[modeleng] Re: Sinsheim

Sounds great Barrie, glad you enjoyed the show. I take it you didn't have 
any customs trouble taking your engine back and forth? Was there any special 
oermit you obtained beforehand to simplify passing customs?

Cheers Jeff Dayman


>From: "Barrie Purslow" <bpduo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [modeleng] Re: Sinsheim
>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:40:17 -0000
>
>Having been chosen by the Selection Committee (!) I set off for Sinsheim
>recently with my 5" Pacific. On arrival at the cross channel ferry the
>official who checked my passport asked " Are you alone in the vehicle 
>sir?".
>I couldn't resist it........."No" said I " I've got the Duchess of Abercorn
>with me!".
>
>Most of you must have heard and read of Sinsheim - big 5" & 7.25" ground
>level tracks, M.E. exhibition, all indoors. I certainly had, but I was
>completely unprepared for the experience. The selection process and the 
>fact
>that everybody had their own siding, named and numbered, led me to believe
>this would be a tightly organised event.
>
>How wrong can you be. Did they want to see my boiler certificate? - No. Did
>they wish to see proof of insurance - no. Proof of competence? - No. Should
>I fit my spark arrestor - No. Would somebody show me round the (very long)
>track - no, just go down there, onto the mainline and follow somebody! When
>would I be allowed to run? - anytime, 10 o'clock to five o'clock all three
>days. Oh , and you must come on Saturday evening because we turn all the
>lights out and run in the dark!
>
>When things got going I was surprised to see quite large model traction
>engines driving through the crowds towing trucks with kids on board, the
>track itself was busy with an incredible variety of locos / trains some
>driven by youngsters who looked to be less than ten years old.
>
>When I commented that we wouldn't be able to do this in the U.K. the 
>Germans
>couldn't understand, although one of them did say that the insurance 
>company
>did "get a bit concerned" because they turned the smoke detectors off on 
>the
>fire alarm system!
>
>It was a great three days and my abiding memory is that, despite the almost
>total freedom to do as one liked, I never saw anybody reprimanded, never 
>saw
>anybody injured and never heard anybody get "ratty", even at the end when
>everbody tried to depart at the same time.
>
>Aufedersein,
>
>
>Barrie
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:14 PM
>Subject: [modeleng] Sinsheim
>
>
> > Someone has posted some photos of this years exhibtion at Sinsheim, at:
> >
> >
> > http://freenetfoto.de/album/sinsheim2008/
> >
> >
> > http://www.alanstepney.info
> > Alan Stepney's Model Engineering, steam, and workshop pages.
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