Our final visit to Tolworth looks at the narrow gauge and overseas layouts.  We’ll start with Blackmoor (OO9).  A close to scale model of  Lynton and Barnstable station.  What isn’t there to like?  And it’s all excellent modelling, as well.

Albula Valley (N) models – in compressed form – the spirals and tunnels of a real Swiss Alpine crossing.  Many moons ago, I’d turn my nose up at OO9 ‘rabbit warren layouts’ where trains kept disappearing and popping out where you didn’t expect them.  (I recall Mr Atfield built a module like this, that could hijack your train off the main line…)  But this is the real life version, and Most excellent it is too.

Another brewery.  Sewel in On2.5.  Set in deepest Sussex, the railway is freelance, but the brewery is based on Harvey’s Brewery in Lewes.  No free samples, though….

A string of pictures, now of Pine Bluffs (HO).  A modular US layout, that has been renovated and extended since I last saw it.  And the facia features amusing snippings from the local paper.

More US stock on Johnburg (HO).

And finally, the charming ‘Japan in Bloom’ (N).  It shows what you can do with a theme in small space.

So endeth the pictures from a very good show.  Looking back, I realise that I had seen quite a few of the layouts before, but they were all worth another look.  We were tickets 1,2 and 3 into the show, and it seemed quieter at the beginning than previous years, but I’m sure it picked up through the weekend.  I also have to mention the very good bacon roll from the centre cafe that we sat and ate before the show opened, and also the impeccable 2 minutes silence observed at 11am for Remembrance Day.