Sunday, January 06, 2019

Filling the calendar already

First job to do every year - fill in all those important dates on the calendar. I lose a lot of weekends before the year has begun!

A quick look reveals:

January
12/13 - Chiltern Show, Stevenage
19/20 - London Model Engineering
22 - London Toy Fair

February
2/3 - Stafford Model rail show
9/10 - Festival of British Railway Modelling, Doncaster
24 - Butterley Garden Railway AGM

March
2/3 - L&WMRS Show
16/17 - Garden Railway Show, WEC
23/24 - London Festival of Railway Modelling

April
6 - 16mm Association AGM
20/22 - York model railway show

May
11 - Assocation of Larger Scale modelling, Reading
19 - G-Rail, Nottingham
25/26 - Railex
25/26 - Model Boat Mayhem, Wickstead Park

June
1/2 - DEMU
14-16 - Great Central
22/23 - Butterley Garden Railway

July
6/7 - LMA Cosford
7 - Smallspace
24-28 Transport Festival, Isle of Man

August
10 - Bressingham Garden Railway
31/1 - Guildex, Telford

September
24/26 - TCT
28 - Yorkshire Garden rail show, Elsecar

October
12 - G1MRA AGM
26 - Exeter garden railway

November
9/10 - International Model Boat Show
9/10 - IPMS, Telford

December
7/8 - The National Festival of Railway Modelling, Peterborough

There are dates still to be added too - Warley and Llanfair for example. 

Obvioulsy I'm not at every day of all these events. Those in bold green are ones I take part in, the others I'm a punter or there reporting. I'm expecting to visit for at least 1 day for every event though all being well. Phew! 

2 comments:

James Finister said...

I'm really looking forward to the Chiltern Show this year, having seen the rather tasty list of varied layouts.

Unknown said...

Likewise, first job I do with a new calender is fill in model railway exhibitions. Looks like you've forgotten to put in Perth at the end of June!

All the best. Waverley47708