The invitation to the Warwick Exhibition came from one of the UKTrainSim users, Mark Miller. This guy has a passion for
railways despite his tender years. He has uploaded a number of items to the website and organised this
exhibition.
I guess somebody had to be Stand 13, but why did it have to be us? The day started well enough but rapidly deteriorated
as time passed. I won't bore you with the details of ALL that went wrong, the individuals know who they are.
As usual at these smaller exhibitions an excellent variety of layouts including the small layout next to the stage
where we were located. This was a 3mm finescale layout, currently under construction. Larger layouts included the
Naval Dockyard / model railway called Overlord. There was also a street scene and adjacent stand for the bus
enthusiast, more Midland Red buses than you could wave a stick at.
Considerable interest was generated by the showing of routes new to UKTrainSim, Cannock, NWE, Bala Hub as well as the
favourites, MidEast, Paddington Penzance, Talyllyn etc. Many had never seen Train Simulation before and after spending some
time watching the possibilities went away in awe.
We were also approached by the club running 'Overlord', Leamington and Warwick MRS, with a view to attending their
exhibition in January 2005. We had to tell them that we already had a booking for the weekend in question.
They looked disappointed, until we told them that their colleagues had already booked us at a previous exhibition
and that we were only waiting for the formal invitation.
We would like thank Mark Miller for the invite to the Warwick Exhibition and the refreshments.
Special thanks to Peter Harvey for his able assistance with the demonstrating.
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