Oh well, back from Sussex with lots of memories and pictures plus some goodies for the railway.
We visited the Amberley Museum which is situated in an old chalk pit with the lime kilns surrounded by recreations of working industries, many of which are still producing goods. There is a bus garage with a small collection of Southdown vehicles, a wood turners village where articles are turned using foot lathes as well as more modern electric ones. My favorite however was the telecommunications display with a working Strowger telephone exchange of the sort I worked on with British Telecom.
I purchased an open wagon with the Pepper company branding which has now been added to the lines freight fleet.
Trips on the Bluebell railway and a couple of miniature lines also gave me more photos, some of which will appear on this blog in due course, as well as satisfying my need for steam.
The main thing however that has helped me to continue with projects for the railway was 2 visits to the Gaugemaster shop where a new single panel mount controller plus a twin tap transformer have bought the project to build a new control panel along a few paces. I also bought some platform edging to start the replacement of the current station, plus I got a Knightwing diesel refueling point to allow a small standalone layout to be built called 'Slugwash Lane' after a road sign we saw whilst driving around.
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