FANTASTIC SUPER-DETAILED OO GAUGE RAIL DISPLAYS AT PENDON
A SUPER-DETAILED LOOK at English rural life around 1930, seen through extraordinary dioramas that feature railways, villages and landscapes. David Jefferis: We recently went to see the Pendon Museum, based in the handsome village of Long Wittenham, south of Oxford, UK. It was well worth the trip, as the museum includes among the largest dioramas anywhere, and certainly the biggest ones we've seen in southern England. The Vale Scene features buildings, landscape and railways that were seen in Oxfordshire’s Vale of the White Horse. The Vale area has changed significantly since the 1930s, so it’s not surprising to learn that this giant diorama is probably the best representation of those long-gone times. The Dartmoor Scene shows an imaginary Great Western branch line, somewhere between Exeter and Plymouth, running high along the southern edge of the wild lands of Dartmoor. Details of the diorama include notices warning against trespassing, and about not crossing the line, ‘...