Blackburn Model Railway Exhibition

The exhibition was this weekend, and I went Saturday morning with my daughter. It is a small exhibition, only one hall, seventeen layouts, but still enjoyable. Some photos:

This is Bishops Bridge, an N gauge layout set around 1990 in what I still think of as the southern region.

Ecclesford Bridge was a layout targeted at the general public, and especially children. It had numerous little cameos, and the operatorts were handing out sheets of things to spot for children, and there were several buttons to push to make things happen - such as a ghost train.

Iron Street was only small, but I like these industrial scenes. Very atmosheric.

I had read about this model of Liverpool Lime Street on a modelling forum. It was the verey antithesis of Ecclesford Bridge. No pandering to the public, this was built to be accurate, not entertaining. It was impressive, but because of the location of the phototype, it was hard for us to actually see much.

 Llanfair Caereinion was the only 009 layout, and was probably my favourite of the show.

This was Oswaldsmuehle, a continental layout set in some impressive scenery, as this view of a train crossing a gorge shows.