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Please see attached photo of the Goods Shed on Kitedale. This Photo was taken by Barton Bradstock I am trying to contact him to see if I can use some of his photos of the layout. Can any one put me in touch with him please. I do not use Twitter or Facebook. Ray

Hello everyone, Please see below info about next month’s South Hants Area Group Meeting. Please will you let everyone know about it Please note there will be several workshops in different locations in the clubrooms. Not a lecture The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 13th June from 7.30pm at the South Hants Model Railway Club clubrooms, Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road, Portsmouth PO6 3LS “Model Workshop Tools Workshop” An Evening Workshop and Demonstrations of hand and power tools by a team of SHMRC experienced modellers We don’t expect to have any layouts up for running as space is limited, so members are encouraged to bring models to show and talk about. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at the meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The George" just down the road before they go home . The meeting is open to all, whatever scale and standards you work in. For directions to Clubroom please refer to the SHMRC website - www.shmrc.co.uk or for more information call Ray Hodson 07710 591511

Hello everyone, Please see below info about next month’s South Hants Area Group Meeting. Please will you let everyone know about it Please note there will be several workshops in different locations in the clubrooms. Not a lecture The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 13th June from 7.30pm at the South Hants Model Railway Club clubrooms, Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road, Portsmouth PO6 3LS “Model Workshop Tools Workshop” An Evening Workshop and Demonstrations of hand and power tools by a team of SHMRC experienced modellers We don’t expect to have any layouts up for running as space is limited, so members are encouraged to bring models to show and talk about. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at the meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The George" just down the road before they go home . The meeting is open to all, whatever scale and standards you work in. For directions to Clubroom please refer to the SHMRC website - www.shmrc.co.uk or for more information call Ray Hodson 07710 591511

And the best in show Scalefour 2015 = Plumpton Green by Barry Luck Ray

SOUTH HANTS AREA GROUP Supported by EMGS and Scalefour Society The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 10th Nov, 7pm for 7.30pm at the South Hants Model Railway Club clubrooms, Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road, Portsmouth PO6 3LS “I Do It My Way” by Terry Bendall Terry has been at the forefront of S4 Modelling for many years, with 43 years experience of modelling to P4 standards. In the early years he was one of the founder members of the Group that built Pulborough as featured at many shows and in the MRJ. Presently, with his son Simon, he has a modern image S4 layouts on the exhibition circuit and is the Scalefour Exhibition Manager. So make a date in your diary for November 10th. The S4 Eastwood layouts will be erected and available for running, the EM gauge Hope under Dinmore could be up, so members are encouraged to bring models to display and run, before the talk, during the break and after the talk. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be available at the meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The Churchillian" next to the clubrooms before they go home . The meeting is open to all, whatever scale and standards you work in. For directions to Clubroom please refer to the SHMRC website - http://www.shmrc.org.uk/location-contacts/or for more information call Ray Hodson 01329 315641 or 07951 978002

Hi Just a note as Chairman and Exhibition Manager about this years Portsmouth Exhibition, as many of you will know the South Hants Club used to put on expoEM South for many many years and this habit seems to continue, so if your interested in a expoEM/Scalefour type of show see what we have to offer this year. See http://www.shmrc.org.uk/exhibition/layouts/ Once again we have an impressive array of top class layouts that we feel show off our hobby at its very best. Plumpton Green 4mm P4 Barry Luck Winterley Wharf 7mm 0 gauge John Shaw London Road 4mm P4 Jol Wilkinson Hemyock 4mm EM gauge Chris Lamacraft Westcliff 4mm EM gauge Richard Butler Empire Mills 4mm EM gauge The Model Railway Club. Brighton East 4mm EM gauge Dave and Matt Smith Welton Down 2mm 9.42 mm Jim Allwood Pwllheli 4mm P4 Jonathan Buckie William Smith’s Wharf 2mm 9.42 mm Jerry Clifford Three Mills 3mm 14.2 mm Jas Milham Additionally we shall have Widley & St George, our layout built especially for our younger visitors who will be able to drive trains for a small fee (all proceeds go to charity) Traders and Demonstrators include AAR Models C&L Finescale Coastal DCC London Road Models Masterpiece Falcon Figures Model Railway Developments Modelu (NEW THIS YEAR) Modelu are a new company based in Mid Wales specialising in high resolution 3D printing of scale figures and detailed component parts. 3D printing may be a new world to some, so they aim to make the experience as simple as possible, helping you to get the most out of your design or idea and realise its potential in physical form. Should you have a requirement you would like to discuss, be it printing of a design you already have, a commission for a new item, or high resolution 3D body scanning, they will be happy to help. A Model YOU! 3D Body Scanning offers a world of possibilities for creating a unique personalised figure, even putting you on the footplate of your favourite loco! Modelu’s portable 3D scanning equipment will be at the Portsmouth Exhibition this year. Ron?Lines Rumney Models (NEW THIS YEAR) 4mm finescale kits and components including: •Milk tank chassis and additional detailing for the David Geen milk tank kits •A range of sprung wagon chassis including solebars, headstocks and detailed brakegear for steel solebar prototypes. They are designed to produce a complete chassis that can be painted separately from the body •A range of etched wagon kits •An extensive range of sprung diesel bogies (P4 only) •A range of sprung Single Bolster Coach Bogies for P4/EM only Justin Newitt Squires Model & Craft Tools Wessex Wagons Societies and demonstrators 2mm Scale Association EM Gauge Society Scalefour Society Phil Hall Roy Hickman The SHMRC annual exhibition will be held on Saturday 21 November at the Admiral Lord Nelson School. See our website for more details http://www.shmrc.org.uk/exhibition/layouts/

South Hants Area Group Meetings (EMGS & S4) Short report Summer 2015 . The Area Group continues to meet regularly, in June when Dave Bridges gave an illustrated and informative talk about “Making and Finishing Coaches” and we were able to see The EM gauge Hope under Dinmore and the S4 Eastwood layouts. thank you Cave for a most interesting talk. The next meeting is on Tuesday Night 15th September 2015. The title of the night is "Wagons Roll". Ray Hodson will give an illustrated talk on Pre Grouping plastic wagons, especially conversions and adaptions. Wagon loads will also be discussed. ALSO members are encouraged to bring any models to join in a Show and Tell session after the tea break and before we go to the pub. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at all meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The Churchillian" next to the clubrooms before they go home. In November we have booked Terry Bendall to give us a talk called "I did (do) it my way". Terry has been at the forefront of S4 Modelling for many many years, in the early years he was one of the founder members of the Group that built Pulborough as featured at many shows and in the MRJ. Presently, with his son, he has a modern image S4 layout on the exhibition circuit and is the Scalefour Exhib manager. So make a date in your diary for November 10th. Subject to confirmation. Ray Hodson South Hants AO

South Hants Area Group Meetings (EMGS & S4) Short report after December 2015 Area Group Meeting. Report Tuesday December 2014, we had another meeting in the South Hants Clubrooms, this month the talk was by David Hawkins about the operation of a Small Terminus (like so many model railways), the subject was Sherringham on the North Norfolk Railway where David is a Signalman and Guard. We learnt a lot about the real thing and many of us learnt something we should know if we are to operate models in a prototypical manner, Thanks Dave, it was also very entertaining. The next meeting is on Tuesday Night February 10th 2015. The title of the night is "Rock and Roll Railways". We will have Hope under Dinmore and Ogden Fold operation and the intention is to operate 1950/1960 BR Stock (hence R&R Rly). Please bring along any BR Stock you want to run. ALSO bring any models to join in a Show and Tell session after the tea break and before we go to the pub. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at all meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The Churchillian" next to the clubrooms before they go home. Ray Hodson South Hants AO

Short report South Hants Area Group Meetings . Report NEXT MEETING Tuesday 9th December 2014 We return to the South Hants MRC Clubrooms at Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road, Portsmouth (see http://www.shmrc.co.uk/location.htmlfor directions or contact me). My good friends Dave Hawkins will be giving an illustrated talk on operating a Branch Terminus Signal Box at a busy Station from dawn to dusk. As a well known modeller (Gt. Bardfield, Kitehouses and Stoke by Nayland to name just three layouts), he will be advising how our model layouts might learn from the operation of the real thing. Dave is a Guard and Signalman on the North Norfolk Railway. Finally the evening will be completed with a show and tell session, so please bring along what you have made during the year. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at the meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The Churchillian" next to the clubrooms before they go home . Come and join us. LAST MEETING Tuesday 11th November 2014 Last month we had a very good night at Southampton Model Railway Society Clubrooms. Two illustrated talks by Alison Barker and Phil Hall kept us enthralled for a couple of hours. I think we should remember the talks but also just think how long it took the speakers to prepare the talks. Thanks to them both. FUTURE MEETING FOR YIUR DIARY Date for your 2015 Diary - Tuesday 14th April 2015. An Audience with Tony Wright as he discusses “The Changing Hobby”. Tony is well know in the hobby as a photographer, Magazine Editor, Magazine article writer and most of all a prolific modeller. This talk was very popular talk a the recent BRM East of England Exhibition at Peterborough. Best Regards Ray Hodson

Short report after my first Area Group Meeting in September. Tuesday 9th September 2014 We had a successful and enjoyable Area Group meeting, the agenda for the night was as planned. Chris Budd gave an demonstration of soldering trackwork, especially the crossing vee using silver soldering techniques, now we all need to make another special jig as he showed us. Dave Hawkins, Phil Chudley and Jonathan Buckie described three different ways of make buildings for the Eastwood Layout (see photo of a radial tank in front of the Eastwood signal box, complete with full interior details - that no one can see. (but we know it's there). Running rights were exercised on Eastwood and Hope under Dinmore layouts (one week before going to Expo EM North). Unfortunately no visitors brought any stock with them, so please can I encourage members to bring some models to show us and to run if possible. If you cannot stand constructive critisism beware you might get blunt recommendations. Tuesday 14th October 2014 The second meeting will again be at the South Hants MRC Club Rooms at Fort Widley, Portsdown Hill Road, Portsmouth (see http://www.shmrc.co.uk/location.html for directions or contact me). , The Theme for the night is Railway Models of Southern England from LSWR to SW Trains and all stops in between. At the time of writing this report, three exhibition layouts will be available to view and to use as "test tracks". Lee on the Solent, end to end (S4) http://www.shmrc.co.uk/layouts/Lee/Lee.htm and Ogden Fold (S4) this is being prepared for the East of England exhibition (18 October 2014 - 19 October 2014 at East of England Showground, Peterborough, PE2 6XE) plus Eastwood S4. In the early evening Ray Hodson will demonstrate how an RSU works and how to use an RSU in the "Building Room" for those interested. Later on Dave Smith will be describing his stock as used on his Southern Area Layout Brighton Road (EM). Tuesday 11th November 2014 We can now confirm that we have been invited to the Southampton Model Railway Society Clubrooms. Unit 1b,3b,5b & 6b Kemps Quay Industrial Park, Quayside Road, Southampton, SO18 1BZ. (See http://southamptonmodelrailwaysociety.wordpress.com/contact-us-2/) The speakers will be Phil Hall discussing RTR conversions and Alison Barker one of the few Ladies active in Model Railway (and Co-Chairman, SMRS) Other facilities are operational OO and O gauge layouts plus N gauge under construction. There are DVD and VHS players and we probably have access to a digital projector. More info to follow. Tea/coffee and biscuits should be available at all meetings. At the end of the evening members are invited to join the Portsmouth locals at "The Churchillian" next to the clubrooms before they go home, or in Southampton we will have to find a watering hole. Update 13-10-14 The Ogden Fold layout is fully erected prior to the East of England BRM exhibition next week end. The layout should be running as at the exhibition for testing and if you want photographing. Just another thing to look forward to. As all the L&Y stock will be on Ogden layout then the Eastwood layout will be using BR Steam and Green Diesels plus what ever you bring with you. Visiting stock welcome. See you next Tuesday Ray

We have the first Area Group meeting, under new management this Tuesday night at Portsmouth Please see the attachment for more info. Ray South Hants AG News Summer 14.pdf