RAILEX 2024 - full show tour -  

Thanks for watching I do try to cover the trade stalls and demonstrators as they often are missed out in videos I see

Good to have a chance to pause on an excellent video of the show I went to yesterday - thank you

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I keep meaning to visit that railway, I have been on it when it was still operating under London underground on a rail tour with my father in the late 80s Thanks for watching

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I think the first chap is at the show as the layout was originally a friends who passed away. Also, a lot of the modellers will be wanting to exhibit for a variety of reasons, they don't all need to be interactive. Many are there just to be involved, and show their modelling to others. I've never exhibited but I imagine standing around for 8 hours a day answering people's questions can become quite a bore so kudos for them doing it. Of course, if it bothers you then you could help change it up and build a layout for kids and exhibit it? I've been to the Romsey show and they had a couple of folks do that, it worked really well but of course with less details on the layout 😂😂

I thought it was nice to have a mix of layouts and stands. I agree a lot were small shelf layouts with not a lot happening, but there was a nice variety. a few foreign settings, a few lager and smaller scales too. I think Next year the Railex will be in the main hall with proper aircon and more space, so you'll get more stands and more layouts of significant size. Pregnant wife found it a bit hot in the hall and had to sit down to cool off, but plenty of seating was provided and I got a number of Dart Castings' Monty figures. My Wife wanted the sheepdog figure and chickens! it was a lovely time.

@@_RandomPea I have two layouts which are especially for children to interact with. Both are positioned at dining table height. One is based on Andover shed, which was a joint S R and G W R shed in N gauge. When children are there, we decide which engine is going to be moved to where and we work out which points have to be set to achieve that. They then control the engine, or I do if they don't want to. By doing this they learn that steam engines need coal and water and need turning on the turntable and also that diesels need fuel. My other layouts is HOe , which will be at Steventon on 22nd June, in which the engines interract with the children by first of all hiding because they are shy, then gradually become friends with the little ones, stopping and starting when told to. It is real story telling with small children. When I last exhibited it, I was calling my green engine Edward, but a child said it isn't Edward because he didn't have number 2 on the side. In the end we gave my green engine the child's name, Alfred. He was so pleased.... Both are proper layouts and I always have something moving.

@@John2E0GTU sounds brilliant, and good on you for doing that. Can understand your point about more interest/interactions for kiddys to have a bit of a laugh.

@anthonylulham3473 I found the hall very hot and stuffy now they hold the show in the hall with the low celling

I'll check my raw footage I might have missed some out by mistake whilst editing, I do try not to miss out any layouts