Mrs. Woody shares her cold!

Not the best of days today. Mrs. Woody had a bad cold last week which she has now shared with me! Of course being a man it is far worse for me! Luckily I did not feel too bad yesterday as I went round the Market Deeping Model Railway Club Exhibition. The narrow gauge layouts that I featured yesterday were complimented by some small and large 00 and 0 standard gauge layouts. A few pictures here just to give a taste.

A couple of compact layouts that are nice and easy to transport for the exhibitors.

Full of atmosphere was this layout complete with a rarely modeled burnt out brake van. Brilliant!

I did purchase a few items including some DCC chips, a new cutting mat, a few scenic bits and these two coaches.

I have two HST power cars and two coaches so I am trying to get a few coaches to make it a 7 or 8 car unit. These are in the right livery but are Mk 4 coaches whereas the HST used Mk 3 coaches. Am I worried? No! Its my layout and when the train runs you would not even notice! Just wish Mrs. Woody would not notice the bag they were in as I brought it in!

Taking Mrs. Woody for a day out - to a model railway exhibition!

Probably not her first choice of destination but Mrs. Woody does like to accompany me on trips to model railway exhibitions. She does enjoy looking at the layouts - the more unusual the better. She does also keep an eye on my purchasing which actually is a good thing!

Todays trip was to the Market Deeping Model Railway Club exhibition at Stamford. A medium sized event which is large enough to have a variety of layouts and traders but small enough not to be over crowded. The Club has certainly recovered from the 2019 vandalism that they suffered at the start of that years exhibition and it is good to see.

One thing I have noted over the past couple of years since the pandemic is that there are a lot more 009 narrow gauge layouts being exhibited. I guess that with the increase in ready to run products modellers are keener to build in the scale. There was certainly a variety of layouts in this scale at this years exhibition. They ranged from these two small ones...

This one which was actually 7mm scale running on 9mm track representing a farm/miniature railway.

For me though, the layout I would like to build myself was the Hornby magazine 009 layout. It is large at I guess about 8 foot by 3 foot but so well done.

I will just drool!

There were other layouts and despite the keen eye of Mrs. W some purchases too but more of that tomorrow although I can reveal I did buy Mrs. W some chocolate!