The quality of the layouts seems to get better each year. We had a guest layout running, which was “I ‘ad that”, and was created by the Miller brothers and consisted a double layer Dublo 3 rail layout. It was 21 feet long with plenty of original Hornby locomotives and several neverwazzs.

In the show there were eight major layouts and several minor ones. On the 0 gauge front, Peter Lintern had his multi track pure Hornby layout, while yours truly was allowed to run those British designed but foreign made trains. I also installed an automatic stop and reverse electronic mechanism for a shuttle train. Look no hands. Thanks to Ian Rand who sorted out my tatty soldering. The clockwork layout under Chris Batten’s leadership grows bigger each year, and with a large contingent of clockers, there is a continuous service of mainly double headers trains with a car park full of Dinky toys.

Roy Sinclair had his usual display of minor makes like Brimtoy and Marx in the entrance hall. He 'thinks' he is a train driver!

Dealers abounded with tables groaning under weight of collectables. George Moon manned the Bring and Buy table for those items surplus to our collections.