Tony K
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Post by Tony K on Mar 3, 2009 7:20:59 GMT
OK George, since you are so sensitive on this issue (unusually for you I think) - I have edited it. However, people were discussing it in General Chat, admirably demonstrating you were wrong. ;D
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Post by GeorgeRay on Mar 3, 2009 20:52:42 GMT
Tony No need to modify I wasn't being sensitive just trying to point out that there is now a Model Engineer board which seemed to be a good idea and was the place that I actually looked for info because this thread started off about ME exhibitions in general and I only occassionally looked at it as a result. I looked at the ME board last Thursday and there was the info so I was just surprised that you hadn't found it before. I wasn't trying to make waves honest.
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Post by davidmew on Mar 8, 2009 9:58:18 GMT
Hi There The Model Engineer Exhibition is 11-13th December at Sandown Park. Hopefully a good time will be had by all. Already traders are booking. Warco has booked, Polly has indicated they will book. Both of these traders did not go to Ascot last year.
regards david
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Post by magpie on Mar 3, 2015 2:08:15 GMT
I just got here and I am totally bamboozled! Now that I am here, I can't remember how I got here. All these boards really, I mean really, need a simple 'How to' button to click. I logged in. I sought 'model engineering society' because long ago, when I was a schoolboy, my father took me to the Earls Court Model Engineering Show. The name has stuck in my head because I was enthralled. I left England in 1956 and haven't encountered anything like it since. So I googled and got here. I want to ask a question and it is complex beyond my abilities. If you are a closed group of experts I suppose that's OK, but if visitors are welcome, there's got to be a better way. (This is not the first board/blog that I have failed to master! (And, PS, although this says 'quick reply', I don't know to whom I am replying. Juat a stab in the dark!)
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Post by uuu on Mar 3, 2015 6:18:58 GMT
Hello, and welcome. You've replied to a thread that was last used in 2009, but it has worked!
Wilf
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Post by chris vine on Mar 3, 2015 8:15:14 GMT
Hi and Welcome!!
Ask your question(s) and I hope you get some useful replies..
Best wishes from Scotland, Chris.
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Post by ejparrott on Mar 3, 2015 9:45:57 GMT
The mostly commonly used board is the 'General' one, and that's where you've found youself, so if you have a question to ask, just fire up a new thread and away you go
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Post by magpie on Mar 3, 2015 23:40:27 GMT
At Southsea, near Portsmouth, was a mimiature railway. Although my boyhood memory may have enhanced it, it was a superb 'model'. At the Earls Court Model Engineering Show, I saw smaller, but equally superb model locomotives. Do such models still exist? In America I didn't see anything like the ones I saw in England. Perhaps I was too far from the big cities, so I veered toward the HO scale trains. My masterpieces were the Rivarossi articulated locomotives, but I have long wondered if the trains of my youth still exist. Perhaps if I learn my way around this board I will see. Thank you for replying.
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Post by ejparrott on Mar 4, 2015 9:40:02 GMT
Quite alright.
What sort of size are we talking about at Southsea and Earls Court?
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Post by magpie on Mar 5, 2015 0:55:41 GMT
To a small boy, 'big'! I think the driver/engineer sat astride the tender and it pulled a number of 'carriages' carrying children. I think it was at ground level
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Post by magpie on Mar 5, 2015 1:17:06 GMT
PS: I googled it and it seems that it no longer exists, that it ran diesel for its last few years. I also found a website: Miniature Railway World Forums. so I will paddle around in that direction too. If the steam locomotive 'retired', I wonder what happened to it. Rusting in a field somewhere? Now that I cast around in my memory, I also recall 'traction engines'. That used to come to our farm and power the binder which compacted straw into square(rectangular) bales at harvest time. At the Earls Court show there were sometimnes models of these. I think I once went to a gathering of these magnificent machines. PPS: I know of full sized locomotives that are restored in the US, and I rode on a full sized steam train near Basingstoke some years ago, so it seems that an interest in steam engines is still around.
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Post by alanstepney on Mar 5, 2015 7:58:01 GMT
The Southsea model railway closed a few years ago. I was told that it "might" reopen, but...?
There used to be Seaside railways in many resorts, but most have closed now. (Poole Park being one of the exceptions.)
But, we do still have lots of Model Engineering Societies who have tracks where trains run, over 100 preserved railways (full size) and several exhibitions, plus numerous steam rallies where one can see steam road & agricultural vehicles both full size and miniature, and occasionally, steam railway models too.
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Post by magpie on Mar 5, 2015 15:20:13 GMT
I must learn my way around here. Seems like a nice place to explore. I would guess that the Earls Court models that I remember might have been 4-6 ft long, locomotive + tender (and others smaller no doubt). In museums I have seen 'model' ships though I don't know if they were working models. Perhaps I have seen model trains too. In fact, when I had a job in which I had 85 ft aluminium hulled boats, I know there was a 'model' made either prior to construction or after, but I never saw it. All of these were 'pretty' but the Model Engineering Show 'models' were working steam and breathtakingly beautiful. I'd like to see pictures of what has survived or been built since my memory of the fifties. I think the last time I went to Earls Court, there was a model of a ship, perhaps the Titanic, which 'sank' in the pool where the ships 'performed'. Thanks for replying, I should try and learn your site.
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Post by pondok on Mar 5, 2015 15:49:57 GMT
Hi Magpie, I imagine you're in exactly the right place for "working steam and breathtakingly beautiful". Accurate scale working model locomotives are probably what got most of the people on this forum into the hobby. Luckily, there's no lack of masterpieces to see these days, either at any of the exhibitions or even at any of the numerous model engineer's clubs dotted around the country. There'll very likely be one near to you where you can not only admire the workmanship but also see them running, doing a real job of pulling a load. I think a lot of the members here are champing at the bit for some warmer weather to get out on the track finally.. I know I am. cheers andy
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Post by magpie on Mar 6, 2015 23:36:44 GMT
Thanks for the welcome! Now, where can I see your avatar picture, or hopefully a number of pictures of that most interesting looking locomotive? I am in South Korea so I don't expect very much near me, I am content to look at pictures (or videos)and just to know that the hobby still exists.
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