President	Ted Williams	02 4384 3089
Vice President	Bruce Langdon	02 4396 3767
Secretary	Peter Holt	02 4397 2700
Treasurer	Norm Browne	02 4396 3564
Members’ Board Member	John Crowhurst	02 4343 1980
Boiler Inspector	Lindsay Brack	02 4353 4673

RUNNING DAY 1^st Saturday of each month
CLUB MEETING Last Thursday of each month 7.30 pm at the club, Lot 10 Showground Road, Narara

POSTAL ADDRESS P.O. Box 692, Gosford, 2250

EDITOR Rob Lougher

As you walk around the club you will notice some things that have obviously changed and some that may not be so obvious.

Fire Extinguishers. How many people would have given any thought to these pieces of equipment. The answer not many including the Editor but thanks to the efforts of Ron Cowell and John Crowhurst the club has now got fire extinguishers in the areas where we need them such as the workshop and hall as well as other areas of the club and van.

The September running day was a fairly good day crowd wise with the numbers being fairly constant all day. The whistle out list looked fairly good for the September running day with the following locos being available for traffic:

C9	Peter Holt
5902	Ken Howells
985	Mick Farrell
SIMPLEX	Norm Browne
MARIE ESTELLE	Lindsay Brack
XPT	Allan Fogarty
Diesel	Stan Smith
Mack Ute	Leon Brack
Diggers Truck	MichaelCrowhurst
DEBORAH	Henry Lawrence
A10	Tom Walker
10	Leal Brack
2705	Ted Williams
14	Les Coghill
42105	John Gordon
Ivan’s Thing	Ivan Burns
4101	Club Loco

As well as our own club members locos we had three visiting locos in the form of Dave Kirkland’s Bumble Bee and Kimba as well as a Tram from the S.L.S.L.S.

It was good to see Norm Browne’s Simplex out for a run as well as Peter Holt’s C9 on a trial trip after some minor attention in the workshops for both the driver and the loco plumbing is apparently Pete’s speciality. Leal Brack was also noted trialing his new loco number 10 which seems to be running better each trip.

On Tuesday the 9^th of September one of our long standing projects got a fairly good kick along when Allan Fogarty and Ken Howells started forming up for the driveway in preparation for the pouring of the first of many loads of concrete the first of which arrived on Thursday the 11^th of September.

The first pour of 3.6 cubic metres was laid by the following members, Allan Fogarty, Ken Howells, Norm Browne, Ivan Burns, Bruce Langdon, Kelly Maybury, John and Evelyn Crowhurst.

Just when the day was coming to an end and backs were starting to give out our friends from Pioneer Concrete came good with another 1.4 metres at about 3-00 giving us a total of 5 metres for the day.

A great deal of thanks should go to these members for there efforts.

Other work that has been undertaken by members of late has been the laying of some additional concrete slabs in the party area for more tables, thanks to Allan Fogarty for his assistance on this project.

Tom Walker has been giving some attention to an out of gauge set of points on the 71/4 party loop.

Arthur Minter and Kelly Maybury have been painting and cleaning the top steaming bay.

We have been given some shrubs by Gosford City Council to beautify the grounds and these have duly been planted by the members of the Thursday Gang and dutifully watered by Keith and Margaret Lewis on there morning constitutional.

John and Evelyn Crowhurst and Keith Lewis have been working on extending the footpath down to the bottom steaming bay with two retaining walls being constructed to enable the ramp to be back filled between the drain and the 71/4 carriage tunnel.

Our treasurer, Norm Browne wishes to thank the members for there indulgence in allowing him and his grandsons to play trains for the first time since joining the club at the last running day. We really don’t mind Norm but do you have to be as tight with the steam as you are with the money ?

One set of 5" gauge diesel wheel sets and bogie side frames (Co- Co), would suit almost any type of battery or petrol powered loco.

Four bogie side frames, 6 sets of wheels. Three sets have sprockets fitted.

All material needs slight clean up as it has sat unused for a couple of years.

Price: $ 100. 00 neg.  

Contact Stuart Ellis: 0419 994880, OR via email editor@motivepwer.net.au for more details. Located at Lisarow on the Central Coast of NSW.

A thought for the month from our treasurer:

I’m not quite sure what he’s suggesting with this little piece but help save a pig today don’t eat bacon.

Donations for the save a pig foundation will be gladly accepted by our Treasurer Norm Browne who isn’t counting his chickens before they’ve hatched.

Well you’re up to date with most of the news and we’ve managed to stay inside the Australia post loading gauge once more until next time keep up the training.