I’ve uploaded a few photos I took of Apethorn Junction at the Macclesfield show to my photo gallery.
This has got to be one of the best 7mm scale layouts I’ve seen on the exhibition circuit. It’s sheer size makes a big impression, and the whole thing just oozes atmosphere. It’s all DCC with sound chips on most if not all the locomotives, so the layout reverberates with the throaty roar of English Electric and Sulzer engines.
Even after far too little sleep, the after-effects of a little too much Tyskie, and still on a high from meeting some of my heroes, York railway station is still a magnificent place. Here’s East Coast Trains 91105 waiting to depart on a northbound service.
On the way back from Touchstone’s CRS Gig at Maltby (for which I really need to write a review), I decided to break the journey at Edale. I’ve travelled the Hope Valley line many, many times over the past few years, and seen this beautiful line in all seasons, from spring green to autumn colours to snow-covered, but I’d never taken the local stopping train and got off at one of the intermediate stations.
You don’t get much freight on a Sunday, so I was surprised when the signals went off without a passenger train being due, and this came into view.
I’ve read bad reviews of the Sony Alpha 75-300mm Lens