Stafford 2026
Sunday saw me attend my third model railway exhibition in three weeks, a record!! With Dad and I heading across the county for the Stafford show. One of, if not the biggest club run shows in the country, there was some excellent modelling on display and whilst I felt that some layouts could’ve done with operators operating more and chatting to their mates less, suspect I’m grumpy as I age alongside the knowledge that with a show of this size there was a lot to get round. Took some photos of a few of the models that caught my eye. Favourite layout for me was ‘Wantage Town’, as featured in MRJ. A fantastic example of the railway set within its landscape with plenty of details to soak up whilst the trains trundled faultlessly by. American HO layouts are an aspect of the hobby that I know nothing about. But ‘Red Hook Bay’, a fictitious seaport set on the Maine coast had some very impressive buildings and detail that really caught my eye. With the prototypically correct knuckle couplers all...
