Gauge O Guild - Guildex 7th & 8th September 2024 Bingley Hall on Stafford County Showground

Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Guildex 2024
Date: 7th & 8th September 2024
Location: Bingley Hall on Stafford County Showground. Weston Road. Stafford
Price:
See below
On-line tickets: The Gauge O Guild

Tickets ​

Please note that for Guildex, we have introduced one day tickets as well as the two day tickets.
Prices in 2024 are:
One day - £15 for members & £20.00 to non-members
Both days - £20.00 for members & £25 for non-members.
The above prices are for advanced tickets
Prices on the door will be £2.00 extra for one day tickets and £2.00 extra for two day tickets regardless of being a member or non-member

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We hope to have a similar Bus Timetable to that in 2023 which is below:​

The provider has been confirmed and the timetable for 2024 is being finalised

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Demonstrators:
14 demonstrations of a full range of modelling skills

Stands:
LAYOUTS SO FAR (27/07/2024)
Allerby: 7 mm Fine Scale. A fictional part of the railway system somewhere in Northern Cumbria from 1985 to 1992.
Great White River Navigation, Extraction and Steam Packet Co: American 0N16-5
Tetbury.: BR Western Region 7 mm Fine Scale A classic GWR branch line at the end of Steam.
Nafferton: 7 mm Fine Scale A large continuous run layout based in the East Riding of Yorkshire towards the end of steam
Bankgate sidings.: 7 mm Fine Scale Set somewhere in the North East
Hunslet Works: 7 mm Fine Scale, a section of the Hunslet Engine Co works in Leeds built by Andy Ross.
Johnstown: 7 mm Fine Scale minimum space circular layout. Built by the late Tony Kell to prove you don't need a lot of space for an O gauge layout.
Buffers Lock: 7 mm Fine Scale A Great Western Ent to end Branch line from the republic of Ireland
Lowery Lane: 7 mm Fine Scale, a small modern goods yard
Hadley, Stonybrook, and Swale: 7 mm O n 16-5 a fictitious narrow gauge line
weekend yard: 7 mm Fine Scale, the layout built over the weekend of last years Guildex, now fully completed
York Gauge 0 Group, Test Track: Accommodates & mm Fine Scale + 16.5 mm gauge DC and DCC operation
E M Test Track: 7mm Fine Scale accommodates DC DCC and Live Steam.

TRADERS SO FAR
1039 Models
A.W.Adams Loco Boxes
Accurascale UK
AirFramed Glass Display Cases
Amberly Components
Bill Hudson Transport Books
Brushes 4 Models
Buzz Models
C & L Finescale Track Building Systems Ltd
Connoisseur Models
Contikits
CRT Kits
D.C.Kits
Dapol Ltd
Diane Carney
Duncan Models
Easy-Build Coaches
EBMA Hobby & Craft
Ellis Clark Trains
Fine Scale Brass (UK)
Finney7
First Class Kits
Footplate Models
Gladiator
Greenwood Railway Products
Haywood Railway
Heljan
HMRS
J & M Hughes
JSModels
Lanky Kits
Latem Design Replica Railway Signage
LCUT Creative
Lightmoor Press
Marcway
Masterpiece Models
Metalsmith (Leeds) Ltd
Midland Railway Centre
Midland Railway Society
Minerva Model Railways
MMR Models
Monk's Gate Models
Moor View Models
MSC Models
Nick Tozer Railway Books
Northumbrian Painting Service
P.R.Model Railway Products
Parliamentary Trains
Peartree Engineering
Peter Clark Models
PLM Cast-a-Ways
Poppy's Woodtech
Premier Components
Primo Models
Ragstone Models
Ray Heard Model Railways
S M Models
Sanspareil ICS
SBT Developments
Scorpio Models
Shamrock Trains
Simon's Sort Out
Skytrex Ltd
Slaters Plastikard
Squires Model and Craft Tools
Steamline Ltd.
TMS Models
Torri Laser
Tower Collection Blackpool
Tower Models
Trainsporters
Walsall Model Industries
Walsworth Models
Youchoos

SOCIETIES SO FAR (27/07/2024)
7mm Narrow Gauge Association
Scale7 Group
Stafford Railway Circle
Stafford Society of Model Engineers
B'Ness O Gauge Group
Great Central Railway Society
London North Western Railway Society
Signalling Record Society
The LMS Patriot Society
Hornby Railway Collectors Association with O gauge vintage layout for visitors to run their stock on.

OVERSEAS STANDS SO FAR:
The Overseas Members information stand with Steve Lamb
Cercle de Zero (France)
Austria, Switzerland and Germany Group
Nordic Countries

Driving:
By Road
The Showground is situated on the A518 Stafford to Uttoxeter road some 4 miles from Stafford. Drivers from either the North or South using the M6 motorway should exit at junction 14 and follow the signs for the County Showground.

Distances in Miles
Birmingham 32 Newcastle 173
Bristol 116 Norwich 194
Edinburgh 265 Nottingham 64
Liverpool 72 Oxford 95
London 145 Shrewsbury 32
Manchester 60 York 106

By Rail
The Showground is just 4 miles from Stafford Railway Station. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line offering a direct service to London Euston with a journey time of approximately one hour and twenty minutes. It also offers direct services to Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Liverpool.

By Air
Airports - Birmingham International and East Midlands airports are both a 50 minute drive from the Showground whilst Manchester Airport can be reached in little more than an hour.
Transport:
See Driving for road details

By Rail
The Showground is just 4 miles from Stafford Railway Station. The station is situated on the West Coast Main Line offering a direct service to London Euston with a journey time of approximately one hour and twenty minutes. It also offers direct services to Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Liverpool.
There is a courtesy bus service to and from the railway station both days
By Air
Airports - Birmingham International and East Midlands airports are both a 50 minute drive from the Showground whilst Manchester Airport can be reached in little more than an hour.
 
Heather Kay

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
I like the fact driving distances are included. However, could I point out there are large concentrations of folk living to the south east of that there London. We would need to add at least another 50 to 70 miles to the London-Stafford distance, never mind actually working our way round the capital Before we can properly head north. Perhaps the list should include places like Canterbury and Ashford?
 
timbowales

timbowales

Western Thunderer
Heather Kay said:
I like the fact driving distances are included. However, could I point out there are large concentrations of folk living to the south east of that there London. We would need to add at least another 50 to 70 miles to the London-Stafford distance, never mind actually working our way round the capital Before we can properly head north. Perhaps the list should include places like Canterbury and Ashford?
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Also why are there no driving distances from Wales????
 
Yorkshire Dave

Yorkshire Dave

Western Thunderer
Jordan said:
Will the "advance tickets" entry procedure be sorted out properly this year, so it's not the slow shambles it was last year? :rolleyes: :shit:
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As long as they're not British Rail advance tickets and valid for a specified entry time - miss yer slot, join t'queue and pay again :eek:
 
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Marc Dobson

Western Thunderer
Pre-Grouping Railways will not be there this year but we do offer free postage on all UK orders. I'm manufacturing to order on most of our 7mm range.
 
Rob Pulham

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Jordan said:
Ordered tickets. :thumbs:
Will the "advance tickets" entry procedure be sorted out properly this year, so it's not the slow shambles it was last year? :rolleyes: :shit:
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Hi Jordan,

It was certainly discussed at length earlier this week at a meeting that I attended.
I confess that I don't really know what the underlying issue was last year, so I can't offer any opinions as to whether the proposed changes will help or not.
 
Jordan or Plymouth Mad

Jordan or Plymouth Mad

Mid-Western Thunderer
Rob Pulham said:
Hi Jordan,

It was certainly discussed at length earlier this week at a meeting that I attended.
I confess that I don't really know what the underlying issue was last year, so I can't offer any opinions as to whether the proposed changes will help or not.
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As far as I could tell, there was only one person, with one scanner for the ticket barcodes, who then had to find our names on a printed list & cross us off. Rather time consuming, so a queue soon built up.
I know advance tickets aren't 'early entry', but queueing for 15 mins or more did seem a bit much. I heard Jackie Kneeshaw saying into her radio the grief she was getting from further back along the line.
 
simond

simond

Western Thunderer
Heather Kay said:
I like the fact driving distances are included. However, could I point out there are large concentrations of folk living to the south east of that there London. We would need to add at least another 50 to 70 miles to the London-Stafford distance, never mind actually working our way round the capital Before we can properly head north. Perhaps the list should include places like Canterbury and Ashford?
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I fear adding distances from Ashford would not be helpful, as there is simply no typical average speed that can be applied…

I assume Brock will be active, so that’ll add between 25 minutes and two and a half days hours to the journey, (and worse coming back) the Dartford crossing is predictable (it’ll simply be awful - there was a 14 mile tailback last time I crossed it, happily by motorbike) and going south about the M25 is 50 limits pretty much from the M26 to the M3, as they reinstall the hard shoulders that were removed when our motorways became “smart” :headbang:

in short, it would be very much easier & likely quicker to get to a show in Paris.

to paraphrase Betjeman, Kent is cut off on three sides by the sea, and on the fourth, by the department of transport.

yours truly,
Grumpy of Folkestone
 
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