CALDER NORTHERN GROUP
TRAIN ORDERS January 2018
Greetings,
Here’s hoping you have had a great Christmas and so now it is time to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Let’s hope that 2018 is a good year for everyone.
I recently mailed out a full list of the meeting dates for 2018 and hopefully you will notice that our first meeting is scheduled for Sunday 14th January. We would have normally started the New Year with a meeting on a Saturday but as the 13th coincides with the NMRA Winter Event at Benson it was agreed we should move to the Sunday. It should also be noted that the February Valentine meeting on Sunday 18th February will now also be the date of the delayed Christmas Raffle. It was felt that the January meet date may not result in a full member attendance and therefore, the February meeting was most appropriate for you to spend well on tickets for the great prizes we have been given. Meeting dates are also shown on the second page of this TO.
Brian Burke is now your contact for the operating rota at weekends and Bank Holidays during the Heritage Centre’s open days when the public are in attendance. Brian will publish the names and dates in the very near future and if you have any dates, when you wish to avoid being rostered, can you please contact Brian as soon as possible to advise him of the dates. Brian’s e-mail address is also shown in the Region Directory. Hopefully you will have kept a copy of the Group contact list showing e-mail and telephone numbers of those Calder Northern members who are on the rota, which was sent out last year however, if not then ask Brian for a copy, so that if you need to make a late change to your rostered date then you can arrange this with one of the other members on the list. It is up to you to make those arrangements and not to pressure Brian with a last minute request to find a replacement. Hopefully Andy Wicks and Bob Bevan will kindly offer to cover the weekends when our monthly meeting take place.
Chairman Tony Gath, committee member Alan Wyatt and I will be meeting the Trust in the early part of January to discuss the new rent agreement. We will keep members advised of the outcome which hopefully will enable us to sign a new agreement for the next three years.
It is pleasing to note that a new electrical cable and supply has been installed into the NJSB which will allow us to have multiple heaters on as well as using the wall sockets for other items at the same time. More details on this at our January meeting.
Thank you to those members who covered the operating weekends during December when the Centre was open to the public. Whilst numbers attending were low we did our bit which was helpful in showing the Trust our commitment to our agreement.
Wednesday Gang – next get together –
For those of you who come along on Wednesdays to help with any jobs that need doing on the layouts can you please note that our first get together will be on January 10th. Mike Lenz will not be at the Centre during the coming week other than Wednesday the 3rd hence our decision to meet the following week.
Saturday 13th January –
A Heritage Centre event is being held on this date. It is a day devoted to British Trains but I am not fully aware of what exactly is involved. However, if any members wish to operate our layout on that day it would be much appreciated. Please bear in mind our own January meet date is the following day.
North Western Mills HO layout –
Work on the new connection from the platforms and wayfreight yard to the passing loop and industrial line has been laid but the power droppers need to be connected before ballast is laid.
Those operating the layout at weekends will now only need to locate themselves at the top end of the room and work one panel switch on each of the two track diagram panels to change the two turnouts to keep two trains running- More on this matter at our next meeting.
At the January meet we will need to affix the new curtaining around the layout so we would appreciate as many of you as possible to assist as the material is rather stretchy and thus we need many hands to hold up the material whilst pins are inserted.
N scale layout and Devil’s Creek
Nothing extra to report on these layouts at the moment but work will commence again in the New Year on both layouts. Offers of help will be much appreciated – See Steve or Alan.
Happy New Year
Terry Wynne
Secretary
Calder Northern Group
2018 Meet Dates
Sunday 14th January
Sunday 18th February (Valentine’s Meet)
Bring you lady along!
Saturday 17th March (AGM)
Sunday 15th April
Saturday 19th May
Sunday 10th June
Saturday 14th July
Sunday 12th August
Saturday 15th September
Sunday 7th October
Saturday 17th November
Sunday 16th December (Christmas Meet)
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