Surrey SME Visitors Day 2024 Report

[dhamblin]

Surrey Society of Model Engineers held a successful visiting societies open day at their Leatherhead track on Sunday 6th October 2024, with a variety of loco in action on the raised and ground level tracks. The photos below give a little flavour of the day:


SSME Visitors Day 1 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

The two 3 1/2" gauge locos: my Britannia and an LBSC Bantam Hen model No. 3405 'Bantam Cock', both seen raising steam on the raised track steaming bays.


SSME Visitors Day 2 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

5" gauge Class 28 D5702 model on the steaming bays.


SSME Visitors Day 3 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

5" gauge GWR Prairie No. 5507 built to the Martin Evans 'Firefly' design.


SSME Visitors Day 4 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

5" gauge Polly V locomotive 'Layla' on the steaming bays.


Rush Hour by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

Britannia at the back of a queue on the raised track while a locomotive is brought on via the traverser.


SSME Visitors Day 5 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

5" gauge Sweet Pea 'Jax' passing through the ground level track station.


SSME Visitors Day 6 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

A pair of 5" gauge diesel outline models (Class 37 and 33) in the station area.


SSME Visitors Day 7 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

Tram No. 7 from the Chaldon Light Railway passing through the ground level station.


SSME Visitors Day 8 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

A fellow Croydon SME members 5" gauge L1 (Maid of Kent) starting away from the raised track steaming bays.


SSME Visitors Day 9 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

A pair of 7 1/4" gauge Koppel narrow gauge locomotives double heading a train on the ground level track.


SSME Visitors Day 10 by Daniel Hamblin, on Flickr

Taking the 5" gauge L1 for a spin on the raised track.




A couple of laps of the raised track with me driving the 5" L1 and the various visiting locos passing by on the ground level track.


Regards,

Dan