Transcription: Alongside the work of Roy England and his followers, Pendant also preserves and presents another milestone in modelling history, the Mada Valley Railway. Constructed from the 1930s by John Ahern, Mada Valley was the first layout to present the railway as part of a fully developed landscape. This was a startling concept at a time when model railways were all about cramming in as much track as possible in order to run the trains. It was an ambitious concept too, for the trade support we enjoy today was then but a distant dream. If you wanted it, you had to make it. It is perhaps ironic that this ...