The museums at Blue Anchor and Bishops Lydeard will be open throughout the gala on all four days, as will the GWR sleeping car at Bishops Lydeard.

The model railway in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard will also be open each day and our young volunteers here are looking forward to welcoming visitors.

There are some new displays at the Bishops Lydeard museum to look at, and on Saturday and Sunday the model railway will running trains to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the end of steam on the Southern in 1967.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to open coach 6705 at Williton during this gala, on which work is proceeding well.

The pictures below, taken by Alan Meade, show the model railway in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard on 22 April 2017.