Another work party this afternoon, followed by the club night.  Nine members in total, with over half of them there for the afternoon and fish/pie and chips.

We had a useful afternoon.  Replacing a point turned out to be a simple 30 minute job.  We also solved a few tight spots in the track, and Derek realigned a couple of tracks on the small club corners.  This fettling was effective, as we seemed to get better running in the evening.  We do have the other two corners to fix, but that will be a larger job.

Less successful was some work on new expander tracks to join the boards.  We found that the Minitrix track that we had ordered was of a different design from the old ones we have, and will be difficult to modify for the layout.  We may have to write them off as a bad experience.

In the evening, the usual trains were in action.  Neil’s double Azuma set worked well.

His Farish ‘N’ had some excellent sound, even with analogue control.

As did his 158 DMU, with some realistically subdued lighting….

And a continental ’66’, otherwise known as a ’77’…..

And a ’99’….

Fairly modern goods from Chris….

A USA military load from Simon….

A mixture from Terry….

Plus a meeting of the OO9 group (all of him.)

A pleasant evening, and we packed up in good time as everyone had run what they wanted.