Its all over facebook, pictures to boot. Unfortunately this was not the work of opportunists and they are probably on a slow boat to china already. Its a sad state of affairs.

As regards lists of foreign clubs, maybe this is an area that could be covered by SouthernFed, NAME, 7 1/4 Assoc,

2 1/2 Assoc etc. And share their joint knowledge.

John

The really unfortunate thing here is our gallant boys in blue are unlikely to attach any particular priority to their investigations if the theft of our track was anything to go by two years ago. All at CDMES send our thoughts and hope the perpetrators are brought to account. Incidents such as this have a big impact on those affected.

It's all very well commenting on precautions but that's not particularly helpful right now.

Paul.

Both my clubs circulated this to club members a couple of days ago. Good that modern communications are able to get the information around pretty fast.

Reminder to check new purchases' boiler certificate for authenticity and if none because incomplete still find out about the builder and check their club affiliations to establish some proof of the seller's veracity.

Police are undermanned and being swamped with rising levels of crimes. No alternative but prioritise investigation of serious crime and issue an incident no. for low level stuff where victim needs to make insurance claim. The blame lies with MPs and their depts who have created funding cuts in every sphere including law and order.

It's a case of everyone look out for themselves. Review security and increase it.

Safeguard it or lose it.

John

Last thing you want is a published article on where to put a tracker, it will tell the theves where to look. Power for a tracker is a problem. Those in cars have internl batteriws kept charged from the main battery. Most steam models do not have a battery and generator. A hiding place where th antennas still operate is difficult on a metallic model. One thing every one should do is to to make a mark or number in a non-obvious place known only to you so the model can be identified if recovered. Don't forget to take photos of the marking.

I'm a member of GMMES, I was shocked to be told of this theft by a neighbour of mine today. Our clubhouse does have steel shutters on the outside, but the locomotives and tools were kept in separate shipping containers on the same site. Leaving aside the financial value, I can't imagine how the members must feel who've had items stolen that they've put countless hours of work into constructing.