The club has now recieved a new prebuilt N gauge layout for enthusiasts to work on. Although requiring a little TLC to bring it back to its former glory we are certain it will bring much pleaseure in the future. Please see the initial pictures below. Stay tuned for more progress to follow in the comming months!
This is an image-heavy post, it may take some time to load them all fully, so be patient, it’s like trains and buses, you hang around for a while and suddenly the whole lot arrives at once. The images will open into full-size pictures with a click on them, and then the browser back button will return you to the post. The 2017 event took place on one of the hottest weekends for a long time, and the lecture…
Exhibition time is not far away now, and Three Bridges by the Sea is cantering towards readiness. Peter H (I’ve not been able to grasp the numbering system) showed me a couple of points (no, not those points) where some wonderful detail has been completed but the viewing public aren’t going to be able to see it, because they stand on the wrong side (or do we, the operators?). They’re probably empties in the shed, or maybe it’s a bit…
This is a layout I have never seen running myself, although if I bounce up and down vigorously enough in the larger of our two rooms in the clubhouse I can catch glimpses of it, because it lives in storage above the new 0-gauge layout. I haven’t been able to maintain the elevated position for long enough to actually draw a track-plan, though, and I don’t think I’ve spotted where the separate fiddle-yard has got to. …
Dear Member, Your Layout Manager has suggested to me that should we continue to make large layouts, the stowage of these layouts my well restrict the room to model in. The present layouts are unaffected by this suggestion. Subsequently he has asked me to put together a plan so that the individual may express their talents in their own way. We agree that this way forward should stretch members so that they can seek advice from the more experienced cadre….
Despite sniffles and snuffles there has been activity throughout the month. Firstly, we tried an experiment with the small Thomas layout that Tom had proposed would run in the entrance foyer at the exhibition, close to where the ticket table and refreshment area would be situated. The question was, could we try an innovative way of providing refreshments? It was slightly out of gauge but the main difficulty was that it hid the points so that shunting it became a…