Monday, 15 October 2012

29 September 2012 - Small & Delightful Railway Group Open Day, Compton Dundon near Street


The Small & Delightful Railway Group, who organise NG Southwest at Shepton Mallet, held their own biennial open day at Compton Dundon village hall, near Street in Somerset on 29 September. Unfortunately this time round, attendance was affected by the group having a new location, which was not widely publicised, and their own website published the event as being the weekend before! Added to this, a couple of layouts dropped out just the day before, so those hardy exhibition chasers that did manage to find the show had rather thin pickings. On the plus side however, both the 7mm NGA and 009 Society sales were present in full and some real bargains were able to be identified without jostling amongst crowds, the day was the expected informal and friendly gathering - and the Victoria Cream Sponge cake baked by the Glastonbury Lions ladies was probably the nicest I have ever sampled!