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  1. Dave Searle
    Thanks for the further comments: beast66606 - that was part of my original thinking and may well still happen as we clarify what else is competing for this space. One thought was to use cassettes on the dead-end roads to provide the ability to swap out shorter trains & rakes of stock. Ben A - funny you should mention the NGS autoballaster kits - one of the team is making up 25 of them at the moment. There will be photos in due course to show what we're doing. Cheers, Dave
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    Many thanks for the comments. I didn't make it very clear, but we are a bit further down the line than implied by what I wrote - we are currently laying track. My "plan" was to do several posts on different aspects of building the layout, introduction, aspects of the design, baseboards, track, stock. To answers some specific points: Grafarman - our Chairman wants to run a steam special so this will probably happen occasionally (of course anything can run on a club night). brian daniels - the layout at the north end is a bit of a compromise. Even with a 20ft layout there is some severe compression - to do it real justice would have needed at least twice the length! Any background info on what stock you've seen there and how you operate the yard would be most welcome. red death - we may not be your nearest (Wimbledon may be nearer), but you are most welcome to come and see us. PM me for details if you are interested. Edwin_m - the fiddle yard arrangement has split opinion within the club - with some suggesting bi-directional tracks and other preferring the simplicity of the loops, both options having pros and cons. In the end it was a toss-the-coin type of choice. We are hoping to have enough stock to run multiple sets of DMUs and there are some spurs at the ends of the fiddle yard to allow stock to be changed around. Edwin_m & Oldddudders - the board width is another compromise, being 33" total with about 19" for the scenic side, but we hope to get the feeling right. Kris - Couplings will be standard Rapidos for mainline stock which won't need to be re-marshalled. Current thinking is to use DGs for the engineering stock. Cheers, Dave
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    The Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Club's 2011 Exhibition is being held on Saturday 16th April 2011 and Sunday 17th April 2011 at the North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT), Reigate Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 3DS. Full details on our Website Opening Times: Saturday 10 am - 5:30 pm Sunday 10 am - 5 pm Admission: Adults £5.00 Children (under 16) Free Refreshments available FREE on-site parking for 600 cars Level access for the disabled Layouts Attending Abbotstone (7mm/ft, O gauge, MR) Axe Edge and Thatch Marsh Colliery (4mm/ft, EM gauge, BR, Buxton, Derbyshire) Bridgford (2mm/ft, N gauge, LMS, 1930s) Camp 93 — Parson's Lumber Company (7mm/ft, 0n30, US Logging) Coldfair Green (4mm/ft, P4, ex-GER, 1960s) Coombe Wharf (4mm/ft, P4, LBSCR c.1905) Corris (4mm/ft, OO9, Corris, 1880) Grange Over Sands (2mm/ft, N gauge, Cumbria 1960s and 2000s) High Peak (4mm/ft, OO gauge, Derbyshire) Hinksey Yard (2mm/ft, N gauge, EWS, 2010) (under construction) Hornby Junction (4mm/ft, OO gauge, Children's activity layout, sponsored by Hornby Ltd.) Kayreuth (2mm/ft, N gauge, Germany, 1990s) Pempoul (1:50 scale, France, Reseau Breton) St George's Quay (7mm/ft, O gauge, North East, 1930s) Whitburn Corporation Trams (4mm/ft, OO gauge, Urban, 1940s) Whiteoak Light Railway (7mm/ft, O-16.5, Industrial) Yeoford Junction (4mm/ft, EM gauge, LSWR) Traders Attending Ace Products Addlestone Model Centre All Components & On Track Bluebell Railway Branchlines Dart Castings d.c. Kits Digitrains Eileen's Emporium Freestone Model Accessories Kevin Robertson Books N Brass Locos N Gauge Lines & GEM Peter Dunk Railwayania/Replica Railways Roger Carpenter Photos Roxey Mouldings South Eastern Finecast Club second-hand stand.
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    Background and Planning At it's AGM in 2009, the Epsom and Ewell's Model Railway Club decided to build a new N gauge layout to complement our existing OO, P4, and O gauge layouts. A vague decision was made that it should depict a more modern railway than the existing layouts which cover the LSWR, SR, GWR and BR blue periods. After much thought, a plan was drawn up to make a model based on Hinksey Yard, just south of Oxford, and set it in the present day. The track plan: The prototype: At the end of November last year the committee gave financial approval and the Chairman suggested that it would be nice if it could be shown as a layout under construction at our exhibition in April at NESCOT. The aim is to see if we can get enough built to show trains running and give the public a flavour of what the layout will eventually be like. This would be quite a challenge as normally our club likes to take its time building layouts (20+ years not being unusual!) Next step the baseboards. Dave
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    Saturday 24th April: 10 am - 5:30 pm Sunday 25th April: 10 am - 5 pm at North East Surrey College of Technology (NESCOT), Reigate Road, Ewell, Surrey KT17 3DS. For details see www.eemrc.org.uk
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