MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITIONS / OPEN DAYS STILL CANCELLED TILL SEPTEMBER?

Have been keeping an eye on the listing of Model Railway Exhibitions and Open Days which can be found via this excellent resource and still disappointing to see they are all cancelled through July and to a large extent all of August too. While the latest Government statement is trying to get things open soon I think we'll be waiting for a little while longer till the bigger events can get themselves organised but there's some light shining at the end of this long tunnel. The Heritage railways are beginning to reopen albeit in a socially distanced way and we talked about some of those in the previous blog entry which included the 60th Anniversary for the Bluebell Railway.

Virtual Exhibitions
Saturday 12th September 2020
Virtual Exhibition, Cambridge Model Railway Club.

• It is with great regret that the CMRC have decided to cancel the actual 2020 exhibition. While we hoped that the situation will have improved for most of us by September, it seems increasingly likely that some social restrictions will remain in place for an extended period. However we are committed to bring Model Railways to our loyal visitors and will be releasing a VIRTUAL EXHIBITION on 12th September via YouTube of Club and our friends layouts, their channel can be found HERE and should be updated on the day. 

There's been a few virtual exhibitions posted on you tube, nice 10 part one found on the TGauge YouTube channel featuring some interesting layouts. 

• The Chichester Lions Club would have held their 25th Annual exhibition in October but had already cancelled that and will instead host it online via their Facebook Channel instead. 

The Museum of the Great Western Railway (STEAM) based at the old Swindon Works, have some dedicated pages for their Museum from Home and would have been celebrating their 20th Year, sadly their planned September festival has sadly been cancelled. You can still have an online experience of the Museum here.