Nottingham MRS Spring Show Diary Details
Saturday & Sunday 14 & 15 March 2020
Organiser: Nottingham MRS
Venue: Highbank Community Centre, Farnborough Road, Clifton, Nottingham NG11 9DG.
Open:
Sat 10:00 – 17:00
Sun 10:00 – 16:00
Admission: adults £4, children £1
Venue amenities: refreshments, level access throughout,
How to get there
Public transport – Nottingham Express Tram (NET) to Holy Trinity tram stop
By Car – M1 Jct. 24, use A453 to Clifton. There is some on-street parking or use the free parking at Clifton NET Park and Ride which signed from the A453 (Satnav NG11 8BF). NET offers a £1 Clifton Shopper ticket for the tram from here to the venue tram stop.
Features: 9 layouts including the return of the iconic Deepcar, trade stands and hands on demonstration.
Layouts
Deepcar – Nottingham MRS’S Iconic OO Scale Woodhead Layout Featuring Kitbuilt 1500v DC Electric Locomotives and Scratchbuilt Overhead Electrification.
Ryburgh – Nick Palette OO Scale. East Anglian Branchline Set in the Steam to Diesel Transition Era.
Wouldham’s Chalk Pit – Graham Clark – O Scale. 1970s Industrial Steam Set in Essex
Spoltt – P4. South Wales steel in the 1980s https://splott4mm.wordpress.
Albion Estate Railway- Bill Bateson Gn15. Lincolnshire Potato Railway Set in the 1950s
Antwerpse Viskaai – Dave Paylor – HO Scale. Featuring Belgian Freight Operations in the 1990’s in Antwerp Docks
Blue Heron Paper – Andy Gautrey HO Scale. Nocturnal Switching Operations in the Pacific Northwest of the USA
Tamaro – N Scale Set in the Italian Speaking Part of Switzerland
Cwm Hapus – Nottingham MRS OO9. Welsh narrow gauge
Demonstrations
“Getting Started” – the NMRS team show how they recreated part of Nottingham in miniature
Creating Model Buildings and the Miniature Landscape” – David Wright from Dovedale Models will be showing his techniques for modelling the natural and built environment using readily available materials https://www.
Trade stands
Anoraks Anonymous https://
TTC diecast https://www.
Booklaw https://www.booklaw.
Sherwood Models http://www.
Model Power Depot
Mount Tabor Models http://www.mount-tabor-models.