202411 NR Careers Festival 2024

Location: Quadrant:MK, Milton Keynes, England
Date: 9th & 10th November 2024
Time: 09:00 - 15:00

Admission: Free

Sponsor: Network Rail

We were invited to display our T-Trak layout as part of a rail industry careers festival to provide a hands-on activity and a different way of engaging with visitors. The event was held inside Network Rail's headquarters building next to Milton Keynes Central station. The festival was aimed at children and adults, with an emphasis on showing there are many jobs on the railway: it's not just train drivers and track maintenance.

	Layout Diagram: we set up with our terminus station variant of the Australian Paperclip layout.
	An aerial view of the layout (courtesy DG & NR).
	The terminus station end of the layout.
	The end caps end of the layout.
	This event was the first outing for the Autumn Days module.
	The Coconut Palm Forest module drew many comments from visitors.
	Our layout is controlled by JMRI, using a simulation of 1960s British Railways Western Region relay signalling logic.