2nd September 2023

YORK will be making only its second ever public appearance next weekend and the Steam Museum, Swindon Railway Festival. Details can be found here: https://www.steam-museum.org.uk/event/swindon-railway-festival/. Hope to see you there!

There has been some progress on the layout since the York Show at Easter though mostly what’s happened since then is me catching up with all the things I didn’t do in the earlier part of the year when I was spending pretty much every waking hour getting YORK ready for York.

The main visible improvements are the awnings on the open air sections of the platforms (viewable through the ends of the overall roof:

And W.H.Smith’s, which was well stocked at the York Show over Easter but was rather lacking in both staff and customers, now has both: