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Warley MRC annual symposium is a low key get together aimed at helping/encouraging modellers and a forum for meeting other modellers.

Warley MRC "at home" - 2008 Symposium

10th February 2008

11.00 - 1600

This is your chance to see Warley MRC on their "home turf".  Not an exhibition, but a chance to meet like souls and discuss anything, if not everything, about modelling. 

Warley MRC  will have a representative number of the club layouts running as well as others with "work in progress", where you can ask that question that has been "bugging" you for many a month.  It is a chance to see what a layout looks like from the inside or underneath and maybe even do what we all enjoy: play trains.

This annual gathering is the opportunity for modellers, of whatever ability, to meet others and discuss a variety of subjects without the hustle and bustle of a main stream exhibition.  It is not seen as an exhibition, rather a display of what Warley MRC has to offer the modeller, together with a selection of able demonstrators, plus a few traders offering the opportunity to buy some of those essential items. We may not have all the answers, but as the old saying goes, a problem shared is a problem halved (or even defeated).

It matters not what your "problem" may be, the chances are that if the person with whom you discuss it does not know the answer, then he almost certainly knows a man who does and in a hall where numbers are not a problem that man will be easily found.

So what kind of things are discussed?  As well as the finer points of "just how does Ian Rathbone achieve such superb loco lining", or "should I solder or glue white metal kits" there are the other thorny issues, like " what's the best way to convert my loft to a loco room" or "why does this Lima HST keep hopping off the track - it never used to".  Nothing is too mundane or obscure not to have a solution suggested.

Most parts of the clubroom are open, with the opportunity to browse our extensive library or relax and watch a DVD or video.  Light refreshments will be available.

All this for a nominal charge of £2.00 or £1.00 concession rate and if we entice you to become a member then this will be subtracted from your first years subscription.  What do you get for your £2? Those in red still to be confirmed

Our address is Unit 1F, Pearsall Drive , Oldbury, West Midlands, B69 2RA

Want to know more then contact enquiries

So I hear you ponder or otherwise, what the *** is a Symposium

Oxford English Dictionary: Symposium noun; a conference or meeting to discuss a particular academic or specialist subject.

All pictures below taken at 2007 event. Click on any picture for a larger image

 Mac Strong and Owen Gibbon wrestle with a cover for the passenger carrying 5" gauge - eventually the wind won and we relied on the weather.  Pleased to say that it was not until all the track was packed away after the event that the rains came.

The symposium gives the organisers of the National at the NEC the opportunity to chew the fat without the hustle and hassle of looking after 18000+ visitors.  With John Seward again taking the organisational reins this year it means that Paul Jones can have a more restful day and may even  indulge his interest in building more Forest of Dean wagons for his own layout.  It is also his opportunity to chat to anyone who wants to pass the time of day.  He is not alone in catching up on some modelling and trade officer Chris Dunne does likewise

Making use of Warley MRC's new clubroom we will be able to show a number the layouts presently being developed, some of which will not have been seen before.  Below is a selection of layouts and "characters" enjoying themselves.

Mark Found surveys Warley Road from the inside.			Under the mezzanine, with the layout built by the Junior section taking pride of place.			A grandstand view of one of the clubs upcoming layouts.  Dalby Wood in 4mm OO is being worked on mostly on Friday evenings.
Looking down on two EM layouts, Hadley Town in the foreground and Ampney, which was donated by club member Dave Edwards.			Another layout that is undergoing a face lift prior to being on display in Hall 5 this December is Broom Junction.  Here Bob Wood and John Andrews discuss the finer pints of the layout.			Final moments of set up; Ian Rathbone settles himself down whilst Alan Searle exchanges pleasantries with Pete Smith & John Smith.
Life before 7mm and Paul Jones putting the finishing touches to his EM layout Hadley Town.  Recently re-opened after closure in the late 1980's and due to run at the Easter York show.			After re-opening, Hadley Town awaits its first train			and shortly after, it departs behind a pannier.