Manchester November 2022

Basic Details

Date: Saturday 16th November 2022
Time: Noon-6pm.
Location:
Escape to Freight Island (Former Mayfield Station), 11 Baring St, Manchester M1 2PZ.
Price: There will be no charge for this event.

Signing Up To Attend

If you wish to attend the meet, could you please register using the link available from Future Events section of the SimSig web-site. It is important that people register even though there is no charge for the event so that we can advise the venue of the likely numbers attending. If you do sign up then find that you are unable to attend, please return to the event and cancel your registration. This will enable us to keep track of the numbers and give sensible details to the venue.

How To Get There

The venue is situated a short walk from Manchester Piccadilly Station. Manchester Piccadilly is served by trains from all over the UK, Manchester Victoria, Oxford Road, and Deansgate are also a short distance away either by walking or use of the Manchester Metrolink.

Bus & Trams

Trains for Greater Manchester provide information on local bus and trams. TFGM website

Car

Parking is available on nearby streets, and also at various car parks around Manchester Piccadilly

Facilities and Venue Details

Food

Food is available from various restaurants and eatieries throughout the venue, these are delivered to your seat in the meet area via the QR code provided near you.

Drinks

Drinks are available from various bars throughout the venue, again these are delivered to your seat in the meet area via the QR code provided near you.

WiFi

A private WiFi network will be set up for the meet laptops to connect with each other but not for internet access.

Room Layout

The Meet

Times

Planned from 12noon to 6pm,

Entrance Fee

The event will take place without any entrance fee.

What's Included

Shared access to multiplayer simulations, tutorials on how to play SimSig if needed.

Where To Stay

There are hotels of all grades and prices from guest-houses to four- and five-star hotels within easy walking distance of the venue.

Friday night

An informal meet-up may be planned on the Friday night for drinks and perhaps a meal too, but as said this doesn't always happen. More details closer to the time, once location and venue has been decided upon.

Saturday Night

TBA

Sunday

No visit has been arranged to date.

Sims to be used

TBC

What Actually Happened

32 people attended the meet, including two international Simsiggers, unfortunately on this occasion we forgot to take a group photo. Three new simulations were previewed, these being Cornwall, Crewe, and Woking. A 2009 timetable was run on Cornwall, 2015 on Crewe and 2019 on Woking.

The simulations were well received by those attending. No firm release date has been set for any of them, but we hope it won't be too long before public release.

After the main part of the day 15 Simsiggers stayed behind to eat at the venue, before a smaller group headed off the sample the hotel bar were some of the group had accommodation. Rumours a hard core group of four were still in the bar at 0430 Sunday morning are yet to be substantiated.

Cornwall

Crewe

Woking

Last edited by headshot119 on 20/11/2022 at 13:28