Our friends from the Trent Valley group of the 7mm NGA invited us to show Anderton at their member's day in January 2010 at Mickleover. As you can see the layout was in a very basic state at the time.
You can see here the Dexion framework in which the boards sat.
The mark 1 fiddle-yard was tried out for the first time. It used cassettes, but we found their size made them unwieldy and made plans to change to a turntable version.
Thanks to the Trent Valley group for giving us a chance to take Anderton out for the first time and for their encouragement. Their exhibition is a really friendly event, with lots of chances to talk "narrow gauge" with like-minded colleagues.
Henmore Vale makes its annual outing and there are other selected layouts and demonstrations. And the bacon sandwiches are brilliant as well!
At the close of the show they invited us to bring Anderton back the following year. It sounded great, until we realised that, since we meet just once a month, we only had "12 days" before the next exhibition.
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