Lincolnshire’s Model Railway Club exhibition returns this weekend after 2019 vandalism

A Lincolnshire model railway club’s exhibition is back on this weekend, 3 years after being heavily vandalised..

In 2019, Market Deeping Modern Railway club suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage on sets that had taken people years to build. They gained worldwide attention and donations- including one from Sir Rod Stewart.

Peter Davies is chairman of the club:

“It was a scene of total devastation. No model railway club has ever experienced anything like it. Models that had been built over many many years were simply matchwood. Shattered, and completely irrecoverable. “

“People who spent 10 years on a model to see it turn to matchwood and irrecoverable… you can’t get those 10 years back. You can’t value that in financial terms now.

“…One to two people have said they’ll never be able to do that again.”

“In terms of the emotion, the time, the love that’s put in to producing models, none of that’s recoverable…There’s people that are still very sore about what happened 3 years ago, and they will never recover from it.”

This weekend will see the exhibition back in action at Stamford Welland Academy, for the first time since the vandalism.

There’ll be 24 layouts, 12 traders, five demonstrations, in four halls, which is the largest we the club’s ever mounted- and twice as long as any previous show the club has run.

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