Friday 13 April 2007

Friday 13th April 2007 Event Update

Hartlepool Model Rail Exhibition organised by Fund Raising Manor College of Technology.
Sat/Sun July 14/15th 2007 10.00am-5.00pm both days.

This event is now fully booked with 37 model layouts/displays, 17 traders and 5 societies.
If you wish to visit with a layout in 2008, bookings are now being considered.

Traders should not that bookings have already been received for 2008, and will be restricted in certain areas as previously. This is what makes the Hartlepool event so special.

Access by road is very good.
Follow the A19 or A1 M to their junction with the A689 to Hartlepool. Passing through Newton Bewley(watch the 50mph sign) you come to traffic lights on a hill, at the third set of lights the event is signed Manor College of Technology. Follow. Its that easy!

Northern Rail offers services to Hartlepool Station, then by taxi, or walk to town centre for Stagecoach local services to Owton Manor.

Of the 37 layouts visiting this year here is a short resume of them:

Stump City American logging scene in H0n3

Wotsup Dock 00 gauge

Sunderland Tramways

Zweiberg

Bad Feriendorf Z gauge German Scenic

Red Rocks HOn30 DCC Has to be seen to be believed!

Oldham King Street O Gauge DCC

Goose Lake N Gauge Japanese DCC

Trisannabrucke N Gauge Austrian DCC

Caer Fabian N Gauge

Corbra Canyon N Gauge

Thomas and Friends Birtley MRC

Thistlemere 00 gauge

Northfieldeast 00 gauge

Laubrecias HO Gauge French

Quaker Lane Darlington MRC

Rosebud Montana N Gaurge American

Megalo Horio HO Gauge Greek (visited in 2006 and now extended)

Stahlwerk HO German

NODNOL 00

Burlington Central N Gauge Perth MRC

Traders include

C& G Model Railways of Darlington, JJ Models of Morpeth, Model Depot Hunslett, Nick Tozer Books, Carl Gorse modern photographs, HORNBYDIGITAL, MODEL RAIL MAGAZINE ,
DAPOL MODEL RAILWAYS, Bromsgrove Models, Digitrains, ZTC ( the last three being DCC specialists), Geoff Sharpe (steam photographs and slides),POOLEY'S PUFFERS, ALL COMPONENTS, Chip and Go, etc

PLUS one hall has been given over to DCC , where you can talk to the specialist traders
from HornbyDigital, Dapol,ZTC,Bromsgrove Models, and Digitrains, plus if you have your loco then you buy the appropriate chip/decoder and for a small fee Chip and Go will install same for you.

PLUS,PLUS, hourly free sessions in the DCC Forum.


Tuesday 12 December 2006

MODEL RAIL HARTLEPOOL

MODEL RAIL HARTLEPOOL



Saturday/Sunday July 14th/15th
10.00am-5.30pm both days

Supported by Model Rail Magazine
HornbyDigital
Hartlepool Borough Council

Venue Manor College of Technology
Owton Manor Road
Hartlepool TS25 3PS
tel:01429-288338

Organised by Fund Raising Manor College of
Technology to whom all proceeds after
costs will go.

The event is held within five halls/sports halls and for
possibly the first time in the North East offers an
event within an Exhibition. Model Rail are supporting
a DCC Forum where the leading names in DCC have
agreed to participate; ZTC, DCC Supplies, Bromsgrove
Models and Digitrains. Further traders have yet to
confirm. The DCC event will include talks, demo
layouts and a Chip Fitting/Programming Service(there
will be a charge for this,chips have to be bought at the event).

The Model Rail Exhibition currently has 23 confirmed
layouts in Z,N,OO,HO,HOn3,and O Gauges in
American, British and European practices.

This event is unique in that there is no Model Railway Club
in Hartlepool, there is however a group - Hartlepool
Model Railway Friends see seperate site-.There is no
Model Shop, the nearest being Peterlee or Stockton.

Certain areas of traders are restricted. For example
there are five traders in die cast and railways, no more.
That gives the traders a good chance of recouping
their expenditure in attending, and it gives the Public
a more restricted choice, knowing that the attending
traders are reputable.

Vacancies exist for:
Scenics 2 wanted
Electrics 1 more wanted
Kits 2 wanted
DCC Sound Modules 1 wanted

Paints and the like but not die cast or
model railways 2 wanted

For further details contact the venue and leave
your contacty details for the organiser to
get back to you.

A list of appearing layouts and traders will
appear on this blog in 2007.

MODEL RAIL HARTLEPOOL

HARTLEPOOL MODEL RAIL EVENT JULY 14/15th 2007

Supported by Model Rail Magazine, HornbyDigital, and Hartlepool Borough Council , The Hartlepool Mail Newspaper,

Venue: Manor College of Technology, Owton Manor Road, Hartlepool TS25 3PS

Open: Saturday/Sunday July 14/15th 10.00am. to 5.30.pm. both days.