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Our second visit to the Basildon MRC Exhibition in Laindon, Essex with setup on Friday evening with the help of RobertM.
An early start and setup was finalised on the Saturday morning when Easilyconfused arrived with his layout and Atomicdanny arrived with his trains
so the DCC Workshop was in full flow shortly afterwards.
With the launch of RailWorks on Friday 3rd July, this was the UKTS RailWorks launch weekend. A vanilla installation of RailWorks on one of the laptops and a second
laptop with ALL the addons included. Matt also had his joystick interface software running with a gamepad and Xbox360 wireless gamepad.
MSTS demonstrations included 3 new products to be released shortly -
North Wales Coast (Chester to Holyhead) from the Class 15 Preservation Society (Thanks to Chris Baily)
Scottish Capitals Express (Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Queen Street) from Making Tracks (Thanks to Tony Lloyd) AND
Black Country (Community CD) from Don Hinton.
Sunday morning and a visit from Paul Jackson (CEO of Railsimulator.com) to see the stand in action and he spent about an hour chatting with the crew.
He then took a walk around the show before bidding us farewell.
We were joined by RobertM, Easilyconfused, Bronwyn, King125, Queen125, DDPOTTER, Justinn02 and Atomicdanny over the weekend.
A number of UKTS members visited the stand over the weekend and had an opportunity to see / drive RailWorks. There was a steady flow of visitors
to the show who stopped by for a chat. The DCC Workshop was busy as always chatting and resolving visitors (and traders) DCC issues.
A very good exhibition. Quality layouts, a good selection of traders and plenty to see and buy for everyone including some nice deals for members
of the UKTS crew. The Deltic Preservation Society in attendance, as always, were selling copies of RailWorks for those that wished to purchase it.
Our thanks to the Chelmsford Model Railway Club who allowed us to hijack the Springfield layout briefly for photographic purposes of Dannys Voyager.
Out thanks to Layouts4U (Bob & Sue) who allowed us to hijack their Elwyn layout briefly to make a short movie (see 2nd movie at the bottom).
Our thanks to the Basildon Model Railway Club for the invitation, refreshments and location.
Our thanks to all those that gave of their time to help us demonstrating, to those who dropped by for a chat
and to the members of the public who visited the exhibition over the weekend.
We hope to see you all again next year, 3rd/4th July 2010.
3 videos below taken at the show, Right Click and save to your PC then play.
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