Following the success of the summer's Official Opening of our new track, and a number of evening meetings there, we have moved into our Autumn program.

This kicked of with the AGM, and time for our long serving Secretary Roger to stand down, and we are grateful for the fantastic behind-the-scenes job he has done; hopefully Roger will now be able to grab a few extra hours to work on his building his loco.

Taking over the Secretary's role is Ces Courtenay, who you may recall did that marvellous job of welding up our curved turntable, and are grateful to him for taking on this important position.  The other Committee members were happy to stand again and have been voted back in.  There were three awards given out at the A.G.M. to Ron, Dave and Rob for their various activities associated with the track development.

For those that don't know, regular Committee meetings are held at the home of our President Bob Scammell, where future events and the necessary business of running a Club is thrashed out.

Autumn has not dampened the enthusiasm of all members from steaming, though we've rather had to pick our days just lately to avoid the rain, but I'm pleased to report the stream has flowed well and we have not seen any flooding of the site.  November has seen a couple of runs, including our first 7 1/4" loco on the track, whilst two further steam-ups are planned for December assuming the weather is ok.

Whilst there was quite a lot of activity leading up to the track opening, Ron moved house over the summer, so our regular team took a long break.  But their work has now resumed, and has included putting in the foundation for our footbridge to the parking area, and a nice job of installing some kitchen units in the Club house, though these are still awaiting plumbing.  And with a view to clearing the Club house, they have also overseen the installation of a small 'container', now home to our ride-on mower and other gardening equipment.

Hopefully the Clubhouse wll be a little more publicly useable next year, as we intend to invite other Societies to visit and have a run at our track.

As always at this point, I mention that most of our members have projects of one sort or another under construction - not just locomotives; though indeed there should be several new locomotives appearing next year.  Often two or three part-built models turn up at meetings - always a source of conversation, problem solving and new ideas, and you are welcome to come and see what we have to natter about.

As you may guess there are further projects planned at our Club site, but this is also the right time to be getting on with finishing that part built locomotive or traction engine and be ready for the new season, which promises to be even better !