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Some more pictures from Dorking today. We’ll start with are Wimbledon club’s lovely N gauge French layout.

Next a rather interesting end loop. It’s in 00, but gives me ideas for N club?

Penmawr models a typical GWR engine shed.

Trains in the countryside with Ashborough Junction.

Finally a few shots from other layouts.

Dorking and Horsham MRCs held a joint show again. Not a bad idea at all for a small club to pool resources is like this, especially when hall hire is so expensive. Sean and Allan and Lucas were exhibiting at the show so I have plenty of photos. However, the show publicity was very poor, so I may have labelled some photos incorrectly!

We’ll start with Sean’s Forrestone. Allan was left to run the railway on Saturday afternoon due to rugby, but I’m told that he didn’t break anything.

Mr. Bean and the pigeons. An N gauge pigeon is very small….

Gilly North’s prize-winning Potteries…

And her new Scottish loop. Just needs a man with bagpipes and a kilt standing in the middle of nowhere.

The excellent Upperton.  This shows what can be done with N gauge on a large scale. The golf course makes a pleasant change from a cricket field.

More next time.

And so to the rest of the layouts. Hobbs Hill had this dreadful warning!

In front of a nicely sceniced Southern Region layout.

A glimpse of Titfield.

On shed at Newton Grove.

Paystow is doing the rounds of exhibitions!

Good to see the old Metropolitan Railway modelled on Wendover.

And a more up-to-date version in Harefield Road.

Much Murkel may be just another Great Western branch line, but it’s very well modelled so I’ll let it off!

Lastly, some industrial grime at RJ Colliery.

Well, it looked an excellent show and I hope they do it next year so I can get there.

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.