So to the rest of the show. These dioramas were exhibited by, I think, a professional model maker, but they are excellent. All in O gauge, they included a SECR terminus, a Metropolitan Railway tank engine, and the famous cutting in ?Bath? with some early GWR stock.

I was most impressed by Clarendon in P4. Pre-grouping, LNWR and GWR, with a lovely full station forecourt modelled. You think that’s the whole railway, but round the corner we pass the engine shed, and our train runs through carriage and coal sidings. And even better, the hidden sidings are not hidden. A transparent front allow one to watch the train cassettes being changed, and examine the models currently not in use.

In contrast Leatown is a small OO cameo layout, set somewhere in East London during blue diesel days. A lockdown project later completed for the owner by James Hilton, it catches the character of decaying urban railways, and offers a lot of operation in a small space.

Caldershaw is a large P4 layout that just grew! It has a lot of interesting scenic detail.

I rather liked the On16.5 layout of Bowaters paper mill, especially the evening lighting and the full, and lit, building interiors.

And, as usual, a few other pictures to finish. An excellent show, and I shall try and go next year.