The "Not the LAMPOONS" group
We held our inaugural meeting at the Middleton Railway in Leeds on 27 April. It was great to see 15 or so members in attendance, plus, since the Railway was open to the public, quite a few families who were were interested in what we were doing.
Four layouts were brought along; Ian Dobson brought Blwch Teganau (Toy Box) – built into, unsurprisingly, an Ikea toy box, Paul Titmuss brought Lispole in 00n3, Allen Hudson brought Prospect Works, featuring impressive hand-made track-work (his points interlocking system is well worth a look, too), and Mel brought a work-in-progress DCC shunting layout and displayed some seriously impressive slow-running locos courtesy of "stay-alive" capacitors. We had a couple of test tracks for folk to run their own stock and locos.
We all agreed it had been a great success, and we decided to try to make it a regular date so as not to lose the impetus, so we pencilled-in 18 May (subject to the Middleton agreeing) as our next meeting. We are also looking for a more appropriate name!
Very many thanks to the Middleton Railway for letting us use their mezzanine floor, and to Ian Dobson and Richard Pike, our "on-site" members for their help.
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Blwch Teganau
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Prospect Works
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Mel's work in progress - how it starts for so many of us!
the 18/19 May weekend has several NG events going on around the country Hugh. The one that may possibly affect attendance at your meet if you hold it on the 18th would be Stan's Tea Party in Rainford, already publicised.
Mick
Quote from: MickT on May 01, 2024, 19:23the 18/19 May weekend has several NG events going on around the country Hugh. The one that may possibly affect attendance at your meet if you hold it on the 18th would be Stan's Tea Party in Rainford, already publicised.
Mick
Thank you - we are aware of that - there are only so many saturdays in a month....
Well, the 18th May is unavailable...
We're going to meet up in an informal way (is there any other?) at the Middleton Railway's Model Railway Show on 15th June - at which there will be 5 009 layouts and one mixed gauge layout!