NHY 581

Morning all, A flavour of the main hall from last year. You may recognise a few of the usual suspects.........and one or two of the more unusual ones... I thank you.

As one who enjoys doing a bit of weathering, that is truly first class and something to aspire to. Rob.

Chris H's ( @Gilbert ) Cropper street features in the current edition of Railway Modeller, an excellent article. Come and see what all the fuss is about for yourself.

Absolutely.

Great. Make sure there's something for Ellie as well.

Carry on Old Boy. It will be lovely to see the three of you.

Nice to see, Alex. Upwell Drove was one of the inspirational layouts behind Ewe. In fact, it helped to kickstart my interest in all things East Anglian branchlineage

Seven days to go..........

Why not ?

Oh and as if I'd forget............ As Gwen tells us, 7, YES, 7 days to go. In fact the hall will be a veritable hive of activity with multiple erections as layouts are placed in accordance with the carefully conceived floor plan. Which reminds me...........

Morning all, This morning we highlight the last of our demonstrators, Stu Hilton aka your own, your very own @Stubby47 Stu is a fixture at SWAG and no members day is complete without him. To locate him within the hall, just follow the trail of chocolate cake crumbs to his table. If you have a need for a bespoke build then Stu is your man. He can obviously be chatted to on the day or contacted via the internet.... https://www.stubby47.com/ Here are a few examples of his trade. Sit down and have a chat because that's what he's there for. Rob

Not Eric ?

I may have had a tipple...........why for ?

Cropper Street is also one of the star attractions at the SWAG Rmweb members day in a weeks time. Rob.

Googling "bus stop" Great Stoke provides this image. A tap on the red bus confirms it's the T1. A quick google search using "bus services Thornby" provides the following screen shots; Enlarge around Thornby leisure centre. click on red bus thing in image above. Tap orange/yellow T1 thing in image above. Bus on the yellow line moves to allow you to check on progress. Rob.

Oh and while we're at it....... Relevant form required.......... SWAG2024 Bring and Buy Form-Extremly Very Final Form Rev3.docx I thank ewe once again....

Which brings me nicely onto..... If visitors could bring a mug with them then it will help out the Crack Catering Team by reducing the periodic bouts of washing up throughout the day leaving them free for more important tasks such as cutting cake and warming pasties. I thank ewe.

Morning all, In what appears to be our last ( but by no means least) layout featurette we come to Ruyton Road, now in the care of Paul Bannerman who has sympathetically recommissioned and refurbished this seminal cameo layout. It was built by the late John Spencer to EM gauge and appeared at a number of shows in the 1990’s and the early years of the new century. This layout also featured in MRJ, issues 75 ( 1994 ) and 170 ( 2006 ). Once in Paul's care, Ruyton was converted to P4 but the layout maintains the original premise, that of the terminus of an imaginary branch from the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway between Kinnerley Junction and Ruyton Town with a stub serving a nearby quarry. Always difficult to upgrade an old layout, Ruyton being some 30yrs old, but fair to say Paul has managed this quite successfully and at the same time, preserved John's original aim of giving exhibition visitors not only a flavour of a Colonel Stephens light railway line in the 1920’s but that of one of the first finescale Cameo layouts. Rob.

Cracklin' Rosie-Neil Diamond

Cod almighty that's bad !