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Epping Railway Circle will be holding its annual exhibition on Saturday 11th November from 10.00 - 16.20 at  The Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex CM16 7ER

Admission :  Adults £5.00, Child (11-18) £3.00, under 11's free

10 + Layouts in various scales, trade stands and refreshments

5 minutes from Theydon Bois station (LUL Central Line), free parking, wheelchair access.

 

Contact:  John Woods

Tel: 020 8508 1764

 Email:  isambard6@ntlworld.com
Web: www.eppingrailwaycircle.com

Layouts confirmed are (with more to follow):

White Bell (00) 4x4

Rixworth Green (EM) 9x3

Seaton (P4) 14x1'8”

Rainbow Railway (00) 4x1

Carlton Vale (00) 22x7

Madaford (00) 9x1'6”

Tawney Halt (0) 20x1

Dead Tree Manor (N) 4x2

 

Six Trade Stands

Club Stand

11 hours ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

They must be very selfish to do that. It really could be a matter of life or death for somebody.

 

It annoys me when I see people tailgate an emergency vehicle to make use of the path left by others making way, not that I see it very frequently.

Many years ago, I worked occasionally with a fireman, when tailgating was a regular event in our traffic locked town. He drove a pump escape (the ones with the big-wheeled ladders) and one day on a call,  weaving his way through traffic when someone stepped off the pavement. He hit the brakes and stopped, but was immediately pushed forward . The officer and the rest of the crew got down to investigate and found an expensive car with two large semi-circular grooves in the front end and water and oil pouring out underneath. While he called back to HQ to ask for another appliance to be sent to the call, the rest of the crew discussed the matter and summed it up as "You've got a problem mate".

John

On 14/12/2021 at 13:52, johnofwessex said:

In my limited experience its often that whatever an investigation at work starts by looking at it usually ends up with taking action over things like CV's & time sheets as they are much easier to prove 

When I became involved with a case of low level fraud in work, the policeman handling the investigation told me that the first move was to look at the person's travel and meals claims as that was where the first fraud usually occurred. The case ended up with trigamy (?) - three wives between London and the West Country, a fake suicide, and  wide-scale theft. The last time I met the policeman, he told me that next time I suspected something similar that I should keep quiet, as they didn't have enough staff to handle an  investigation which had eventually involved four forces

As might be expected in the present circumstances, there have been a number of changes to the list of layouts and traders.  Our exhibition manager has been working hard and although one layout cannot attend, we are now up to 12 layouts and 9 traders.

The layouts which have been booked are White Bell (00), Ousewell St Juude (EM), London New Street (00), Rossiter Rise (00), Prospect Wharf and Yard (EM), Triang Transcontinental (00), Reich Brewery 1946 (HO) , Soller (Z), Maddaford (00), Tawney Halt (0), Douglas Fields (N) and ERC's Tanglewood Common (00).

The traders are Cadogan Hobbies, Round in Circles, Reg Henderson, AE Millson Books, Past & Present Toys, Dave's Books and Models, the BR Standard Group, Epping & Ongar Railway and the club's S/H stand.

 

We hope that this will be the list 'on the day' and we will welcome all to what has been called "a small but friendly show"

 

John

 

Thanks Deltic !

 

For El Tel and sb67 - the layouts which have been booked are White Bell (00), Ousewell St Juude (EM), London New Street (00), Batcombe (00), Prospect Wharf and Yard (EM), Triang Transcontinental (00), Reich Brewery 1946 (HO) , Soller (Z) and ERC's Tanglewood Common (00).

The traders are Round in Circles, Reg Henderson, AE Millson Books, Past & Present Toys, the BR Standard Group, Epping & Ongar Railway and the club's S/H stand.

We have invited a number of other layouts, but cannot be certain of the full list until we receive confirmation, which I hope will be by next weekend.

John

Epping Railway Circle will be presenting its annual model railway exhibition on Saturday 13 November at Theydon Bois Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex CM16 7ER.

There will be 12 layouts, including 'Z', 'HO', 'OO' and 'EM', together with traders and societies.

The Exhibition is open from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm, admission is £5.00 for adults and £3.00 for children (11-18), under 11's free

The Hall is wheelchair accessible,  and is 10 minutes from J26 of the M25, (car parking is free), or it is a short walk from Theydon Bois (Central Line) Station. Light refreshments will be available.

 

While we intend to operate the exhibition in as normal a manner as possible, for safety's sake, we would ask everyone to follow guidance from the Stewards by observing any Covid restrictions which are in force on the date

 

https://www.eppingrailwaycircle.com/

On 27/09/2020 at 23:55, Compound2632 said:

In Saltley Firing Days, Terry Essery tells a similar tale involving the partial demolition of a platelayers' hut. So I suspect this is an oft-repeated enginemen's folk-tale. Good physics lesson nevertheless!

 

Back in the 1950's I would go with my Grandmother to visit her birthplace in the Sirhowy Valley, including a pair of elderly sisters who were level crossing keepers on a line to  Markham Colliery. On one visit, the kitchen door had just been stoved in by a HUGE lump of coal which had "fallen" off a loco, bounced on the yard and crashed through the closed door. When we left, they were still trying to work out a suitable explanation for the local BR Estates office

John

On 29/06/2020 at 21:15, 1466 said:

Just to confirm, I’ve asked Peco for details of the article . I guess it maybe a while before they can answer , but I’ll let you know the outcome .

 

According to my home produced index to my now dispersed magazine collection, the article titled "Dean 4-4-0 from a Triang Single" was published in the Modeller of Sept 1973, pages 208-210

 

John

The Epping Railway Circle regrets that its 2020 exhibition, due to be held at Theydon Bois Village Halls on 7 November has had to be cancelled for obvious reasons. We hope to return in 2021

John Woods

Secretary ERC

Thanks for the reminder pb_devon, I have a copy but it has slid down the 'to do' list - so many books, too little time ! 

 

John

The sources used to produce the list (which now runs to some 5000 entries) are varied,  including British and US Official Histories, Army Council Instructions and Admiralty Fleet Orders, Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations 1938, 1949,. 1956 and 1962, Parliamentary Debates and Reports, publications of the Industrial Railway Society and others

 

The availability of material on the Internet has provided many references, from republished original documents to the websites of local historical societies. All references have, wherever possible, been crossmatched

About 20 years ago, I began to compile a list as an attempt to identify, initially from published accounts, those wartime depots (excluding operational bases such as barracks, airfields, radar stations and dockyards),which were rail served (these are underlined in the atached list). However the sources used revealed so many service establishments that it was decided to list all those which may have generated or received rail traffic, and to try to identify, and separate out, those with rail access later.

 

The dates given are those where the site was first mentioned

 

John

 

Devon Depots.doc

7 hours ago, Northmoor said:

Many years working in the defence industry taught me that ties were expected in meetings, mandatory of you were meeting military officers.  Like them or not they are a minor indicator that you are taking the meeting seriously.  Latterly they weren't expected in the office, "smart casual" was completely normal. 

Now outside of defence, I find people routinely wearing a tie are very much the exception.

Rob

 

When I left Wales to start work at the Ministry of Defence in 19.. , I was living in a bedsit  and normally wore a West Mon (Pontypool) school tie to work, as its blue, green, red and yellow stripes  went with any colour shirt.  I was waiting in the lift to go to the fourth floor when an elderly gentleman dived in, and as the lift began its upward journey, he carefully looked me up and down and as we passed the second floor, eventually asked "young man, when did you serve with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ?"   I pondered for a moment, then told him that while to A&SH were raised in 1794, West Mon was a Haberdashers School which had its origins in the 17th Century, so why were they wearing 'my' tie.  He immediately pressed the button to stop the lift at the next floor - and I never saw him again. I often wore the tie in later years, but never got a reaction at meetings

 

John

There is also the Epping Railway Circle, which meets at Theydon Bois on the third Monday of each month to run its  00 layout  (and on the first Monday in the pub)  - see info@eppingrailwaycircle.com

 

John

There is also the Epping Railway Circle's show at Theydon Bois TOMORROW - see

https://www.eppingrailwaycircle.com/exhibition 

 

John

The layouts attending are:

Stodden Hundred Light Railway (0)
Hobbs Warren (0)
Fursenhall (EM)
Round House (H0)
Pacific Trams (H0)
Brownsville (H0)
Beatstable (OO)
Rossiter Rise (OO)
Ambleton Vale (N)
Southbridge (N)
Little Salkeld (Finescale N)
St Matin De Boschville (1:35)
... and ERC's Own Tanglewood Common (OO)

John

 

Epping Railway Circle will be presenting its annual model railway exhibtion on Saturday 9 November at Theydon Bois Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex CM16 7ER.

There will be 13 layouts, including finescale 'N', 'N', 'HO', 'OO', 'EM', 'O' and 1:35, together with 7 traders and 2 societies.

The Exhibtion is open from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm, admission is £5.00 for adults and £3.00 for children (5-18)

The Hall is wheelchair accessible, car parking is free,  or it is a short walk from Theydon Bois (Central Line) Station, or 10 minutes from J26 of the M25. Light refreshments will be available.

If you are travelling by car from the North (Epping) direction, Theydon Road/Piercing Hill, the short cut from the Bell Common at Epping, will be closed for major road works. It will be necessary to continue South on the B1393 to the Miller & Carter Steakhouse at the Wake Arms roundabout, then turn left on the B172 to Theydon Bois.

 

John

Nile said  ..."There's no Romford or Southend/Shoeburyness show this year, so it's just this one and Chelmsford for the rest of this year in southern Essex.", but there is also the  Epping Railway Circle's exhibition at Theydon Bois on Saturday 9 November

 

John

Your poster views upside down.

 

Gordon A

Sorry about that, my first attempt at posting anything other than text !  I reduced the size and turned it the right way up, but too late found that the original version had loaded . . .

 

One day I'll catch up with technology

 

John

Theydon Bois is currently suffering a blockage of unknown duration on the B172 (Coppice Row) following a ram raid on Tesco. A short section of Coppice Row in the centre of Theydon is closed, diversions have been signposted from the Abridge direction.

 

If you plan to come to what has been called “a small but friendly” exhibition, please allow a little extra time for the diversions and traffic disruption, but just to whet your appetite, we have twelve layouts ranging from Z through N, HO, OO, EM to G, five trade stands offering books, road and rail models, kits and kit-built, wagon loads, transport related toys, plus the Club's own pre-owned stall.

Refreshments are available, and parking is free.

 

Despite the possible travel difficulties, Epping Railway Circle looks forward to welcoming you on Saturday

 

John Woods

ERC Exhibition 2018.pdf

I faced this problem with collections of railway (1500 vols) and military (1000 vols) books, so having been a librarian all my wortking life, I devised my own scheme based on the Universal Decimal Classification - a BSI update of Dewey which is available for free download on-line

 

The railway classification, which reflects my own interests in GWR, military, industrial and modelling is:

 

Main Headings

 

000 General

010 Railway History - general

011 " " - UK

060 Photographic collections - general

061 " " " - UK (Company specific in 100-150)

 

100 British Railway Companies to 1948

110 GWR & predecessors

111 London - Bristol

112 Wales

113 S West

114 Midlands

120 LMS & predecessors

121 London

122 Wales

123 Midlands

124 Scotland

130 SR & predecessors

131 London

132 South East

133 Central

134 South West

135 IoW

140 LNER & predecessors

141 London

142 Midlands

143 E Anglia

144 N East

145 Scotland

150 BR 1948-1996

151 London

152 Wales ) Western

153 Central S & S West ) Region

154 Midlands ) Midland Region

155 South ) Southern

156 IoW ) Region

157 E Anglia ) Eastern Region

158 N East ) NE Region

159 Scotland ) Scottish Region

160 Private Companies 1996 -

161 London

162 Wales

163 S West

164 Midlands

165 South

166 IoW

167 E Anglia

168 N East

169 Scotland

 

200 Industrial & Narrow Gauge

210 Industrial - general

211 Mining

212 Docks & Harbours

213 Other industries

220 Narrow Gauge - general

221 Narrow Gauge - UK

222 Narrow Gauge - other

 

300 Military Railways & Railways in wartime

310 UK

320 NWE

330 Med

340 Middle East

350 Far East

360 USA

 

400 Model

410 Layout Design

420 Layout Construction

421 Baseboards

422 Track

423 Electrics

430 Stock

431 Locos

432 Passenger stock

433 'Brown' stock

434 Wagons

440 Scenery

441 'Landscape'

442 Buildings - Railway

443 Buildings - Industrial/Commercial

444 Buildings - private

445 Lineside equipment

446 Street furniture

447 Road vehicles

450 Painting/Lining/Lettering

460 Operation

 

Common Sub-divisions

Added after the classification number in brackets

B Biography

(005) Catalogues/Lists/Bibliographies

(010) History

(020) Management/Operation

(021) Accidents

(030) Locos

(031) Design/Construction/Livery

(032) Maintenance/Workshops

(033) Operating/MPD's

(034) Disposal

(040) Passenger & 'Brown' stock

(041) Design/Construction/Livery

(042) Coaches

(043) Parcels stock

(044) Horse Boxes

(050) Wagons

(051) Design/Construction/Livery

(052) Vans

(053) Open

(054) Flats & Bolsters

(055) Tanks

(056) Specials

(057) Service stock

(058) Private Owners - Coal & Minerals

(059) Private Owners - Tanks & Others

(060) Signalling

(070) Civil Engineering & Buildings

(071) Bridges, viaducts etc

(072) Buildings - Railway

(076) Lineside equipment

(079) Road vehicles

(080) Track

 

I tried to keep it simple (unlike those I used in work which could run to four decimal places plus two bracketed sets), so most subjets could be covered by one main number and one bracketed number, EG

 

a photgraphic collection of wagons  060(050)

 

LMS locos operating in Wales    122 (030)

 

John

My standard test for fixing things to walls was 'Will it take my weight?'

40 years ago we bought our first house, built in the 20's and nothing done since. Father in Law and I began a refurbishment, and when we came to the kitchen, planned to do it in two stages. In the first stage we hung new kitchen cabinets and he did his standard test of gripping the central shelf in the cabinets and lifting himself from the floor (as he said, double banked tins of food weigh as much as me).  Two years later, after FiL' s death, I started stage two, but when I hung on a cabinet, I ended on my back on the floor with the cabinet on top of me, with four bricks surely screwed to the corners, and four holes in the wall ...

 

John