News from Quainton

As you may have heard elsewhere our longtime member Alan Sturrock has reappeared and is taking the Editor's reigns back up for News from Quainton.. This quarterly Society news sheet has far more detail in it than this email letter and is posted to the whole membership (QEL only goes to around 100 addresses - so far). Alan has declared a press date of 12th January 2010 for the next issue and is seeking suitable contributions be delivered to the Admin office either in print or by email to office@bucksrailcentre.org

Finding "useful" tools for a job

Imagine that you have taken on a nice little restoration job of a smaller item from the days of steam, it might be of a size to take home and do in your shed, then bring it back and see it put on display for all to see - fresh and gleaming. There are quite a few things that fit this description and recently one member, who had spent his own time and cash on a project, found the item had been used - the paint was scraped. What should he do? Walk away, never to do another "small job"? Repaint it? Or turn a blind eye, appreciating that someone else had found it "useful"? Should I even be mentioning this? But if it doesn't get mentioned we could spend a lot of time nipping around with the touch-up paint. On behalf of all those who restore the smaller things - please ask before you find a display item "useful" and be prepared for a No. Thank you.

Forward dates

Work Week has been set for next year as Saturday March 6th to Sunday March 14th (Mother's Day). If you haven't been before then DO come - if only for a day - the social atmosphere is just tremendous, the humour infectious and the food delicious. You will be very welcome whether its for a morning or the entire week (yes, some of us do spend the whole week here!) a job can always be found be it light or heavy work.

Member Gordon Hearne has told me of an advert in the Railway Magazine recently. Apparently Wolverton Works is to have another Open Day on the 14th & 15th August 2010.. Dating from the London & Birmingham Railway days it was built in 1838 but is now a mere shadow of its former self, though its current owners, RailCare, can't be blamed for that. Wolverton was the birth place for so many items in our collection such as the Diner and Cinema Coach as well as some of our wagons. Locomotive building ceased in the 1800's under the London & North Western Rly.

Notes:
The text in this Quainton Railway Society publication was written in 2009 and so does not reflect events in the 5+ years since publication. The text is repeated verbatim from the original publication, with only a few minor grammar changes but some clarifying notes are added if deemed necessary.

Reference:
Quainton Email Letter 14.12.09