Nothing much in the offing… though we have a longer term invite to go to the Nantes show since before lockdown. This is hopefully going to be June 2023
Other than that, we do still regularly keep in contact with our French friends and visit from time to time..
We haven’t posted much here for a while.. so here goes…
The club is back to being a busy place with efforts being made on 2 layouts currently…
Trawden EM is nearing the point that it will be runnable and the scenery is coming along nicely too. It is unlikely to be ready for our 2022 show…but almost certainly for 2023
Hellified OO gauge. Ecclesford has been fully stripped and will have a number of new boards made to increase its 20ft to 24 or even 28 foot long…though with much less height to all the boards. This should enable us to make a fair attempt at a modern image Hellifield Junction… and to finally have a DCC layout in the club. All interested parties welcome to come and give a hand on this exciting project… as all skills are needed.
Hurrah… a few of us are now back working and checking on the layouts to get them fit again for exhibitions after sitting idle for over a year. We are planning our November show and hoping that can go ahead and be a success.
This last Julys exhibition was held on the hottest weekend of the year with temperatures in the mid 30’s, so attendance was lower than we had anticipated, but still encouraging enough to show that holding an exhibition in summer had enough interest to be worthwhile putting on.
We had hoped that numbers would be boosted by the publicity from the Towneley car show just 2 weeks before, but instead found that it was interest from the hardened model railway show supporters that brought in the most visitors.
We are in discussions about Pendle Forest Model railways 2019 Summer Burnley Exhibition sometime in May or June at present and once we have finalised dates and venue we will announce that here on our site
An unusual item of possible historical significance is ‘Rock n Rail’ a model of an early rail way based on artifacts discovered in a dig on a local allotment. Whilst the dating of the items found has yet to be determined it would seems possible that rail ways might well have been around a few millennia before the currently accepted historical dates of the early 1800’s!
