Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition May 2025,

It is a hot day - the Man Cave is more like a pizza oven, which reminds me about dinner choices for tonight! So, given the fact that I have not done much productive in there today lets take the opportunity to look at the Market Deeping Model railway Exhibition that Mrs. Woody insisted going to on Saturday along with getting me to make various purchases of things she never knew she needed!

First off, I have no room for a model railway is something you often hear people say. Well, if you have a bookcase you can store a box filer and inside a box file you can get a running model railway as shown here!

That was not the only one the couple responsible for the above had done either. Take a look at these!

Some of the box files are joined together so that trains run through several boxes like the above ones.

There were some built around a theme like this Halloween one.

Others were just rural in nature.

This was my favorite one.

Another interesting layout was this two level layout of the Bridge over the River Kwai. Built by a gent in his 80s who is married to a lady from Thailand and this is his last layout he is going to build and what a way to wrap up building layouts!

Certainly much to be inspired at and there were other inspiring layouts to. So I will ponder over a pizza dinner with a cool drink!

Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition May 2025,

As I know if you read this blog on a regular basis that Mrs. Woody likes to attend model railway shows so today I took her to the Market Deeping Show held at Stamford. You may recall that back in 2019, the Club suffered a disastrous bout of vandalism when having set the show up the night before opening a group of four teenagers broke in and trashed many of the exhibits. It hit the national media and many celebrities' such as Rod Stewart gave donations to help out. That dark past has gone and since the Pandemic the show has grown from strength to strength. Indeed it is always a show of variety with many layouts that I have never seen or heard of before.

This year was no exception and something I have never seen before was this Chinese model railway layout. 

Built by a British modeller who just likes to do things no one has done before it was certainly a big attraction. 

China was one of the last countries in the World to run mainline steam and this layout had plenty of it with many of the locos, including the diesels, being DCC sound fitted.

It certainly caught the atmosphere of the China I have seen through the media and I am told that those who have been to China to see the railways say the layout is fully authentic.

The best way to see this layout is in the flesh but here is the next best thing - a video clip!

There were lots of other great layouts and I will talk about those over the next few days. In the meantime I am resisting looking at what Chinese stock is available!