Tom B
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Hi all,
(I'm not the best storyteller but here goes).
Saturday dawned bright and early and after the kerfuffle of the Ealing - Acton shuttle I arrived at 0935 (so my pass says
anyway). After a little fiddling we managed to get the first machine up and running with a dual-monitor setup, and very shortly
John arrived with a laptop, with Damon and Paul not being far behined. In true LU style the roof was leaking, and a certain
someone managed to confuse a bucket holding said leaky water for a nice place to put your coat (I won't name names
). Some
random person turned up and spent practically all day standing next to the BVE table, I don't know who they were but they spoke
as if they were on the forums, they had a cycle helmet in their hands all day. Chris Cobley turned up a bit later and went home
to fetch a second monitor and joystick. Though by the end of the day things were getting a bit cramped and after the depot had
closed I managed to get a promise of a new table for Sunday...
... which duly was waiting at the stand when I arrived at 0955 this morning. Thanks to John Polley of Metromodels who managed to
sort out the table from the LTM managers. Chris turned up with his machine (free from all dodgy content
) and peripherals, as
did John. Unfortunately Damon couldn't come on the Sunday due to waking up late, but we were joined by Craig and Vikki for the day, with the latter taking great delight when I managed to overshoot several stations on the Piccadilly. You'd have thought I would have learnt it by now! Several members of the audience could perhaps be classed as requiring attention from those in white coats, including one guy who suggested that Chris had a new girlfriend. There was also a minor incident involving the Bakerloo on one of the machines, it suddenly decided that it didn't want to run with a 72ts, it would load with whichever train was being previously used (leading to the spectacle of a 37 and a 158 at Elephant!)
Over the two days the BVE area was well received by visitors, some had heard of it and had a couple of routes, others had no idea
but were keen to try. A great many flyers bearing Mackoy's and TSC's URL on were distributed, though we printed quite a few too
many. It was nice to put faces to plenty of names, I can't remember exactly everyone who I spoke to but it was cool anyway
.
Photos of the weekend are at http://tombeevers.fotopic.net/c879788.html though I still have quite a few to upload.
(I'm not the best storyteller but here goes).
Saturday dawned bright and early and after the kerfuffle of the Ealing - Acton shuttle I arrived at 0935 (so my pass says
anyway). After a little fiddling we managed to get the first machine up and running with a dual-monitor setup, and very shortly
John arrived with a laptop, with Damon and Paul not being far behined. In true LU style the roof was leaking, and a certain
someone managed to confuse a bucket holding said leaky water for a nice place to put your coat (I won't name names

random person turned up and spent practically all day standing next to the BVE table, I don't know who they were but they spoke
as if they were on the forums, they had a cycle helmet in their hands all day. Chris Cobley turned up a bit later and went home
to fetch a second monitor and joystick. Though by the end of the day things were getting a bit cramped and after the depot had
closed I managed to get a promise of a new table for Sunday...
... which duly was waiting at the stand when I arrived at 0955 this morning. Thanks to John Polley of Metromodels who managed to
sort out the table from the LTM managers. Chris turned up with his machine (free from all dodgy content

did John. Unfortunately Damon couldn't come on the Sunday due to waking up late, but we were joined by Craig and Vikki for the day, with the latter taking great delight when I managed to overshoot several stations on the Piccadilly. You'd have thought I would have learnt it by now! Several members of the audience could perhaps be classed as requiring attention from those in white coats, including one guy who suggested that Chris had a new girlfriend. There was also a minor incident involving the Bakerloo on one of the machines, it suddenly decided that it didn't want to run with a 72ts, it would load with whichever train was being previously used (leading to the spectacle of a 37 and a 158 at Elephant!)
Over the two days the BVE area was well received by visitors, some had heard of it and had a couple of routes, others had no idea
but were keen to try. A great many flyers bearing Mackoy's and TSC's URL on were distributed, though we printed quite a few too
many. It was nice to put faces to plenty of names, I can't remember exactly everyone who I spoke to but it was cool anyway

Photos of the weekend are at http://tombeevers.fotopic.net/c879788.html though I still have quite a few to upload.