Promoting Garden Railway Modelling at The Sarpsborg Culture Festival

The Sarpsborg Culture Festival was arranged in the Centre of Sarpsborg last weekend. Sarpsborg is the the city where our Model Railway Club is located, and it was suggested that we could put together a small stand to exhibit and promote 'Garden Railway Modelling' next to and together with the stand of the local Garden Society in the High Street.. The request was accepted, and it was another opportunity to run some trains again.

Some days before the Culture Festival some members from our Model Railway Club meet at the work of one of the members and created a 'mock up' of pallet collars on the parking lot outside:

When arriving the High Street on Saturday morning, Heine had already mounted the layout. He had also got all into it by making beveled lower parts to compensate for the slope of the street. -And added a tent as the weather forecast was uncertain  this day. The rest of us only had to lay tracks:

The Garden Society added a sign...

...and planting and we were ready to run trains for the public:

Cabview from the layout:

Ahead of this outing our Model Railway Club had acquired a roll-up with information of our club...

...and (members-) 'merch':

Judging by the numbers of spectators and visitors through the day, this seemed to be a popular stand at the Culture Festival. Some of them came back several times:

Here are some impressions of the trains we were running. I'd been running my German Heeresfeldbahn Diesel at so many outings lately that I opted for my British War Department Live Steam locomotive. Besides Live Steams are a really 'eyecatcher' for an audience not into model railways:

Making a (temporary) Garden Railway on Pallet Collars, was an easy, cheap and fast way to create the 'benchwork'.

This year was the first time this Culture Festival was arranged in Sarpsborg, but it's decided that it will be a similar arrangement next year too. Well, we already have a temporary layout ready to assemble and exhibit.