Saturday, March 24, 2018

Update Archive Nailsea and District Model Railway Club



With only five weeks left until Nailsea and District Model Railway Club Open Day this year to be held in Yatton, North Somerset, this update provides some information on one of the provisions who will be present.
La Morella Light Railway is a narrow career path railroad scale OO-9, originally built by the late H R Norman Wimbledon Model Railway Club on an old wicker tea tray edge.
Located somewhere in Southern England, the line began life in the 1880s as a means of transport stone Birds Hill Quarry in some neighboring towns Unfortunately brick factory started near and construction equipment turned out to be much cheaper Althuogh the online managed to survive on the stone reduced traffic for a few years, a passenger market began to develop that has not been completely killed by the car engine Today, the tourist attraction of a narrow-gauge railway gauge proved to be her salvation while there is still a small stone traffic.
Click here for details page on our Open Day Events or see the list of events on Facebook, which is here Please share the event Facebook list with someone you may think interested and do not forget to join the event and check the box to show you will be attending.
Last month showed continued progress with the wiring on the disposition Club Nailsea Wharf, with the last meeting management, even a brief run test of a locomotive which identified some areas requiring adjustment Hopefully, dock Nailsea will be exhibited at this year's open Day Yatton Sunday, December 4 Click here to see the details of the open day on our events page.



This month discussion evening was a discussion on track installation with great tips for those who begin to lay track on their own layouts The model railway collective experience of our members concerns a discussion proves that it's more than one way to achieve a similar end result.
Finally, this update are some pictures of our last night of racing Among the rolling elements our members brought along to give a try was a First Great Western Class 150 1 and a Dock United States recently released tank in OO gauge N gauge Britannia has 4-6-2 and type 3 BRCW later class 33 BR made an appearance on the delivered Running also Roundy cycle is HO scale New South Wales class 44 with a train mixed goods while on the gauge 1 test track was a DB class 144 electric loco.
To start the update, we have a picture of progress at Club N available gauge Dixon Gate landscape work has been started, therefore made far ballast of trackwork and Testing continues to ensure that everything works even after the application of glue to the work of the rails and the point.
Following the presentation by David Burnett modeling EM scale in early August, he spent last Tuesday evening modeling showing another club member what he was doing during the construction of a rate participation in EM gauge a CL Belly lemon kit.



In the latest update, we mentioned the Weston-super-Mare Train Show held Sunday, September 11 At the show was David Burnett layout at EM scale Great swilling and below some photos taken during the day as there was Mike Brown put tram G Scale page, Paley Green Park.
Finally, for this update, Jynnontonix, a German scale HO layout belonging to a club member Alan Crombie will appear in Folkestone model railway exhibition at the 1 and 2 October at the Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone Here are some pictures during a recent session of testing to ensure the layout is still working properly.
It's now three months remaining until the Nailsea and Open House District Model Railway Club on December 4, and the events page has been updated with the layouts and exhibits that will be there .
This year, the Village Hall Open Day will take place in Yatton, La Chaussee, Yatton, North Somerset, BS49 4HL Click here to see the location on Google Maps.
Layouts present will be at the size scale N to Route 1, with a total of ten layouts, two trade stands and modeling demonstrations Click here to see all the details on the events page.
Also coming next week, September 11 is the Weston-super-Mare Train Show is an independent show run by one of our club members to raise money for charity.



We look forward to seeing you at one of these upcoming shows.
This month saw the usual mix of activities during our meetings on Tuesday night.
The evening of conversation at the beginning was led by a member of the club and David Burnett was on the EM scale modeling Discussion focused on the basics of how the EM scale differs from OO and scales and P4 how David has made decisions regarding the construction of its models on a David subsequent modeling evening was happy to explain the construction of the EM pointwork to another club member who is now interested in modeling even scale the photo below shows a selection EM Davids scale rolling stock, some built kit and some converts OO gauge models.
In the evening, running on the second Tuesday of the month saw a number of modern steam locos pictures running both OO and N gauge, including recent versions of Graham Farish and Dapol a smaller scale locomotives torque American HO scale has also appeared carrying a rake of freight cars.



As we enter into the season of summer vacation, things calm in Nailsea and District Model Railway Club, but that didnt mean there's nothing happening.
Progress continued with the wiring of the track and the motor points on Nailsea Wharf Club layout, the stage work began on the door and various members layout N Dixon caliber club have also continued to work on some of their own feature modeling projects in the photo below is a small steam locomotive model kit produced by fascinations, Inc. In their earth metal range kits metal 3D model Without a replica to exact scale, the piece a book shows the small size of static model and with the system of tabs folded all did a good way to practice small-scale modeling without the need for glue or solder.
The night running of this month saw some HST in OO and N on the running club gauge test track and a couple from South Wales New HO scale C32 steam locos class also makes an appearance among other rolling stock.
This week meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, was an evening of conversation and presented a guest speaker, we were joined by Jon Godden, regional director of operations of the Great Western Railway formerly First Great Western.



First, Jon gave a lecture on One-Zulu-48, Plymouth Bristol nonstop May 10, 2014, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Great Western High Speed ​​1Z48 railtour which ran May 9, 1964 In following this, the club members present heard when the large steam Railmotor Western company operated on the Looe in Cornwall Branch during autumn 2012 Aswell as an event photo slide show, there were a number of annecdotes opportunities that gave a pleasant evening.
A big thank you to Jon to give her time to visit us at Nailsea and District Model Railway Club.
There is little to report in this Nailsea and District Model Railway Club update.
Progress continues with the layout shunt OO gauge, Nailsea Wharf All developed engines were fitted and started wiring There are also a number of buildings ready for use on the layout The picture -Dessous shows the adjustment work to some of the localizer to provide clearance for the landscape.
The club test tracks continue to be popular with a variety of stock from different eras, regions and countries running below is a Deutsche Bahn Diesel Locomotive class 218 on the test track gauge 1 .
New club president Ian Rouleau shared some photos of his work in progress scale of Page 7 which are presented below Polsands is a southern region shunt arrangement loosely based in the region of North Cornwall.


Finally, for this update, the dates for next years annual exposure have been confirmed as Saturday 11 and Sunday, March 12, 2017 8 layouts and 8 traders already confirmed that planning to participate more on appear closer to the time there will also be an update soon with more information on this year's club Open day to be held in December.
Since the update last month, he has once again been a number of production modeling evenings which saw continued progress in the layout shunt gauge OO, Nailsea dock and N gauge layout, Dixon Gate Unfortunately there aren t new pictures of progress yet, but keep an eye on future updates for these.
In the evening to talk about this month was the son solder to the track to ensure a good electrical connection to power trains that have proved useful for those who didn t have much experience with welding without doubt, there will be some modeling evenings devoted to practice with the help of a soldering iron to come up.
In addition to the general update above, rail Modeler July issue that is currently available present an article from one of our club members Nailsea and District Model Railway Club members, Doug Richards article six pages about his OO Gauge layout, Padmouth this portable layout is located in west Dorset is the Devon area in the 1960s, exploitation paths British South region iron stock with a small station terminal, hangar area and maintenance of locomotives and a dairy, the layout allows an operational interest along it's length of 14 feet If you want to know more about Padmouth, the issue of volume paths iron Modeler 67 July 2016 number 789 is available in various magazines dealers for four weeks before the next issue is published.
The meeting last week was a night club running that saw a test track busy with a variety of different models running, some of which can be seen in the photos below objects made by our members included a truck inspection HO scale with wagons, an OO gauge royal train made up of 67006 Royal Sovereign and matching trainers, a trio of OO gauge Westerns including diesel locos, a New HO South Wales Garratt with hopper cars, a number of OO-9 narrow gauge locos, and some gauge freight trains long N from different eras.



While all these trains were running some of our other members continued to work on some of their modeling projects Progress continued in both the layout shunt OO gauge, Nailsea dock and N gauge layout door Dixon Also pictured is a trio of Ivatt locos at EM scale that were being developed by our club president for its layout, Great Swilling.
Finally, for this update, December 2016 brings with it our biennial Iconography day you can see layouts belonging to club members and to take the opportunity to talk to some of our members and perhaps consider you join the club this year, the club will open doors Day in Yatton Village hall on December 4th More information will be listed here as it becomes available.








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