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I hope Southampton club do not mind me posting this, but their original post is in Club and Society Info, which is probably not the place most people look for exhibitions. The SHMRC are supporting this event by taking two private layouts. My Brighton East (first time out since March 2020) and Ray Hodsons Kitedale. SATURDAY 23rd JULY 2022 Barton Peveril College, Chestnut Ave, Eastleigh SO50 5BX ADULTS £5 Accompanied children (under 16) FREE Layouts Name Gauge Depicts Kalinchenbau H0e narrow gauge Continental (Alpine) narrow gauge Fawley OO gauge Southern Railway Botleigh Old North Road OO gauge BR SR 1960s Overcombe OO gauge GWR Quinton Lane OO gauge BR WR 1960s Penmawr OO gauge GWR 1930s Engine Shed Nicton Borrud OO gauge BR SR 1950s/60s Nicton 2K OO gauge Southern/SW Trains post 2000 Lochty EM gauge North British Rly Goods Depot Brighton East EM gauge Modern (c2000) Lower Exbury P4 BR WR 1952 Kitedale P4 BR LMR early 1960s Ryedown Lane 00-9 narrow gauge Narrow gauge Possil Road Basin O gauge Scottish Bowmarsh Town N Gauge Southern Railway/BR SR Trade C & L Finescale Dingo Servo Mounts Duncan Models Gramodels Ron-Lines Model Railways Roxey Mouldings Sunningwell Command Control Transport Treasury Publishing A Brooks Project Resin Printed Railways Model Railway Developments Other Stands MERG includes small layout for children to operate DCC & Computer Control RCTS Eastleigh Branch SMRS Pre-owned Sales SMRS Display Case Getting to Barton Peveril College By Car: Barton Peveril College is about 1.5 miles from M3 Junction 13 or M27 Junction 5. Sat Nav - using SO50 5BX will bring you to the front entrance. By Train: Both Eastleigh and Southampton Airport Parkway stations are about a 25 minute walk, or by bus as below. By Bus Bluestar Route 2, (Fair Oak - Eastleigh - Southampton). Every 20 minutes at 16, 36 and 56 minutes each hour from Eastleigh bus station; stops in Derby Road near Tennyson Road. It is a short walk along Tennyson Road to the back entrance to the college. Bluestar Route 5, (Eastleigh - Romsey) from Eastleigh bus station at 9.45, 10.45, 12.45 and 14.45, stops outside the front of the college. Eastleigh Bus Station is a short walk from Eastleigh Railway Station http://www.bluestarbus.co.uk/services Parking. Due to ongoing building work, part of the car park at the front of the college is no longer available. Being summer, it is expected that the field can be used unless it is particularly wet in the days prior to the exhibition. To assist with street parking, please note the following: The long lay-by in Chestnut Avenue is free and unrestricted at weekends.

Prototype running on Hope - under - Dinmore, Basingstoke. March 2022.

If you like pre-grouping, Hope - under - Dinmore will be at Wigan in October and Manchester in December. See you their.

John Redrup tells me the production etches are due very shortly so the kit release is imminent. We attended Basingstoke last weekend for our first exhibition with Hope-under-Dinmore for two years. The full crane tank train made a very sucessful debut, the photo courtesy of Penrith Beacon shows the the train waiting to proceed from the branch line over the up line and onto the down.

Thank you to the organisers for a very enjoyable weekend from the Hope under Dinmore team. It was great to be out again after the two year hiatus. David M can let me have a copy of your photo of my crane tank please?

SHMRC are looking forward to taking Hope-under-Dinmore. It will be 2 years since its last run out Leamington. Photo courtesy of Andy York.

Phil Great explanation. By the way, in 30 odd exhibitions you are the only person who has noticed it. As they are a loose item and only put in place when the layout is erected I will have to remember to get them round the right way!

Phil Thanks for that you learn something new everyday. It is easy to fix becauses the machines are not fixed down to allow access to the operating cranks for the points are underneath them.

Gonk43 You have already found the CLAG document which is pretty much the bible for setting things out. Books as Ian says are a good source, but expensive if you only a few photos are useful, I do not think the actual style of cabling, ducting, protection boards has changed much over the last few decades, so site visits are a cheap way of getting detail, then of course Google is your friend. I used all three sources when I did Brighton East. Is this what you are aiming at? With the exception of the people and the signal container, all the rest is pretty timeless.

The crane tank is finished! Production etch artwork with the etchers and the instructions sent to John. So it is over to LRM now. I have spent the last week or so completing the train the crane tank will pull on Hope-under-Dinmore. It consists of the loco, an LNWR single plank wagon and a 10 ton LNWR brake van. The formation is based on a photo John supplied to me it is prototypical. The brake van is one of LRM’s (I have three of them). The single plank wagon proved a bit more elusive, you used to be able to buy them from Ratio. But it seems they no longer do the kit only the underframes. So I solved that by 3D printing my own body taking the opportunity at the same time to print some tool boxes to go on the wagon. So the following photos show the prototype and then the model taken on my Brighton East layout, hence the third rail in the back ground. So after some 700 hours or so of work and two locomotive kits designed and built that is it. Or is it? First I have to finish my 5” Aspinall Class 27, but then I am seriously considering designing a 5” gauge live steam version of the shunting engine and that is a whole different ball game! It would make a great loco for shunting at Ground Level 5 inch Gauge Mainline Association (GL5) events (I will leave you to google that) and with scale wagons be great on a 5” gauge inglenook in the garden. I have done some preliminary work already. The chassis/cylinders/valve gear is the easy bit. The boiler is the main concern, being a marine one, whether it can be made to provide sufficient steam for the loco in model form. Then there is the nightmare of the saddle tank/smoke box/cylinder fronts assembly when you have no drawings of what the prototype is like on the inside to at least guide you. So I am going to have to work a lot of it out from first principles and use judgement on what the designers are likely to have done. PS Thanks to John Redrup and Jol Wilkinson for their support, advice to a novice kit designer and bearing with me when I lost my mojo occasionally with the project. Prototype formation: The model 5" gauge embryonic chassis, cylinders and valve gear

Instructions are finished and with John Redrup for a final review to make sure there are no howlers. The production etches are finished and due to go to the etchers next week. The crane assembly production standard 3D prints have been test fitted without any issues, they are being painted at the moment. So essentially we are ready to go. John will advise a release date in due course. The photo shows the the production standard 3D prints being tried out on the prototype (excuse the dust on the paint). If anyone is interested these are being printed on an Anycubic Photon Mono by Jonathan Buckie (Great Shefford). My first generation photon does not quite print as crisply and I did not want to get involved in making production parts.

Update. Having got over the preparation and running of our club show and taking a break from the 5" gauge project, I have now found the time and motivation to finish the crane tank. I have sorted out the cast parts for the crane assembly, because they are very fine parts, they would be very difficult to cast so we have decided to go with 3D prints. The prototypes for the shunting engine and the crane tank used 3D and I find no issue with them, it also saves a fortune in casting tooling and potentially high scrap rates. If you break or loose one they can be replaced for very little money. I have nearly finished the modifications required to the etches and have started on the instructions. So all thing being equal I should have it finished by Christmas to pass over to John.

Just an update on the attendance. Final figures show we were 4% down on 2019, which we still consider a great result and shows that people are still wanting to attend. We are already planning next years show (subject to Boris of course) and we have 80% of the layouts in place and have. Next week we are holding our washup meeting to review what was good, bad etc. We also had a lot of very positive feedback which is very gratifying. So once again thanks to all who attended, layouts, trade, demo and the general public for making it a great show.

Paul There were signs on the entrance to show hall stating the service finished at 13:00, I am sorry if they were not prominent enough or we did not emphasise it.

Thanks to all the exhibitors, traders and the public who attended today. We had a great show. Penrith you obviously came in the afternoon. For catering we are tied by what the school contract caterers are willing to provide. Normally this is full catering and very good it is too with lunch service until 13:30. With drinks also available at a separate coffee bar until just before the show closes. This year due to continued school redevelopment. We were restricted to the canteen which would not serve beyond 13:00 the coffee bar shut. We are sorry for that but it was beyond our control. We are told for next year we will have the coffee bar back on line. I am glad you liked Eastwod this only its second exhibition in its roundly roundly form, it still needs finishing but has potential for a great layout. On a really positive note we appear to have bucked the recent trend at shows of 20% odd reduction in footfall, initial results show a modest increase over our last show in 2019! This is really encouraging so thanks again to all who came, we must be doing something right.

Everything is go for tomorrow. Setup starts at 6:00 pm tonight.

A week to go to the show and it is all go. Details are now finalised, demonstrators added and couple of extra traders, Wheels of Southsea and Graham the Glue Man. Hope to see lots of you there.

How about, modified Cyril Freezer plan from 50 plans for small layouts. Adds a bit more operational interest. Original plan with my sketched mods and the final version I built for my son.

You have been misinformed somewhere. Code 100 Flexitrack works perfectly well at 18" (2nd radius) and above. The photos below shows layout I built for my son which used 18" radius on all the tight radius curves and medium streamline points. I have also used it down to 15" (1st radius) on a club Thomas layout. m

Andy There are rules on where to place the rail supports, but there is tolerance within that, hence the differences you have noticed. The secret to successful third rail is to plan where it goes and use a jig to drill the holes for the conductor supports. If you want I can easily machine one up for you. Another tip is to blacken the rail using Casey Birchwood Brass Black before threading the conductor supports on to give a good base coat before painting in situ. Pikkie below shows the plan I made of scissors crossing area of Brighton.

Andy Fair enough, but I have no doubt you could do it, it is just a bit fiddly putting the black bands on the yellow doors and cutting the large Ginsters transfers around the body jacking points, I got through about 3 sets doing this! But when you print your own the costs are marginal. I also used the cheapest running original Bachmann 158 unit from ebay I could find. When you get to the third rail on the 'New Layout' use Russ Elliot's treatise on all things third rail to lay it out properly, this is particularly important around the points. It can be found here: Russ Elliot Third Rail Setting Out

Andy Thoroughly approve of the change in location! But you do need one of these. This was a home brewed livery change with transfers printed on Crafty Decal paper, so I can let you have all the artwork to produce the transfers if you wanted to have a go at one. Also are you coming to the SHMRC Exhibition on 20th November, God willing it is all going ahead and has some nice layouts. SHMRC Exhibition details. I still cannot believe after all these years how quickly you build layouts!

Sadly due to an unforeseen family commitment, Rossiters Rise has had to withdraw from the exhibiton. However we are delighted that Tom Everitt (TomE) has agreed to bring his lovely Ropley layout at short notice.

We are back! Subject to no further restrictions from Boris, the South Hants Model Railway Club will host the annual Portsmouth Model Railway Exhibition on Saturday 20th November 2021 at: Admiral Lord Nelson School on Dundas Lane, Portsmouth, PO3 5XT Opening time between 10:30 and 16:30. As usual we have a carefully chosen selection of top-class model railway layouts and demonstrators, supported by a loyal band of traders and ‘gauge’ societies. More details of layouts, traders, demonstrators and societies, plus details of how to get there, can be found on the Club's website - https://www.shmrc.org.uk/exhibition/ There will be limited parking at the school, but the Ocean Retail Park opposite the school has free unlimited parking (except for McDonalds which has a time limit). Covid Precautions: The school has installed hand sanitiser stations and we will be providing extra facilities around the exhibition. In accordance with current government guidelines, we will be providing an optional track and trace registration facility (QR code). We would ask that visitors and exhibitors wear face coverings if possible. Layouts Cheddar P4 Cheddar Chris Challis’s lovely S and D layout Copper Wort OO Copper Wort The new scenic masterpiece from master builder Pete Goss, coming all the way from Yorkshire. Eastwood P4 Eastwood The new 38ft L and Y opus from the SHMRC, think Stoke Bank with shunting in P4. Kinmundy EM Kinmundy Diesels in the winter originally built by Martin ‘back in an hour Jones now with its new owners. Laramie Engine Terminal O laramie engine terminal Big Boys in O gauge what more can one say, it needs to be seen. Lower Exbury P4 Lower Exbury Another atmospheric layout of an LSWR backwater. Portsea 3mm Portsea We are in Portsmouth so it is nice to have a layout in the spirit of Portsmouth Harbour Lightermans Yard 2mm Lightermans Yard A beautiful urban rendition of South East London in 2mm scale Ropley N Ropley Tom Everitts beautiful model of Ropley on the Mid Hants Railway in preservation. William Smith’s Wharf 2mm More superb 2mm modelling from Jerry Clifford. Widley and St George OO Widley and St.George - SHMRC One for our younger visitors - come and drive trains pulled by Thomas, Percy, Gordon and more of their friends Traders Booklaw Publications C & L Finescale Coastal DCC Frome Model Centre Graham the Glue Man London Road Models Model Railway Developments Penbits RumneyModels Squires Model & Craft Tools The Model Shop Portsmouth Tim Horn Baseboards Wheels of Southsea Plus our Members’ Sales Stand Societies EM Gauge Society + demo 2mm Finescale Society Scalefour Society MERG Demonstrators Roy Hickman how to do scenery. Duncan Redford (drduncan) on 3D printing wagons, coaches etc

David McCarthy. It is with great sadness to report that David McCarthy (davidmcc3) died peacefully at home on 29th June 2021. He had fought a long and debilitating illness with great courage and good humour. He was nursed and supported through out by his wife Joy. David, late in 2014 decided to rekindle his interest in model railways, mainly the LSWR /Southern and to that end joined us at the South Hants MRC where he quickly established himself as a most able modeller. He began working on his long-held ambition, a model of Barnstaple Junction. This really was a most ambitious undertaking which though he made tremendous progress in a relatively short time sadly remains largely unfinished. Never someone to tread the well-worn path of others the whole enterprise was full of innovative and novel ideas. David was a member of several societies The South Western Circle, Southern Railway Group, MERG, EMGS and S4 to name but a few. This reflected his wide-ranging interests. David had his own business with Joy, building web sites. Besides rebuilding the club’s web site, he also built the EM Gauge Society website and he invariably had a prominent advertisement on the back page of the EM Newsletter. He had good administrative skills which were put to good use in helping with the organisation of our club exhibition and in taking over the leadership of one of our club layouts. David greatly enjoyed taking part in club events, especially going away with club and private layouts to exhibitions. There is a two minute video on our club website, which he took, our club layout, Hope under Dinmore, being erected at Trainwest. He will be greatly missed by members of the South Hants MRC and I am sure the many other organisations he was a member of. David was a dedicated family man and our condolences go out to his wife Joy and ‘the girls’.