Prescot & District Model Engineering Society, Sunday March 31 2002 Member's Running Day

Описание: Prescot & District Model Engineering Society’s Member’s Running Day of March 31st 2002.
Present on this day are: Norman Matthews’ “Princess Marina” (design by LBSC) LMS 2-6-0 which he built in 1962 to 1966 (it was Norman's first loco that he built) running as LMS number 13269, Dave Houghton’s Blue Hunslet loco (a Don Young design called "Hunslette"), Alan Creswell’s identical maroon Hunslet loco, Geoff Davies’ Britannia large green loco (design by LBSC). These loco’s were all in steam. All are 3 1/2 inch gauge. The anti-tip rail has recently been welded to this elevated track by Alan.
This is Prescot in North West England. There was a 330 feet oval of track there from 2001 until about 2008 when the BICC / Prismian / Pirelli Cables Social club and Leisure grounds at Scotch Barn Lane, Prescot that we were "leasing" part of (a long disused tennis court in our case) was sold to developers to build houses on, then we were told to vacate the grounds, and our track got put into a large Council container stored away and our club house was vandalised and burned down. A terrible shame and a major loss to modelers in the North West. You can still see a historical image of where the track was on Google Earth, using the time rewind facility, from 2005, on the corner of where Scotchbarn lane meets Sinclair Avenue.