10 made it to the February meeting.
Trevor Street brought along Norton Heath after locating a Gaugemaster Model D. We very quickly had it up and running( Pic001) . Trevor ran some of his own stock (Pic002). Paul Atkin ran his train of Airfix brake vans (Pic003). His tram loco conversion pulled 2 coaches and… a brake van! One of Joseph Jack’s Rustons also had a run (Pic004).
As the electrics seem to be working there was a discussion about what scenic changes we might make. The chief one being to improve the look of the road surfaces and add some road markings.
Joseph Jacks had also brought along a couple of other projects. First was a railcar based on Dave Malton’s CAD for a ‘shorty’ BR 153 unit (Pic005). Joseph had added length and an extra window and also modified the lights. The chassis was a Bachmann N gauge Peterwitt tramcar. The other was a single Fairlie (Pic007). Joseph had removed the original skirts (designed to hide a Kato chassis). The Chassis is a home brewed chassis made using a Kato ‘shorty’ bogie chassis motor and rear and an N-drive steam chassis (Pic008) . This gives a fully articulated chassis. Joseph had also brought along Dol-Fach (Pic009) that now has a new back scene and platform surface.
