Have not done a blog post for awhile as during the winter months there is little activity, however we have been working in some areas to promote the club and also testing some locomotives, Two new big electric deisel outlines are now within the club, of Bobs and one of Steves, Martin has rebuit an 0-4-0 electric shunter and we have converted the old petrol loco to electric drive, apart from this Gorden has finnished rebuilding his Hunslett and she passed her steam test today.

Despite…

if the club needs a hand in compleating any jobs that are outstanding . or maybe just makeing the tea. [lol]. i will more than glad to help out

Looks like running has come to an end for this year, but what a year we had! over 2500 paying passengers. great progress on our major project building the new carraige store, and lots of work in other areas. also we extended the station platform and installed extra water points.

Next year I hope to complete the carraige store tunnel, run power for loco blowers into the steam bay, put individual water points into the steam bay. paint the track. and hopefully join the club house and…

Well sorry fans but Ive missed a few weeks, the first Sunday of Oct was the first day I wasnt at the track this year [other comitments] However with the weather being so good the lads had a good day. The last two Sundays have seen a fall off in passenger numbers but it has still been worth running. I think the weather is now going to turn against us.

The last few weeks has seen us carry out a lot of track work with the replacement of cracked A frames and leveling, John did a lot of…

This time of the year normally sees us running with very few passengers, however this weekend was good with numbers up on both days.

Saturday was good, I ran my Simplex after repairs in the week and we had Rons Ruston, Kens big class 20 and the club loco all in action. Sunday saw Ken, Trevor,Bob,Nigel,me  and Ron all have a go.

We are almost up to 2500 passengers for the year, with the weather holding we might do it this weekend!

This weekend saw us running both days and we realy should have not bothered with Saturday as we had no passengers.

Sunday was far better with 63 fares taken, I was running first with Juno but after a couple of hours had to take it off with a problem, Ron quickly put his Ruston on and then we had Nigel with his Polly V and Ken with his big class 20.

This Saturday saw Gravesend club visit us here on Sheppey, dispite the poor weather forcast it was a nice day and we all had a great time, thanks to all club members who helped and made cotributions to the grub.

5 locomotives where running and we did carry some passengers, I have posted some photos so p lease take a look/ hope the one of Ron is not too scary!

On Sunday Bob Cook ran his Polly V and I steamed and ran his Sweet Pea which was kind of him. we had Steves class 31…

Sorry folks I missed last weekends blog but I wanted you all to see the post about Gravesends visit. Anyway this weekend saw us taking our 2000th passenger this year, Saturday ecceded Sunday for the first time but this was due to the weather. Also this weekend saw a new members join a young lad with a lot of sence and Interest lets do our best to encourage him.

Running this week, Nigel and myself with steam on Saturerday with Ken and Ron doing there thing on the electrics. Also a new…

Due to a mix up with e-mails there was a very hastely arranged visit to our club by members from Ramsgate club on Saterday, I did try to contact as many members as possible and if I missed you SORRY. Ramsgate bought along 5 locomotives a Britania a big Tank engine and there club loco a modifide Ajax for steam plus two electric, we let them run all day with Nigel also running his Polly. Running was followed by a BBQ and we all had a good chat.

Sunday saw Nigel and Bobs Polly Vs both…