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Ideas for Really Special Event
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Wedding
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Wedding Anniversary
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Birth
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Valentine
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Fund Raising
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Family Get-together
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Commemmoration
There are so many special events but every now and then a really special event comes your way. If a railway modeller is involved why not celebrate the occasion with his or her own wagon?
The cost need not be that high - from as little as £6.50 a wagon (see below). All that is needed is for a committment to buy 30 wagons. The more wagons you buy the less it costs for each wagon (see below).
Some ideas that I know about - or have been involved with.....
Congratulations
Richard and Marion are celebrating their marriage this October, and to assist them they have commissioned an N-Gauge limited edition wagon. I was fortunate to meet the happy couple at the N-Gauge Society Show at Kettering where I was able to give them the first of the batch, which Dapol kindly brought to the show.
Photograph taken by Gary Kerr at the Kettering Show - thanks Gary
Christmas Gift - wagon produced for a customer for a Christmas gift (Pictured left). Only two were made using transfers provided by Blackham Transfers. This was done as a surprise!
For further details on what Blackham Transfers can do, see
Wedding gift - wagons used to hold place names at the reception. Each person's place at the tables had a wagon on it with a card indicating that person's name. The wagon looked authentic but bore the name of the newly married couples name.
50th Birthday Celebration - an authentic flat wagon was used to hold a container that bore the name of the person concerned. Wagons were distributed to close family and friends. Only the excess were then sold on to customers.
When it was about two weeks before Jane's 50th birthday, I said that I was stuck for ideas on what to get her (knowing full well that this project had been going on for about three months).
She said "I suppose I could always have a wagon!". This left me wondering if somehow she had found out. She hadn't and was pleased with it. By the way, I didn't just get her the wagon! I put in some track as well!!!
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In cases where a fair number of wagons are needed, the excess production would be sold either by mail order or at shows. Prices for this are as shown below (As at September 2007) and would also depend on the type of wagon chosen.
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Minimum order of 100 wagons cost £6.50 each
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Minimum order of 75 wagons cost £6.75 each
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Minimum order of 50 wagons cost £7.00 each
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Minimum order of 30 wagons cost £7.25 each
The type of wagons available are:-
Prices for individual wagons produced, as in the "A J Brown" example shown start at £45 for one wagon, but £50 for two; £60 for five. If each wagon is to have individual running numbers there would be additional cost.
Are you organising a model railway show?
I am prepared to go to shows and given sufficient warning - like 4 months - can produce a wagon for the event. Normally this takes the form of an authentic wagon from the area. See the various wagons I have done for Banbury, Loddon Vale (Berkshire), Penmorfa and Shirehampton (Bristol).
The club should undertake to buy at least 30 of the wagons produced - which are on very favourable terms. The club then offers them for sale to their members at whatever price they feel is fair and the remainder they take with them to other exhibitions for sale to the public. This raises funds for the club concerned. All I ask for is favourable terms for attending the show.
Authentic wagons sell much better than ones bearing the name of the show - ie a wagon with
BANRAIL 2006
on it will not sell as well as one like
"Bliss Tweed Mills of Chipping Norton".
(Sorry Banbury - but I had to use someone as an example!)
Anyone thinking of doing this should give as much notice as possible - Really I am already looking at 2008 shows.
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