Annual NMRA BR Convention

Kegworth Grand Central 2008 - Sponsored by Digitrax

Date

31st October - 2nd November 2008

Convention Times

Fri 12pm till 6pm, Sat 9am till 5pm, Sun 9.30am till 2pm

Venue:

Yew Lodge Hotel
Packington Hill
Kegworth
Derby, DE74 2DF
Tel. 01509 672518

M1 J24. Take A6 to Loughborough and Kegworth. Take first right onto Packington Hill, Yew Lodge is 400m on the right.

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Convention & Hotel Booking Form

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Convention Trade Details

LSWR, Digitrains, SPV, Mac's Models, MG Sharp, N Scale Kits, CML Electronics, Big Johns American trains, Peco, Ceynix Model Railway Trees, P+H models, Wilfs Books, NMRA Library, NMRA Sales

Convention Layout Details

Confirmed: Black Diamond N Scale, Chris Round HO, Richard Brooks HO, Worcester N Scale group, Roger Nicholls HO, Richard Insley On30, Keith Ludford HO, Chris Marable HO, Nigel Bowyer On30, Ian Lampkin HO, Joe Dodd O, Roger Epps HO, Dave Dawes N, Martin Swannell On30, Rod Franklin G, Dave Illingworth HO

Convention Event Details

DCC, Four cycle way cards, Tree making, N scale kits, Track building, Achievement program, Contests - the ins & outs. More to come.

New Clinic

An extra clinic has been added on Sunday morning. Being run by Peter of Nscalekits who is kindly running a clinic on 'Building a spine car kit'. Attendees will have a car supplied to build, as part of a five car 53' articulated spine car unit. They will build the car, and they can take that away, or buy at cost the other four cars for the modelers to build in their own time. Tools and kits will be supplied. Max 15 attendees, so sign up quick!

This clinic will be on a first come bases and attendees really should be N scale modellers.

NEW FOR 2008!! Micro layouts

Sponsored by LSWR Models

An exciting new concept for 2008! Members are invited to enter 'Micro layouts' into a popular vote contest. 'Micro layouts' are any self-contained layout with a maximum size of 4ft x 3ft (there is no minimum size!), fully scenicked and operational. Don't forget the word is 'MICRO', the smaller and more unusual the better, in any scale.

The layout should include all operating features, so no extra tag-on fiddle yards. It should also be born in mind that the layouts will be placed on 6ft x 2ft tables (unless they are self-standing), so this restriction will indicate what is practicable and to this end a length of no longer then 4ft will be the maximum. Another constraint is that the time to set up and get running should be no longer than 15 minutes after arriving in the room and booking in.

Download a Micro layout booking form here. The time table for the Micro layout competition is from 10am til 4pm on Saturday 1st Nov. There will be prizes for the first three places of £20, £10 & £5, which have been donated by LSWR Models (Penguin). Voting is by popular vote by the membership on the day!

Need some inspiration? Have a look at the Small Layout Scrapbook for examples of what can be done...On30 in 23 x 16in?! Gn15 in 4in square?!!