A fairly quiet club evening – and sorely missing the Cha(I)rman’s tea making expertise.  But there were some interesting trains on view.  Derek ran this Peco Jubilee and Dapol Gresley coaches.  A mismatch in both time and region, but a most attractive train.  The Peco Jubilee still stands up well against more modern models in detail and performance.

Paul occupied all the outer tracks with a range of Japanese bullet trains.  And it looked a bit like the tropical bird enclosure at the zoo – a wide range of exotic colours on view!!

Peter was running a Channel Tunnel shuttle service.  You don’t often see these CJM ‘Le Shuttle’ locomotives…..

Whilst t’other Peter continued the French theme with this lovely Co-Co locomotive and coaches.  French locomotives of this era all seemed to have this distinctive cab shape.  I recall reading the Meccano Magazine as a kid, and seeing the advert for the Hornby-Acho French Bo-Bo with similar lines. (Now this dates me…..)

Can’t remember where this came from, so apologies for any copyright.  A clever bit of Photoshopping, or could it be the prototype for Graham’s roll-up fiddle yard?

And I borrowed these two pictures from RMweb.  An EPB unit in BR blue, but still with an original LSWR axlebox cover, pre-1923.  The Southern Railway certainly didn’t waste much!