In early September the Bishop’s Stortford Railway Society held their exhibition. There was a nice mixture of layouts in a vast range of styles, scales and gauges. I’m pleased to say narrow gauge was well represented!

Fellow Beds and Bucks member Mark Howe was showing his 009 layout Stanton Cum Lacy. It was good to catch up with Mark as I haven’t seen him for a few months. Mark’s grandson skilfully operated the layout while we chatted.

An overview photograph doesn’t do justice to the detail on the layout. Let’s start with the workbench outside the engine shed and the bushes growing through the abandoned car…

Of course Stanton cum Lacey is famous for the underground RAF facilities…

..and it’s agricultural produce.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t time to relax.

Moving on to Wales. I have seen videos of That Dam Layout but I’d never seen the layout itself. The…