WHY BOB AND ROD ARE RIGHT ON TRACK FOR MODEL TRAIN FANS IN MARKET DEEPING

We are back in the UK after many years of riding our chrome horse round Europe.

And right now we live on top of hill in a rented farmhouse in a place called Middleton Scriven … Robert Plant lives round the corner.

And so do a load of sheep!.

The nearest pub is five miles away.

But this is Merry ol’ England and I love the smell of tractors in the morning.

So, let’s visit a model railway club in a little town by the River Welland not too far from Spalding.

It’s very nice in Market Deeping. It has a couple of pubs, a couple of fish and chip shops and a BMX track.

And at the Market Deeping Model Railway Club, there are a lot of Bob Dylan fans.

But things had been a bit rocky there over the Covid years. They’d hit the buffers, so to speak. Club members were unable to meet for two years because of the pandemic.

And that was compounded when vicious vandals went off the rails and destroyed a major display.

But the ‘day was saved’ when model railway fan Rod Stewart sent the club £10,000 to rebuild it.

It took about 30 members approximately 1,000 hours to remake the train, track and buildings by hand.

And when they were done re-modelling the Market Deeping rail buffs decided to have a day out to celebrate the revamped display and the reopening of their new clubhouse in nearby Essendine.

They chose to go to the Castle Fine Art gallery in Stamford High Street to ‘meet’ Bob Dylan and his Train Tracks work in the Retrospectrum series.

Bob wasn’t there of course – like the rest of us he probably couldn’t afford the UK train fare.

But club boss Peter Davies said: ” It was brilliant after so much trouble … the paintings are truly atmospheric. It is definitely a ‘must’ to visit!”

For Market Deeping Model Railway Club visit www.mdmrc.org

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