Re-enactors quite simply are people who act out past events, certainly at the very least in respect to costume/clothing, accoutrements and accessories, with as a high a degree of realism and accuracy to the period being depicted as is practicable.

In the picture above the two lads from the Hampshires (Royal Hampshire Regiment) and one Para relaxing and having tea and a wad in the station buffet having arrived home on leave at X-mas in 1942 purportedly. Well, dress and equipment-wise the three guys seem to carry it off very well. Shame the buffet is 1960's, there's no mugs of tea but one very modern fruit drink in a plastic bottle and there is a 21st century plastic rubbish bin in the foreground to spoil the photo!

These two are sitting in a better location and dress-wise also really look the part and have proper tin mugs for their tea. Once again it's a shame about the easy wipe plastic coated table cloth and, behind the Warden, the modern Amp and microphone that once again intrude into the picture.

These four are doing a bit better with once again some fab period costumes. Just it's a shame about the poster art especial the right hand one exhorting us to spend a day out with Thomas of tank engine fame.

Then there is this etherial picture that could almost be seen as being contemporary to the period concerned except of course this LMS 'Black Five' engine at the time would have been numbered 379 and was only renumber 45379 much later when it it was taken over by British Rail.

Finally, none of this was proper re-enactment anyway. Rather it was meant as a bit of a fun day out and a chance for people, serious re-enactors and the not so serious, to show off their finery and the rest of us to gawp on in admiration and take their photos.