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Not a bad turnout for the Wednesday after the Open Day – six members attended.  We spent a little time sorting out the show cash balance, and paying members for sales from the club shop.  Finances, to my amazement, look pretty good.  Rather more time was spent tracking down a short circuit on one track.  It turned out not to be the fiddle yard – as suspected – but two wires had come out of a module plug and shorted themselves together.

But we ran plenty of trains before, during and after the wiring excitement.  The usual circuit was set up.

Derek ran a selection of engineers trains…

Simon and Graham contributed some American interest…

Simon went all European…..

And Graham managed a realistic accident, with added theatricals….

Back on Sunday for another session…..

I wasn’t able to stay at Sunday’s meeting, but there were five or so members present, who had a quiet afternoon playing trains.  Allan channelled his inner Brian, and took this short video….

I was rather taken by this photo, by WJ Naunton, of a WD 2-8-0 headed by a Peak 1-Co-Co-1 and two brake tenders.  Very much a ‘prototype for everything’ picture, and no one would believe you if you ran it on your layout.

And another ‘prototype for everything’ video to finish.

A little experiment at this week’s meeting – running trains from 2-9pm, with a pause for fish and chips early evening.  We were also going to do some wiring, but Mr Atfield wasn’t able to get to the meeting with the boards to wire.

Not sure whether this was a success – just the five members attended, with only one extra for the afternoon session.  But the five who were there had a very pleasant afternoon running trains and chatting.  The usual layout was set up and the fiddle yard populated.

Some Swiss trains from Allan….

Michael was testing stock ready for the Open Day…..

I seemed to have had a Western Region bias to the trains…..

Derek’s goods….

And Simon ran some old American diesels….