Full steam ahead for Welshpool Model Railway Show
It was full steam ahead for model fans – with an annual rail exhibition taking over a town hall.
Welshpool Model Railway Show took over both floors of the town hall, with everything from painstakingly accurate working models running around tracks to books, artwork, collectables, a steam engine made of match sticks and powered Playmobil sets.
Martin Rich, publicity officer for Newtown Model Railway Society, which organised the event, said: "We've had a very successful show, we've had a lot of interesting layouts this year, both narrow gauge and standard gauge. People come from all over, but mainly we source our layouts from around the local area.
"It's now established as an event in the calendar and it provides wonderful entertainment for everyone. We've been doing it about six or seven years and it seems to keep going from strength to strength."
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He said his favourite display was a working model of a World War One railway line supplying munitions to the frontline, complete with buildings and scenes modelled on period photographs.
Kevin Hughes, who built the layout, said it was the first one he had made since he was a teenager, but it had won best-in-show awards four or five times already.
As well as models, one exhibitor was there to show off new information boards about the real thing – the long vanished Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Alan Crowe will be putting up the 13 new information boards along a trail he has designed to remember the railway.
