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Hmmmm still listed on ukmodelshops too - where it could quite easily have been removed.
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Great to see that you got back later and had the 'ballast train' pose done. I was behind you inth queue when you had the 60//66/70 shot taken. Really looking forward to seeing the 3D prints. I can see a few places I could place myself on the club layout.
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untilEvent Name: Leamington & Warwick MRS 41st Annual Model Railway Exhibition Classification: Exhibition Address: Royal Leamington Spa CollegeWarwick New Road, CV32 5JE Day 1: 5th March 2016 Opening times Day 1: 10:00-17:00 Day 2: 6th March 2016 Opening times Day 2: 10:00 - 16:00 Prices: Adult:
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untilEvent Name: Leamington & Warwick MRS 40th Annual Exhibition Classification: Exhibition Address: Stoneleigh Park Exhibition & Conference CentreStoneleigh ParkNr. CoventryWarwickshireCV8 2LZ Day 1: Saturday 7th MArch 2015 Opening times Day 1: 10:00 - 17:00 Day 2: Sunday 8th March 2015 Opening times Day 2: 10:00 - 16:00 Prices: Adult
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Well, for me it was the highlight of an otherwise slightly lacklustre show. Very impressed with how much has been done in the last nine months even after reading about it on here during that period. It was also good being able to chat with some of the operators - one of the benefits of the forward control positions. Thanks to those I spoke with who were all helpful, informative, and friendly. Inevitably I took a few photographs.
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untilThe 38th Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Exhibition Sat 8th - Sun 9th March 2014 VENUE - Hall 2, Stoneleigh Park Exhibition & Conference Centre OPENING TIMES: SATURDAY 10am to 5pm, SUNDAY 10am to 4pm ADMISSION: Adults
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Scalescenes have released some pictures of their station building and goods shed kits for this station. They do look pretty. From their comments I'd expect top t see them on their website this Friday.
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Supplies - that's the easy bit. Lychett Manor - http://www.lytchettmanor.co.uk/mercontrol.html Now the trickier bits. There's three ways of varying the throw. Either an Omega Loop - the wiggle in the wire - or by using a hole in the operating lever closer to the pivot, or by using a crank, using a hole nearer the pivot for the point-side movement No problem with strength for working two turnouts - thw only thing to be aware of with a crossover is that when you pull one point you probably need to push the other. This is done using a crank to reverse the throw to one turnout Gunging it up. Keep it clean, mask the area around the end of the tube when using glue. You'll need to keep that part of the turnout ballast free as well..
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Good to see mention of 'Mad' O ROurke's chain, even if at its peak it did spread ouf of the black country. As a student \at Wolverhampton Poly in the (very) late 70s - early 80s, I had a weekly Wednesday afternoon in Dudleyand used to catch the bus over there, and usually spend the evening frinking there, or in Gornal, or other points on the wsay back. I got to know of this chain back then, but it aasn't until a few years later that I completedthe set - not in a day as suggested but over a year. The deal y then was that they flogged a souvenir in each pub, which you bought when you got your card stamped (in my year it was a beer mat - not the absorbent cardboard type, but a solid, cork based thing, with a picture of the pub) and when the card was complete you could sent if off for that year's decent gift - in this case a framed and mounted print of the artwork from the mats - pictures of allt he chain of pubs. I still have them at home somewhere. I only had the cow pie twice on that tour - there was enough other good filling food that I actually preferred to it on the menu, and it didn't seem as large as it had done in my student days. I wsa mainly a mild drinker then, but the chjain was one place where I used to try other beers - encouraged byt he daft names. Thinking moddeling, would there be trroom to fit on one of their pubs - typically run down failing pubs in poor areas, cheaply decorated up, and tarted up with a lot of tat to fit a theme?
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Leamnington & Warwick MRS Exhibition 2013
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untilThe Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society 38th Annual Exhibition -
The Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society will be holding a DCC open day on Saturday 5th May. Tjhe clubhouse will be open from 10:00 to 16:00, and it is hoped that all layouts will be operational, There will be additional DCC reources on hand to help with those DCC issues and queries. All are welcome. Please contact the society for mew details at enquiries@LWMRS.co.uk
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Will it come with a device to remove boy scouts from horses' hooves? Joking apart it sounds very useful.
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Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society are pleaseed to announce our annual open day on Saturday 4th February. Your chance to see all our club layouts, and the clubrooms, and enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and a slice of cake with the members.. Please bnote, we are aware that some people were given informationt hat the open day would be on Saturday 28th January. This information was given in error. We would like to apologise for any confusion and inconvenience this may have caused. For ddetails of the open day, and directions to the society clubrooms, please email the societyat enquiries@LWMRS.co.uk
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A single rare earth magnet pulling down onthe trip wire will not operate this style of coupling. A pair, careful;ly placed might do so, by attracting the wire sideways..
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Aquick experiment on a couple of scrap pieces of Peco track a few nights back indicate that hiding it will be a delicate job. The magnet is about as deep as a Peco sleeper, so there's not a lot of height on top to play with. My plan is to use thin strips of stained wood. and paint between them with a textured paint. The wood from a Camenbert cheese pack looks about right - it shouldn't be any thicker than the head of a rail pin.. Fitting it to Code 55 will be easy. The rails are well embedded into the sleepers, so cutting along the inside of the lenghwise plastic that holds the rail base gives a snug fit and leaves the rails well supported. Code 80 may be trickier. It's easy to strip the rail fastenings off the rail, and leave the rail and the outer ends of the sl;eepers floating in mid air. Care will need to be taken here unlesss the rail is already well fastened down and probably ballasted.
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I may have found a use for those little wooden tubs that Camenbert is sold in. I've not put a gauge on it, but the wood is pretty thin, and might well end up as fake sleeper segments on the top of an uncoupling magnet.
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Hi Ben, Thanks for passing on that information. It sounds to me like a wise call by Bachmann. I see my couple of packs and a magnet were despatched by Dapol yesterday - time tro do some experimenting over the weekend with a bit of luck.
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If they haven't that's excellent news, but in coversations I've had with him some time ago at exhibitions (all long before I had any idea you were releasing knuckle couplings) he was certainly talking about the need to 'step' the head height away from the NEM height, as well as issues with making sure they didn't flex vertically. Of course, haviong not seen his couplings I could have misunderstood what he said, or things may have changed.
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Farish have also been working on a similar knuckle coupling, and from conversations with them and with Dapol it seems they have taken two incompatible routes to get them to market. Neither company has said they are incompatible or given any dimensional data to support it, so these conclusions are driven by descriptions. Dapol have gone for a straight through design, lpacing the knuckle coupling at the same height of the (european standard) NEM pocket. This is simple to engneer, and they have stated that they will be supplying NEM pockets as a glue-on replacement accessory for stock with pre-NEM Rapido couplings. As Farish is part of Bachmann, and they already provide non-NEM-mounted knuckle couplings for American stock, they have designed their knuckle couplings to ride at the American standard height not the NEM height. This allows interoperability with other Bachmann products, but (presumably) not with Dapol couplings. It has two disadvantages though - first of all the plug-in unit has to have a vertical joggle to get the coupling head to the right height, and secondly it may interfere with UK height beffer beams. Fromt he discussions it sounds as if getting the first issue sorted without vertical slop is what has taken them so long to develop. What it has not been possible to determine yet is whether the actual heads and mechanisms are compatible anyway, even if they were at the same height. As the one constant (on recent stock anyway) is the height of the NEM pocket,and it allows easy substitution, I can see some people going for one 'standard', and some the other, depsnding on a variety of factors.
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I can see a lot of barrow crossings being modelled ithe near future. The pricing seems high for a single pair of couplings - although looking at American equivalents the same seems to apply, and larger volume packs generally are at lower unit prices. Let's hope the same applies here. The real benefit I can see is as Andy has said - replacing end couplings on rakes of vehicles, and on appropriate locomotives. At least with NEM pockets now becoming widely available this is easily, (and temporarily if required) done without major conversions, and convertor wagons, with a different coupling on each end, can easily be made up. Anyway, a definte step forward. Now to start experimenting with pairs of Neo-magnets under the rails to get the same effect.
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Leamington & Warwick MRS Annual Exhibition
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untilStoneleigh Park Exhibition & Conference Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Near Coventry, Warwickshire CV8 2LZ OPENING TIMES: SAT 10am-5pm, SUN 10am-4pm ADMISSION: Adults £7.00 Concessions £6.00 Children £4.00 Family £18.00 This will be our fourth year at Stoneleigh Park and continues our consolidation at this new venue. With working layouts in many scales, extensive range of trade support and refreshments all in one hall of over 30, 000 SQ FT. Once again our ever popular Second Hand stall will be present with lots of bargains available. We offer a FREE PROGRAMME on admission (While stocks last) and there is ample FREE PARKING at the venue. Please visit our website for full details of the event. On behalf of the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society May I welcome you to this our 37th annual Model Railway Exhibition. This is our 4th year at the Stoneleigh Park venue and the third time we have held the event in the spacious Hall 1. This year we again bring you a variety of working layouts for your viewing pleasure. We have layouts built to scales ranging from one of the smallest at 1.4mm/ft (Z Gauge) up to 10mm/ft (Gauge 1) at the larger end. We have Continental and American railways on show as well as Narrow Gauge and even the London Underground. For those interested in specialist models have a look at our layouts of Bassett Lowke and Hornby Dublo. If your interests lie in period models then we cover from the early 1900s up to the present century, and, as always, we do not forget the younger visitors. We hope they will become the modellers of the future. For trade presence we always strive to provide variety. The trade support is the backbone of our exhibition and again this year we offer a wide range of model railway related products to tempt those hard earned pennies out of your pocket. Our hobby is well supported by an array of Societies offering specialist information relating to the real railways, past and present, as well as information on modelling itself. These Societies form a vital section of our hobby and we are pleased to present some of these Societies at our show. Our own Society will, of course, be present. If you would like to find out more about the LWMRS or even consider joining us please visit our Society stand. Our members will be on hand to offer information and try to answer all your questions. And do not miss our amazing Second Hand stall. It has gained quite a reputation over the years for offering a huge quantity of bargains which May just include that illusive item you thought you would never find. And finally you the visitors. What would any exhibition be if it wasn't for the visitors that come along to see it. Our aim is to present a spectacle for visitors to enjoy so we hope you can come along this time. David Hewett, Exhibition Manager Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society. Latest News - Due to unforeseen circumstances Sodor Island will not be attending the show. List of Layouts Attending : Abbey Road 4mm OO London Underground 1990 Algarve 2mm N Portuguese Bassett Road 7mm 1930s Blucher Street 4mm OO Fine Scale DCC 1968 Bolsover and Seven Lane Pit 4mm OO 1950s-60s Calderwood 4mm OO L & Y 1910 Duke Street 4mm OO Hornby Dublo Duxbury 4mm OO 1950-64 Flockburgh 3mm 1950-60 Foston Mills 7mm 1950s Highbury Colliery 2mm FS 1920s Hope Works 7mm 1950s-60s Kingshill 4mm OO9 1950s Narrow Gauge Little Kanawa Low Yard HO 16.5mm USA 2000-2010 Poole in Wharfedale 4mm OO Early 50s Silbeeke 1.4mm Z Gauge Belgium 1980s Sodor Island 4mm OO Thomas & Friends Springfield Spa 2mm N GWR 1934-42 ST. Merryn 4mm P4 1954 BR Ex LSWR Tan-yr-allt4mm OO9 1950s Narrow Gauge The Stabling Point 7mm O Gauge Vintage Tinplate 10mm Gauge 1 Pre 1923 Walford Town 4mm EM London 1980s Willowbrook Marsh 7mm FS 1950/60 Other Exhibitors 2nd Hand Stall Bachmann Club Stand Daventry MRS EM Gauge Society Gauge O Guild G E C Model Engineering Society (Coventry) Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Historical Model Railway Society (HMRS) Hornby Magazine Knightcote Boat Club Lancashaire & Yorkshire Railway Society Model Bus Federation N Gauge Society Oo9 Society Pendon Museum Trust Scalefour Society Severn Valley Railway Association Stafford Railway Circle List of Traders Attending : A B C Model Railways Antics Bill Hudson Transport Books Black Cat Baseboards Brian Collier & Alan Jones Classic Train & Bus Comet Models D & E Videos DCC Supplies Dean Sidings Finishi ng Touches Freestone Model Accessories Greenscene H & A. Models Hedgerow Scenics JB'S Model World Kytes Lights Langley Models M & B Models Mercian Models Metropolis Modelenium Modelex Nick Tozer Books Parrish Paintings Pheonix Precision Paints Picture Pride Displays R.D. Whyborn Roger Carpenter Photographs Rural Railways Shawplan Model Products Squires Craft & Tools Ten Commandments Unit Models Wealistic Models -
I think there's a hat going into the ring here. Since getting heavily involved in a club layout I've done nothing on a barely started layout at home, and other ideas have been tempting me. A micro / diorama could be the fix I need to get me working on stuff for home. The problem now is to work out which idea is achievable, both in time and space.
