Hello all,
(This is my first exhibition report so please excuse any rambling, poor or lacking photography and videos that come out perpendicularly!)
Today was the second 'Wochenende am Sevental' exhibition by the Swiss Railways Society, held at the Kidderminster Railway Museum at the Kidderminster station of the Severn Valley Railway. Present at the exhibition, which was not well publicised beyond the societies involved in my opinion, was:
Two complete H0 layouts, one a big Swiss mainline station and big bridge layout running modern image BLS, SBB, DB and FS, one 'Klein Planning' an Austrian secondary terminus with steam and early diesels, one narrow gauge layout featuring the Swiss Glacier Express etc. and two demonstration tracks/layouts with a wide range of gauges and stock running in H0, from Austrian electric narrow gauge to an Re460(?) pulling three ÖBB eurofimas!
The exhibition was open to the public for £1 or £1.50, I can't remember which, and it was free for SRS members. There were a selection of traders present: A huge range of DVDs featuring the Swiss railways was available, another stand had second hand rolling stock and a range of interesting vidoes (I picked up a brand new one for £2 on the Lago Maggiore Express that features the lake, Swiss narrow gauge from Locarno and the Cisalpino from Domodossola back into Italy with lots of delicious Alpine scenery).
Also there were NScaleCH that had a huge range of mainly Swiss N scale from collections, and Winco who had huge amounts of European H0 and some N (including the very new Roco eurofima coach releases I was after). At least three societies had stands with laptops showing videos, books, magazines, mugs etc. and they were the Swiss Railways Society, Austrian Railways Group and Italian Railways Society. Just the people I wanted to talk to!
I picked up some new Roco FS coaches and placed orders for some SBB ICN livery EW IV coaches as the few there had sold already:
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I was there for about 2.5 hours during which the hall was really quite busy so obviously people did know about the show, although unless they were members of the SRS I don't know how! (Perhaps the SRS has more members that I thought...)
So without further waffling here are some pictures of a few of the layouts. I will upload the vidoes when I can be bothered to sign up with that google video hosting thing. My apolgies for the poor quality and general lack of pictures - this was the first time I've tried to take them and was rather put off by the idiot with the SLR who kept dancing around with the flash going off like a firework display and sticking his zoom lens into my ear in his eagerness to be rude. Normally I just like to watch the trains run and notice the detail and am quite happy to leave pictureless. However this would make the review boring!
The Swiss Glacier Express narrow gauge H0 layout, with beer garden like scene, good scenery and attention to catenary, excellent detail (but not in my pictures!) See videos when added.
The big modern Swiss H0 layout had some interesting features such as the famous bridge, the name I have forgotten (can someone help here?) Nice details like the maintenance work men, this layout had a full length ICE, Cisalpino, an SBB Pendelzug or two and a BLS pulled intermodal freight if I remember, and a TEE thing etc. Some of these were captured in my videos to be added.
My only picture of Klein Planning, Austrian steam on a terminus secondary line. I would have taken more but got talking to the creator/operator and forgot to take any! A kriegslok 52 was shuffling about along with some nice early Austrian diesels in green and some railcars. Something overran the buffers just like on the real railway which was fun to watch.
A real train that I spotted just before leaving, it was just being fed and watered before being attached to its train, to the delight of the many children no doubt.
Interestingly there were no N scale layouts - there was meant to be a big Austrian N one there of the Voralberg region which connects Austria to Switzerland so lots of nice EC trains roaring along...never mind. There's always another exhibition somewhere to go to in future!
I did keep an eye out for those grotesque nude figures engaged in lude activities but didn't spot any so their alleged propagation may not be as rampant as previously thought!
Videos to follow, as I have mentioned about ten times already...
(This is my first exhibition report so please excuse any rambling, poor or lacking photography and videos that come out perpendicularly!)
Today was the second 'Wochenende am Sevental' exhibition by the Swiss Railways Society, held at the Kidderminster Railway Museum at the Kidderminster station of the Severn Valley Railway. Present at the exhibition, which was not well publicised beyond the societies involved in my opinion, was:
Two complete H0 layouts, one a big Swiss mainline station and big bridge layout running modern image BLS, SBB, DB and FS, one 'Klein Planning' an Austrian secondary terminus with steam and early diesels, one narrow gauge layout featuring the Swiss Glacier Express etc. and two demonstration tracks/layouts with a wide range of gauges and stock running in H0, from Austrian electric narrow gauge to an Re460(?) pulling three ÖBB eurofimas!
The exhibition was open to the public for £1 or £1.50, I can't remember which, and it was free for SRS members. There were a selection of traders present: A huge range of DVDs featuring the Swiss railways was available, another stand had second hand rolling stock and a range of interesting vidoes (I picked up a brand new one for £2 on the Lago Maggiore Express that features the lake, Swiss narrow gauge from Locarno and the Cisalpino from Domodossola back into Italy with lots of delicious Alpine scenery).
Also there were NScaleCH that had a huge range of mainly Swiss N scale from collections, and Winco who had huge amounts of European H0 and some N (including the very new Roco eurofima coach releases I was after). At least three societies had stands with laptops showing videos, books, magazines, mugs etc. and they were the Swiss Railways Society, Austrian Railways Group and Italian Railways Society. Just the people I wanted to talk to!
I picked up some new Roco FS coaches and placed orders for some SBB ICN livery EW IV coaches as the few there had sold already:
I was there for about 2.5 hours during which the hall was really quite busy so obviously people did know about the show, although unless they were members of the SRS I don't know how! (Perhaps the SRS has more members that I thought...)
So without further waffling here are some pictures of a few of the layouts. I will upload the vidoes when I can be bothered to sign up with that google video hosting thing. My apolgies for the poor quality and general lack of pictures - this was the first time I've tried to take them and was rather put off by the idiot with the SLR who kept dancing around with the flash going off like a firework display and sticking his zoom lens into my ear in his eagerness to be rude. Normally I just like to watch the trains run and notice the detail and am quite happy to leave pictureless. However this would make the review boring!
The Swiss Glacier Express narrow gauge H0 layout, with beer garden like scene, good scenery and attention to catenary, excellent detail (but not in my pictures!) See videos when added.
The big modern Swiss H0 layout had some interesting features such as the famous bridge, the name I have forgotten (can someone help here?) Nice details like the maintenance work men, this layout had a full length ICE, Cisalpino, an SBB Pendelzug or two and a BLS pulled intermodal freight if I remember, and a TEE thing etc. Some of these were captured in my videos to be added.
My only picture of Klein Planning, Austrian steam on a terminus secondary line. I would have taken more but got talking to the creator/operator and forgot to take any! A kriegslok 52 was shuffling about along with some nice early Austrian diesels in green and some railcars. Something overran the buffers just like on the real railway which was fun to watch.
A real train that I spotted just before leaving, it was just being fed and watered before being attached to its train, to the delight of the many children no doubt.
Interestingly there were no N scale layouts - there was meant to be a big Austrian N one there of the Voralberg region which connects Austria to Switzerland so lots of nice EC trains roaring along...never mind. There's always another exhibition somewhere to go to in future!
I did keep an eye out for those grotesque nude figures engaged in lude activities but didn't spot any so their alleged propagation may not be as rampant as previously thought!
Videos to follow, as I have mentioned about ten times already...
