I opted out of a visit to Alton this year, despite the promise of breakfast beforehand.  It had been a busy week, I’d been to two shows the previous weeks, and I needed a quiet day.  The layouts looked excellent, but I had recently seen some of the best ones.  Nevertheless, Allan has provided some photos…..

We start with Rolvenden, modelled close to scale in P4.  This part of the Colonel Stephens’ light railway represents the station Kent and East Sussex Railway in the mid-1920s.  

The lovely Drws y Nant (2mm finescale), a close to scale model of passing station on the GWR Ruabon to Barmouth route, situated between Bala and Dolgellau in a wooded valley in Mid-Wales.  And lack of rail action is made up for by the lorry that drives into the goods yard!

Lower Exebury (P4) is another favourite of mine.  The layout is inspired by the real Exbury area in the New Forest in Hampshire and its military importance to D-Day preparations.  I love the cormorant and the DUWK.

Copper Wort (OO) is doing the rounds, but every photo I see brings out some new details.  Bascially, its Edwardian period brewery in Burton-on -Trent.  The layout has a hexagonal shape with all round public viewing.

Hoath Hill (3mm finescale) is based on a gypsum mine near Mountfield in East Sussex. Instead of the railway just being ‘there in front of you’ it is glimpsed through the trees that encourage the viewer to seek new angles to watch the trains.

To close today, Kleine Albula is a representation of a fictitious passing loop station on the largely single track network of the Rhatische Bahn, in South-Eastern Switzerland. The snow looks far too realistic for my liking!