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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.

In August 2016 Google blocked access to Picasaweb in order to force everyone to use their "much better" Google Images, so I had to do the whole exercise again. Thanks! .

Meanwhile......Because of the way this Blogspot works, the most recent postings appear first and the oldest ones last. Each report contains a link to the Google photo album plus captions for that report. The link will take you to the front page of the Google Album for this report. Left click on the first photo and it will open into a manually operated slideshow. A panel should open alongside the image on the right showing the number of the photo and the caption text. If it does not appear, click on the small white disk top right of the photo panel and it will open. Move forward or backwards by clicking the right or left arrows on your keyboard. When you have finished viewing, click the back arrow showing top left of the photo panel and this will take you back to the album opening page.

Close it in the normal way by clicking on the "X" top right or click the return arrow top left of the Windows screen to return to the blog, depending on which browser you use. Once back in the blog, any report can be accessed sequentially from the blog by scrolling downwards and if required, click on the "older posts" link at the bottom of the list, or simply go to the Blog Archive on the right of the window and select any report by simply clicking on the title.

Saturday 20 July 2024

Oxfordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Modellers Open Day, Steventon 22 June 2024

Following 2 long distance trips to Merseyside and Suffolk within the previous 4 weeks, I had to seriously consider both financially and physically if I was up to another long Saturday so soon, but as Steventon is “only” 120 miles each way from home and the layouts attending list looked to be very good, it didn’t take long to decide that this was one that I should not miss!

Was I right in my assessment? Of course I was! I think this was my 5th visit to the Oxfordshire Group event in Steventon and every one including this one were very well worth making the effort to get up early and get there, never mind how much petrol costs nowadays! Huge appreciation once again to the host team for laying on a great show, 17 layouts and a really excellent venue which is easily accessible from all points of the compass, as illustrated by the number of regular attenders by friends and colleagues in the hobby who had come from all over the country to enjoy the day amongst friends both old and new.

I would also add my appreciation of the excellent show guide which is always an essential aid to identifying both layouts and owners on the day, but for “roving reporting” use a month later when putting things together and trying to dream up something to say in photo captions for the benefit of others that could not be present, absolutely invaluable. Other event managers who don’t seem to consider it necessary to even produce a single A4 sheet with basic details of layout name, scale, exhibitor’s name as a minimum. Please consider!

Moving on, I hope that you, having found my roving reporter site, will now enjoy this latest collection of photos, there’s 121 of them this time!