Sudbury - Rail modellers right on track at exhibition
Published Date:
11 October 2007
A wheelie bin the size of a cornflake, builders smaller than matchsticks going about their daily business and a fingernail-sized kite flying above a field all added to the miniature magic at an exhibition.
Sudbury Model Railway Club's annual exhibition at St Peter's drew the crowds who marvelled at the layouts and attention to detail surrounding them.
Club chairman Derek Reeve proudly introduced his own layout this year which has taken him four years to build.
Gestup St Anne, based on his boyhood home village of Gestingthorpe, features the houses Derek lived in and the village school.
"The layout is an autobiography of my life in model form," he said.
"There never was a railway at Gestingthorpe, but one was planned in the late 1800s to link Melford and Thaxted."
Some layouts took a continental theme including a trip through the Swiss Alps and, in contrast, others depicted steam driven goods engines closer to home.
Students from All Saints Middle School in Sudbury had their layout on display and model railway fans could also stock up on tools and additions for their own layouts.
The full article contains 193 words and appears in Suffolk Free Press newspaper.
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Last Updated:
11 October 2007 10:42 AM
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Source:
Suffolk Free Press
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Location:
Sudbury
