The limits of homework are the limits of your imagination. If you had the skills and facilities, the management would probably let you take a loco home to rebuild! Most of us don't have those facilities but might be able to do something more modest.

The biggest homework project, at least in terms of size, must be No.1 brake van built from scratch over 30 years ago. Since then several wagons have been built or rebuilt as homework projects. One of the next major homework projects is the prefabrication of a replica shelter for the down-side platform at Minffordd. Most departments have jobs that can be done at home so just ask. Look around you whilst you are on the line and see if you can see something that you could do at home. Use your imagination; it might not be something that needs repairing but something that is just not there at all. However do please ask for advice before you start and tell a department head what you are doing or you might find yourself having spent weeks on something which cannot be used.

A lot of people will not have the skills required to do the sort of jobs mentioned above but that does not mean you are of no use. Some of the area groups run sales and publicity stands at model railway exhibitions and the like. Look in the FR Magazine for the address of your local group secretary and ask if you can help. If they are not involved in that sort of activity it is probably because no one has time to organise it - perhaps you are the person to do it! Failing that you could mount a publicity campaign in local libraries etc. The Publicity department will be pleased to supply you with the necessary material.

Finally, if you do not want to leave the comfort of your armchair there may well still be something you can do. From time to time the Society requires people to be membership secretaries or other administrative jobs. Write to the Society secretary and ask if there is anything you can do.