Stafford Railway Circle Exhibition 24th & 25th September 2022

[Eltel]

EXHIBITION 2022 UPDATE 10/9/2022



Stafford Railway Circle Annual Model Railway Exhibition 24/25 September 2022

Saturday 24 September 2022 and Sunday 25 September 2022
Saturday: 10.00 – 17.00
Sunday: 10.00 – 16.30
Admission Prices: Adult: £12, accompanied children under 16 free.

At Stafford County Showground in Bingley Hall.

The County Showground is situated 3 miles to the east of the town on the A518 in the direction of Uttoxeter.

This year the show is going to be bigger and better than ever before. The good news is we will be in the main Bingley Hall at the Stafford County showground which provides more space and much better facilities.

Sat Nav postcode: ST18 0BD

Extended free parking.

A free bus service will run from Stafford railway station to the venue on both days. Details (subject to confirmation) can be found here.

The bus timetable is a guide only except for the last service. We are hoping to have several vehicles avaialble and, at busy times at the beginning and end of each day, buses will depart once full and the next one should be right behind it.



Layouts



The thumbnail photographs of each layout is now on our website



5G N Gauge

Antwerps HO

Blackbrook Halt 00

Bluebell Cutting N Gauge

Box Road 00

Brynllwyd 0/16.5

Canute Rd Quay 00

Camel Quay 00

Castlefinn 0/12mm

Copper Wort 00

Corwenna 00

Croft Mill 0

Crimson Road

Dawlish Warren 09

Derwent Road 09

Dunsfield Road 00

Euxton Junction 00

Franklin Falls H0

Gateway Eastern Industrial Park 00

Hogsmead 00

Hounslow Sidings 00

Illie Town 00

James Street N

Jennings Sidings 0

Karolina Falls 0n30

Ladderedge 0/16.5

Longbury 00

Longfield 0

Oulton TMD 00

Passage Lane 00

Reevy Rd West 00

Rensville H0

Salverton N

Slindon Vale 016.5

Southgate Park 00

Stedham Mill 3mm

Sydney Gardens 00

The Works N

Tipton Sub/division N

Waterfall Jct N

Yellow Ridge Uranium Mine Gn15



Traders who will be in attendance: Update 16th April 2022



Airframed Glass Display Cases (new)

Along Classic Lines

Anoraks Anonymous (New)

Airframed Glass Disply Cases (new)

Along Classic Lines
Artist James Green (new)

Anoraks Anonymous

Artmaster Ltd

Aspire Gifts and Models

Booklaw

C & L Finescale

ChristinDen (new) Laser kits for Scalescenes products

Country Park Models

D & E Videos DC Kits

Dave Angell Trains (new)

Don Bishop Photography

EBMA Hobby and Craft (new)

Electra Rail (new)

Footplate

Geoscenics (new)

Grainge and Hodder

Grimy Times ( Withdrawn )

H & A Models

Handbourn Cabinets

Javmar (new)

JSModels (New)

KMS Railtech (new)

Kytelights (new)

Lcuts Creative (new)

LMS- Patriot Project

Loco Fleet Shop

Locomotion Models

Made in Manchester Models (Withdrawn)

Megapoints Controllers (Withdrawn due to chip stock issues)

MMR Models (new added 8th July)

Nick Tozer Books

P & D Marsh Models (New)

Picture Pride Displays

Rail Image Collection

RAILstuff (new)

Railwayania

Road Transport Images (new)

Rail Riders Ltd (New)

Severn Models

Skytrex

Sweets of Yesteryear

Ten Commandments

Thunderbolt Models (new)

Tools 2000

Topp Trains

Transport Treasury Publishing (new)

TTC Diecast

W M Collectables (new)

Westhill Wagon Works (new)

Wrenn Specialist

Club second hand stand

Staffordshire Building Society



Demonstrations by……..



David Wright

Scenic Modelling using all sorts of materials, plus for the first time at the Stafford Exhibition a large Diorama displaying the finished model.



Andy Banks

I will be demonstrating scratch building buildings and other urban infrastructure using a variety of materials and techniques from design to decoration.



Also be showing how to use home cast materials and will be producing components using a silhouette cutter.



His current project is 7mm / foot narrow gauge steam trams in a Victorian Black Country.



Chris Tooth
Chris will be demonstrating making buildings in 7mm scale. Working mainly in plasticard, he’ll be more than happy to discuss the various methods and materials he uses. He’ll have with him one of the boards from his O Gauge layout “Pencarrow” showing buildings in various stages of completion. Please stop by for a chat.



MERG

Various electronic projects to enhance you model railway


Brian Davies



By popular demand Brian is back demonstrating how to make lifelike loads to be placed as wagon loads or around the Goods Yard







As always full exhibition details can be found at www.staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk

 

[Dog Star]

Take cash to spend, if Trader's experiences with card machines & the wifi at Guildex recently are anything to go by.!!

Agreed.

We were asked to take our card for a walk to the car park on several occasions. Cash seemed to be he easier option on the Saturday.

 

[Eltel]

I was a steward at the O Gauge Guild Show at Stafford last weekend both to help, and also to look at issues that we may encounter at our own exhibition on 24th & 25th Septembe.

One of the issues I was looking at was card payment payment transactions.

The new card machines systems work on a wireless connection to the WiFi in the hall of which there is a dedicated channel for the traders which understand worked well.

On checking with a number of traders over the weekend it seemed to be working fine.

The issue seems to be with the older card readers which use the mobile telephone network, and mobile signal in the hall is poor part of the reason I’m told is caused metal framework of the hall which has the Faraday Cage effect.

There are a number of easy access cash machines in Stafford which include Tesco Superstore on the Newport Road, Stafford Railway Station and I understand one at the CO OP on Weston Road between Stafford and the Showground.


Terry
Exhibition Team
Stafford Railway Circle

 

[Paul Tomlinson]

I was a steward at the O Gauge Guild Show at Stafford last weekend both to help, and also to look at issues that we may encounter at our own exhibition on 24th & 25th Septembe.

One of the issues I was looking at was card payment payment transactions.

The new card machines systems work on a wireless connection to the WiFi in the hall of which there is a dedicated channel for the traders which understand worked well.

On checking with a number of traders over the weekend it seemed to be working fine.

The issue seems to be with the older card readers which use the mobile telephone network, and mobile signal in the hall is poor part of the reason I’m told is caused metal framework of the hall which has the Faraday Cage effect.

There are a number of easy access cash machines in Stafford which include Tesco Superstore on the Newport Road, Stafford Railway Station and I understand one at the CO OP on Weston Road between Stafford and the Showground.


Terry
Exhibition Team
Stafford Railway Circle

Good info. - thanks. (My phone lost signal there).

 

[Firehead]

Hi Terry

Are Eileen's Emporium coming to Stafford? I know they have in the past, and their own website says they are, but they are not on your trader's list.

Thanks

 

[Eltel]

I understand that they booked to attend.
I will speak with Exhibition manager and get back to you.

Terry

 

[Eltel]

EIleen’s Emporium

We are still waiting for final confirmation and payment

 

[d827 kelly]

I hope you have a great show. Unfortuately I'd already booked to go to Scaleforum (DEMU stand). Stafford has been a fantastic show in the past and it is a shame to be missing it, but it is what it is etc.

 

[Eltel]

Hi Kelly
Thanks for your kind comment.
Terry

 

[Eltel]

I can now confirm we have received confirmation Eileen’s Emporium will be a the Stafford Exhibition September 24th & 25th
Terry

 

[Pencarrow]

I'll be there on one of the demo stands bashing together plasticard into something like buildings. Looking forward to it. The last time I did a demo stand was on Feb 2020 and then COVID hit...

 

[Simon]

Well for goodness sake take more care this time...

 

[Eltel]

I'll be there on one of the demo stands bashing together plasticard into something like buildings. Looking forward to it. The last time I did a demo stand was on Feb 2022 and then COVID hit...

Chris
I think your getting ahead of yourself as I believe it was our 2020 exhibition you last appeared at.

Enough of al this, looking forward to meeting up at the exhibitio.

Terry

 

[Pencarrow]

Chris
I think your getting ahead of yourself as I believe it was our 2020 exhibition you last appeared at.

Enough of al this, looking forward to meeting up at the exhibitio.

Terry

Morning Terry, that's what I intended to type but fat fingers occurred! Now corrected.

I do recall during the Feb 2020 show there was a lot of discussion about this Chinese COVID thing. Should we be worried, would it get here, how long would it last etc... Little did we know!

 

[Eltel]

Certainly was.

This years non model railway topic will undoubtedly the forthcoming coming rise of our energy costs

But let’s not worry it and all enjoy ourselves over the weeken.

Terry

 

[Eltel]

Courtesy Bus Timetable for Stafford Exhibition
See our website for conditions

 

[Eltel]

Only a couple of days to Stafford Railway Circles first exhibition for two years, plus a move to the much larger Bingley Hall still at the Stafford County Showground.

The move to Bingley Hall has enabled us to increase the size of the exhibition and with much better facilities.

The exhibition is completely organised and financed by Stafford Railway Club and its members.

So please do come along and support us, then we can do it all again next year…..

Terry

 

[Allen M]

Also O gauge models at Highley Engine Shed SVR this weekend.
No connection but hope to visit Saturday.

Regards
Allen

 

[Eltel]

I will at last be attending this Stafford Railway Circle Exhibition with my layout Camel Quay after the last two exhibitions being cancelled by the pandemic