Back for a second layout selection.  The Royal Albert Bridge (N) is a lovely scenic roundy-roundy.  If you are going to have a continuous run, why not have some spectacular engineering!

Hope-under-Dinmore (EM) is a fine display of pre-grouping modelling, with LNWR and GWR trains.

I really liked East Quay (OO).  A simple through layout with a short fiddle yard at each end (running a passenger auto-coach service.)  Interest is provided by a small yard and a harbour.  This could work very well for almost any prototype or company.

Frecclesham (0), Southern in BR days.  The crimson coaches look very smart in this large size.

Llawryglyn (EM) models a bucolic byway of the Cambrian Railway, that specialised in branches to nowhere that no-one else would have bothered with.

Wantage (P4) and The Works (O, ON16.5 and moving vehicles), very different but both excellent.

‘Proper’ 009 and Llandecwyn.

Last of the layouts, Top Yard (EM).  I rather liked the track layout, but especially admired the honesty of the builder on the notice underneath!

I did take a couple of pictures of forthcoming ‘N’ gauge models.  I can’t wait for my Rapido dynamometer car, and I think that I shall order some of their SECR wagons, too.  Farish came out with a new, unannounced tank wagon.  A good prototype, as it fills the just post-war gap of prototypes.

Finally, the usual N Gauge Forum meetup at BH Enterprises.  Just the four of us, but perhaps quality beats quantity?

The journey home was also easy, made even easier by my train making an additional stop at Earlswood, the nearest stop to home.  A very good exhibition.  Perhaps a little more trade than in the past, but I think that a couple of layouts had dropped out.  Perhaps, too, post-Covid with increasing venue costs, this is what we will see.  More commercial shows, with a bit more trade (but less specialist traders.)  It’s difficult to criticise this – it’s just the way the hobby is going.