Trade Officer
The depreciation was actually over 5 years. The track deprecation finished in August 2023 and the points in August 2024. In terms of the return on the investment I don’t have the actual money value but the business case took an educated guess at the number sold during that period to cover the depreciation. This has turned as follows:
Lengths of track. Business case 3400 Actual Sold 3778 Surplus ~£380
Points Business case 2000 Actual Sold 1677 Deficit ~£2320
What is not known is the impact on membership. In any event having an “accounting loss” on the return is not what is important from my perspective as sales for the RTL track is holding good. As Richard said we are still hopeful of expanding our range of RTL track.
In terms of Accurascale we did approach them about a 12 – 18 months ago. They were prepared to get them made for us but but with a minimum order of, I think, 5000. However, there are potentially other avenues we have discussed to help ease the process for new comers and would welcome thoughts, and possibly help, from the membership
We are pursuing other avenues to invest including the potential for investing in relevant items that may well disappear as a result of the trader retiring and no one to take on the items. We did this with D&S W irons and are keeping our ear to the ground for other such opportunities.
John