Today I am absolutely knackered after exhibiting Charlton at the Pevensey Exhibition. This was a 'local' show, although for the first four hours it was non-stop and absolutely jammed. Thankfully it did tail off a bit for the final couple of hours, which was nice I was fried from operating the layout solo! For a small show I thought the standard of the modelling on show was extremely high. There were some great layouts - although given that I had very little time to look about I did not take any photographs. However, there were some excellent layouts there and it was a very friendly show. Again I had a lot of good conversations with different people which makes the whole event really worthwhile. Generally the layout performed faultlessly, although the class 22 needs a good wheel clean. Other than this it was clean sailing, the only problems being when I failed to set a point properly, driver induced error!
The layout set up and running.
For this show I set the layout at the back of the trestle stands and put the front drape over the rest of the extension. I also increased the height of the layout by about 8 inches. This stopped people touching the layout and it also stopped them leaning on the layout - so no repeat performances of last time and the demise of the class 45!. So a great show, great fun but very tiring!!!
Class 25 on the milk train.
Class 22 on the parcels train.
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