The Club ‘Pansy’ nearing retirement age holds up the traffic on an early spring passenger day. This locomotive, built by Club members, now lives in the Crawley Museum situated in the Park.

Two Members struggle to get the grate fitted on our older ‘Simplex’. Built by a Club member many years ago, it is on its second boiler and is used most weekends.

On a fine summer’s day, Bob adjusts the injector of this Black Five. This Don Young design is a powerful engine and a pleasure to drive.

Secretary John puts our new ‘Simplex’ through its paces. A recent addition to our MPD, this ‘Simplex’ was bought by the Club as a part assembled loco and a box of bits and finished by a member.

The Chairman’s ‘Speedy’, a regular performer, is being driven by his son with daughter-in-law as passenger. The owner recons this engine has done several thousand miles!

For several years we have had a party of children from the Chenobyl area visit us for an afternoon of rides. This picture was taken during the tea break, hence no drivers! The BR mainline in the background carries 16 trains an hour.

This ‘Rushton’ was purchased for the owner’s garden railway and is being tested on our track. Several members have taken children to this garden railway and they delight in driving these small locomotives.

Another ‘Simplex’, we have at least six in the Club, has two of the driver’s grandchildren as passengers and is seen crossing the traverser in the steaming bay area.

This fine B1 is being driven at some speed by its builder on its second outing to our track. The speed limit is 8mph but on a non-passenger day, Wednesday mornings, it's up to the driver!

Another shot of the Black Five, this time being driven by a GWR enthusiast who did admit that maybe Stanier had copied the best bits from the GWR designs.

Here the GWR driver is driving his own ‘Tich’, one of a pair built together. We are afraid we do not know what happened to the leading loco and dare not ask!

Crawley hosted the ‘Southern Rally’ in 1996; the ‘Leader’ was out on one of its earliest of runs, hence the grey primer. Eventually we got 27 passengers on every coach we could muster and it went like ‘a bat out of hell’!

The Club ‘Simplicity’ running a ‘Party Special’ on a Saturday afternoon. This engine is the only one that children are allowed to drive on their own. Its maximum speed of 5mph is considered safe enough with no other traffic on the track.

Husband and wife team, David and Jean running their Sweet Pea ‘Little Genie’ on its second time out. Jean is our only lady member and makes the most wonderful Bread Pudding.

On a wet winter morning Bob brought out his GWR combination of ex-steam railcar and 14xx for a run. This ride-on coach is for a proposed garden railway. Behind can be seen the Crampton being stoked up by its builder John. Note the empty park in the background.