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Exhibition Report

Horsham 17 / 18 April 2004
Our second visit to the Crawley MRS Exhibition held in Horsham. Located in the same place as last year, next to the club second-hand stall in the furthest corner from the entrance. A good location which we make the most of. You may recall from last years visit, a young lad named Ryan (the offspring of one of the traders), he was there again, only this time under strict instructions from his Dad not to spend more than one hour at a time with us and he still didn't bring his glasses.

A view of the UKTSLive stand from the balcony. Side view of the stand. Another balcony shot of the stand. Senileus drops by for chat.

One major hiccup at setup time was that Neutronic's shuttle died most unspectacularly. Random rubbish on the screen at boot time and MSTS just blue screened the machine. Fortunately Laurie (Lad491) had brought his new laptop with him and we put that machine through it's paces over the two day show.

North West England V2 and Cannock Chase V4 were prominent in our demonstration, but we still had time for MidEast, Woodhead, London-Brighton, Skipton 1920 and Delaware & Hudson. With an American layout not 10 feet away we had to do it..

Seriously grand scale modelling. Loose Chippings in 4mm. Littlebitt in 2mm. Modern Image layout in 4mm.

By mid afternoon we were beginning to wonder if the local population had found something better to do as the number of visitors seemed well down on the previous year. We were assured at close of play that the door count had only been 40 down on last year. Sunday was busier and overall the exhibition went well.

A wide variety of layouts, American Desert in 'N' Gauge, several layouts in 'OO' Gauge, one layout in 'G' Gauge and another 'G' Gauge setup on the floor. A good selection of traders and the clubs own secondhand stall completed the exhibition.

G Gauge on the floor. G Gauge layout. American Narrow Guage layout using Digitrax DCC system. Ellis Road in 7mm.

Special thanks to Laurie (Lad491) for helping us on both days, complete with his laptop. It was also nice to meet up with Senileus for the first time, great to see you.

A balcony view of the centre island of the exhibition. The American desert in 2mm. Excellent scenery on Wellbridge in 4mm. More excellent scenery on Wellbridge in 4mm.

Our thanks to the Crawley MRS for the invitation to attend and the excellent refreshments, to the UKTS people who either helped us or just came to visit over the weekend and to the visitors who joined us. Finally a big thank you to the creators of the routes and models who make UKTrainSimLive and the whole UKTrainSim community what it is today. THANKS.