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  1. AlanRogers
    I stand ready to be corrected but Slimrails was one of Roger Chivers' sons and Five79 was the other. Though Slimrails has closed, the kits remain in production (or have recently become available again) and can be obtained from https://five79.co.uk/Narrow-Gauge/
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    Event Name: Narr-O 2017 - Surrey Area Group Members' Open Day Classification: Open Day Address: Merstham Village HallStation Approach NorthMersthamSurreyRH1 3ED Day 1: 22nd April 2017 Opening times Day 1: 10:00 AM to 16:00 PM Prices: £5 Adult, £3 Concession, £3 Child, £10 Family Disability access: Yes Car parking: Yes Website: http://surrey.7mmnga.org.uk/ Organising body: Surrey Area Group of 7mm NGA Organiser: surrey@7mmnga.org.uk After the success of Narr-O in 2014, we're repeating it next year. This is our annual operating day but geared up a little bit and opened to the public. You'll already find the event on UK Model Shops and details on our web site. We are delighted to be able to confirm the following attendees already: Layouts Morton Stanley by Chris Ford and Nigel Hill Cranbrook Town by Dave Holman and Paul Davies Totherend by Roger Jones Watchet Harbour by Peter Jackson Portwenn by Simon King and Peter Selby Glyn Valley by Nigel Smith and Peter Binns Traders Mark Clark with Locos n Stuff Stephen Fulljames with Narrow Planet Simon Cox with Kitwood Hill Models Societies 7mm NGA with Modelling Goods, Second Hand, Publications and Membership Amberley Rail Group East Surrey MRC with their large 00 layout operating upstairs The show will be opened by BBC Presenter Nicholas Owen, who is quite the rail enthusiast, being a qualified fireman on the Bluebell as well as inaugurating Polar Bear back into operation at the 2013 Rail Gala. We hope that you'll be able to join us. Details are confirmed in the attached flyer, which can also be downloaded from our web site. Don't forget to spread the word and bring a friend too!
  3. AlanRogers
    Agreed. One of our group has an extensive 0n30 layout, so I naturally have an 0n30 train (or two) to run on it! That helps me to resist the urge to have an 0n30 layout, thankfully.
  4. AlanRogers
    That's pretty much the ethos behind the area groups of the 7mm NGA. Said Association is much like all its peers, a worldwide membership organisation whose principle benefits are the bi-monthly magazine and the annual general meeting, the latter of which is frequently attended by less than 10% of the membership, despite having a very good exhibition attached to it. RMWeb, and NGRM Online of which I am also a member, are similar models, albeit using differing communication media. The notion of area groups and occasional meetings is therefore, in my frequently forthright and often accurate opinion at least, a logical and welcome progression. After all, fun as playing trains undoubtedly is, it's even more fun in groups! As a for instance, our area group is having a modelling day tomorrow. We hired a hall, ordered some bacon and rolls, so some 12 to 15 of us can sit down for six hours, make (rather than play) toy trains, help each other out, chew the fat and put the world to rights, and probably continue the latter over a pint across the road after we've cleared and packed up.
  5. AlanRogers
    I was born in Brixton but moved before I was old enough to remember. Battersea was my formative years, then via Thornton Heath and Croydon to Merstham. I joke that I'm on schedule to retire on the South Coast somewhere! Please see shameless promotional post in appropriate thread ... Resistance is futile. Come along to our little show where you can also buy some bits to get you going!
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    Hi, I'm Alan and I'm a 7mm narrow gauge modeller. I originally hail from Battersea but now live in Merstham, Surrey. I'm original Saarf Lundin - please watch your misspellings cromptonnut! I'm also an active member and supporter of the Surrey Area Group of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association, helping out on the publicity stand at Narrow Gauge South West, Narrow Gauge South, Expo NG and Amberley as well as local shows such as Crawley and East Grinstead. For the first time, we also had a stand at Alexandra Palace this year. My day job is as a self-employed managed support provider and technology strategist to small businesses; outsourced IT Manager if you will. As a result, I'm also very interested in DCC, favouring Digitrax at present.
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    Event Name: Narr-O 2014 Classification: Open Day Address: Merstham Village Hall, Station Approach North, Merstham, Surrey RH1 3ED Day 1: 08/16/2014 Opening times Day 1: 10:00 to 16:00 Prices: Adult
  8. AlanRogers
    Greengate, now Green Gates, is currently owned by me, loved by my son and used as an occasional exhibition layout for small shows. It can next be seen at the M5 M50 Narrow Gauge Modellers Open Day on 5th October at Staunton Village Hall, Corse. It has been converted to DCC and I'm currently working on how to power the points as these were originally set for operation from the back but I prefer to operate from the front. Finally, the layout may yet become part of something a little larger, in a modular style.
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    Ian Having seen Smržovka and operated it, I'm quite looking forward to seeing this new foray into former Eastern Bloc railway modelling. Using the station name board in the first photo ... ... your diacritics are upside down on your track plan. I know I sound pedantic but, being married to a woman who spoke Czech/Slovak before English, I wanted to point it out before you exhibited the layout with such a glaring error - there are a lot of people in this country who've been to the Czech and Slovak Republics! Given the caron/háček over the R and S and the acute over the I, it's actually pronounced Dobzhreesh.
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