Cheshire Railway Modellers

Merseyside show, 2007.

44. Common Lane Wharfe (left) and 45. Wheelers Junction (right)

With thanks to the layout owners, Tywyn & District MRC and Tony Clifton for track access.

Hazel Grove show, 2007.

46. Walmington (above left) 47. Mile End Yard (above right)

48.Waterley Cross (below left) 49. Happy Valley (below right)

50. Lynfield Road (above left) 51. Smethurst Junction (above right)

52. Stockport Viaduct, layout under construction. (below left) 53. Portwenn (below right)

With thanks to the layout owners, Hazel Grove & District MRS (twice), D.R.Mensforth, Peter Midwinter, Dennis Collier, Chris Parkinson, Paul Harrison and Graham Neve for track access.

At home once more.

The US micro layout, "Toadflax Yard", was briefly set up for a photo shoot with Jim Mangels's WR847230 before the Whiskey River boxcar was shipped back home. The opportunity was taken to get another picture of the CRM wagon at the same time.

Layout number 54, this one was not built when the wagon set of on its tour.

Alsager Railway Association's 2007 show.

One year on from the ARA's 2006 show in Crewe - Where the wagon started its visits to other people's layouts.

Layout number 55 in the tour is Paul Garratt's Limesbridge.

56 - Iron Mould Lane (Richard Lear)

58 - Loughborough, Brush Works and 59 - Leicester, North Bridge.

Apologies to the owners of the two midlands based layouts above but only when I got home did I noticed that the layout ownership is not credited in the exhibition guide. If anyone can supply the missing details please email crmodellers@aol.com and I will amend the captions.

Thanks as ever to the layout owners for making this project possible.

Cheshire Railway Modellers 2008 Exhibition

In preparation for our own exhibition I have been checking the various models that I'm taking to the show. One of these, Pentrebrac, is new territory and layout number 60 on the CRM wagon's grand tour.

Other layouts visited at the CRM exhibition were Mike Lenz's Atlantic Road (61),  Roy Harris's Wisconsin Rapids (62), Nick Pallette's Central Georgia & North Point (63), Simon Dawson's Tonnellerie d'Etropal (64), Martin Jones's Tryweryn Sidings (65), Peter Marshall's Two Sisters' Farm (66), Jim Scott's Warminton DRS Depot (67) and Chris Gilbert's Thomson Siding (68).

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Unfortunately the shot of Dave Martin's Padgate Lane was blurred, no doubt the wagon will catch up with the wagon repair depot at some later date though. As always, sincere thanks to the owners for granting track access.

Stafford 2008 Exhibition

69 (above) Botterill Street Yard.

 70 (above left) Hadley Town. 71 (above right) Manston Airport.

73 (below left) Linfit West. 74 (below right) Dudley Road.

With thanks to the layout operators (Rhyl MRC, Paul Jones, Andy Hopper, Leeds MRS & Pete Harvey) for allowing the photos to be taken.

Rainhill, March 2008

March saw the CRM wagon at Rainhill, for the second time, where these three layouts were new 'places' to visit...

Layout No.75 (right) in the wagon's grand tour was Melrose End. 76 (below left) was the Alexander Heights Brewery and 77 (below right) was a trip to the island of Sodor with Thomas and friends.

Thanks as usual to the layout owners, Brian Davis, Warrington MRC and Rainhill MRC for granting track access.

Heywood, March 2008

A fortnight later the wagon ventured north to the Heywood MRG's annual show at the Civic Hall, adding eight new layouts to the total visited.