The day before Uckfield, Sean & co. took Brunswik to the B&WW show.  Another I was sorry to miss, as I was a member with my father in my teens, and learnt a lot.  Here’s a show in the 1970’s, with their most excellent O gauge layout (3-rail but using the outside rail.)  Note the ‘formal’ dress code and the smoking.  I built the signal box (embossed brick card over a perspex shell,) and my father is in the background.  The locos were incredibly powerful and we regularly ran a 100-wagon goods train towards the end of a show.  Fun times!

Meanwhile back at Brunswik….

I haven’t posted all the layouts, but here’s a selection for today….

The wonderful Copper Wort (OO).  This is 1902 Edwardian Burton on Trent, an extremely busy town with the bigger breweries establishing their potential with the Midland Railway network with the smaller breweries muscling in between them.  The buildings are based on the breweries of Bass, Ind Cooper, Trumans and others, all based in and around Burton on Trent.

And of course Southwark Bridge (N).  Railways as I remember them,

I like the look of Wegberg & Arsbeck (N), based on the small town of Wegberg and its neighbouring village Arsbeck in north-west Germany, situated on the line between Mönchengladbach and Dalheim near the Dutch border. The British Army of the Rhine had a branch to RAF Wildenrath off the line and this junction is also modelled. The period depicted is 1955-1970.

I like the simplicity of Melin Dolrhyd (009), a real location on the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway.

And the complexity of Dydley Junction (N), an exercise to see how many quarts can be squeezed into a pint pot of 4′ x 2’6″!

East Docks (EM)….

Newchapel Junction (O)

And a final bit of anonymous Southern Region!