Nottingham Show

My very first blog post, almost a year ago, was a review of the Nottingham model railway exhibition. Now that a year has passed, the exhibition has come round again. If you're into British diesel era modelling, Nottingham is one of the best shows in the country.

Centrepiece of the show was the magnificent Mostyn, a 21 foot by 14 foot monster in P4 (that's the same scale as OO, but finescale with a track gauge accurate to a hundredth of a millimetre!) It's an accurate model of a location in north Wales, on the main line between Chester and Holyhead, with the track layout, buildings and trains exactly as they were in 1977. It's also one of the first large exhibition layouts to be operated by DCC.

I saw this layout at Manchester six months ago, and was impressed then. I was even more impressed this time; they've built a lot more stock, including a fleet of heavily modified Heljan 47s. I loved the weatherbeaten two-tone green one, representing a loco that hadn't been repainted for ten years, and hadn't been cleaned for about two! The layout had crowds two to three people deep around it for much of the day. Next show they're promising a fleet of DMUS, a heterogeneous mix of 101s, 103s and 108s as allocated to Chester depot at the time.

There were plenty of other fine layouts, including Dyserth Road, a present-day DCC-operated depot layout, and Effingham South, another P4 layout set in the electrified Southern Region in the late 1980s with some lovely kit-build EMUS. Ascott-Under-Wychwood, which I saw a few months back at Southend, was another model of an actual station, this time in Oxfordshire, set in 1982. There were plenty of 'kettle' layouts for those that like that sort of things, including a couple of good German ones, and several American layouts too.

Shows are a good place to meet fellow modellers too, and the crowd from the ModMod mailing list were much evidence, including the likes of Alan Monk, Natalie Jones, Steve Jones, Chris Barker, Kelly the Goth and many more.

An aside: why do I seem to know more Goths though railway modelling than through RPGs? Shouldn't it be the other way round?

Posted by TimHall at March 17, 2003 10:41 PM | TrackBack

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