Modelrail Scotland 2025

Let's start with the important stuff - cakes. 

Empire biscuits were available from the nearby (5 minutes stroll) Greggs, and most days we cleared the store out of these delicitous delicacies. And very nice they were too. That a friends daughter turned her nose up at the ones I brought back just means more for me in the future. Her mum scoffed both shares. 

From the Morrisons in the exhibition centre, I picked up snowballs from local baker, McDonald & Son. I'm not a big fan of coconut, but they tasted OK. Sort of a soft donut with jam in. I ate a couple, and then fed the Accurascale boys with the rest of the packet. 

 

And there were Tunnock's teacakes. The plain chocolate ones that you can't get south of the border. I bought mine from Gretna services on the way up, so they didn't stop me trying to smuggle them into England. Superb. 

Of course, there were layouts, and some really good ones. I carried out three photo shoots for BRM, but could have easily doubled that if it hadn't been for the public being allowed in! This was just Scottish layouts too - anything that lives within sensible striking distance wasn't on my list. 

Trade was good, but with some odd holes. I'm in the market for a box of Woodland Scenics coarse scatter, but no one had any WS on sale! I did wonder if someone had opened a portal to a branch of Beatties. There were plenty of boxed Airfix GMR wagons on sale, and the buggest pile of Jouef coaches I've ever seen. As I recall, these weren't bad models, so for £15 a pop, if you just wanted something to run on the layout, a bit of a bargain.

 My overall feeling was this was a good show, and I'd certainly have been happy if I'd paid to go in as a punter. The people were freindly, and I'd certainly have found plenty to look at, and be inspired by. 

There is an eclectic mix of photos on Flickr.