On Sunday Fen End Pit visited the Narrow Gauge show being organised at Bressingham Steam Museum in Norfolk. It was an excellent day out and thanks are due to the organising team for putting on a good show. We were able to set up on the Saturday evening which meant a much more relaxed setup and an extra hours' lie-in. The layout worked pretty well, no big issues which impacted operation. As usual my son produced a long list of 'improvements' to keep me busy for a few months.

The room we were set up in is used as a creche so, if we got bored, we could play with the Brio or the play fire-engine! The artwork was attractive, even if not the most realistic clouds I've ever seen on a backscene!

Operation was working so well that I was even able to leave the layout in the capable hands of 'the crew' while I sneaked out and had a run around on the Nursery line.

Some of the crew got their own back and had a ride on the Gallopers in the background!

On standard gauge duty was a Southern 'P' and we obviously went at paid our respects the 'Eric' the E4 and the J69 from the National Collection which were in the museum shed.

If you haven't been to Bressingham it is certainly worth a visit, it was great to see so many people there and to hear that their programmes on channel 5  have had a positive impact on visitor numbers.

Next to us in the creche was a lovely On14 layout Gweithdy Dyffryn which was featured quite recently in NG&IRM Review. The pretty much unique feature was the modelling of working stub points. It was the layout's first outing to a show and the owner said it was ok for me to include a couple of photos here.

David