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    The Soar Valley
Limited
Sunday 29 April – Run Day, trade (9 am to 3 pm)
Open to Members and General Public. Operation and Trade support.
ENTRANCE FEE £5. Members (on showing valid membership card) get £2 discount.
Camping or Caravan on site for the weekend can be arranged. Charge is £3 for weekend.
Anybody with an N Gauge module that wishes to join us for a weekend of fun is more than welcome.
The layout will be controlled by Digitrax DCC with wireless, tethered and iPod throttles in use. The module standards in use will include FreemoN; Snake Bend (2 and 1 track) and Black Diamond (2 and 1 track) and Ntrak.
RS Tower are bringing 16' of HO modules up to the madNess event.
For more information contact: Nobby Clarke (NMRA) 01604 415020; Jim Dickinson (Black Diamonds) 01283 814984; Richard Czaja (Snake Bend) 01905 381788
Northampton Model Railway Show –
18th year
Malcolm Arnold Academy, NN2 6JW
Sat 10 March 10 am till 5 pm
Full trade support, 20-plus layouts from Z to G. At least 6 US layouts, Demos, hot + cold food, plenty free parking, full disabled access.
Adult £5.00; Concessions £4.00; Family £10.00; children under 16 free.
Put on by the Nene Valley Railroaders in aid of the school and local charities. www.northamptonmodelrailwayshow.co.uk
Model Railway Exhibition by the North
Downs Model Railway Circle
17 March (Saturday) 2011 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
The Good Shepherd Church Hall, Station Approach Road, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5AE
Adults £5, under 16s £3, seniors £4, and families (2 + 2) £10. All profits to Good Shepherd Church.
24 layouts: 11 British; + Continental: St Raymond’s (HO SNCF), Holze (HO DB), Miengo (HO RENFE), & Tomm (HO Luxemburg), American; Oregon (G) & Lindsay (HO US), and Special; Virtual Railways, Five Mile Siding (HO US), Neumarkt (HO German), & Subway (HO US). Trade: Ready to Run Models, Roger Jones, Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway.
Stuart Robinson 077-5845-8827 www.ndmrc.info
The 2012 Trent Valley show . . . is scheduled for Saturday 16 June, 10 am–4 pm
VENUE: Armitage with Handsacre Village Hall, Shropshire Brook Rd, Armitage, Staffs WS15 4UZ
Prices: TBA. Free parking, light refreshments. Layouts and traders: TBA. Contact: Nick Palette n.palette@ntlworld.com
The next Ely & District MRE will be on 12 May 2012.
RS Tower are having a modular running day in Exeter
on Saturday 3 March 2012; the venue is The Salvation Army, Friars Gate, Exeter EX2 4AZ (entrance round the back in Lucky Lane). Car parking is available close by at the Cathedral & Quay car park. This is a test of several new modules from both our group and Western Union for the next visit to Exeter, but will be a good opportunity for anyone that wants to see the modules in action or talk to us about them.
British Region Convention 2012 at Yew Tree Lodge Hotel, Kegworth, Friday 19 to Sunday 21 October 2012
This convention will be run and organised by Worcester N Gauge boys from the Cyder Belt division, the operating team of the Snake Bend Railroad. The aim is to maintain the high level of organisation of previous conventions and to make it a highlight of the year, along with a great celebration of our hobby.
We have already had a great interest shown in the convention; we will have some of the usual traders, along with some who have never attended an NMRA show before. The layout response has been fantastic so far, there will be several layouts that have never been seen at the convention in the past.
Inside this issue of RH you will find the necessary documentation to send off for registering and booking accommodation for the convention, or these are available as downloads from our site. Our website for the convention is www.soar-valley-ltd.co.uk and as we get confirmation of traders and layouts they will appear here. We are also working hard on getting a sponsor for the event and also working on some non-convention events for peo- ple to do away from the show; details will follow when ready. If anyone would like to attend with a layout, offer a clinic or a trader to sell his services, please contact us, or just for more information or enquiries, info@soar-valley-ltd.co.uk or 01905 458820/07718 770563.
18th N-Trak UK Convention 2012
From Russ Cook
To be held at the Trouville Hotel, Bournemouth,
Friday 2 March – Sunday 4 March 2012
Layouts from the Black Diamonds, SoutherN-Trak and Mendip N-Trak. Trade will be Neal’s N-Gauging Trains from the US. Cost is £105 per person for two nights DBB, extra nights £47.50 per person on Thursday and £37.50 per person for Sunday, both for DBB.
Sorry no single rooms left, so £15 per night for single occupancy for Twin or Double rooms. Registration £5 members/£7.50 non- members.
Booking forms from Neil Lancaster, 75 Rempstone Road, Merley, Wimborne, BH21 1TR.
N gauge madNess 2012 –
The American Modular Meet
Ukrainian Centre, off Swarkstone Road, ‘Tarasivka’,
Bridge Lane, Weston on Trent, Derbyshire DE72 2BU
Just off A50 (J3; A514 junction); easy reach from M1 (J24). Friday 27 April – SETUP 12 noon to 9 pm
Friday is for module owners and madNess supporters to set up the layout, there will be no through running. NMRA Members and other railway enthusiasts who wish to help are most welcome. (Non-NMRA members may be charged £2.)
Saturday 28 April – Final setup and through operation (running), 8 am to 6 pm
This is a members’ day, but any railway modellers with an interest in modular layouts will be welcome to come and see
what we do, also Traders are welcome if they wish to attend. The morning is for final setup, and operation should commence
by 1 pm.
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