What a Day!
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What can I say, Wycrail on Saturday went really well. The journey down on Friday was fine, a bit sticky round Birmingham/Solihull on the M42, clearly the bods in charge of the variable speed limit were bored and were playing silly beggars (40, national speed limit, 50, 60, 50 ......) but despite this I got down to High Wycombe from Robin Hood country in 2 1/2 hours and safely tucked up in the digs by 5pm. Shame it was raining.
Pootled down to the venue for about 6pm and got Summat set up (still in the rain). First priority was a test of Dynamis .... a signal - hooray! 😁 Set-up finished by 7pm then helped out/got in the way generally until about 9pm when Graham Muz kindly followed me back to the digs and took me to a pub for a spot of food and beer 🙂 Got back to the digs on the stroke of 11pm just before the bolts went on 😴
Saturday morning dawned sunny and following the obligatory Full English I got to the venue before 9am and finished fiddling with Summat (ok I played with the signal for a bit and put the locos on the track)
The doors opened at 10 and all too soon it was 12:30 and time for lunch. I left Summat in the hands of a Steward and headed for the Sixth Form Common Room (that takes me back!) for repast. A bit of shopping later (Parkside 5 planker and some NEM mounts) and I returned for the afternoon shift.
Summat Colliery performed brilliantly, hardly a stall all day, Harry and #49 (Sally?) crawled along without hestitation shunting trucks and the big engines came and went. The Standard Eight got a lot of requests so did more duties than others. I only ran one loco off the catch point (SPAD form filled in and RAIB informed 😆 ) due to trying to run 3 locos at once. Bring and buy corner did well too, all my excess tut that I took with me sold off cheaply, only a couple of boxes of Prieser figures unsold. I have some more bits and bobs that will appear in classifieds soon.
I was delighted to be told that I'd come second in show behind Cement Quay (well, it's not like I was going to beat that one was I?) and went home all the way with a big grin on my face.
A big thanks to all at the High Wycome MRS for inviting me, putting me up and looking after me so well. Also to all the punters (especially RMwebbers) at the show who showed great interest in my efforts and made it all worthwhile. Summat is going to be packed away now for a bit while I get on with some other modelling, so watch out for new stuff added to my other blog .......
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