To all those who helped on Saturday 23rd, THANKS. Doing days like this now allows us to send the mainframes to be straightened a lot sooner than waiting for the next working weekend.

The biggest surprise is we now know that Max can design something in his head, measure, mark out, cut, drill holes, and it all fit together. Well done Max for the design and building of the 'toast rack'. The frames they wil be going away on Tuesday 3rd October to be manipulated and should be back the same day.

Laying out the 'toast rack'.

The SVR was a good do in the evening, meeting friends old and new. They had a great turnout of visitors, as always. Lets hope we can make our Gala even better!

Setting the rack up on the wagon.
 

Dave Owen has sent us a quote for assembling the frames with stretchers etc, this will be one of the topics for discussion at the AGM and will be dependent on our finances and terms of payment.

Loading the frame plates.

The Heritage Railway magazine sponsor leaflet and advert are now finalised. Heritage Railways will sponsor 50% of the leaflet cost, and a full page advert in the Magazine, worth in excess of £800. The leaflet will be full colour A4, designed by, you've guessed it, Craig Tiley, with a planned print run of 40.000.

Max taking a well earned rest.

 

THE IMPORTANT BIT
 
Quentin and myself are run ragged with all the admin work, the gala preparations are begining to take a toll on us, and we have a huge mountain to climb in order to make this event the success we all want it to be.

 So if anyone who does have some freetime, or arms, legs and mouth in the right place, depending on the task in hand, please contact us and offer some assistance.

We all like to get our hands dirty or polish the armchair sometimes, but 6880 has a real chance of moving forward next year with the success of the Gala making a very real possibility of the extension frames being made and fitted. The Gala requires 100% effort to make this happen, and we need everyone onboard to do as much as they can.

We will have 40.000 leaflets to give out by the 20th April. Can you help distribuite them?

Do you attend model railway exhibitions, could you distribuite some leaflets to them?
Do you attend other railway events or gala's, could you help by distribuiting some leaflets there?
Can you help build a database of good contacts for a mailshot?

It does not matter where, but we need to distribuite as many as possible to potential visitors before the event starts. Please contact us if you can help.

The next report will be from the AGM. 
All photos by Quentin McGuinness
Contributed by Will Naylor
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 October 2006 )