Brighton - 17/18/19 Feb

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:26 pm

Couldn't make this one I'm afraid, was feeling rough Friday evening and Saturday. Good to see Laurie playing some modern traction in the photo though

Any T-Bones at all?

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:16 pm

layfieldj wrote:Managed to escape from the IoW on Saturday, and met/saw many personalities for the first time, at a good, busy show.

Including from leftish -Saddletank, Dkightley, NeutronIC, Leviathan49 and "Mrs. Leviathan" talking with Adam Lucas in blue, I think.
Plus Lad491 off screen to the left and KujuSabrina off to the right.

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Jeff

why has doug got his finger stuck in his ear?

Post by **martinhodgson** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:30 pm

Doug was ready to end it all after shooting to the top of the SPAD league...

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm

Day 3 is over (phew) another busy day, although i think slightly less busy than the two preceding days as it was very wet and cold out. I survived the exhibition on painkillers and, as usual had a great time. We pressed one of the old shuttles (now mine - yippee:) ) and King125's laptop into use too and allowed lots of people to have a go at driving. Mostly the younger ones who wanted a try out and at one time I think myself, Sam (Ca55ie), Terry (king 125) and his mate Mark each had a cluster of a dozen or so waiting for their go. Stacks of CD's given away - we ran right out of many, and many people introduced to the hobby for the first time.

We recruited 3 new members to the uktrainsim team to help out. Watch this space for further details and pictures

A great weekend.

dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:50 am

Phew....what a weekend!

The show was busy all three days..nearly 4,000 through the door on Friday, over 4,500 Saturday, and probably around 4,000 today.

It was nice to meet all the regulars and the first-timers, not to mention the Kuju team...I'm not going to attempt to list names

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A couple of days to recoup and its off to Glasgow....

Doug

dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:05 am

We recruited 3 new members to the uktrainsim team to help out. Watch this space for further details and pictures

Laurie did say we had some helpers. Here they are.....

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ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:46 am

tripman · Post by **tripman** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:52 am

I saw your wonderful stand Saturday.
Doug gave me the Blackpool CD, now all my troubles are over.
It cured everything. "He's a very nice man"
Looking forward to next year already.
CU Eric

mbfos · Post by **mbfos** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:33 pm

I'm interested;

How many cds were given out this weekend?

And how many new registrations on the forums since Friday?

dinmore · Post by **dinmore** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:28 pm

7 new forum members since friday

45002 · Post by **45002** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:35 pm

Which stands where the Daleks trying to Exterminate

MARTIN

JSReeves86 · Post by **JSReeves86** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:11 pm

knowing them all of the stalls. i went last year and it was a very strange experience going up in the lift with a darlek ( i swear it was following me i went to look at the robot wars and it crept up behind me)

Lad491 · Post by **Lad491** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:22 am

How many cds were given out this weekend?

Hard to say as I dont know how many were brought by Pete/Matt. But we ran out of Thames/Mersey, Dorset Coast, Yorkshire Coast, Burton Derby (I think). MidEast still goes well as does Paddington/Penzance. I personally, probably gave away upwards of 50 CD's across the weekend. If you multiply that by the number of people on the stand (between 6 and 10 at times) i'd guess we probably gave away about 500 CD's. But thats a pure guesstimate on my part and it could well be less or more.

And how many new registrations on the forums since Friday

Remember that only about 10% of people who register on the site actually register on the forums too. So if there are 7 new forums members already, that means about 70 new members have joined

samuelbennett · Post by **samuelbennett** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:22 pm

for my first time helping on the stand it was really good fun I espically like KujuAdams spads and missing of station and cassies driver sending a GWR train into the drink thanks for all your help guys.