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Another roasty hot day, but eight members had a pleasant afternoon playing trains and talking a lot. John and Amanda brought a load of old N gauge trains belonging to his father and grandfather for us to peruse. Mainly old Poole Farish, but some nice bits and pieces. As you might imaging, cheap trains caused a feeding frenzy among the members, and I think everyone went away happy.

I tested an Ebay purchase. Ran perfectly….

We also ran a few trains…..

And Sean fixed Brian’s split gear (for future replacement.)

And here’s Brian’s view of procedings.

Brian has also recently visited Barrow Hill. Photos….

And video….

Back from holidays, and the railway room is cool enough for some more TINGS preparation. I fitted together the three N-club modules that will form one end of the layout, and carried out a few minor repairs. Two new on-off switches for the fiddle-loops. Some rail repairs to the joker-tunnel. And a new length of track fitted to replace the one damaged packing up after the Erith show.

Next job, build a box for the bridge.

Then the ESNG meeting, at the new earlier start time at 2pm. We accumulated 9 members through the afternoon, all of whom stay for supper. The Cha(i)rman then left early as he is up early in the morning to catch a plane to the Isle of Man (customary photos coming soon, no doubt.) He also left the washing up, but we’ll let him off this time.

We ran trains, but fewer than usual, as a few track repairs were necessary. No one had brought a replacement bus along, though…..

And Simon ran a very, very, long train of reefers, full of oranges no doubt.

After supper, we sat around the table and chatted – and suddenly realised that it was time to pack up and go home. All in all, a very sociable afternoon.

A busy last meeting of the month. Ten members present (one briefly) and we welcomed Malcolm to our merry band (well, the treasurer relieved him of some money!)

We also had a visit from Ian and Nigel from West Sussex to match up their NCI junction with one of my modules. This failed, as they forgot to bring the track bed, but they checked everything out, and went home with our template to borrow.

I’d built a set of taller legs (1000mm) for Stuttgart, but they weren’t needed. However, this was a good exercise, as I shall build enough more to take to Germany in November.

Elsewhere, trains were run….

And the photographer got snapped….

And the usual suspects watched…

And thank you Brian for a better record of the afternoon than I could manage.