Thank you for the very kind comments regarding my layout Ulverton. This was its first show as well as mine and it has been really encouraging with the support and the comments. Cheers, Martin

@grahamallen1970

4 ай бұрын

Have to say done many laps of the show but ended up in front of yours the most! Cracking layout and signals😊

@martind2582

4 ай бұрын

That is very kind of you. It was a fantastic 2 days and I am so glad that all who stopped by enjoyed it. Andy did a superb job as my second man, it allowed us to see the show too. Thanks again

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

Was very well done Martin, lots going on with the space too! Very enjoyable to watch, thanks for showing it!😊

@CastleHillLightRailway

4 ай бұрын

Yes, was definitely one of my fav layouts as well - being a blue 70/80's fan, it was very much in my wheelhouse!

@grahamallen1970

4 ай бұрын

When is next outing so we can get a second fix?

Do enjoy more local shows. Layout guys seem more able to chat as are the traders, often local guys too, plus don’t miss the hand to hand combat when trying to browse for something to buy. Regularly go to a show in Bushey near Watford (South Herts show?) plus the Tolworth Showtrain near where I live in South West London. Mind you, my brother and I are going to the London Festival at Alexandra Palace this weekend so going large! Mind you, many, many pubs on the way home through Central London… what could possibly go wrong!?

Brilliant video Iron Horse Railways

You showed us some great layouts Craig and I will have to think about a trip to Keithley next time. Real world vid, featuring the “hand of God” on almost every stand: are you the jinx for filming 🤪

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

I believe I am mate - nothing at all wrong with HOG, it happens! 😁

I admit I do like the smaller shows. Big props to you for a shout out to the young fella and showing a little bit of his layout. As much as I like to see the big complex layouts. Its always makes me smile to see the kids with their own layouts, just having fun. That little shout out in your video would have him chuffed to bits. Thats how we encourage the new generation. 👍

Thanks for featuring Newton Grove on your video. For its first ever exhibition it ran really well. I’m just glad it survived the long journey from Australia when I moved over in 2022. You’ll love O gauge if you get into it. Be warned though; it’s highly addictive.

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

It survived well! Shows what can be done with O gauge and modest space! A shame I didn't get a chance to film it running but, I'm sure there'll be a next time! Cheers Johnathan!

@NewtonGrove19F

4 ай бұрын

@@IronHorseRailways you’ll have to come see it in action at the SVR O gauge show in October 😎😎

An excellent review of a tremendous show. I talked to the young man and his dad for quite a while; he was very knowledgeable and had a lovely back-story about his layout that I really liked. Shame I missed you. The quality of the layouts was superb, the setting fantastic, and the overall atmosphere was great. Thank you for sharing.

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

He was very enthusiastic, great to see it! I got the impression dad was just there to do the tricky bits 😁😂 And hopefully I'll get you next time mate, take care!

@Chandwell

4 ай бұрын

@@IronHorseRailwaysWhich exhibitions are next for you? I’ll go to York I think.

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

I'm hoping to attend model world live, getting time off work for me is the main challenge 🤕🤕

Agree with you my friend haven't been to warley for years as it at the time costa small to get there. carpark. Admission to not get near anything and then shoving pushing and punches thrown my current favourite show is this bristol show

@bentullett6068

4 ай бұрын

The NEC for any show is expensive now especially after the council sold it to private investors. At least at the Statfold shows there are chances if the halls get busy to go for a ride on the trains.

Some lovely layouts there at Keighley model show, I deffo agree about being able to see all the layouts at the smaller model railway exhibitions. The hand of god seems to appear everytime I'm filming or photographing layouts at exhibitions lol. Also a model shop with a cafe? Now we're talking here. :)

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

It's a lovely place mate 😁

Sorry I missed you guys, looks like a cracking show. But I’m out at the Yorkshire Wolds Railway fund raising model show at the Driffield show ground on Saturday with my local club, so the camp Kommandant wouldn’t issue two consecutive weekend passes 😮😂

Yes, you are right about a shop having a cafe, it really is a must when out shopping. Our local town has about 15,000 cafes up and down the high street. It's great, you can go into one shop, then a cafe, then into another shop and into two more cafes, then into Greggs, then into another cafe, then Primark, then a cafe, then another shop and a cafe, then call into the Spoons and another cafe etc etc. It's nice to know that the shop keepers are keeping up with what we really need in our shops and high streets. I don't feel like I've done any shopping unless I've eaten at least 25 different cafes in one afternoon. Big up for the cafes.

Agreed, been to a couple of national shows. The local club ones I enjoy much more. The bike you like is an LE Velocette.

Thanks for showing us the great layouts. There are a number of good small local exhibitions around here in the south east. I must admit I mainly go to the exhibitions to see the manufacturers that attend as well as some of the layouts interest me. That’s not to say I don’t like all the exhibits. Now that model shops around here are getting few and far between, it’s the only time you get to see stuff before you buy and are able to talk to the manufacturers. I think small exhibitions are better than large ones as you get more of them through the year. If it’s just large exhibitions then there would probably be fewer and not so accessible to the majority of modellers. I don’t have the financial means to go to the really large exhibitions anymore, so for me they are pointless. The other thing with exhibitions is that you sometimes come across items from small companies that you wouldn’t know about. Long live the clubs exhibitions.

Same weekend, Preston was also a really good show.

Nice video Craig. Cant beat the smaller exhibitions, used to go the one at Rochdale town hall back in the late 90's , terrific venue for a model railway exhibition & the trade etc. Wigan when it was at the college was a good one, ive never been to Warley, pointless exercise spending all that money . Manchesters was good, went to a fantastic one at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool in the 80's , a truly superb place to have a model railway exhibition. The small exhibitions are the life blood of the hobby, the big ones might get all the press etc , but i think they lack something & the smaller ones tend to have more interesting layouts. Going to the exhibitions was always about getting the paint / transfers - nameplates needed as Mike - Fox Transfers would always have a stand & it was a cost effective way of getting the stuff & to have a chat with him about what he had in the pipeline, secondhand gear always threw up some suprises. Making a offer for stuff, brought back the phone call i had with a guy in Coventry,in 1996 in one issue of Railway Modeller there was a advert for a warehouse find of Jouef Mk3a coaches, all boxed / brand new condition, so i rang him up to enquire about a price & he said , how much do you think they're worth, i was bit surprised at that , so i said £6.50 each ,to which he replied that was a fair offer & 13 of them duly arrived. Was talking to one of the guys at Tower Models here in Blackpool about 0 gauge & how theyve seen a big shift to the scale, people trading in their 00 to move to 0, people wanting more bang for their buck. Used to go on holiday to Bournemouth in the 80's & Bournemouth Model Centre used to do all the 0 gauge brass kits, cabinets full of them & it does show how the scale has gone more mainstream with the rtr stuff & the sheer amount of stuff made. Just shows how a bit of bravery from manufacturers to make rtr can kick start wider appeal.

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

I need to get my N gauge layout to a "runnable" standard, then I can bankrupt myself further with O gauge shenanigans 😂😂

Great video thanks Craig! That layout Halland with Richard of New Junction on it I believe has been used by Accurascale to showcase new vehicles. Cheers, Joachim

looks like a good show craig all the best from pete

See the weekend gone i to went to a small show local to me in Redditch and that was also great to visit. Some decent layouts present both from the club and visiting as well including Hackworth colliery layout. There were also some interesting layouts one was a industrial layout that used pretty accurate period town and industrial setting sounds to the 1960's-1970's era it was based on, another layout was a box layout which had a 00 gauge line with a DMU shuttling over a viaduct and a town scene below with a 009 layout passing through it on on loop with a TV screen that played on a cycle different weather and time cycles. The cycles were daytime, thunderstorm evening sunset, night time with added fireworks display.

Nice little show, Craig.

@grahamallen1970

4 ай бұрын

It wasn't so little! 30 stands😮 local show not little show, well done to club for the show

Agreed, this was not a bad show. The motorcycle at the end I believe his an Ariel square 4, I could be wrong. And the Reliant Robin next to it had been road taxed ,up to only a couple Of years ago.

Ab rail was fantastic last week, not bothering with ally pally and the bonkers scrum!

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

I think GETS is about as big as I'd want to go to tbh

Just ordered a book off Amazon starting in O gauge could be expensive, But we only live once, Them O gauge layouts are something else, Great vlog subbed ps get that O gauge up and running.

Great video some good layouts thank you for sharing

never been to any of the big shows ,, love going to small local shows , you get time to mooch around and mull over layouts and stalls and time to chat to local modellers and traders ,, i have never understood the mentality of attending such a big show and getting stressed about not having time to see everything

@bentullett6068

4 ай бұрын

I agree. I think Warley changing their location will be great. I have been twice to the Statfold Model railway events and the thing I like is that if the halls do get crowded you can always go outside for a ride on the trains.

Great video. Good to see so much O guage in action - one disappointment from GETS last year that there wasn't anything. For most of us I think O guage is just so expensive/space hungry that it's really good to see the experts' creations. I feel sorry for any Class 20 fans that missed this show, they seemed to be cropping up everywherre!

@hornbymag

4 ай бұрын

We did try to book gauge layouts for GETS in 2023 however none of them were available that weekend. We will have many O gauge layouts at our shows this year though 😊

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

I'll be looking forward to it guys that's for sure! Hopefully I'll be able to make GETS again this year anyway! It's just such a long way to travel and with accommodation on top of that, it makes it a difficult choice to justify 😞😞😞

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Motorbike is a Velocet not sure of spelling. police used to use them back in the 50s/60s.

Great video Craig - I saw Jenny and yourself there Sun AM but whenever I planned to pop over and say hello, you always chatting Lots of great layouts and I also came away thinking, mmmmmmmmmm O gauge shunting layout, now how could I squeeze one of those in? With a Dapol Jinty or Class 08, you get an affordable entry loco to get you started

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

Won't be long for O gauge 😂

Think here in dublin we only have one show a year.

You could do something completely nuts like O-9 like that guy who did a Garden Railway with rolling stock that consisted of a 7mm scale park bench on wheels. Or shall I stop giving you daft ideas?

@IronHorseRailways

4 ай бұрын

Yes stop 😂😂