With regards the site, there were a number of problems evident throughout the day. There was a distinct lack of road signposts for the event which caused me some confusion when my sat nav (post code taken from the Showbus website) decided to take me in a different direction to the traffic in the centre of Woburn village. Secondly, it took over 3/4 of an hour to get from the park gate in Woburn village to the car park. A friend of mine walked back to the rally site from the park entrance faster than the traffic on the road (I suppose the drive was about a mile+ long). Thirdly, the ground underfoot was soft which caused a number of buses to get bogged down. A large crowd gathered to watch a tri-axle coach being dragged out. The buses getting stuck then caused a massive backlog of buses waiting to get on the site. There were still buses entering the rally site at 14:00, and I spoke to one driver in a queue of approximately 50 that I photographed on the driveway who told me that he had been waiting for 3 hours to get in! I spoke to another visitor who told me that he had come on an organised trip to the event and the passengers got off the bus and walked onto the rally site. There was next to no mobile phone coverage on the site which caused problems for some traders relying on a mobile signal for their credit card machines to work. Finally, I did not see any designated parking for disabled visitors and saw a gentleman on his disabled scooter struggling on the very uneven ground to drive back to his car in the car park. I also spoke with a disabled lady who I met on the rally site who struggled to walk and she said she had not seen any designated parking and it was causing her issues getting around.

On a positive note, being in a different location to the usual Duxford there were many buses that I had not seen before so I had a very enjoyable walk around the event taking photographs. I hope you enjoy a small selection of vehicles that were on display.

There was NO model news to report from this years show