The first public display (Mickleover Oct 3rd/4th)
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Attached are a few photos from the first exhibition we attended. The first four were taken by Glenn about three days before the exhibition in his front room/dining room. The remainder were taken rather badly by me on the Saturday morning of the exhibition.
The hole in the depot building roof is deliberate. Without it the public cannot see inside and we can have difficulties uncoupling. The cut-away edges are to be painted red to simulate the cut-aways done by draughtsmen on their drawings
I should add that the exhibition was a complete success. The locos worked perfectly on the track all weekend (apart from three which failed early on but this was due to shorting of the circuit boards under the chips). Great fun was had by me, Glenn and Alex trying to keep to the schedule I had made of all the depot movements. By the Sunday I had decided that writing down all the amendments that were needed was a good idea, in truth there were only about two actual conflicts and the rest was just general tidying up of of the schedule.
Being mainly a shunting layout we had been worried that either we or the public would be bored stiff within a couple of hours. I can't speak for the public but operation of the layout was summed up by Alex when he said that by having to follow the schedule he didn't have time to get bored, he was too busy wondering what he had to do next. Not bad for a group of amateurs!
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