The Great British Model Railway Show 2025

 

It's very handy having a show six miles away from home. Chuck everything in the back of the car, and I should be in the hall in little over half-an-hour. 

Mind you, everything has to be carefully carried past a car worth a million pounds!

Apparently, only 10 of these Lotus's will be made, hence the price tag. It would be hopeless for moving toy trains around, so I'm not buying one. Looks nice though. 

Anyway, I set up and had a quick look around. The layouts were pretty impressive. I had a pre-booked shoot to carry out, and have provisionally arranged a couple more. 

Sadly, as I was on my own, wandering around time was pretty much nil. A few of my fellow club members gave me toilet breaks but I spent the entire weekend talking to various people. My display, featuring a couple of 009 layouts, went down very well, so that's good. 

Cakes arrived, courtesy of Alistair, who rather over did it. 

I managed to force most of it onto friends, but it certainly was appreciated. Well, you don't want to go hungry while demonstrating. 

Talking of which, I managed to mostly built a OO van, which will be appearing on this blog any day now, and made a bit more progress on the 7mm scale brakevan kit  that has appeared at this show for the last three years. 

Obviously, being a show, I picked up a few things. 

Mostly, it's some whitemetal kits and a station building from the L&WMRS second-hand stall. Well, I had to give them some money. The Edward book made the bill up to a tenner to make the change easier. And he is the best of the railway engines. 

A couple of Isle of Man postcards and a cheap loco made up the rest of the haul. The most exciting feature though, was I made a profit by flogging off some old mag project dioramas. More on this another day. 

Good show - yes. If I'd paid to come in, I'd have been very happy. It's an event that goes under the radar a little, but deserves more attention if you like layout watching, and don't need dozens of box-shifters, the three present being enough. Put it in the diary for next year.