Some great purchases at a modest price!

Leaving the Bingham model rail exhibition, my arms were hardly stressed by the weight of purchases much to Mrs. Woody's relief! I did get some interesting things though including some more 3D prints from Eddie at 3D Printing for Charity where profits go to the Lincs.  and Notts Air Ambulance so I feel that my purchases do have a benefit to others as well.

Firstly though. I did find a trader with some Kaydee couplers in stock so these two items were purchased which will deal with some issues with some of the stock on my USA switching layout.

Moving onto the 3D prints, there was this rather nice generic workshop type building that should paint up well.

I have seen this print of the old Atkinson Boarder truck on the stand before always thinking I must get that one. Eddie had two left, the display one and a kit. As he was not going to print it again I somehow ended up with both!

On a smaller size I stocked up on some more electrical cabinets - always useful and a fraction of the price of those made by the major manufacturers.

There was also this nice small signal box that I have in mind for a future project but don't tell Mrs. Woody!

The parts build into this.

Lastly, I got some figures both in 00 gauge and ) gauge.

And one of those ) gauge figures fits nicely, as a driver, into my 09 loco that has sat on the side for a few months awaiting attention!

All in all some great purchases at a modest price! That will please Mrs. Woody!

Bingham model rail exhibition 2025 part two!

 

As I posted yesterday there were a couple of layouts that stood out to me and Mrs. Woody at the Bingham model rail exhibition 2025.

The first is 'The Hot Track' which is a small model but depicting part of a real railway built to transport molten steel four miles from Redcar Blast Furnace to the steel plant at Lackenby ehere it became the famous Teeside steel.

The second layout was also steel themed. Splott is set in the 1980's as a British Steel yard in Cardiff. Although fictional, the quality of modelling and weathering makes it all very believable.

See the office above? Well that had a fully detailed interior which the photo below doesn't do justice to.

We voted this one as best layout of the show in the poll on the way out.

Finishing off with one last layout and the only non-British layout at the whole exhibition, Liljeholmen is a Swedish layout based around a cement works. It is basically a two siding shunting puzzle but it looks good and has a unique look to it.

Al in all a great show and as I have already said my purchases were modest but when I say Eddie with his 3D printing for charity stall was there you can image where my money went! More on that tomorrow!

Bingham model rail exhibition 2025

Having previously visited the Bingham Model Railway Show back in March to only find I had the wrong date in my calendar, todays visit to that show was carefully checked on the website prior to setting off. Mrs. Woody accompanied me in the interests of keeping a rein on my spending but more so just to make sure my checking on the date was indeed accurate this time! It was, and there was a show and I did get into it, it was good and my spending was modest!

The Bingham show is one of those that is regarded as being at the smaller end of the size scale but I do like this type of show. So much easier to get around and you actually get to see everything.

There were some themes running through the show. Firstly, there was an unusually high number of n gauge layouts which bucks the trend of recent years. Secondly, Steel and Scotland seemed to have a high level of representation as well!

One layout that ticked both trends was this n gauge layout called Glenellen. It shows that in a modest space n can really allow scenic development as well as allowing longish trains to run.

Continuing the Scottish theme but moving up to 00 gauge there was Rannock which modelled part of a fictitious Glasgow urban station. It certainly had that atmosphere.

Also with atmosphere was this 00 gauge model called Llanforan Shed which displays the builders collection of Barry locos from the Barry Railway system. If you want to find out about the Barry Railway there is a useful description on Wiki here.

Showing the extremes of n gauge was this model of Rolleston Junction ...

...which allows some long trains to run through the countryside along 15 foot or so of baseboard.....

through to Oxthorne which is a branch line terminus built in around five foot. It did make great use of DCC sound fitted locos as well!

There are a couple of other layouts that caught my eye and even Mrs. Woody's but I will show those in tomorrow's post.