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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