An overall view of the village hall, early in the day.

As usual, the 009 Society sales stand was a mecca (and a melee!) for ng modelling enthusiasts who know where to do their value shopping!

Three Biscuits. A freelance Cornish layout in 009 by Martin Sharp. The tunnel to the right hides a 6 inch radius curve leading to the rear fiddle yard - very well disguised!

An imaginative diesel loco on an Ibertren chassis on Martin Sharp's 009 Three Biscuits

Three Biscuits, 009 by Martin Sharp. A very attractive little Bagnall style 0-4-0ST from one of the old Brian Clarke locomotives.

A view of the loco shed at Three Biscuits, 009 by Martin Sharp

Kestor Castle Estate Railway by Geoff Broadhurst is probably one of biggest challenges to photography that I have experienced, being around 5ft long and all of 4 inches or so wide! The far caption states "A windowsill test track" which explains the unusual dimensions!

Rod Allcock made good use of Kestor Castle to run his superb brass detailed kit and scratchbuilt stock. 009 heritage afficianados will no doubt easily recognise the VB loco in the background! (Clue: "Craig and Mertonford"....) and yes it IS the genuine original!

Rod Allcock's tiny Ruston diesel shunts some Nigel Lawson tippers on Geoff Broadhurst's 009 windowsill layout, Kestor Castle.

SWOONS member Chas May showed his "Cornish Odyssey" Trevellyn Bridge by popular request for the second year running. It might stretch a point to describe it as "narrow gauge" at a scale 4ft 1in (think about it), but nevertheless the little layout is a really outstanding example of the "3D" portrait style of modelling with excellent composition and scenic work. Well worth lingering and studying this layout!

A Dapol pug shunts a van whilst a Bachman standard tank brings in a train of containers to Trevellyn Bridge, 4mm scale excellence by Chas May. Note the very realistic weathering on the locomotives

The Western National bus loses out on right of way across the very narrow bridge at Chas May's 4mm scale "Cornish Odyssey", Trevellyn.

Chas May's Trevellyn does at least provide a token gesture to 009, so all is forgiven!

Heywood, an estate railway in 09 by Matthew Gicquel

Spotted at Matthew Gicquel's 09 layout "Heywood", a modified Wrightlines Simplex in front of a Roy Link Ruston

Another view of Matthew Gicquel's 09 Simplex on his "Heywood" layout.

2 Roy Link Ruston diesels, originally intended for 0-14, at Matthew Gicquel's 09 layout, Heywood

This very attractive 09 Heywood locomotive (at Matthew Gicquel's namesake layout "Heywood") was scratchbuilt onto a Grafar chassis by Martin Sharp.

The accolade for largest scale but smallest layout at the event goes to Wessex NG Modeller Derek Hart, who brought along his first excursion into the attractive scale of Gn15: Creckley Hall Light Railway

A splendid way to display a duff loco! Derek Hart's Gn15 Creckley Hall out of service motive power has been imaginatively modified from an 00 class 08 diesel shunter body to make a very acceptable industrial loco in the larger scale.

Hon Editor of Continental Modeller, Andrew Burnham is also a keen narrow gauge modeller and for this occasion he assisted with Peter Martin's HOe under-construction layout "Sachsen"

An unusual "tourist open" at Peter Martin's HOe Sachsen. I shudder to think what the Health & Safety Stasi would make of this coach on an English NG line!

Peter Martin's HOe Sachsen. A heavy passenger train prepares to depart.

Ths impressive Bemo 2-10-2T loco illustrates very well one of the attractions of continental narrow gauge modelling.

More attractive ready-to-run HOe narrow gauge rollings stock at Sachsen, Peter Martin's German layout.

Jon Heslop with the attractive portable loco, wagon and carriage works of his home-based East Cornwall Tramways layout.

An innovative bit of imagineering in the shape of a railvan that started off as a plastic kit of a Thorneycroft road delivery van. It runs on one of the popular Kato tram chassis.

Jon's superbly detailed "directors saloon" made from a basis of the Dundas Welsh Highland Eisteddford coach kit.

Jon Heslop's 009 Lanson Road

A railbus, made from a Corgi diecast toy enters the works at Jon Heslop's 009 Lanson Road

Lee Bryant from the Wessex NG Modellers, brought his well known mini-layout "Thurtey" which has featured in earlier collections in this gallery. The circular fiddle yard behind the scenes gives a trackplan view of the figure "30" to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Wessex NG Modellers.

An atmospheric view across the quays at Lee Bryant's 009 Thurtey.

Amongst Lee Bryant's extensive collection of 4mm scale narrow gauge stock, he has included examples of many makes of IC locos. This superb and unusual 90hp Kerr Stuart is one of my own favourites of Lee's locos.

Rhianon is an example of the more common 60hp Kerr Stuart diesel loco, of which Lee has no less than 3 (all different) in his collection. They all run on the oft-derided but very reliable Minitirx dock tank chassis.

This 009 diesel loco on Lee Bryant's triple gauge Coil End Lane layout is simply a very old (and overscale) N gauge Lima diesel loco with a new taller cab. Still regularly obtainable through the 009 Society Sales, secondhand examples of these locomotives are a very economical and easy way to start in 009. (I have 2 in my own loco roster)

Lee Bryant's Coil End Lane - which he built as an entry for the 2008 Expo NG 40th anniversary challenge competition. The layout had to be built within 80cm by 40cm maximum dimensions and many considered that Lee's superb scratchbuilt TRIPLE gauge (6.5mm, 9mm, 12mm) track made this layout easily the most innovative of the entries.

The motive power for the 6.5mm gauge section of Lee Bryant's Coil End Lane

A bit of a diesel convention in 006.5, 009 and 00n3 with no less than 8 IC locomotives from various origins gather at Lee Brant's Coil End Lane.

SWOONS student member Phil Farr-Cox is a very keen, talented and prolific modeller. Last year he showed two layouts, this year it had grown to three!

Pithead winding gear at Phil Farr-Cox's 009 Foxcombe Colliery

A view across the yard at Foxcombe Colliery, an 009 layout by Phil Farr-Cox

A very nicely built Backwoods Barclay wing tank loco at Phil Farr-Cox's Foxcombe Colliery.

It's the little detail scenes that make a good model, as with this horse shoeing vignette at Foxcombe Colliery, 009 by Phil Farr-Cox

Phil Farr-Cox's newest micro layout is this little working diorama using Metcalfe building kits - Foxcombe Brewery

Spotted at Phil Farr-Cox's 009 Foxcomber Brewery is this imaginative modification from the Tomix "Percy" 0-4-0T that will look very dainty when painted.

Phil Farr-Cox's rebuilt Tomix Percy at his 009 Foxcombe Brewery.

Ivor Knott's Timber Yard is a good example of an 009 "pizza" that can be used either as a portable and compact animated scenic display or as a test track (or simply somewhere to watch your trains running!). Model by Phil Farr-Cox

The small 4 wheel Japanese Caramel motor units that have recently been imported in small batches to the UK have proved to be an economical and very popular unit with 009 modellers who have been able to obtain them. Phil Farr-Cox built this attractive little industrial IC loco on his example

Ian Turner and Graham Lindley (on the right) of the Wessex NG Modellers brought Graham's 009 Lyddbridge to the event.

Graham Lyndley's Lyddbridge is a freelance town located in North Devon that also enjoys having a transport museum. Graham has designed his own working trolley system using Sommerfeldt and Faller components in order to provide additional colour and movement to supplement the railway.

Graham Lyndley's Lyddbridge makes extensive use of a wide variety of railcars to provide the passenger service. This shot shows a Colonel Stephens Ford railcar unit adapted to narrow gauge, similar to the original County Donegal railcars 2 and 3, the "Clocking Hens". The unit was built by Arthur Budd from long defunct Taurgem kits.

Graham Lindley has a variety of railcar units made using the old KeilKraft Greenline coach plastic kits in single, twin and triple unit configurations. Here is his articulated twin unit.

This is one of two articulated triple unit railcars that Graham Lindley has built in 009 from the KeilKraft AEC Greenline coach kits.

More recent railcar stock on Graham Lindley's 009 Lyddbridge has been made from old continental HO railcar bodies sourced from rummage trays at the 009 Society sales stand. Here a single unit, mounted on a N gauge bogie chassis, hauls a trailer made from a Liliput coach

An "intermediate era" twin railcar unit arrives at (or departs from?) Graham Lindley's Lyddbridge

Graham Lindley's most modern articulated railcar unit, made with rummage tray HO bodies and driven by a Kato 4 wheel tram chassis.

Lyddbridge does not feature many locomotive hauled services as it has a plethora of railcars, but this 009 diesel, made from an old Thomas the Tank range diecast body provides some diesel "muscle" when locomotive hauled trains are required.

A busy scene at Lyddbridge Staion, Graham Lindley's North Devon freelance town scene. A single unit railcar made from a Dapol Park Royal railbus waits in the branch bay whilst a mainline passenger train hauled by North British 2-8-0 number 14A passes through.

2-8-0 number 14A on Graham Lindley's Lyddbridge stock roster is a Rivarossi chassis with a scratchbuilt body, based on a North British design for the Brazilian Great Western Railway. The original number 14, scratchbuilt on the same type of chassis, was described in an article on Graham's original Lydd Valley Railway in Scale Trains magazine as long ago as 1981!