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Hello and welcome to my twice reinstated and updated photo reports of visits to narrow gauge model railway layouts and events! Following the sudden and untimely cessation of Fotopic in March 2011 and with it the loss of my photo galleries, I started this blog in order to try to keep my "Roving Reports" available to those who enjoy viewing them. I have linked this blogsite to the old galleries which I originally rebuilt and posted in albums in Picasaweb. Once all the old reports had been rebuilt, I have continued to add completely new ones to cover my visits to events from April 2011 onwards.

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Monday, 4 April 2011

27 September 2008 - Small & Delightful Railway Group Open Day, Walton

The Small & Delightful Railway Group are a group of friends interested in narrow gauge railways and railway modelling who organise the narrow gauge modelling extravaganza at Shepton Mallet every February which is variously known as "Narrow Gauge South West" (NGSW) and "The Small & Delightful Show". Because the team are fully tasked running what has become one of the largest narrow gauge shows that there is, they don't get time to enjoy showing their own layouts or merely chatting to like-minded visitors to the show, so once every two years, they get together to run their own layouts and those of invited friends.

"Delightful" the day certainly is, and "small" is an accurate description of the location, at the village hall in Walton, near Street, in deepest Somerset; but "small" is not a word that can really be used for the show itself, which this year featured no less than 20 layouts in a wide variety of scales and gauges.

A really splendid day, with all that is best about this type of informal, friendly "do" and I for one am very glad that I made the effort to attend and join the other 160 or so (plus around 40 participating) people who came from as far away as Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Essex to join in. Great stuff, great people, great refreshments provided by Glastonbury and Street Lions, and the only down side is that we have to wait another 2 years before we can do it again!
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