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Clun Castle

11th CRADLEY HEATH MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION 12th October 2024 10:00am - 4:30pm Rowley learning Campus Curral Road Rowley Regis West Midlands B65 9AN · 1. FUNVILLE 00 2. GRACETOWN BANK 00 3. STUDLEY & ASTWOOD BANK 00 4. STOTHERT AND PITT 00 5. Falcon travel 4mm? 6. Launceston steam railway 009 7. HOBBS HILL 00 8. ST. OSWOLDS 0-16.5 9. Derwent road 09 10. LEGO CITY lego 11. MELIN_IIECHI SM32 12. LYDDLOW ?? 13. HARTLEY POOLE TOO N 14. Trinity Dock Street Bridge 00 15. BNCF Metra Chicagoland 16. Borth Aberdovy and Ynyslas Miniature Railway 1/12 scale 32mm gauge 17. OXFORD ROAD 00 18. BISHOPTON 00 19. OASIS CAMP HO & HOn3 20. Andrews yard 0 21. Creso 22. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE N 23. Ashford 24. SEEN BETTER DAYS 2mm scale T gauge list of traders 1. Kevin’s trains 2. Ians trains 3. John Sutton 4. Keiths model railways 5. Hobby Rail 6. baz model rail 7. Coulcheth models 8. CHMRC club sales societies 1. 009 society 2. 7mm Narrow gauge Association 3. Talyllyn railway 4. MERG 5. Ammerton railway 6. CHMRC Club display and test track Photo Trevor Jones, Hornby Magazine

My new layout Clun Castle make its debut at the show

Glenuig

thanks, have another photo, the brewery has been busy

Thanks, the Six Ashes is a little bit further on, the pub in Enville is the Cat, i was in there on Saturday night, and the wife and i had our wedding breakfast there

the layout is 15" diameter and the track is scratch built using i think, code 50 flat bottom rail

thanks for the nice comments, here's an overall view

a 0-9 pizza layout representing a 15" gauge estate railway, on a 15" diameter board

Blackbrook yard deep in the Black country

smashing bit of modelling, Hamish Macbeth and all ! here's a bit of inspiration, this photo has been responsible for at least 3 Kyleish layouts

Clun Castle no 7029

having read I a lot of comments on this subject, and been privileged to know some additional information, the problem is not the lack of young people getting involved in the hobby, but the lack of young people who have the skills or the aptitude to carry it out running a large exhibition

Clun Castle, the terminus of the Clun Valley Light railway, don't know how the class P got there

Visit to Warley NEC and looking for the wow factor, first, lots of moaning about parking charges, these are set by which ever body, contractor, sub contractor, sub sub contractor, and whoever else can make money out of it, and not the show hosts. Entrance price, cheaper than a premier league football match and much more entertaining. Now, just to add, the event is organized by a club, not a publisher, or a profit making promoter, so 100% of the fractional profit will go directly back into the hobby. So, having said that, what did I think of it, Quality of exhibits, good, quality of traders abysmal, the small to medium sized traders have been priced out of the event, which has left this kind of detached trade show. So layout wise, now this is not derogatory of any of the exhibits, but I found it difficult to pick out one with the wow factor, Bron Hebog, perhaps, there was a very nice circular 3mm layout woes name I don't know, sorry, but my pick of the show was Copenhagen fields, a layout which is more or less 40 years old. It sums up the state of the hobby, its more to do with ownership than imaginative art, come on, use this absolutely superb RTR stuff as a gift to creativity and not a possession ( the manufacturers will love me) overall, thanks to Warley club for putting on the event