The traditional opening view of the hall shortly after opening time. Are you in the photo?

Up on the stage the 009 Society sales stand settles down to another day under siege from those who know where to shop for a good deal!

7mm NGA Chairman Howard Martin with Barry Baker at Howard's Avalon Line trade stand

More MOMING trade sustenance was provided by Steve Bennett with his well known Black Dog Mining Co. Derek Hart of the Wessex NGM's engages Steve in conversation in this shot

Allen Doherty brought his Worsley Works scratch aid etched kit range (covering all scales!) down from Manchester. Peter Dale poses as the customer in this candid shot!

Andrew Hastie brought the Parkside Dundas stand all the way from Kirkcaldy in Fife in order to sell these two members of the Buccabury (North London) 009 Group a length of the new Peco "mainline" 009 track.

Another long distance traveller (and much appreciated as well) was Neville Kent with his growing N-Drive chassis range. Seen here tempting David Churchill of the West Midlands Group with a new chassis!

John Bruce, chairman of the Wiltshire Group doing his stint on "cookhouse fatigues". The scratchbuilt Wiltshire Lardy Cake was quite the stickiest and sweetest version of the product that I can remember tasting!

A successful part of the Pewsey experience which other small event organisers may care to take note of was the raffle. Here Andy Cundick and Darryl Foxwell start the pre-draw warm-up

Francis Stapleton, well known 5.5mm scale exhibitor, has had a small diversion to larger things and showed his "work in progress" developing 0n30 American layout

An excellent working diorama by Angus Watkins, which featured scratchbuilt electronics, bridge, trees and PBSSR tram locos according to Angus's notes!

For some reason I got distracted whilst snapping Angus Watkins Beddgelert 1910 diorama and discovered that I had only taken one photo of this excellent work. So I have made a rather cruel crop of the previous image to try to show something of the electric tram - note the unusual overhead twin wires and current collector.

Derek Hart again! This time he has appeared with Patrick Collins' superbly presented little mini-layout in 009: Wintoncester Water Works

A busy scene at Wintoncester Water Works - Patrick Collins excellent little layout

Steam locos waiting for the next working at Patrick Collins Wintoncester Water Works. Some much better photos than mine, by Lee Bryant, of this attractive little layout appear in the August 2009 009 News - you are a member aren't you? If not, why not!!

Geoff and Shirley Harper, from Bromsgrove, are regular attenders at Pewsey. This year Geoff brought along a small layout that he had purchased "almost complete" from the 009 Sales - just to demonstrate that easy starts into the hobby are still possible.

Hawthorn Mill, Geoff Harper's "almost ready to run" layout (see previous photo caption), acts as a very good setting for him to give his collection of smaller 009 stock a good run

Geoff Harper's Hawthorn Mill

Hawthorn Mill by Geoff Harper

Adrian Ponting with his new "work in progress" terminus, Figgins Lane, which will join his very well known Aldbourne as a home-based layout

Two of Adrian Ponting's attractively modified Manning Wardle locos give a preview of how the loco shed at Figgins Lane will look when completed.

A neatly repainted Minitrains Plymouth diesel loco at Adrian Ponting's under-construction Figgins Lane

An overview across one leg of the L shaped layout of Figgins Lane, Adrian Ponting's new terminus

John Thorne's Purbeck has only been "on the exhibition circuit" for just over a year now, but has already become one of the most deservedly popular 009 layouts that can currently be seen.

The distinctive and easily recognisable works at John Thorne's Purbeck, from a slightly different from usual angle

A view across the loco shed area at John Thorne's Purbeck

Executive transport, Purbeck style!

Tucked away at the end of a siding at Purbeck, I found John Thorne's Simplex diesel - notable because it is a successful creation of an open version - how many of these open cab models have you seen on layouts? Not many I can assure you!

This and following photos taken of John Thorne's latest items of stock show a distinctive French atmosphere. What can John be planning for his next NG adventure? This one is the Jouef Decauville loco suitably detailed and made more realistically credible

Another of John Thorne's new locomotives

John Thorne is a prolific builder of 009 locomotives. This French 0-6-2T example has a scratchbuilt body on a Minitrix chassis

Another attractive modification of an easily obtainable 009/HOe loco is this Roco 0-6-0T that has been considerably improved by John Thorne

John Thorne's Crochat railcar with a 2 wheel trailer that could only have come from France!

Matthew and Helen Kean brought along their new layout Garreg Wen, which has been built to satisfy two aims (from their own exhibition notes): "to practice and develop new skills and to provide somewhere to run models of older stock from a number of lines"

Garreg Wen by Matthew and Helen Kean is set in Snowdonia in the Victorian period and acts as a very suitable setting for their attractive collection of Welsh NG stock of the period

A very neat Corris loco arrives at Matthew and Helen Kean's Garreg Wen

Even in Victorian days it was impossible to escape from the Roving Reporter, although his camera is not quite so bulky nowadays!

Latham's Brewery is Julien Webb's long term layout project that has developed considerably since the last time I saw this atmospheric depiction of a brewery inspired by Burton on Trent and the Guiness brewery in Dublin. Julien (left) is pictured here with his brother Simon.

Julien Webb's Latham's Brewery

An attempt at an "arty" shot of the detailed interior of one of the buildings at Julien Webb's Latham's Brewery

Another successful "bash" on the very small and very popular Japanese Caramel 4 wheel chassis is this little diesel built by Julien Webb

Locomotives stabled at Julien Webb's Latham's Brewery.

One of a pair of distinguished visitors to Julien Webb's Latham's Brewery was this superbly detailed loco built by Francis Samish. Note the exquisitely modelled valve gear

A second locomotive built by Francis Samish at Julien Webb's Latham's Brewery

Barry and Shelley Thomas are frequent exhibitors at model railway exhibitions in the south and south west of England with a range of entertaining and popular 009 layouts, On this occasion they showed their River Mead

River Mead, an 009 layout by Barry and Shelley Thomas

Colour, movement and activity at Barry & Shelley Thomas's River Mead

009 Society Membership Secretary Alan Rolfe was in charge of Graham Lindley's Lyddbridge when I passed by with the camera

A colourful view across Graham Lindley's Lyydbridge

Lyddbridge by Graham Lindley features a colourful scenic feature in the form of a transport museum, which can be seen in the background of this view, and a wide variety of Graham's railcars. This scratchbuilt County Donegal example was built by Graham from traditional card and balsa methods some 30 years ago, and it still looks superb!

More stock variety at Graham Lindley's Lyddbridge. From the left: a railcar built using the Airfix/Dapol Park Royal 00 railbus kit, Patrick Collins' W&LLR railcar from a Worsley etch and Graham's scratch North British 2-8-0 tender loco.

Graham Lindley's scratchbuilt Donegal railcar 15 with trailer 2 passes a vintage set that was constructed by Arthur Budd from a pair of standard gauge Ford railcars once produced by Taurgem

The stabling sidings at Graham Lindley's Lyddbridge

An example of a modern railcar built by Graham Lindley using an old HO scale coach body sourced from the 009 Society sales stand

This single unit railcar built by Graham Lindley for his Lyddbridge layout was made using components from the old KeilKraft Greenline bus kit. An awful plastic kit but a super source of parts for 009 railcars!

A highlight of the day for me was a display of large scale Irish NG models that was shown by John Campbell, Neil Ramsay and Chris Romain, which was a 2nd opportunity to see these outstanding models after my first encounter with them at the Donegal exhibition covered by an earlier set of photos.

Chris Romain is Chairman of the County Donegal Restoration Limited, and also an expert modeller of the attractive stock from that system. Here is his scratchbuilt model of a class 5a 2-6-4T in 10mm scale (32mm gauge track)

Chris Romain also showed this scratchbuilt 10mm scale model of CDR brake 3rd coach number 28, the original full sized version of which has been restored and is on display at the old Donegal Town railway station in Ireland.

A view of just some of the absolutely stunning Irish NG models in 15mm scale that was exhibited by John Campbell (locomotives) and Neil Ramsay (rollling stock)

Neil Ramsay poses with a part built model of a Londonderry & Lough Swilly coach in 15mm scale, showing just how large these models are.

Les Coleman (red shirt) with Richard Williams and Les's 1:24 scale (16.5mm gauge) P Moreau et Fils

Les Coleman's 1:24 scale P Moreau et Fils showed some of the best well worn industrial weathering on this hard worked diesel loco that I can remember seeing.

David Burleigh, 009 Society Chairman 2002-2008 admires Les Coleman's 1:24 P Moreau et Fils

MOMING enthusiast, Simon Andrews, poses with his mini layout in "G9" scale (1:24 using 9mm track to depict a 9" gauge system) "The Orchard Line"

Some excellent modelling on show at Simon Andrews' G9 The Orchard Line

I regret that I didn't get a good photo of Simon Hargreaves' Gn15 Waterworks pizza layout, but have included this effort for completeness. I have seen a much better photo by Steve Bennett which can be found on the Gn15.Info ("Gnatterbox") Forum

Richard Williams with his 1:25 scale Hook Basin, which is a recently built MOMING Layout very much inspired by Christopher Payne's own modelling style.

This loco at Richard Williams 1:25 scale Hook Basin was fully described in the August 2009 issue of Railway Modeller.

Another view of Richard Williams' tram loco at Hook Basin, showing something of the attractive bulk of 1:25 scale minimum gauge models

Steve Green with his 09 Gideon Postlethwaite & Sons

Gideon Postlethwaite & Sons, 09 layout by Steve Green

Some of the industrial stock at Steve Green's Gideon Postlethwaite & Sons.