Brandon's Steam Weekend

Given the British weather’s well-known tendency not to cooperate on summer bank holiday weekends, you might think that such a weekend would not be a good choice for a model engineering club’s Steam Open Day. The Brandon and District Society of Model Engineers, however, were not to be put off and, true to form, the weather did its best to dampen the proceedings. The Society occupies a field in Weeting, a village just outside Brandon, which lies on the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. Weeting is well-known for its annual Steam Rally, one of the largest in the country, and the Society, with its miniature railway, always plays a prominent part. Although the club’s own Open Day was inevitably not on the scale of the Weeting Rally it was, nevertheless,…

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