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Seaboard Show
Sat 6 Sept 2014 NOTE Earlier date than normal. Open 10am till 4pm
Organiser: Seaboard Southern American Modellers
Venue: The Holbrook Club, North Heath Lane RH12 5PJ, HORSHAM, West Sussex.
Admission £5.00; NMRA members £4.00; Children free Amenities: Refreshments
Features: Lemmington Park – HO, a loco depot/commuter terminus located around Chicago (this will be its first public show); Galatia, KS – HO, modern­day shortline railroading in rural Kansas; North Haston – HO, Chris Gilbert’s New England layout in extended form; Gilbert Papers – HO, a new layout from Chris Prior (one of the ‘Menasha’ team). An unusual prototype of industrial switching across a river trestle (Wisconsin­based of course!); Horsethief Bridge – N, BNSF along the Columbia River, Washington state; Bad Aston – HO, transition­era urban railroading in the northeast US; Groenen Creek – On30, Crawley MRS’s O scale narrow gauge ‘in the round’; Seaboard Southern HO Modular: the group’s modular layout.
Specialist traders including Brian Trains (pre­owned), Falcon Figures (new!), JB’s Model World – N scale stock trays (new!), Kytes Lights – scale lights and model enhancements (new!), LSWR Models – Penguin’s wide selection of new HO/N and books; Plus Daughters – N scale new & pre­owned; Railroad Trading – books and DVDs; Sunningwell Command Control – DCC equipment & Blackstone HOn3 equipment (new!); Squires – tools and supplies (new!); Seaboard Southern Club Sales. Contact: Dan Spalding. Web: www.seaboard­southern.org.uk
Calder Northern Division . . .
. . . are hosting one of their much­enjoyed two­day Themed Train Show events at Crewe Heritage Centre on the weekend of October 4 (Saturday) and 5 (Sunday). There will also be a Saturday evening dinner at Crewe Arms Hotel. You will remember we had to regrettably cancel our show last year due to a number of issues at the Heritage Centre, but we are pleased to say these are now resolved very amicably. To date we have 8 confirmed layouts plus 5 other layouts in the negotiation stages. Those confirmed are mainly HO scale but with the like­ lihood of two being On30 layouts. We have a bookseller con­ firmed and there will be bring & buy tables. Calder Northern’s two layouts will also be operating in the North Junction Signal Box. In addition to the Train Show, the Heritage Centre attractions will be there for all to enjoy – three signal boxes, APT, Diesel and Steam locomotives and of course the miniature railway. We are also going to have the “be a driver for a fiver” again where you get the opportunity to drive (under guidance!) the Class 03 diesel shunter.
Hours of opening will be 10 am till 4 pm each day and, for those bringing layouts, setup can be from noon on Friday afternoon or from 8 am on the Saturday morning. There will be catering available and also drinks and light refreshments in North Junction Signal Box. Entry is £5 for adults, £2 for children. For those wishing to come for the weekend, the rate for a room including bed & breakfast at Crewe Arms Hotel, which is currently in the process of a complete refurbishment including installation of a lift, which will make things a lot easier this time, is £45 for a single room or £59.50 for either twin or double. Premier Inns and Travelodge also have accommodation very close by and convenient to the railway station.
For those wishing to make reservations for a room at Crewe Arms Hotel or for the Saturday evening meal, would they please e­mail Terry Wynne at T_WYNNE@sky.com or telephone 01270 567050 and Terry will coordinate all bookings with the hotel to avoid any problems.
Further details will be announced as soon as possible and will appear in the next Roundhouse magazine. You can also keep up to date on what is happening with our event as well as the activities and events at Crewe Heritage Centre by going to www. creweheritagecentre.co.uk
NORTH DOWNS MODEL RAILWAY CIRCLE
The Good Shepherd Church Hall, Station Approach Road, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5AE
Saturday 30 August, 10.00–17.00
Admission: Adults £5, under 16s £3, senior citizens £4, and families (2 + 2) £10. All profits to Good Shepherd Church. Amenities: free parking, venue is close to station and bus stop, refreshments, facilities for disabled visitors.
22 layouts and trade support: US outline: HO Alaskan RR, Gold Creek , 8' × 4'; N North East USA–Canadian border, Southlake, 8' × 1'; HO Baltimore & Ohio RR, Willis Bluff, 12' × 4'; G, Oregon. Exhibition website: www.ndmrc.info/Home/Tadworth.htm Contact: Stuart Robinson on 07758 458827 or stuart.robinson27@ ntlworld.com
NMRA BRITISH REGION ANNUAL CONVENTION 2014 – THE SEASHORE EXTRA Friday 17–Sunday 19 October 2014
Bookings are still being taken for the 2014 Region Convention, The Seashore Extra, which will take place at the Carrington House Hotel, Knyveton Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH1 3QQ from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 October 2014. This is the same hotel as was used in 2011 and is now part of the Britannia Hotels chain. Room Rates and Registration Fees are held at 2011 prices.
The Seashore Extra will offer a train show in the main suite plus additional space in the entrance lobby to the main suite. There will be many layouts not seen before at British Region events, in scales ranging from N to On30. Layouts invited include: Black Diamonds N scale modular layout featuring many new modules; Andrew Browne’s HO scale Fulton Terminal RR; Chris Prior’s HO scale Stevens Point, Wisconsin; John Levesley’s On30 Sumach Grove modular layout; Neil Lancaster’s HOn3 Sawpit Creek; South Shore Group’s HO Drew, Iowa; Andrew Dunn’s On30 Stout Oak; Ant Quinlan’s N scale BNSF Horsethief Bridge; an HO continuous run layout from Bearwood HO Group to allow members to run trains; HO modules drawn from a number of Region member groups.
There will be full trade support from all your favourite suppliers: LSWR Models, Neal’s N Gauging Trains, Plus Daughters, Team Track Trading, Sunningwell Command Control, Brian Trains, Peco, SPV and Railroom Electronics.
The entire “Train Show” will take place in one large hall, so if you find one layout you have found them all.
A feature of the clinics this year will be knowledgeable NMRA members Sharing Know­How with fellow members and guests, with hands­on experience in many cases. Topics will include, with emphasis on the Achievement Programme:
How to kitbash and scratchbuild structures and rolling stock by Alain Kap MMR; How to detail passenger cars by Tom Griffiths; How to build and detail locomotives by Mick Moignard; The Edu­TRAIN clinic programme by Nobby Clarke; The principles and practicalities of operations – Peter Lloyd­Jones and his team will first provide background information on the key principles looking at, for example, car cards and waybills, train orders, timetables and dispatching. This will then be followed by a practical session on HO modules set up for operations; How to design, build and operate modules with Tom Winlow and his team; Using Decoder Pro to program your DCC­fitted locos and how to detail N scale locos by Gavin Fry; How to design layouts and track plans using Peco continued on page 7