Yesterday I had an urgent phone call. A general election scheduled to be held in Denmark on 24 March with all 179 seats in the Danish Parliament the Folketing up for election. The call was a reminder that election posters had to be fitted to all available telegraph posts in the Nystrup Gravel yard. It was standard practice that the main Danish parties could display election posters around the company grounds.
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| Just as I was shunting with the Fowler, the phone rang and minutes later I was hurrying to put up election posters on the layout. |
Nystrup Gravel is a town in the eastern part Denmark and the gravel works are well documented, but as the layout's time frame is somewhat ambiguously placed in the beginning of the 1950's the posters aren't specific to any of the general elections that took place in the loosely set timeframe. in Denmark we had general elections in 1947, 1950, two elections in 1953 and again in 1957. On my model of Nystrup Gravel the posters were in use last time we had a general election - back in 2022.
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| 'Don't make dad loose his job' the poster from the Social Democratic Party says. The socialdemocrats were in power through much of the 1950's laying the foundations for the Danish welfare state. |
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| The Conservative Party's poster seems slighty croocked in this image. As always it's the photographers fault! |
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| Even loco No. 8 has been fitted with a poster! Probably just a practical joke, while volunteers were hanging posters around the yard. |
While we wait for the results of the election there is work being done on detailing parts for the frame on the Baguley-Drewry locomotive. It's very varied work encompassing both plastic construction and soldering of metal.
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