Eaton Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted May 27, 2022 Share Posted May 27, 2022 Whose pies are on sale this year Eaton ? Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 27, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 27, 2022 30 minutes ago, APOLLO said: Whose pies are on sale this year Eaton ? Brit15 Min's? Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 There will obviously be more details to follow such as a layout list, trade support and demonstrators when these are all confirmed and supplied by our overworked Exhibition Manager. At the moment I'm not sure that 'Pies' are on his radar but if you have preferences please let me know and I will pass on the information. However I must warn you that Pie Supply is in the hands of the Sports Centre catering department over whom we have limited influence. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 20 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Min's? Delivered in 16 tonners??? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 I have it on good authority that a layout list is soon to be available as soon as our Exhibition Manager has solved the latest conundrum. He is busy consulting his crystal ball trying to predict the cost of fuel in October so that he can balance the cost of transporting layouts to Wigan. Something of a budget headache he tells me. I feel that maybe something of an understatement!! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted June 15, 2022 Moderators Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Eaton said: Something of a budget headache he tells me. I feel that maybe something of an understatement!! Just think of all the extra visitors that will come to use the sports hall's heating rather than burning furniture at home. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) Updated List to Follow. Edited June 22, 2022 by Eaton 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 There's a noticeable lack of HO American/continental layouts, must be thin on the ground!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phatbob Posted June 20, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 20, 2022 33 minutes ago, long island jack said: There's a noticeable lack of HO American/continental layouts, must be thin on the ground!! 😉 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) Once upon a time we were in the position of being able to invite whichever layouts we wished with neither cost, scale or period being a problem. Under those circumstances it was not difficult to produce a balanced exhibition, the only real issue being availability. Not so nowadays, costs are a massive limiting factor as well as the unpredictable state of the times we live in. It is only a matter of weeks ago that the group decided to go ahead with the show as there have been some massive hurdles that we have had to circumvent. Rest assured that we have tried to produce the best exhibition we can and hope people will support our efforts. Over the next days and weeks I shall try and post photographs of the layouts on the list so you can get a flavor of what awaits visitors in October. Whilst there maybe gaps in the coverage ( I have an interest in Cambrian and I notice there are no Cambrian layouts) you will be able to clearly see that the quality is still very high. Regarding my Cambrian interest, it is not just the fact that there are none at Wigan, there are rarely any Cambrian layouts at any exhibitions. However it has not stopped me attending exhibitions and I hope the lack of American & Continental HO will not deter Long Island Jack or other visitors from travelling to Wigan. Edited June 20, 2022 by Eaton 4 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I totally understand your reasons for saving costs, i made the same decision a few years ago, to support exhibition that catered to my interests, due to cost and distanced travelled, wish you luck with the exhibition. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I bought your Cambrian "Eaton Arches" signal box for a tenner a few years ago at the Wigan exhibition Eaton. Still on my loft layout though a new nameplate is now carefully fitted. Looking forward to the exhibition, the layout list seems very interesting to me. Hope everything goes well for you and the exhibition. 30 mins walk for me - I have no excuses for not going !! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 Very glad my Signal box went to a good home. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted June 21, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2022 Hopefully we should be getting the Lime stone trains running on Chapel en le Frith (central) at the Show" Baz 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Barry O said: Hopefully we should be getting the Lime stone trains running on Chapel en le Frith (central) at the Show" Baz Check your brakes before running your trains !! https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ewan-maccoll/the-ballad-of-john-axon It’s a seven-mile drop from Bibbington Top, oh Johnny It’s one in fifty-eight and you’ve no steam brake, oh Johnny She’s picking up speed and the power is freed; it’s a prayer you’ll need But you’ll never make it, Johnny Every yard of the track says you won’t come back, Oh Johnny She’s a fist of steel, every turn of the wheels cry Johnny There isn’t a chance You’ll get to your dance You can see at a glance That you’ll never make it Johnny There’s a tunnel ahead, you can’t cover your head, oh Johnny Doing sixty an hour and she’s gaining power, oh Johnny Watch out for the wall - Bunch yourself up small In the smoky pall Or you’ll never make it, Johnny It’s hell on a plate, it’s a funeral freight, oh Johnny It’s the end of a dream in steel and steam, oh Johnny There’s a world in your head And you’re due at the shed And there’s life ahead But you’ll never see it, Johnny All alone now. Ron’s gone. On my own now, all the way, all the way Never make it. How far’s all the way? There’s a gradient all the way into Whaley Seven-mile gradient. One in seventy. One in sixty. One in fifty-eight John Axon was a railway man to steam trains born and bred He was an engine driver at Edgeley loco shed He was a man of courage and served the iron way - He gave his life upon the track one February day Brit15 Edited June 21, 2022 by APOLLO 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted June 21, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, APOLLO said: Check your brakes before running your trains !! https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ewan-maccoll/the-ballad-of-john-axon That was the other Chapel-en-le-Frith station, on the Buxton line. Looking forward to seeing Chapel-en-le-Frith Central (not for the first time), since I live just over the hill from it. Considering what the backdrop shows and the operator is standing behind the backdrop he's probably standing on my house :) Edited June 21, 2022 by Reorte 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharrc20 Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 20/06/2022 at 13:45, Eaton said: Teeny tiny correction to the list, the Hazel Grove & District MRS layout is actually called Smethurst Junction 🙂. Looking forward to helping the team run Smethurst Junction again and finally getting the chance to see Chapel-en-le-Frith too - Leeds and Hazel Grove usually have their exhibitions the same weekend. Cheers Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, Reorte said: That was the other Chapel-en-le-Frith station, on the Buxton line. Looking forward to seeing Chapel-en-le-Frith Central (not for the first time), since I live just over the hill from it. Considering what the backdrop shows and the operator is standing behind the backdrop he's probably standing on my house :) Ah, I get my lines mixed up here as they crossed each other a couple of times !!! A lovely bit of the country though. Brit15 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted June 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2022 15 hours ago, APOLLO said: Ah, I get my lines mixed up here as they crossed each other a couple of times !!! A lovely bit of the country though. In fact they cross very close to where the accident happened, it's just the Buxton side of the station. There are a lot of railways around there; further down the valley you've got three in parallel for a bit, one on either side of the valley and one crossing over it (Buxton line, Sheffield via Marple, and Sheffield via Hazel Grove, joining the other one at New Mills). It used to be a pleasant walk in to Chapel from the currently still open station, but unfortunately a lot of that's been built on in the last few years. But still a lovely bit of county as you say, and I feel fortunate to live in that area. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaton Posted June 22, 2022 Author Share Posted June 22, 2022 (edited) UPDATED LIST POSTED ON 9th JULY Edited September 27, 2022 by Eaton 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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APOLLO Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 And I thought Alloa was a Hawaiian layout !!! Brit15 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyboy Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 This looks like a good exhibition, one which I have been to before and I have always had a good time there. If I do attend, this show will be one of the first I have been to since the Covid lockdowns. Sam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ELTEL Posted June 23, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2022 I will be most certainly attending the Wigan exhibition, a exhibition I have attended for many years and will continue to do so. I completely agree with Eaton’s comments it’s a nightmare trying to balance the books in these difficult times. We at Stafford have the same issues the week before Wigan So please all you modellers support us and all model railway exhibitions over the coming months so we are able to continue the annual exhibitions we all have missed over the last two years. Terry Stafford Railway Circle 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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