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TIMES TO COME
Firstly, my thanks to our BoD for per mitting this issue to increase to 32 sides. I requested this partly to accom modate material from Crewe, plus of course all the postConvention items. I feel that as the latter includes the AGM Minutes, an accounts summary, the contest results and lots of photos, it is preferable to keep the December issue topical. Of course it goes without say ing that you will also find news of forthcoming events such as the Benson Winter Meet and on into the rest of 2012. (Gosh, ... 2012 ... sounds like something out of Space Odyssey or Star Wars, doesn’t it!)
Union station and, circling the layout three times, it steadily climbed to reach Moffat Tunnel East Portal, passing through several intermediate switching spots. Passing through the tunnel the line descended to West Yard, the fictional area that represented every thing west of Moffat Tunnel.
On arrival, I was thrown in the deep end. A way freight behind the D&SL 2660 (shown above) sat about halfway around the layout, and I was handed its waybill card system (which I’d never even heard of, let alone used) and off I went, leaving the station with far too many cars (I’d forgotten the maximum was eight) and so having to return to leave some behind. Within
half an hour, it actually did feel as if you were out on the road and working for a living. Many things we take for granted now were absent in those days – at least they were absent from this layout. Couplers were X2f horn hooks operated by pushing a small screwdriver be tween them.
Cliff felt that this was more realistic than chugging back and forth looking for a track magnet!
Track was a mix of Wrenn, Gem and other British outline stuff – it was what was available. Turnouts were thrown by large white metal ground throws, no ballast was in evidence, and so on. But operating it was fun . . . mainly because it was operated, not just run in circles. A certain discipline was re quired (well, Cliff WAS a headmaster!). I wonder what modellers in 30 years’ time will think of our presentday efforts?
Martin Boyask
CUPOLA
...FROM THE EDITOR
ROUNDHOUSE DECEMBER 2011
CONSIST...
CUPOLA 3 HEAD END BUSINESS CARS 4 DIVISION DIARY 5 UNCOUPLED CARS 6 REGION CALENDAR 7 ‘I REMEMBER IT WELL’ Allan Dobson 8 MOTIVE POWER MUSEUM
W A Corkill 9 CALDER NORTHERN THEMED MEET
AT CREWE Terry Wynne 10 BOURNEMOUTH BELLE
CONVENTION The Editor 12 AGM MINUTES 17 CONVENTION CONTESTS AND
AWARDS Steve Park 18 BOOK REVIEW Ian Ogden 19 ADAPTING A SCISSORS
CROSSOVER Anthony Quinlan 20 GERMAN US RAILROAD
CONVENTION Nobby Clarke 22 REGION ACCOUNTS 23 WHY NORTH AMERICAN?
Mike Ingham 24 EXTRA 2011 WEST Mike Arnold/
David Russell 29 BEANERY 31 REGISTRAR NEWS 31
... and TIMES PAST
A few months ago Rod Welch emailed me some of his vintage collection of photos taken at various layouts he’d visited over the years. The one shown above took me back in time faster than H.G. Wells’s Time Machine.
Many years ago, maybe late 1970s, I was invited to Cliff Young’s home in Theydon Bois, to see his HO D&RGW layout. I’d only just swapped from N scale to HO.
Looking back, the actual modelling was a little basic, and yet the layout introduced me to realism. Winding around the room, which was about 26' × 8' I think, the mainline left Denver
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