Railex 2026 #1

Whilst some of the club went south to Brockenhurst, Simon and I opted for Railex 2026, held by the Risborough & District MRC at Stoke Mandeville Stadium near Aylesbury. This is billed as a ‘fine scale’ show, and it lives up to its name. I suppose that I’d better start in N gauge with James Street. It’s an amazing layout, full of fine modelling, but I have to confess that I’d prefer a branch line. Size isn’t everything, so I’m told. I took some pictures of the harbour area, a newly completed section with some excelling shipping on view. Jerry Clifford’s Bath Queen Square engine sheds (2mm finescale) is a work in progress. All scratch build, including the locomotives. Perhaps its last showing before being built into his larger S&D layout. Also on show in 2mm was Burnham-on-Sea. A classic 2mm layout being updated and renovated, it features the Burnham signature item – a working lifeboat that moves from its station along the branch tracks to the end of the pier and launching. Some of the…