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Dunston Harbour is a 00 gauge layout which depicts a terminus station and harbour somewhere on the Northumberland coast. It is set on a windy day during the LNER period.

Ranelagh Bridge is a 00 scale layout constructed by The Little Layout Company, and depicts the loco servicing and stabling point which was located west of Paddington Station. It is set during the BR blue period of the 1970s.

Fairlie Syniad Da is a 009 layout exhibited by Hornby Magazine.

Black Beck Yard is a 00 gauge layout which depicts a locomotive yard and is set between 1948 and 1967.

Filmed at the 2023 Stamford Model Railway Exhibition, hosted by the Market Deeping Model Railway Club. Amberdale is a 00 gauge exhibited by the Market Deeping MRC. It depicts a fictional branchline set somewhere in the north Derbyshire Peak District, and is set in the 1950/60s.

I can't seem to find any thread for this show which is surprising considering its size. It was my first time visiting this venue and some really good layouts were on show, some travelling a fair distance to exhibit. One of which was Filmed at the 2023 Brotton Mill, is a 00 gauge layout exhibited by the Shildon Model Railway Club. It depicts a fictional location set somewhere on the LNER/LMS border and is set in the 1950/60s. which

I've been catching up with the editing backlog and completed the full show video from the 2023 Royston & District Model Railway Exhibition in Bassingbourn, which was on 1 Apr. Layouts include; Abbey Street - BR East Anglian (S) Bay City Terminal - US Terminal Rail Road (HO) Canute Road Quay - Southampton Tramway (OO) Cherington Bishop - Great Western BR (OO) Darjeeling (Achalraj) - Indian Narrow Gauge (OO9) Geeksville - US Depot (HO) Hinterrupffiner - German Rural (HOe) Holbeach Estates Railway - East Anglian Farm (OO9) Maldon Market Hill - 1950s East Anglia (OO) Marklin - LGB Large Scale Trains (Gauge 1) New Walmington Pier - Pier Tramway (OO9) Nightlayers Drove - East Anglia (OO) North Level - East Anglian Rural Depot (O/16.5) Questa - US Logging Railway (ON30) Raven Hill - 7mm Narrow Gauge (O.16.5) Squaw Falls - US Country Railroad (N) Whaplode - East Anglian Station and Yard (O)

I've been making slow progress working my way through exhibition videos and have some more from York

Red Hook Bay is a HO gauge layout which depicts a fictional seaport on the coast of Maine, USA. It is set is the late steam/early diesel era of the 1940s.

Staly Vegas, is a small N gauge layout, which depicts a mainline running through an industrial scene, set in the area of Huddersfield in the 1960s. York, is a 2mm Finescale layout which depicts York station as it was in the late 1930s. Chapel-en-le-Frith is a 00 gauge layout exhibited by the Leeds MRS. It is based on the real life Chapel en le Frith station, as it was in the time period 1958-1962.

I don't have enough footage of all the layouts to warrant that many individual videos, but i can for some. First up is Hills of the North - Spirit of Shap, which is a 00 gauge layout which depicts the West Coast Mainline at Shap summit in the Cumbrian fells. The layout aims to recreate scenes from this famous railway location, including banking engines assisting heavy trains up the steep incline to the summit.

Also one other big positive that i need to mention, is your program. For what I do, which is mostly filming layouts and putting together video compilations, the info in it is fantastic for doing the video descriptions. So many times I do shows and there is little to no info on the layouts in the program or on the show website, meaning that sometimes I have to spend ages scouring online to find information on the layouts. I certainly wouldn't expect all exhibitions to put together such a program but basic info on the layouts which i can read up on post show is a big thumbs up from me.

Raven Hill is an 0-9 scale layout depicting a fictional narrow gauge light railway.

Filmed at the Royston & District Model Railway Club exhibition in Bassingbourn on 1 April 2023. Questa is an On30 scale layout depicting the railroads of New Mexico, USA, and is set in 1952.

I attended on the Monday for my first visit to a York show. I was fortunate to have been at a family wedding over the weekend otherwise i wouldnt have made the long journey North for us. It was great to see a number of layouts which i would be unlikely to see locally. I was really impressed with the show and would say its the best one we've done to date, so we will certainly be back again. I tried my best to film all of the layouts but with juggling a family which included a toddler and trying to fit it all into 1 day, it was very challenging. I'm about to start working my way through the videos which i'll post on here in time. In future i'll aim to travel up and stay locally, attending multiple days to make sure i can fit it all in and have a look around the demos and traders, only 1 of which i had the time to speak to.

Canute Road Quay is a compact 00 gauge shunting layout depicting the lines around Southampton Docks, and is set in the Southern Railway era between 1946 to 1949.

Geeksville is a HO layout depicting a fictitious Union Pacific Railroad Repair & Service Facility.

When I reached Bassingbourn there was a big sign on the roundabout, but after that....nothing. I and many others parked up alongside the road outside the school with no signage or anyone around to tell us where to go. We just wandered round until we came across someone who was able to confirm that there was indeed an exhibition on. You would have struggled to know until you walked in! Once in it was a very good show with plenty of room and a good mix of layouts. Signage though, terrible.

I don't think a thread was made for this show. I only realised it was on a few days before the show and was quite surprised considering it's a local show for me. There were some very nice layouts on show which i made sure to film plenty of footage of. Starting with Cheriton Bishop, which is a 00 gauge layout depicting a Western region branch line terminus and is set in the 1950s/60s British Rail era. It is exhibited by the East Beds Model Railway Society (EBMRS).

Filmed at the 2023, March MRC exhibition. Reunited Biscuits is a 00 gauge layout depicting a ‘broken biscuits’ repair factory set in the industrial North of England in the 1960s.

Heys Quay is a OO9 layout which depicts a small quay side narrow gauge railway and is set in the north west of England.

Springbluff City is an N gauge layout exhibited by the Market Deeping Model Railway Club. It depicts a small industrial town near Denver, Colorado, USA, circa 1957.

Squaw Falls in an N gauge layout set in the North Central/Northwestern USA.