Queen’s Birthday Exhibition update June 18th, 2010 by gweir

Hi All

The Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend Exhibition was a great success and was enjoyed by all, especially those people who took part in and won the raffle each day.

They were

Bob Tonks of Cheltenham who won Saturdays prize of a HO scale Pacific National ‘NR’ Class loco, courtesy of Austrains.

Warren Trevorah of Bittern won Sunday’s prize of a ‘Thomas’ train set, courtesy of Branchline, Dorset Road, Croydon.

and, Gary Harman of Ferntree Gully won Monday’s prize of a HO scale V/Line ‘B’ Class loco, courtesy of Auscision.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the companies that donated the prizes.

Exhibition Update May 31st, 2010 by Michael Greenhill

The exhibition is now less than two weeks away on the Queen’s Birthday weekend, June 12th, 13th and 14th.

The venue is:

Brandon Park Community Centre,

645 Ferntree Gully Road,

Glen Waverley, (Melways 71, C8).

The hall is immediately behind the fire station and opposite Brandon Park Shopping Centre.

Ample car parking is available.

There is ready access by public transport with bus services running along Springvale Road past Brandon Park, from Glen Waverley and points further north, and Springvale and points further south, all weekend.

Admission is: $8 Adult

$5 Children

$20 Family (Two adults and two children)

A raffle will be conducted each day with prizes generously donated by Branchline, Austrains and Auscision.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Craig Dunstone’s “End of the Line” Victorian HO scale layout will be on display at the exhibition. This is the feature layout in the June issue of the Australian Model Railway Magazine.

WMRC 2010 Exhibition January 17th, 2010 by gweir

The WMRC 2010 Exhibition will be held on the Queen’s Birthday weekend 12th to 14th June 2010 at:

Brandon Park Community Centre

645 Ferntree Gully Road

Glen Waverley.

There will be layouts in 4 different scales, modelling Australian, USA, Japanese, European and UK prototypes.

Opening hours are :

• Saturday: 10am-6pm
• Sunday: 10am-6pm
• Monday: 10am-5pm

GUEST LAYOUTS

‘Carlisle River’ VR On30, Stephen Holian

‘Benalta’ Aus HO, Mike Desailly

‘Whytecliffe’ early UK OO, Brian Smith

‘Dort Druben’ Euro N, Keith Flower

‘Cherry Blossom Park’ Japanese N, Ian Dingwall

‘Mittelstadt’ Marklin HO, Lutz Heerde

‘Twisty‘ Croydon MRC

‘Hornby Dublo 1959 - 1964′ Jeff Mills

WMRC LAYOUTS

‘Baldwin & Oswego’ USA N

‘Victoria Bridge’ Vic HO

‘Georgetown’ UK N

‘Becky’s ‘U’ Drive’

DEMOS

Lawrie Green & Grant McAdam, ‘The Art of the Diorama’

TRADE & OTHERS

ARHS

Branchline

Train World

Tinkering Tools

Tom’s Hobbies & TrainOrama

Craig Dunstone - Blue & Gold Models

Australian Aviation & Railway Photography

WMRC Sell Stand

Also a club information stand and a canteen!

We look forward to seeing you there.

Gallery errors September 22nd, 2009 by Michael Greenhill

Hi folks,

A quick message to let you know that there are some problems with our gallery and that I’m working on it

Thanks

Website changes September 20th, 2008 by Michael Greenhill

I’ve been making some updates to our website. If anything’s amiss, please bear with me while I sort it out