I was not a happy Bunny last Friday. I was all geared up to go to the Rapido Railex with Allan, but the weather was so wet and cold I didn’t fancy it, as I still can’t get a coat on over my shoulder. It was a top-quality show by all accounts. I think I’d seen all the layouts there but they were all ones worth a second look. Still we have a few photos from my trusted photographer!
We’ll start with Ewe. Wisbech and Upwell tramway in a box – what isn’t there to like?

And on to a favourite. Old Parrock is tiny but delightful.
Again on the small size, York Road underground station in 2mm extracted from the enormous Copenhagen fields. So much detail here with a working lift and even a man reading the paper in a cubicle in the gents.

I haven’t seen the Medway Steelworks, but it looks excellent, all SECR and pre-grouping.
Good to see some narrow gauge modelling that looks like a real railway. Ridge Lane has a nice rundown industrial air about it.


Corrish is just a circle of track based on the Corris railway, but it’s very well done.
The excellent Melton Mowbray North, showing how you can make a scale model of a largish station in N gauge.
Little and large. Lockdown Sidings….

And The Yard….

More next post.
My gosh this looks like it was a wonderful show, showcasing a whole bunch of layouts I am familiar with (albeit by distance and from afar). I hadn’t been following this show and wasn’t familiar with their plans. I think I only knew Corrish would be there because I subscribe to George Williamson’s Youtube channel where he said he was going.
I adore Old Parrock but had never seen Ewe before and already feel like “this is something I’m going to need to know a lot more about”. Wow, that’s some attractive modelling.
Thanks for this update.
Chris
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The layout with the boats is Janes’ Creek, which will be appearing at the Canterbury model railway exhibition in January.
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