Meeting - Sunday 6th November 2011

	At this meeting we celebrated the birthdays of two of our members, Ken and Allen. Allen's mum provided a very appropriate and tasty cake - many thanks.
This session we ballasted almost all of the track. We used the traditional method, spreading the dry ballast, then dampening it and finally dripping on dilute PVA. Here you can see the birthday boys, with Ken closely supervising Allen.
	Using a combination of two types of commercial ballast and some finely sieved soil from Andy's garden we managed all of the running lines, except the loco area and some of the timber yard. In this photo you can see thr transition between the main lines and the timber yard.
Allen brought along his latest toy - a 1:1000 scale "train set" using a linear induction system. As you can see the control unit dwarfs the track and loco. Compare with the size of the timber branch gate in the background.