Monthly Club News
April 2021:
We started the month by giving up
the extra space we had temporarily rented to allow us to
finish the new fiddle yard and to start our Norgrove
layout. Our Norgrove layout is now in our main club room
and we have continued on construction of this layout.
March 2021:
Despite the Covid restrictions we
have made some good progress on our Norgrove layout. By
the the first weekend of March we now have all the cork
underlay down for the track. We thought it was going to
be difficult to source the PECO track for the layout as
production in their factory has been hit by Covid
restrictions. However Derek from Footplate model shop in
Kidderminster has come to the rescue. We have now
started track laying on our Norgrove layout. Our
Chilcompton layout was used as part of a feature on the
Somerset and Dorset Railway in the April 2021 edition of
Hornby Magazine which was published in the first week of
March. By the end of March we had laid all of the track
on the Norgrove layout.
February 2021:
The Covid lockdown has prevented us
from having our normal twice weekly evening meetings. To
keep the current projects moving a number of club
members have taken projects on as home projects.
January 2021:
We start 2021 with work continuing
on our Norgrove layout and the new fiddle yard.
Unfortunately we did not have the opportunity to exhibit
our Chilcompton layout at the Weston Super Mare show as
it was cancelled due to the Covid crisis.
