Yate Model Railway Exhibition 2023 - 18/02/2023

18th February 2023 saw the return of the Sodbury Vale Model Railway Clubs annual Yate Model Railway Exhibition, held at Yate Community Hall, Yate, South Gloucestershire.
The show featured no less than 20 visiting and club layouts, plus dioramas in a variety of gauges and scales, as well as a good selection of trade, demo and society stands.
Layouts as featured;
LOCKDOWN FEN - OO
BLAENDARE ROAD - OO
ABBOTS MORTON - OO
QUAY TOWN - ON30
BRISTOL HARBOUR - OO
DENT - OO
BARWICK GREEN - O
GREAT SWILLING - EM
MORELLA LIGHT RAILWAY MK1 - OO9
MORELLA LIGHT RAILWAY MK2 - OO9
SNOWDON - 8MM NG
ST. PHILIPS - OO
THE TRAIN TRAILER - N
SMALLCOMBE - 4MM
BRIMSCOMBE STATION - N
HEYBRIDGE WHARF - 3MM FINE SCALE
VALENCIA HARBOUR - 4MM
NEW MEXICO RAILWAY MUSEUM - H0 / H0N3
MALLINGFORD - N
WELLINGTON STREET - O
Hope you enjoy!

[@mrbigbadtrev]

Refreshingly good filming technique that others could aspire to.

[@SDJR7F88]

Cheers. Glad you enjoyed it

[@davestrains6816]

Just a wonderful video. Very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks

[@meruliouslacrimens5154]

Marvellous!!

[@SDJR7F88]

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed the show.

[@petersmith4455]

hi there, great video, love the Toby the tram engine and the class 15 diesel. the layout is great, good eastern region

[@SDJR7F88]

Glad you enjoyed Lockdown Fen. Really is a superb little micro and just shows what can be done in a small space

[@paulcherrytrains3339]

Super layouts on show. Great filming. Enjoyed watching. Thanks for showing. Regards Paul

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks Paul! Glad you enjoyed the show

[@Roo63]

Superb, and a pleasure to watch. Many thanks :D

[@SDJR7F88]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Tom-xe9iq]

A note from a Yank: your layouts surpass us in attention to scenes packed with tremendous detail. There is a sense of intimacy because of the modest sizes of engines, wagons and villages. I have a modest 2ft. x 12ft. switching layout. I am studying your scenes so I can make mine better. Cheers!

[@SDJR7F88]

Cheers Tom! Glad you found it of inspiration

[@alexmorgan2296]

Great selection (as always) and beautifully photographed (sorry to read about attendance difficulties since a lot to admire). Thank you as always for sharing

[@SDJR7F88]

Thanks Alex, was a very good show indeed, though as mentioned I feel it might have all ready out grown the venue (which must be a good thing?).

[@chrissharp5073]

What a great exhibition, the layouts were outstanding and certainly bought to life by the quality of filming. Just like being there and thank you for sharing.

[@SDJR7F88]

Thanks Chris. Alway try my best at these sort of event, glad you enjoyed the coverage

[@williamcarrington61]

Excellent attention to detail, best wishes .

[@Jimyjames73]

Hiya @ 7:24 - I like that name of that ship - Cuppatea"!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@SDJR7F88]

Believe it's a real ship from what I overheard

[@gernaneering]

This is of the best model railway video,s i have ever seen on you tube it has some wonderful appealing scenes and full of novel scenes, so who cares about stark cold reality, these layouts are full of warmth, escapism, and for me have some of the most important elements we should capture in a layout.

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks indeed! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@jamesgoucher3676]

There's some great layouts there, and some great footage again Callum nice one 🙂👍

[@SDJR7F88]

Thanks James! Glad you enjoyed it

[@alantoms3263]

Fantastic exhibition there. No point trying to single any individual display there - all superb. Thanks for sharing. Al.

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks! Really was a great little line-up

[@chriscox4023]

Video better than being there, as it was well attended, many details were missed. Personally, I travelled over a hundred miles to see it with my son and grandson who live locally.

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks Chris and glad you enjoyed the coverage. Was certainly a well attended show, so very crowded at times.

[@donsharpe5786]

What a nice mixture of layouts. Something for everyone. I particularly liked St Philips Marsh.

[@SDJR7F88]

Really was a good line-up. Always great to see St Philips, as there is always so much going on

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

good vid

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks

[@bumpingpost]

Thanks for the great video. Can anybody tell me the manufacturer of the station with the 8-sided roof on the Lockdown Fen layout at the very beginning of the video?

[@SDJR7F88]

Many thanks! Honestly don't know 100%, but I believe it to be a Bachmann Scenecraft item

[@nigelbevan8449]

I went to that on Saturday morning, but I'm afraid to say that I stayed about half an hour or so.. It was just too claustrophobic for the size of the venue(s), as there was two other buildings next to each other, the third being a place to get refreshments.. There were just too many people crammed into such a small area... May I make the suggestion that the organiser's use one building for layouts only the other building for traders and the third to be left for refreshments... Such a shame really as it used to be held at St Mary's Church and church hall...

[@chriswall4795]

Got less busy after midday

[@ken.creswick]

Hi, I hope you don't mind an observation. You do great video quality but so much of it is on close up shots which do not give an overall view of the layout. If you did a panned out shot of the layout before concentrating on the close up shots it would provide context and show why trains were going from A to B and back again. When I go to a show I look around the layout, read the info, watch a few trains running and last look at details. Your videos are excellent quality but too focused on detail to give the layout builder full props for their overall creation. Please don't take these observations the wrong way, I really do think they'd be better showing the whole layout too. To put these comments into context, you have thousands of followers so what do I know !

[@sjaakmcd1804]

I have come to a conclusion that there are 2 types of almost finished/finished layout builders; 1 those that want to run trains on a half arsed layouts, which is fine. 2 the diorama builders/modelers who want to make a high quality representation of the "real" with representations of real train formations that they can't be arsed running trains on their perfect track and points. Being OCD I fall into group 2, with a stupid number of DCC fitted engines and an insane number of matching coaches that may at some point move out of the perfect station. There is another small group, The Tech Brigade with their fully automated points. signals, train movement systems that spend their time faffing about with wires and ripping up points and almost never having working track to run anything. Well just go and look at probably the 3 top model railway KZbinrs. The point is........ Its a hobby to enjoy where you do something physical in the Real World. Cheers Callum and thank you for your time and effort sharing this.

[@little_britain]

I think it's all about finding where you fall in the intersection of those three groups. I even think there is a fourth group: the planner, who spends months and years planning the perfect layout and collects more than a few bits and bobs, but never gets beyond a few false starts (which is where I will fall if I don't get cracking)! BTW: I would surely think Everard Junction is one of the top three and he has been running trains the last several years and he is also building diorama quality pieces - so a balance is possible.

[@SDJR7F88]

@Little Britain, think I'm in that fourth category too!

[@j3xk72r9]

I saw a lot more in your video than I did at the event. I left after 20 minutes, very overcrowded, horrible cramped venue.

[@cliveharman6453]

Echo that, nice layouts, crap venue, zilch parking, won't bother again for that distance.

[@nigelbevan8449]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the venue too overcrowded and claustrophobic.... Like I said in my comment, I stayed for about half an hour and I couldn't even view the layouts.... Such a shame.... And IF there had been a fire....... Well, I won't go down that road... Sodbury Vale Model Railway Club really needs to consider a much bigger venue.

[@tonychrisbond842]

A great shame would have stayed buy 10 minutes in each was enough couldn’t even sit down for a cup of tea had to go up to Morrison such a pity