TOBAZ PROMOTIONS
Quality Rail & Bus Collectors' Fairs
What's New
Even with our costs still rising we are holding our entrance fee at £2 for our non-Reading events again this year. The costs of running the Reading event rise faster than the others so we have no choice but to raise the entrance fee there to £3 from June 2008.
We are sorry, but from 2007 we are going to have to raise the entrance charge to our events by 50p. Costs of running these events go up and up continuously, hall rent, advertising, etc, etc. Entrance to the events will now be £2 except for Reading which will stay at £2.50p. Given the high quality stalls at our events we still believe this is very good value for money, especially given that some collectors events now charge up to £4 entrance.
Please note that the change of date of Bristol 2006 published in the September edition of the Railway Antiques Gazette is INCORRECT. The event has not moved from 30 September, a date that has been advertised for over a year.
Stafford in August 2006 will be our 40th event.
We started in August 1995 at Stafford, adding Bristol in 1998, Chiswick in 2001 and Reading in 2003. In that time we have provided collectors with about 3 miles of stalls and had a visitor for each foot of stall.
To give motorists something to read while waiting in the traffic outside the Rivermead Leisure Complex
we erected an advertising banner for our Rail-Bus 2006 event. Strangely, Reading Council do not allow
RAC/AA advertising signs around Reading but do allow banners to be placed in the grass verge outside the
Leisure Complex!
On a sunny day the free Routemaster shuttle approaches Rivermead Leisure Complex, Reading passing
our banner advertising the Rail-Bus 2006 event. Hundreds of our visitors make us of this service; it has already
been booked again for our 2007 event.
We hear rumours of an auction being planned for 2006 using St Leonards Hall at Stafford. We would like to put on record that we have no connection with this auction and are unable to give any information about it.
Our Routemaster waits at Reading station for it's next load of passengers on their way to Rail-Bus 2005.
Visitor numbers to Reading in 2005 broke all records for all our events.
A new folded A4 leaflet has been produced containing details of all our events.
Pick up a copy when you visit us.
There was a record number through the door at Chiswick January 2005. New and old stallholders brought with them the widest range of material yet seen at Chiswick. An excellent day for both buyers and sellers.
As Crewe Works are holding Open Days on the 10/11th September 2005, the railwayana event calendar for September has changed. The Sheffield Auction is now on the 17th and our Bristol event has changed date to the 24th.
At the June 2004 Reading event we operated a free Routemaster bus between Reading Station and Rivermead Leisure Centre. We are pleased that this addition to the Reading event was a great success with 341 single journeys undertaken. This free bus service will now be a permanent part of the event.