Retail therapy???

 In yesterdays post I described the brilliant Market Deeping Model railway Club Exhibition and how I went back in after lunch leaving Mrs. Woody and her book enjoying the sun. I had spotted a few items before lunch and this was the main one.

I have a weakness for EWS liveried locos and this was something special. A limited edition of 1000, three wagons included all weathered by TMC - The Model Centre - and fitted with a DCC sound decoder. It ticked a lot of boxes for me and so with no Mrs. Woody to act as monetary advisor money exchanged hands and it became mine. I also had an interesting conversation with the traders about all sorts of matters and that is what these shows are about - conversation. 

Getting it home the loco is superb with a really good Loksound DCC decoder and it sounds awesome. I do have some more of the wagons in my collection so hopefully the train will be a bit longer when I find them but in the meantime a few photos of this stunning model.

Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition May 2022

I last went to this exhibition in 2018. In 2019 I was on holiday so I would have been unable to go. The reality was that no one was able to go as the exhibition was severely vandalised the night before opening. The media coverage was national in nature and the club received much support including from Rod Stewart who is a keen model railway enthusiast. However as was highlighted by many no amount of money could buy back the time taken to build many of the models. For some modellers the simple truth was and is that they will never have the life span to rebuild! That is a sobering thought. However, despite Covid, the club have come through and today opened their first exhibition since 2018 and wow! It was a great one.

The layouts were superb with the massive tail chaser from Hornby Magazine based on the West Coast Line attracting a lot of attention.

Some great modelling including the speed camera on the road bridge.

Something not often pictured is the fiddle yard on most model railway layouts. The Hornby layout had a massive and well stocked one complete with one of the new Accurascale Deltics with sound - Nice!!!! Possibly now on my list if Mrs. Woody isn't reading this!

Another crowd plaeser was this n gauge layout - The Spirit of Swindon. Superb presentation looking as though you were viewing a picture or a stage and with a massive control center at each end including monitor screens showing what was happening in the fiddle yards.

There were many other layouts and here are some photos. Apologies for those that are not included but they were all high quality and entertaining.

The skill of the modeller is really shown here with the way in which the flat background sheet just looks like the model carries on into it.

Mrs. Woody seemed to enjoy the show but after a couple of hours she was ready for lunch so back to the car for a sandwich. Then, whilst she sat in the sun reading another murder mystery (I should really be worried) I went back in for another look and some retail investment! More on that another time!

The club should be proud of what they have produced and its so good to see that they have come back so strong from the disaster of 2019.