Buxton or Bust

With everything going on at the moment, getting to Railex Buxton 26 was far from a certainty. The final decision was made just before setting off.

Not only has the show got bigger, but so had the queue to get in. One person taking both cash and card was never going to be quick.

Although bigger, it is never going to be one of the "big" shows, but it does attract a lot of high-quality layouts to justify the £15 entrance fee.

Having said which, for once, I didn't bother going around for a second time. I might have done, had I taken a camera with me, as well as the phone. a phone that once again underperformed, I suspect partly because of the humidity

Evercreech Junction. A good example of N, built as a home layout, not for exhibition.

Farringdon Street is always impressive

This scene leads neatly on to...

...Minories

A very difficult layout to take photos of

Westmoor Junction

Purgatory Peak

I can't remember the name of the layout.

Cherry Willingham reminded me of life in Lincolnshire.

Trellisic  made use of an idea I've thought about. "Bitsa Boats" rather than a whole ship

Not really my thing, but I did like this loco on Kaninchenbau 

Charles was showing his generic colonial layout

Rockport had some nice house backs.

Karlisle had a lot of interesting ideas, like the theatrical use of a black backscene

Always good to see Chipping Norton

Leicester Junction had some nice urban grot 

In Part 2 I'll finish off the layouts in the main room, and move on to some gems in the additional hall