The Wealden Railway Group show is a small, friendly show of mostly small layouts, into which my layouts seem to fit well as I've exhibited there several times. I actually showed Loctern Quay there in March 2020 - a week before lockdown - so it was nice to return with it.
It behaved well all day and entertained both visitors and operators. Thanks to Edward Mallory for helping me out.
Next to me was Giles Barnabe with his San Telmo, imaginatively set on a Spanish-speaking island in the Caribbean.
I love the arrangement of these buildings with the arches and outside stairs.
Ian Roberts brought a new layout in his favoured 1:32 scale on 16.5mm track. Strontian is an oval layout, as usual set in Scotland, with a variety of trains.
Another Narrow Gauge layout was Westhay, clearly Welsh-inspired and making good use of ready-to-run.
Chris Ford brought Drovers Brook, a classic branch line terminus in OO. Chris never intended to exhibit this layout...
Dounreay is a Scottish terminus in the BR-blue era modelled in the unusual (for UK outline) scale of HO. It's always surprising how much less space HO takes up compared to OO, considering the relatively small difference in scale.
John Bruce, well known for modelling in 009, brought this small but beautifully finished industrial layout/cameo/diorama in OO. The kit-built Hudswell-Clarke diesel makes a change from the usual BR shunters.
I missed the name of this HO scale French harbourside layout, but I did like the fishing boats and the diminutive diesel shunter moving wagons on the quayside.
The Uckfield club brought the small cameo layout built by their school-kids group. Here a tiny Ruston Hornsby diesel arrives with an equally tiny inspection coach.
This American layout Broken Creek was nicely modelled and displayed.
Now less than 3 weeks to my own group's show!
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