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[Tigger]

I'll send a fuller reply in an email Tom; Sadly I didn't have a chance to do so as the new News arrived just as I was off to Scotland to play proper trains *ducks to avoid salvo from Mick's Armourlite*.

However, in a few short words and in no way disrespectful to Mark who also did a splendid job, all I will say here is Excellent, Superb, Wonderful Presentation and a worthy facelift for the new decade.  Well done to both halves of the Editorial team.

[Alan Feldon]

The donkey delivered mine today-I like it.
Without wishing to be pedantic but in case anyone gets hold of a centre models coach kit,the chassis is white metal NOT brass

[Martin Collins]

Having hurriedly read the latest News before departing for Kegworth, I have to say I like the new look.  A couple of points on previous feedback..

As scribe of Branchlines for the Sussex mob I try to keep it reasonably short, and some months struggle to find anything attention grabbing to say, but that's probably more to do with the fact that we often sit around nattering about all sorts of things not necessarily railway connected, rather than doing anything.  However, the idea of staggering the size of content is interesting.  Perhaps we could be designated the months in which we can submit a "big" report, and be restricted to just a diary of forthcoming meetings and exhibitions in the intervening issue - quarterly maybe?

Picking up a point MickT made earlier regarding photos for the cover and squeezing landscape shots onto a portrait format.  Why do magazines have to be in portrait format anyway?  My back issues are kept in box files so the orientation is irrelevant - they are still A4 sized.  What's wrong with a landscape 009 News.  I'm not into publishing so I'm sure there will be any number of reasons why we couldn't, but I throw it into the mix just to be contrary!

Martin Collins

[MickT]

*ducks to avoid salvo from Mick's Armourlite*.

The correct term is ArmaLite David (I had one of them as a personal weapon in Malaysia - 5.56 rapid fire automatic assault rifle - wouldn't cut a tree in half like the good old 7.62 SLR but much lighter to carry when hacking through the jungle).

The basic AR15 ArmaLite was designed for the US Army in the 1960's when it was found they couldnt' cope with the heavier British rifle what with all the cans of coke and self-cooking tinned burgers that they had to carry around with them until we had hacked clearings out of the bondooks to allow their Jolly Green Giant 'copters to airlift in some emergency PX shops and Bob Hope's CSI shows.

Anyway after taking some 900 photos over the weekend at Kegworth, I am now suffering from shutter finger and wouldn't be able to use the trigger on a more lethal pointy weapon so you have been absolved of the capital crime of poor maintenance of the calibration on your priority control node and therefore forgiven for your absence on this occasion.

You will have gathered from the postings already made post-convention that you missed a good'un.

Sorry - going into thread-drift here - back to 009 News Feedback - I look forward to the result of the little challenge that Tom and Steve have set themselves to get a 6 page Convention report sorted out before the printing deadline from the 2000 images that they had collected from camera owners by Saturday night, without the added ones they will have picked up on Sunday!

Good luck guys!

Mick

[invercloy]

Sorry - going into thread-drift here - back to 009 News Feedback - I look forward to the result of the little challenge that Tom and Steve have set themselves to get a 6 page Convention report sorted out before the printing deadline from the 2000 images that they had collected from camera owners by Saturday night, without the added ones they will have picked up on Sumday!

Good luck guys!

Mick

We're making progress, Mick!  ;D I need a lie down now though!