My favourite show comes around again, and I got there – just! I’ve missed several shows I wanted to go to due to other commitments, so I took off straight after church on Sunday 19th for a rather wet drive down to Uckfield. The show didn’t disappoint, and it will take a couple of posts to get through the rather fine selection of models on show.
Blogging in the order that I saw them, we start with Ditchling Green (O). Gordon Gravett’s ground breaking 1990’s layout has been restored and even improved. It’s still stunning.
A contrast in size – Sheep Dip (OO) is a little industrial whimsy, notable for some excellent weathered rolling stock, and some verdant scenery!
Les Caves du Roi (HO) is a lovely model of Lebanese railways during the civil war of the 1980’s. However, I found the experience rather spoiled by the owner giving a long lecture on how he’d 3D printed everything, rather than running trains.
I loved Olly Turner’s Roman Road (OO). A minimalist set of exchange sidings somewhere in deepest Kent, including the lightweight overhead installed in some Southern Region yards.
The East Kent Railway Shepherdswell (OO) is familiar from other shows, but a suitably grimy industrial line set in the Kent coalfields.
Todmorton (N), a small (4′) ex-Midland Railway branch terminus, with lots of detail.
Pwllheli (P4). Relatively (!) modern image on the Cambrian Coast line.
East Lynn Quay (S). Part of the late Trevor Nunn’s fine East Lynn layout, it makes a neat cameo layout on its own.
And Jane’s Creek (EM). I always seem to take pictures of the ships on this excellent layout. The trains are rather good, too….
The last marine layout, Rye Sands (OO), another cameo quayside.
More next time….
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