Friday 13th April 2007 Event Update

Hartlepool Model Rail Exhibition organised by Fund Raising Manor College of Technology.
Sat/Sun July 14/15th 2007 10.00am-5.00pm both days.

This event is now fully booked with 37 model layouts/displays, 17 traders and 5 societies.
If you wish to visit with a layout in 2008, bookings are now being considered.

Traders should not that bookings have already been received for 2008, and will be restricted in certain areas as previously. This is what makes the Hartlepool event so special.

Access by road is very good.
Follow the A19 or A1 M to their junction with the A689 to Hartlepool. Passing through Newton Bewley(watch the 50mph sign) you come to traffic lights on a hill, at the third set of lights the event is signed Manor College of Technology. Follow. Its that easy!

Northern Rail offers services to Hartlepool Station, then by taxi, or walk to town centre for Stagecoach local services to Owton Manor.

Of the 37 layouts visiting this year here is a short resume of them:

Stump City American logging scene in H0n3

Wotsup Dock 00 gauge

Sunderland Tramways

Zweiberg

Bad Feriendorf Z gauge German Scenic

Red Rocks HOn30 DCC Has to be seen to be believed!

Oldham King Street O Gauge DCC

Goose Lake N Gauge Japanese DCC

Trisannabrucke N Gauge Austrian DCC

Caer Fabian N Gauge

Corbra Canyon N Gauge

Thomas and Friends Birtley MRC

Thistlemere 00 gauge

Northfieldeast 00 gauge

Laubrecias HO Gauge French

Quaker Lane Darlington MRC

Rosebud Montana N Gaurge American

Megalo Horio HO Gauge Greek (visited in 2006 and now extended)

Stahlwerk HO German

NODNOL 00

Burlington Central N Gauge Perth MRC

Traders include

C& G Model Railways of Darlington, JJ Models of Morpeth, Model Depot Hunslett, Nick Tozer Books, Carl Gorse modern photographs, HORNBYDIGITAL, MODEL RAIL MAGAZINE ,
DAPOL MODEL RAILWAYS, Bromsgrove Models, Digitrains, ZTC ( the last three being DCC specialists), Geoff Sharpe (steam photographs and slides),POOLEY'S PUFFERS, ALL COMPONENTS, Chip and Go, etc

PLUS one hall has been given over to DCC , where you can talk to the specialist traders
from HornbyDigital, Dapol,ZTC,Bromsgrove Models, and Digitrains, plus if you have your loco then you buy the appropriate chip/decoder and for a small fee Chip and Go will install same for you.

PLUS,PLUS, hourly free sessions in the DCC Forum.