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Dear All I'm pleased to announce pictures of the fourth Great Western LEGO Train Show at STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western Railway in Swindon, UK. The event took place on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October and saw over 2600 visitors through (...) (18 years ago, 13-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Pictures from GWLTS-IV (Swindon, UK)
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(...) Brilliant work, guys! Your layout is filled with many stunning MOCs in stunning colors that really is very pleasing in appearance. It seems to me to be more asthetically pleasing to present a layout in-line rather than in a large (...) (18 years ago, 14-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for that John, it does seem to work well. I suppose the Lego shows over here tend to be one group in a smallish area whereas yours are lots of groups in a HUGE hall making linear layouts impractical. Oh yeah, my brother was banned from (...) (18 years ago, 14-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks John! In-line layouts just happen to suit the venues we usually display in. The problem tends to be trains being out of sight as they could be 15m+ away from you. We solve that problem by having a couple of joined in-line layouts that (...) (18 years ago, 15-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Well, Caerphilly Castle doesn't change and grow every year (and it doesn't move :D (18 years ago, 15-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You might try tossing more than one train on a line, but that gets pretty labor-intensive having to mind it constantly... (...) lol, actually, that is perfect, because it is behind everyone, and a big draw to get the crowds in the doors. (...) (18 years ago, 15-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Actually we do tend to run multiple trains per track, including lightning runs by the ghost train. It works pretty well untill Martin introduces his IR train... (...) "Hogwarts Expres" lives in Scotland.... (URL) and is owned by a commercial (...) (18 years ago, 15-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) In front of the coaling stage is a remote-controlled passing loop with signals. I was using that to trap and release a second train (like Percy or the Rocket) on the line, though you can't always do that when some of the bigger trains are (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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