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Down at the club house, things have been happening.
"Swinlees" was re-erected to allow the non-DCC trains to be run again and due to the absence of the HO layout some American stock as appeared on the tracks.
One evening, 2 members brought down their large collection of trucks and managed to run a train of 147 vans round one of the tracks and a slightly short one of baggage vans on the other.

This layout will be dismantled again in the middle of May as it is going "abroad" in to appear at Middlesbrough MRC's show (see the side panel and the events page)
Transporting this layout involves quite a few fit members and a large lorry with a tail lift to move it. The plan will be for the lorry to be loaded on the Thursday and travel down on the Friday with a return on the following Monday with the crew staying over the weekend.

Work is continuing of the new '00' DCC layout with continued discussions around the boards and the station platforms were dug up yet again and a new platform is now being erected out of Plasticard and "PECO" platform edging

On the N gauge front, our Japanese layout, "Kelninjo-Mae" boards have been dug out from storage and are being titivated for it outing to Kyle MRC' show in May. The layout page for this layout has been updated to include some pictures of the layout

After "Ballochmill" was dismantled, the new test track was fully assembled and we managed to have 1 night of test before the track was dismantled for its 1st outing to the Troon '0' gauge meeting on the 14th of April.
Being the first time the boards were assembled on a level floor, the boards leveled up well and apart from a couple of tweaks to one of the hand built points and a quick adjustment to a board joint which caused one of the isolation sections to "vanish" due to track and board expansion in the hall warmth, the layout ran well.
Several long passenger trains were assembled on the larger outer loops and were pulled with a selection of "Duchesses" and other large locos along with a GSWR double headed train and a nice blue "Caledonian" loco with 4 pre-grouping coached.
One of the loops was changed over to run on DCC for a couple of hours to let those with loco's fitted DCC modules to enjoy the sounds.
It will now be re-erected in the club house to provide a running track until it is needed for the next '0' gauge meeting in May until a new continuous run layout is constructed during 2013-14.
As before"Kirkcudbe" will continue to be stored in its rack in the central operating space for the test track.

See our events page for full details and please keep watching the events page for updates.

If you have been missing Peter Drummond's photos od "real" trains, don't worry, I have been sorting through all the photos Peter has given me and a still working out which I have used and which are still available so I can rebuild these pages, so keep watching.

Upcoming Events

Last Updated:    16 April, 2012

► See us next at KYLE MRC's show on the 19th and 20th May '12, at Auchenharvie Academy,
Stevenston KA20 3JW
( see the events page for more details )

► See us at Middlesbrough MRC's show on the 19th, 20th of May '12, at Middlesbrough
( see the events page for more details )

► See us at the AMRSS show in 22nd to 24th February '13, at the SECC.
( see the events page for more details )