The Glos-Cots-Mal Group of the 009 Society held an open evening at Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds which was a very successful and highly enjoyable  event. 5 layouts were present together with an interesting selection of stock.
( It was a great evening, thanks. JJ). The hall was superb and located in the centre of a very attractive Cotswold village.
All photographs and captions by David Churchill.

(63Kb) The evening in full swing, hopefully giving an impression of the totally informal atmosphere.

(94Kb) Bob Ayer's Merdian built Baldwin gas-mechanical takes a train of skips through 'Collyweston'.

(82Kb) 1920's Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Motor Rail railbus.  Built from plastic sheet and Evergreen strip running on a Life-Like 0-6-0 chassis.

(55Kb) Derek Purves' layout in a tool case. Still under construction , the station plan is generally based on Llanfair.

(56Kb) A Julien Webb creation. The chassis is an Arnold Kof II, and the body from a German N scale toy.

(98Kb) A line up of railcars at 'Colleyweston'. From left to right: Ben's parcels  railcar on a Farish 33 chassis, Julien's  rail lorry on kato shortie chassis, Bob's Halling Austrian railcar, the Darjeeling railcar and 2 Joe Works cars.

(76Kb) Chris Ford's Austrian class 5090 railcar based on one that runs on the Pinzgaubahn (Zell-am-See - Krimml.  The model is made by Narobahn and sold in the Uk by Winco.

(83Kb) The skip train again, this time hauled by Adrian Ponting's 'Dastardly and Muttley' car, which it managed with no problem!

(58Kb) Part of Garry Whiting's impressive collection of Paul Windle specials.  This one is an Arakan Light Railway (Burma) Garratt running on two Bachmann 0-6-0 chassis.

(54Kb) An other from Garry's collection. This time a freelance Hunslet style Mallet running on a Minitrix 0-4-4-0 Mallet chassis.

(63Kb) Julien's Lynton & Barnstaple (ex WD) crane set. Assembled from a Backwoods miniatures kit.

(73Kb) Ben Powell's 0-6-0T on a Fleischmann chassis has taken over the skip train. An excellent runner.