Made it to Merstham!

Well, a work colleague (Ray) & I made it up to Merstham for a couple of hours on Sunday morning, and very good it was too. The weather was kind and we wandered around between the layouts and trade stalls.

The Gauge 1 layout in the main hall was particularly impressive, with a succession of impressive mainline locos pulling rakes of coaches effortlessly round the gentle curves of the layout...

16mm Narrow guage was well represented with several layouts running. The Kent groups' layout in the gym was impressive, with a nice variety of motive power...




There was coal fired live steam on the East Surrey test track...







And plenty going on outside on the 71/4" line.

Of course it was great to be able to peruse the wares of many f the suppliers to the hobby, and a I did pick up a few bits & pieces, but more on those in future posts!