubes certainly didn't seem to be on their brightest output levels. Issues like this remind us that sometimes show organisers have no control over the venue, so what is considered the norm during the week such as dim lighting, lack of signage to toilets or even broken locks on the doors and non-working wheelchair lifts, is suddenly an issue. 

Regards,

Another Andy.

Wrexham & Shropshire 67 + Mk3's/DVT

Something using a Vintage Trains Tysley based loco + stock

86101 or 87002 hauling a pair of class 325 units- I don't think one of these workings has even been through Coventry-Birmingham-Wolverhampton, but if you can get away with the Caley Sleeper then this ought to feature too...!!

Some kind of Desiro...? I'm guessing at a 350...