March Meeting 2023

March turned out to be quite a busy month, hence the delay in posting to this blog. Apologies from the editors. 

Our monthly meeting concerned preparing Lightermans Yard for a showing at ABRAIL2023 (Abingdon  and District Model Railway club). Checking and correcting that the various electrical contacts that mysteriously appeared on set-up at home or on location, would hopefully not occur at Abingdon, and to our relief the layout performed very well.  

Pete King had produced a very useful 'to do' list that no doubt will occupy our meetings to come.

Because our access to the meeting room at Wilmington is usually on our previous meeting day to an exhibition at which we are showing - in this instance, 17 February, we have to take the layout off-site - usually split between 2 cars and hope that the transfer to exhibitions venue goes well. 

ABRAIL (4 March) has been our first post pandemic venture. Both 2mmFS, and Ngauge were well represented, and in general the standard of modeling in all scales was very high. There was ample viewing space for visitors to enjoy the layouts.

The 'Yard' team; Pete King and Alan Smith discuss the operation by Howard Watkins and Keith Gloster (partly hidden).

We returned to a semi-regular blog entry, Loco of the month. 

(below) Keith's 0-6-0T William Kirtley T Class for the  London Chatham and Dover 1874.

As always, a beautifully detailed scratch built 2mm loco