Category: exhibition

Normandy open day

This is becoming a regular trip. Across the wilds of the Surrey Hills where direct routes do not exist and yet your destination is moments from the Hog’s Back. The Normandy O gaugers open up once or twice a year. OK I’ll level: this is not the most exc…

Normandy open day

This is becoming a regular trip. Across the wilds of the Surrey Hills where direct routes do not exist and yet your destination is moments from the Hog’s Back. The Normandy O gaugers open up once or twice a year. OK I’ll level: this is not the most exc…

Normandy open day

This is becoming a regular trip. Across the wilds of the Surrey Hills where direct routes do not exist and yet your destination is moments from the Hog’s Back. The Normandy O gaugers open up once or twice a year. OK I’ll level: this is not the most exc…

Farnham show 2025

 Let’s start at the very beginning. There were known parking issues due to on-site works. There was an alternative car park with a mini bus service to the door. We didn’t do this and adopted a gig approach. Perfect parking spot 50 yards from the g…

Kaleen Exhibition – 2025

The Canberra Model Railway Club’s 2025 36th “Model Railway Expo” I remember way back into the late 1980s,  a new model railway exhibition started in Canberra, being run at the Wesley Churches Centre in Barton over Easter.  That exhibitio…

Steyning

A day out with your mates, is how I generally describe the Steyning exhibition. Yes it is public, but for some reason there is a high proportion of what I call proper modellers. Not in some sort of elitist way, more that they make things in the traditi…

Tenterden exhibition

One of those annual pilgrimages, almost compulsory. Why though? In the great scheme of things this is a quite low level show; there are no big name layouts and barely any small name ones either. It does though have a certain something about it. The acc…

Southampton exhibition

 Not so much a visit as an annual pilgrimage. Through wind and rain the M27 was travelled in search of the perfect exhibition. This one is always pretty good so expectations were high. Set in several rooms and using the college cafeteria staff for…