Big trains

Once again Maxine and I went to the ‘New Wine’ church festival at Shepton Mallet. There were over 12,000 people camping on the Bath & West Showground near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, in the south-west of the UK. Weather was good again – just a brief shower that failed to break the drought. I took the usual pictures of the miniature railway that is on the Showground, run by the East Somerset Society of Model & Experimental Engineers. Most of the main line is dual gauge 5″ and 7¼” gauges (just a little larger than ‘N’ gauge). Each year at New Wine, ESSMEE open up the railway for several afternoons and offers rides for all and sundry. Read more about this little railway at http://www.essmee.org.uk/