Barrow, Bournmouth and some media comments…

So this coming weekend we trek north to Barrow in Furness for the Furness MRC’s show, open to the public on the 8th and 9th October – come along and say hi! Show details are on the Furness MRC’s website here: http://furnessmrc.webs.com/exhibition.htm The following weekend we’re at the NMRA convention in Bournmouth – again if [...]

Transition era action

Transition era action, originally uploaded by GloriousNSE. Just a heads-up for anyone coming to Peco for their steam gala do at the weekend, we will be in the gallery with RS Tower and a handful of modules all weekend, and just for a change we’ll be in transition era guise for the first time to [...]

Exeter Model railway Show

We’ve just returned from the Exeter Model Railway Show. Eastbound:- Cab ride from Oakdale to the cement plant at RS East at the 2011 Exeter show, filmed on the our layout and modules. Modules in order are Oakdale, Gillsburgh (loco terminal), Dale Yard, Oak Creek (bridge), Emmery Crossing, Emmery, Depot curve, RSX (flat crossing), Alpha [...]

Latest Freemo news…

Normally we’d leave announcements on our Freemo engagements to our sister RSTowerFreemo site, but on the 5th/6th June our Freemo modules will be in operation at the Exe MRS show at Exeter, see their website for more details. We’re debuting several new modules this year including Gillsburgh by Ian Smith as well as established modules such [...]

Welcome to new visitors…

This blog should now be linked in to www.rmweb.co.uk and viewable from there – a great set of forums and well worth a look. I previously had a workbench thread on a previous incarnation (which is visible at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24051 if you want to look back at the archives) but the new system should allow updates to [...]

Open House Announcement

Saturday 23rd/Sunday 24th May (the weekend before we attend Exeter show) we will be holding an open-house at Hittisleigh village hall – Hittisleigh is located just a short distance from the A30, part way between Exeter and Okehampton: Click here for the location on Google Maps - Be aware there is no credible public transport to this [...]

Update…

Quick update for the day – the Exhibitions page has been updated with details of the Exeter show in late May, and Neil’s Oakdale modules going to the Gillingham show in June.

Exeter Show

Thanks to you all for the kind comments and support at the Exeter show at the weekend, we still had a couple of “holes” in the scenery and we had some niggly technical issues with points and the like, but we still appear to have been well received. Neil Rogers took some photo’s on the [...]

Construction/open house pics update

Just a quick post to show the latest updates on the fotopic site, click here for the images. Highlights include a nice brass Chessie caboose from Neil Roper set against the semi-completed bakery structure, the colour-coding of the fiddle yard, and some images from the open house we held at new year (including a few shots [...]

RS Tower Open House.

I am pleased to announce the first ever RS Tower open house will be held in Exeter on Thursday the 3rd January 2008, from 10am to 3pm. It’s free, but there will be a box around if anyone feels like making a donation towards the room costs. The new venue is in Central Exeter: The [...]