CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR FOLLOWERS
Best Wishes for Christmas & the New Year to you all.
Month: December 2014
BASEBOARDS COME & BASEBOARDS GO
BASEBOARDS COME & BASEBOARDS GO-
The Weyford baseboards start a new life as part of a new Southern branch line layout, leaving my railway room courtesy of Andrew, Eric & Martin.Thank you to them.
LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR 19th December
LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR 19th December
We celebrated the last club meeting of the year in the traditional way with mince pies and sherry. A small section of F/Strasse was erected and John B ran some of his Austrian O/H electric locos.
HOBBY NEWS
HOBBY NEWS
Hornby have announced Southern loco S15, in addition to the Adams Radial announced at Warley and the Class 700 announced last year. The Class 71 announced at Warley is in fact a proposed 2016 introduction.
New livery/number options for the T-9, M7, WC and Schools classes are also planned. The 2-Hal and 2-Bil also appear in new livery &/or number versions. See Hornby site for full details
CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR GREETINGS
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR GREETINGS
We have sent mainly e-mail greetings to model railway clubs near to our location or to those which we have past or current associations. Amongst them are South Hants, Fareham & District, Basingstoke & North Hants, Alton, Farnham & District, Astolat (Guildford), Crawley and Bognor Regis.
We don’t look on local clubs as competitors but as part of this great hobby we all get so much pleasure and fun out of.
BUILDING A MODEL RAILWAY COURSE 2014
BUILDING A MODEL RAILWAY COURSE 2014
The last session will be held this coming Wednesday (17th).
There are no plans currently to have a similar course in 2015.
So far three courses have been run, but the take up has been low on the last two courses despite initial enthusiasm at launch.
There is a possibility of having a monthly railway interest group at Liphook U3A in 2015, which will cover a wider span of railway interest- local railway history, walks on abandoned lines, visits to places of railway interest in addition to railway modelling.
We will have a table at Liphook U3A’s Open Day in March 2015 to gauge if there is any interest.
WINCHESTER GAUGE 0 EXHIBITION RETURNS in 2015
WINCHESTER GAUGE 0 EXHIBITION RETURNS 2015
We have been advised by Philip Morgan past organiser, that the Winchester Gauge 0 American & Continental Exhibition will return in 2015.
Saturday 17th October 2015 King’s School, Romsey Road, Winchester SO22 5PN. Open: 10 til 4. The return includes the famous breakfasts and a range of 0 gauge layouts covering US, French & German outline plus trade.
LAST NIGHT AT THE CLUB
LAST NIGHT AT THE CLUB
Work continued on track laying on Frieidrichstrasse.
Setting out for S Bahn commenced
Date for club AGM in January 2015 discussed.
HOBBY NEWS-JUST 7 DAYS TO HORNBY ANNOUNCEMENT
HOBBY NEWS-JUST 7 DAYS TO HORNBY ANNOUNCEMENT
Hornby will be making their full announcement on new models for 2015 on the 17th December
2015 EXHIBITIONS AT WHICH CLUB MEMBERS ARE EXHIBITING THEIR LAYOUTS
2015 EXHIBITIONS AT WHICH CLUB MEMBERS ARE EXHIBITING THEIR LAYOUTS
Matt Wildsmith
The Menin & Fish-Hooks Railway- Astolat Guildford on 17th January
Tellurium Canyon-
Midhurst Modellers Exhibition- The New Grange Leisure Centre- 15th February
Bognor Regis South Downs 7mm NGA Group MRE- Felpham Community Centre- 16th May
Alton Limited- Four Marks Village Hall- 18th July
Nick Harling
Kanjiyama-
Fareham Rotarail 2015 Fareham College- 26th April
The International N Gauge show at Leamington Spa 12-13 September.
Ben Russ
Ehrwald – Midhurst Modellers Show 15th February
Tony Bettger
Idylton Vale- Midhurst Modellers Show- 15th February
Come along and say hello!
See Members Layouts for details & pictures