The school holidays may be half over and the Christmas festivities may now be over, but with the New Year around the corner I can now confirm that there WILL be a Weston-on-Trent Model Railway exhibition in 2014.

Actually the decision was an easy one. With almost £1000 raised for school funds and plenty of positive comments received, the headteacher seemed to nervously ask me if I would be prepared to run another event. Answer..of course I would.

The date is Saturday 15th November.

As a result I am on the look out for layouts again. Can anyone help??

Meanwhile:

Skaleby West

The layout is in store awaiting our double house move next year. We will leave our current home in January and move around the corner to my late Grandfather's bungalow. We will stay here for 6 months until our new build is ready.

No work will be carried out on the layout until we move out of our current home. Then I hope to get cracking on some of the outstanding jobs on the current scenic section and also consider building the scenic extension.

In its current form the layout is available for exhibitions should anyone want it. At present its only 2014 booking is the Weston show, and that depends on whether or not I complete the extension.