Model railway exhibition trashed by vandals exhibition trashed by vandals
 

Some models too 20 years to put together


But how stupid to set it up in a School Gym.



[Model railway club raises £50,000 after
exhibition trashed by vandals
Market Deeping Railway Club had
to cancel its Stamford Show after
vandals trashed thousands of pounds of layouts.
Market Deeping Model Railway Club
in Lincolnshire found its
exhibition completely destroyed
as members arrived to open up
ahead of the first day of their annual Stamford Show.
The club's members had spent hours
painstakingly setting up at
Welland Academy but had to
cancel the weekend's events
after the scale of the destruction was realised.]



https://news.sky.com/story/model-rai...ndals-11724403

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Was it trashed by vandals?

...amazing all of those people who have donated on the go fund me...:love:..I just don’t know how they’ll go about trying to replace or repair some of those items though....just pointless destruction..:sad:..

Anyone know what happened to the model railway exhibition?

we must track them down

...I’m not sure that might be derailing the thread...

They wanted to vandalise it at 1pm, but the trains didn't arrive on time.

It's good to have a hobby, and these vandals have finally found their station in life.

...that type of tardiness shouldn’t be given a platform tbh...

its so easy to get donations nowadays.. some girl from my town set up a gofundme for her wedding and got £10,000!

might just trash my own house and set one up..

Looking forward to Ringo narrating the CCTV footage.

...:laugh:..it’s devastating for them though really, poor people...those things that they treasure so much and without reason, someone just destroys them...

If it wasn't vandals

Could be a sleeper cell?

:suspect:

Probably just some exuberant youths that got carriaged away.

What possible locomotive could one have for this senseless crime?

Yes could be Local Youths.

Yes but how Stupid
of them to use a School Gym.

Yes Donations came all around the World.

Yes I would NEVER
use a School gym
Youths could watch it get set up
then go back later a Smash it all up

...just because it was in a school gym doesn’t mean it was youths who targeted it, Arista...do we know it was youths..?...

In a statement, it said: "About 0350 today (Saturday) we were alerted by a local resident that noises had been heard coming from Queen Eleanor School in Stamford and a short time later whilst we were on our way to the call, the alarm at the school activated.

"On arrival at the school we arrested four youths, who were on the premises, for burglary and criminal damage and they are in custody at Grantham.

Yes it was Youths.

they will get away with it.

Some works took 20 years to set up a model
this why Youths do not need to vote