5199 Would you believe it was raining in Llangollen again? After a bit of botching Max and I turned the steam cleaner/ pressure washer first into a flame thrower, then a smoke maker, and finally managed to make a steam cleaner. I am happy to report it stayed as a steam cleaner the rest of the [...]

More passes are available for people who want to help on the 6880 stand please contact us ASAP if you can help out.

Laurence Waters, author of ‘Power of the Granges’ (ISBN: 9780860936107) will be at our stand signing copies of the book on Saturday Dec 1st at Warley Model Railway Exhibition (NEC). We will have 20 signed copies on sale at £19.95. If you can’t make Warley the book is available through our Amazon link, and you [...]

5199 We had a wet weekend due the rain and a good soaking from the pressure washer. The hardcore few of Richard Pumphrey and myself, with Mick Prior joining us on the Sunday, got the jobs done, with a little help from the pannier tank lads, Mike Watts, Gareth Roberts (of the gala website) and [...]

5199 Every now and then (or our case all the time) we get together, enjoy a bit of banter, and get covered in muck. The 23rd-24th October was just such a weekend. A big thanks to all who turned up and dived underneath 5199, the all being Quentin, Mick, Spud, John, Max, Hank, Ian and myself. [...]