Moving onto the sports hall we had eight superb displays.

Adrian Moitre, Owen Roberts  and fellow members of The Bowman Circle were leading the way with a great show of steam operation. The meths smell lingered most of the day but what a fine sight seeing trains from the 1920’s still operating.

Mike Clark with assistance from Miles Rowland who was also fronting the Tri-ang Society had a very neat Tri-ang Big Big layout which every time I passed was running beautifully.

Bryan Pentland once again excelled, this time with  his ‘ Mostly Marx’(made in the USA) tinplate collection. I loved the monorail and the litho buildings which are so  colourful.

The Draycott family were down on mass and had set up their wonderful Dublo 3 rail layout.  It certainly makes the public gasp and I can’t think of a bigger Dublo layout on the circuit-where else would you find 13 girder bridges!

Adam Heeley and friends were running a fantastique collection of French Hornby O gauge . I particularly liked the late 1960’s Plastic Gare du Nord.

John Ovenden, Mike Allen, Alan Brown, Peter Laws, Martin Wright and several other  members of the Wessex HRCA had set up a superb three track layout. Running Hornby, Bassett Lowke and ACE trains they themed the day.  However  when I turned up it I was pleased to see a remotored John Glynas Battle of Britain loco Kenley on one track, ACE A4 and Hornby LI on the other tracks.

Colin Davies was displaying his excellent Meccano models which included a huge Sydney Bridge and a Concorde.

 Clive Parker was in amongst the traders with his neat Trix layout.

 

Speaking of traders, there were over 90 tables selling old and new trains.