Prescot & District Model Engineering Society Members' Running Day Sunday September 29th 2002

Prescot & District Model Engineering Society Members' Running Day, Sunday 22nd September 2002. Present on this day is Peter Adderley and his 'Maisie’ loco, a design by LBSC, and it is in steam.
Things to note about ‘Maisie’ ;-
(1) This is a model of the Large Boilered Atlantic 4-4-2 locomotive, basically a 3 1/2 inch gauge version of LBSC's Ayesha 2) The mechanical blower seems to be stopping the locomotive's steam blower from working properly? 3) The regulator is a rather difficult to control "on or off" affair with no variable control really possible, reason unknown 4) the coupling chain kept hanging down and banging against the rail spacers / ties, and was offset diagonally and vertically from where it should have been, as far as I can tell 5) there is no cab 6) this loco' doesn't appear to have been built by Peter, he is just the owner, and I believe he mentions that he doesn't know how old the model is (correct me if I'm wrong here Peter), other than that it is a rather splendid model with nice paint finish and lining and lettering, and a very good steamer, the blower being particularly effective.
This is Prescot in NW England where we had a 330 feet oval of track there from 2001 until about 2008 at BICC / Prismian / Pirelli Cables Social club at Scotch Barn Lane, that we were "leasing" part of (disused tennis court in our case). You can still see a historical image of where the track was on Google Earth, using the time rewind facility, from 2005, on the corner of where Scotchbarn lane meets Sinclair Avenue.