The Buffers
Founded by Les Torrens (1923 - 2000)
Established in 1982, the Buffers is a group of transport enthusiasts living in Southern Ontario, which meets for their enjoyment of British railway and other transport modelling.
June, 2000
NEWSLETTER
edited and condensed from the print version
Buffers West.
What an enjoyable enjoyable day the Buffers ahd in Sarnia / pt Edward for our May 20th meeting.
The first visit of the day was to the home of Tom Walter in Petrolia. Tom has a detailed oo gauge layout of the Tetbury Branch, complete with sound effects. Thanks to Tom and his wife for their hospitality.
An enlarged group gatherd next at the home of Allan Mearns to view his layout Glenheron. Alans layout has developed from our last visit and plans are affot for an extension.
After refreshments and a video at Allans, the group moved on to the layout of Godfrey Stevens. This layout is predominantly british but has a unique service to Zurich, with the addition of some very attractive contemporary stock from the Swiss Railway.
Our final visit was to the John Riley's G-Scale garden layout in Pt Edward. By this time the afternoon had become bright and sunny and we were all able to enjoy time outside in John's backyard. Thank you to John and Iris for the hospitality.
To round of the day, a farily large group enjoyed supper at "The Bridge Tavern."
Thank you to all members who were responsible for this enjoyable day.
Great British Train Show
This show attracted many of our members and a large number of enthusiasts from all over.
The Buffers layout was in full working order and a number of scale length trains with a variety of stock were run from the time of opening on Saturday at 1100. Thank you to the mebers who spent so much time in the development of our layout.
Meetings
The last meeting of the season wil be at the usual Elliot St location on June 17th from 1300 - 1630. Roy Hopkins will be presenting video material for us and David Thoms should have his slide presentaion that was postponed from an earlier date.
Library Books Available:
- Railways in the Peak District
- Railway Byways of Yorkshire
- Main Line over Shap
- British railway modeling 1
- British railway modeling 2
- Loco Profile 34 Caledonian 4-4-0s
- Loco Profile 32 The Brighton Gladstones
- Forgotten Railways
- The Best of British Buses #3- Leyland
Tigers
NEWSLETTER RELATED LINKS
Buffers' members Joe Belecky right, and Grant miles at work in the fiddel yard of the layout at the recent GBTS . This arrangement . whereby a quarter of the layout was in fiddle yard form and fully visible proved extremely practical as well as easily accessible and also served as a display area.
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-Andrew.
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