WARLEY NEC Birmingham

[The Derry Road]

Great two days there and well done to Bleach Green and its operating team, well deserved.

[Dunluce Castle]

Congratulations, I'm very proud for you guys to win the prize and I'm sure you are as well!

[Kirley]

Ken being presented with the Bachmann Award by Pete Waterman.

 

[Broithe]

[jhb171achill]

Extremely well deserved, gentlemen.

[Glenderg]

This is the "Dutch" layout, that is actually Belgian. Worth a look too.

 

[josefstadt]

Fantastic model of a real location. It was featured in Continental Modeller recently and, if I remember correctly it is 16 metres long!

[Noel]

Fantastic model of a real location. It was featured in Continental Modeller recently and, if I remember correctly it is 16 metres long!

 

That's the most incredible layout I have ever seen. And operationally hyper realistic. Is it a club/society layout or a private one?

[ttc0169]

 

This gives a whole new meaning to the term of-One Person Operation...

Edited November 29, 2016 by ttc0169

[Junctionmad]

This is the "Dutch" layout, that is actually Belgian. Worth a look too.

 

 

Now that layout ( along with Grantham ) impressed me. It was operationally near flawless, even if I can't really identify with the prototype. It was an outstanding example of running reliability. I watched it for about 30 minutes , it was totally operated by computer and just a husband and wife team, he chatted away to us visitors. Full working signalling. A real triumph of model engineering , and all using standard peco and tillig track

 

Grantham was a layout I went to Warley to see. Complex ( required 6 operators ) and they were running a timetable which is brave for an exhibition , great layout, mind you it was nowhere near as reliable as the previous one.

 

I must say that all the layouts were to a very high stndatd , sone I liked and some I didn't but all were to a very high standard , scenery in particular has come a long way .

 

Edited November 29, 2016 by Junctionmad

[Warbonnet]

Sadly Grantham has had some of its stock pinched over the weekend http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/117336-theft-following-warley-show-request-to-keep-a-look-out/

 

I do follow it on RMWeb, mainly for the kitbuilding of locos and stock which ties in with Tony Wright's thread nicely.

[skinner75]

Bad, but not as bad as Tyco Racing were hit:

http://www.britishsuperbike.com/news/four-tyco-bmw-race-bikes-stolen/

[Warbonnet]

Bad, but not as bad as Tyco Racing were hit:

http://www.britishsuperbike.com/news/four-tyco-bmw-race-bikes-stolen/

 

Ouch!

[StevieB]

To me, the highlight was the G scale Hambledon Valley Railway - not very often you come across a live steam layout indoors - quite delightful, not least because the couplings were playing up and it needed a bit of audience participation.

 

Stephen