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Burton 2013


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First of all an apology - no pictures this time!

 

Yesterday we took St Ruth to the Burton show held in the brewery museum. I spent most of the day on the fiddle yard where it is at least possible to make eye contact with the audience so was able to talk to a few people. We had some favourable comments from the audience although behind the scenes things were not entirely going according to plan.

 

Burton is a one day show so it was an early start, setup, do the show and pack up all in the same day. This meant we hadn't had time to check things over before the show opened and on starting to run the schedule we immediately found that four electrical sections in the station had decided to go completely AWOL for some unknown reason.

 

The first half hour or so of the show was done with the lid off the control panel so that John could replace one of the PCBs. This meant that the operators were crouching on the floor whenever they needed to press a button on the panel. Even after that was dealt with there were other problems - the yard headshunt section remained AWOL for the whole show which made shunting the yard even more difficult than normal and the fiddle yard electrics were not their normal selves either.

 

I'm still puzzled about how we can put the layout away in a working state after a 2 day show and then just 3 weeks later it has developed multiple electrical gremlins on boards that are separated by at least 8 feet.

 

Anyway, I think we still enjoyed ourselves even though the day was a bit hectic. The bacon butties were very welcome in the morning but for some reason we didn't get any free beer vouchers, so maybe a point of improvement for the organisers there.

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I enjoyed seeing St Ruth at Burton on Sunday morning. It is one of the best N gauge layouts I have seen, and is always beautifully lit. I noticed that the model was not running as well as usual and you have my sympathy. It did not spoil my enjoyment of the layout though.

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Sorry to hear about the Gremlins Andy - this hobby certainly likes to keep us on our toes :)

 

Always happy to see pictures of St Ruth so perhaps there might be some on the Burton thread?...

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I enjoyed seeing St Ruth at Burton on Sunday morning. It is one of the best N gauge layouts I have seen, and is always beautifully lit. I noticed that the model was not running as well as usual and you have my sympathy. It did not spoil my enjoyment of the layout though.

Thanks Andy. Our track is to 2FS standards though so 'N gauge' is not quite correct. Much of the stock is modified proprietary 'N' scale stuff though. There are some 2mm scale items of stock, but it takes a bit longer to make a 6 coach train from etched kits than it does by rewheeling Farish items.

 

Sorry to hear about the Gremlins Andy - this hobby certainly likes to keep us on our toes :)

 

Always happy to see pictures of St Ruth so perhaps there might be some on the Burton thread?...

Yes, plenty of items on the problem list for us to fix before St Albans. I haven't seen any piccies on the forum thread yet but several people were pointing cameras in our direction, so let's hope.

 

Regards, Andy

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Thanks Andy. Our track is to 2FS standards though so 'N gauge' is not quite correct. Much of the stock is modified proprietary 'N' scale stuff though. There are some 2mm scale items of stock, but it takes a bit longer to make a 6 coach train from etched kits than it does by rewheeling Farish items.

 

 

Apologies! Still a great layout!

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