Once again the crowds flocked to Sparsholt College (near Winchester) for the Wessex Narrow Gauge Modellers' (WNGM) 'Narrow Gauge South' and the Society's 2004 AGM. Some 20+ layouts were exhibited, plus full trade support. The show was very well attended and the halls seemed to be packed for most of the day. Here is a selection of some of the superb layouts that that filled the 3 rooms.  Photo's by Mick Thornton - WNGM.

(77Kb) Roger Christian & Stan William's "Gairloch & Wester Ross".

(49Kb) Roger Christian's new railcar in an atmospheric setting.

(88Kb) Summer scene at "Perth Green" by Willie Smith.

(72Kb) "Grumblewick Coombe" by Graham & Caroline Watling. A superb layout on a footprint no bigger than A3 size paper

(65Kb) Anthony Goff, junior member from the Surrey Group exhibited his very well constructed and atmospheric  "Hilvermouth".

(76Kb) Richard Glover's beautifully modelled "Pagham Harbour".

(69Kb) John Thorne and the Surrey Group with their Ditton Heath module.  Here are 3 versions of the new Thorne Class 0-4-0T loco that John is producing.

(42Kb) A very rural scene from the Wimborne & District's "Tarrant Valley Railway".

(61Kb) Co-located with "Souk el Khemis was another Frank Saunder's Chinese essay "Tai Chi" now owned by Chas Medlen.

(23Kb) This tiny 3mm scale T&D Ford railcar found on Charlie Insley's "Caher Patrick". The model is about 1¹/2 inches long and sits on a Arnold Kof chassis.

(49Kb) Peter Swift's 00n3/009 "Black Rock". Here a scratchbuilt ex-Ballycastle NCC 4-4-2T heads the Ballymena & Larne boat train.

(71Kb) The AGM and the members have spoken.  The committee have been sentenced to another 12 months hard labour.

The Railcar Competition.
A feature of the AGM was the railcar, railbus and the like competition,  the only criterion being that the model must have been converted from a railway coach, road vehicle or anything that was not intended to be a self-propelled rail vehicle. Click on the competition display case to see some of the entries.