Hello everyone. Well, I am tired to say the least but, hey, what a weekend! Our LEGO Model Railway, which we last exhibited at Warley 2010 in November, was back out again for a new show (for us anyway). The show was the 2011 Large Scale Model Rail exhibition; known as the Midlands Garden Rail Show; held by Meridienne Exhibitions at the Warwickshire Exhibition Centre, up on the Fosseway near Leamingston Spa. The show took place over 2 days from 10am until 4pm, with at least 10 layouts in attendance. Not bad for a small-ish show (only because I compared it against Warley which always has a minimum of 65 layouts!). We arrived there by 4:45pm on Friday night, and immediately began the attempt at setting up the 9ft x 4ft layout. Progress is always slow when setting up; there are just so many bits! But, as always, packing up is easy! After doing about 2 hours on Friday, we got there at about 8:45am on Saturday morning and finished off the layout just in time for the 10am start. "Phew!". The 9V trains were then ready to roll. The usual suspects in action were the Santa Fe Super Chief and the "Hogwarts Express" loco. Below, the layout gets underway on Saturday morning...
For the LSMR Show we adopted much the same format as for Warley, with buildings including a Fire Station, Police Station, Central Station, Airport, Gantry Crane, Loading Ramp, Engine Shed, 'Hogsmeade' Station and more! There were also many 'odd bits' including the Ferrari Team HGV and the Fire Hovercraft...
The Santa Fe Super Chief gets her double-decker train underway...
A special guest for this show was the appearance of (CMES Member) Emma's LEGO model of the rack-and-pinion locomotive's that climb Mount Snowdon. The blue 0-4-2 was carried on a Flatbed wagon throughout the show. A very nice model, and unique...
Below, see a few clips of my layout in action at the 2011 LSMR show...Overall, a very good show. Thanks very much to the organisers for a great weekend; we really enjoyed it. Thanks for reading folks. Goodnight...
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