Book Signing in Bourne!
On Friday 2nd December member David Ashwood (Dash) will be at Bourne Bookshop between 10am and noon to sign copies of his book on how to build a model railway. Club member Barie Church will be there also with a small model railway layout. It should be a really good occasion. (It’s a terrific bookshop anyway and always worth a visit with a huge range and prices matching Waterstones.)
Pen and Sword (‘our’ book publishers) had a stand at the Warley National exhibition at the NEC over the weekend and reported good sales which is really encouraging – all thanks to Dash’s untiring efforts and superb writing skills. The book would make a great Christmas present for someone just starting out - or thinking of starting out - in railway modelling.
YouTube video of Gila Canyon 1957
Back in May 2022 Alan Hancock took his layout Gila Canyon 1957 to Cotterstock Church for an exhibition called Exhibition of Childhood Memorabilia. Our then website man, Brian Norris offered to produce a video showcasing the layout and you can now see the result on YouTube. Click the picture below and please give the video a 'Like'.
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Clubnight Action on the Test Track
Following on from a huge amount of work from the test track gang we are now able to have running sessions of all gauges. While there's still work to be done, it's good to just let the trains run at times!
Here's Oliver's train running an engine pulling an incredibly long lines of coaches, wagons and even a rail gun!
Woodcroft at Shildon
October 2022 and Woodcroft went to the impressive Shildon exhibition.
Here's a behind the scenes shot of the layout with Dash being closely questioned by one of our many visitors and Alan in the background chatting with a fellow exhibitor.
A couple of shots by Tony Taylor
Tony Wright video enhancing Hornby's A2/2 and A2/3s new locos
Honorary member Tony Wright has been busy helping develop these two superb OO locos from Hornby and discusses and demonstrates a number of enhancements in this YouTube video made in conjunction with BRM and published on their World of Railways YouTube channel