Greetings!
Our next meeting is on Saturday March 23rd and we look forward to as many of you as possible coming along. Les Herriot will be giving a talk on his famous “Anti-wobble washers and coupler height adjustment”. We have suggested Les gives his talk around 1.30pm so you can all have your lunch beforehand.
In addition to the talk from Les we will be displaying items for sale from the late Norman Davies collection. As many of you who knew Norman he was great builder of structures and some of those will be on the tables so you can make a bid and eventually purchase one of the items. Included in models brought from Norman’s home were books, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (not as many as we expected however!) plus many items for building or detailing models – i.e. styrene, decals etc. Western Pacific RR dominates the collection. Your committee took a decision last Wednesday to acquire the small tools, airbrush, mini-drill, scenic materials and a chopper table for use by club members. A suitable payment will be put into the funds to be handed in due course to Pat his widow. We will endeavour to raise as much cash for her as we possibly can. Please note that anything not sold at our March meeting will be placed on sale at the Weston-on-Trent, Derbyshire, meet on 26th-28th April.
Our meeting on Sunday April 21st is our AGM and we ask members to come along as early as they can to help move the HO layout back into position as this will have been moved to make room for the Railwayana Auction the day before. It should also be noted that the steam locomotive “Tornado” will be on the site that day and hopefully Brake Van rides behind the loco will be offered to everyone wishing to participate.
A cautionary note concerning nominations for the position of Chairman, I understand so far there has only been one nomination received by Les Herriot, that being for Mike Lenz. However, Mike has since advised that he is unable to remain as a candidate as it might be seen, if he is elected, as a conflict of interest with his position as Heritage Centre Manager. Therefore, it is in all your best interests to seek additional nominations from other members for this position. Terry, as you know is standing down and he has indicated that he will not be cajoled into staying on for a bit longer. Therefore, please don’t forget the person you nominate must agree to their name being put forward.
We were pleased to see 23 members sign in for our last meeting in February and additionally delighted that we could say a big thank you to the 5 ladies who came along for champagne and chocolates. It was especially nice to see and talk to Brenda Porter again and more so that she is hoping to come to Crewe again later in the year.
We are still looking for members to run trains on the layouts at weekends during the open season of the Heritage Centre. We cannot let Andrew, Bob, Brian, plus Len & David do it for another year without some input from other members. So come on, all it needs is for you to come along for one day either a Saturday or a Sunday ( just one day in the year – that is all we ask) but we need to know at least a couple of weeks in advance so we don’t have too many one week and none on another. Please note you do not need to own or bring along DCC locos or rolling stock as we do have club items that can be used.
Our Themed Event in October needs to be moved forward and would those who said they would help in preparation (Steve Scot is unfortunately not going to be at the meeting on Saturday) please note that we will have a short get together to discuss layouts and who should approach layout owners. If we each deal with one owner then the workload is spaced and no one has an overload.
I would like to receive feedback from members on the British Region Newsletter which was
E-mailed to you this past week, in particular your views as to what kind of information we could or should submit about Calder Northern matters and happenings.
Lastly, Les Herriot informs me that this year is the 30th Anniversary of Calder Northern being formed as a Division. Ideas as to how we can celebrate this will be most welcome. Thank you.
Terry Wynne
Chairman
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