May 2012

Chill rain again featured on 6th May. Robin prepared hot drinks as Alastair demonstrated his latest invention. Control panels, trestles, platform edges and connections were being worked on. Various Jintys appeared on freights, plus a weathered Crab. Ron was running a GER 2-4-2t; a type he remembers footplating. Colin C’s shop fronts were dusted off, paint sploshed around and with houses and the refurbished signal cabin, a townscape began. An 08 diesel shunter joined a P tank on Cavedale. Meanwhile we used a newly donated drill to repair a window: only the roof, floor and lighting to do…

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