Park House School
The annual exhibition of the Newbury Model Railway Club was held on Saturday 13th February
at Park House School.
There were twelve layouts including three club layouts being displayed along with eight traders.
There were also several guest stands, a club stand full
of information and photographs as well as a train simulation demonstration.
Visitor numbers were slightly up from last year and we received positive feedback from the vast majority including
two very pleased visitors who won the prize draws, more of which later.
Exdale
Exdale can be displayed in several different configurations and this year it was displayed
with the recently completed country section.
The Circle Test Track always draws a good crowd as it allows many different types of locomotives
and stock to be displayed throughout the day. Once again, a new record for the longest wagon train was set
beating last year's record by a few (I lost count).
This year, for the first time, we decided to bring along a simply oval layout for our younger visitors to allow them
to run trains for themselves.
Thirdley
We had a wide variety of visiting layouts in both scale and setting along with a number of
associated displays.
You can view a selection of pictures taken of the various guest layouts at the exhibition this year in the galleries section.
Winner of the DDC Set
We had two excellent prize draws this year and so congratulations to the winner of the Hornby Mixed Freight DDC Train Set
and to the winner of the Hornby BR 4-6-2 'Clan Macleod' Clan Class Locomotive. They both seemed
very happy that they had come along to our show!
Winner of the Loco
Thomas
A big thank you to the visiting layouts and societies, traders and all those helped make it a success.
We hope all those who attended had a great day out and that we see you next year!
If you have any feedback or comments about this year's event, then please use the form
at the bottom of this page. Thanks.
Written by Stephen Robson
2 Comments - Add your own comment
Qmodeller said...
...and so I shall - in about 10 hours from now! 
Posted 358 days ago
Qmodeller said...
Guys (and gals), I thought the show was good and a huge improvement on the last one I attended at Newbury college. It was well worth the trip and I thought the school was a good choice of venue. One of the rooms seemed to be a bit dark but that didn\'t spoil the experience. I shall definitely visit the 2011 show.
Posted 708 days ago