Narrow gauge East
Saturday 2nd June 10.30 - 17.00
Bressingham Steam Museum,
Diss,
Norfolk,
IP22 2AA
Entry
Just a reminder NGE is this Saturday
I understand around 600 people went through the gates at Bressingham last Saturday.
Considering the weather was not that good the organisier was very pleased.
They are planning to do another Narrow Gauge East next year.
I think its great to have two dedicated Narrow Gauge shows in East Anglia with the Norfolk & Suffolk NMG show and Bressingham's.
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Just the one picture. I forgot to get the name, I was so interested in the detail on the layout.
Thats Peter Rednall's 'Ashurst Brickworks Light Railway'
I believe that to be a variation on a Cyril Freezer Rabbit layout shown in one of his prolific publications via Peco during his reign as editor of the Railway Modeller.
I used my four year old at the time daughter, to justify spending the money buying a Lilliput 0-6-0 loco and 4 wheel coach, :o and building the Rabbit layout to Cyril's design, and exhibiting it by invitation of the late Mike Cook at York some forty odd years ago. ;D
It proved to be very popular with the children, but as was the norm at that time, was sniffed at by the aficionado's in the then modelling elite, but I did have the last laugh, my little 4ft x 2ft Rabbit layout was lit by two 500 watt Sunflood outdoor lights, a new innovation all those years ago, and very bright. :)
Now anyone of a certain age who visited the old assembly room location of the prestigeousYork Easter Model Railway Show, will testify to the dreary, dull and poorly lit interior of the Assembly Rooms, so my little 4ft x 2ft layout with a 1000 watts of lighting, rather stood out, so when the local newspaper arrived to do it's annual appraisal
they didn't take long to realise that a a small layout with the 1000 Watt lighting would not need any flash gun to illuminate it, and my picture along with the Rabbit layout was the only one shown to their readers, and I have a cutting from the newspaper as a souvenir. One up for the 009'ers. :laugh:
Brian.