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Sodbury Vale Model Railway Exhibition 1 February 2020 St Mary's Church and Church Hall, Church Road, YATE, S. Glos, BS37 5BG Sodbury Vale Model Railway Club's 35th Annual Model Railway Exhibition will again be held in the fantastic setting of St Mary's Church and the Church Hall, right in the centre of Yate. An easy walk from the Yate Shopping Centre Car Park where there is plentiful free parking (max stay 4 hours). Please note that there is only disabled parking adjacent to the Church. Open: 10.00am to 4.30pm Admission: Adults £5 and accompanied children FREE. Layouts Bristol Barton Hill – N – Stan Potter Tucking Mill – 2mmFS – Jerry Clifford Amiens 1918 – 009 – Callum Wilcox Coleford - 009 - John Wilkes Moose Creek - HO - Brian Tucker Zweinuck an der Donau – HO – Eric Bird St Philips - OO - Thornbury & South Glos MRC Barnstaple Town - OO/009 - Barrie Blackmore Mutton - OO - Rob Gunstone Wheal Imogen – P4 – Rich Pedder Queen Street Yard - O - Gerald Maher Somerset Lane - O - SVMRC Tony's Forest - O14 - Robin Edwards Gare de Brindille - 16mm NG - Chris Hopper Traders Amberly Services Aspire Models Brunswick Railways Keith's Bits N Pieces Lord & Butler 813 Preservation Society Societies Avon Valley Railway Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Yate Heritage Centre Demonstrators Phil Harries – Modelling wagons and their loads Refreshments available.

4298 at rest A JLTRT 42xx by David Thomas displayed in his O Gauge shed diorama. Taken at the GLOSGOG Show on 24 March 2019.

Due to the current weather and that, even if it stops snowing, the conditions under foot around the church and school are likely to remain treacherous well into Saturday, it has been decided to cancel the show. Thanks for the interest and hopefully we'll have better luck with the weather next year.

I echo the above. The quality of the layouts at the show was superb with good trade support. It was busy from the opening and it hardly died off until right at the end of the day. Catering was excellent too. Well done guys.

Looking forward to the show tomorrow. The End of the Line is already packed up and ready to go. Looks a very good line up all round.

The End of the Line gang are looking forward to the weekend. If you are coming then please come and say hello.

Thanks for that!

Sodbury Vale Model Railway Exhibition 2 February 2019 St Mary's Church and Church Hall, Church Road, YATE, S. Glos, BS37 5BG Sodbury Vale Model Railway Club's 35th Annual Model Railway Exhibition will again be held in the fantastic setting of St Mary's Church and the Church Hall, right in the centre of Yate. An easy walk from the Yate Shopping Centre Car Park where there is plentiful free parking (max stay 4 hours). Please note that there is only disabled parking adjacent to the Church. Open: 10.00am to 4.30pm Admission: Adults £5 and accompanied children FREE. Layouts Lavington Basin - N - Mike Sonley Coleford - OO9 - John Wilkes Bitterfeld - HO - Eric Bird Moose Creek - HO - Brian Tucker St Philips - OO - Thornbury & South Glos MRC Barnstaple Town - OO/009 - Barrie Blackmore Seven Ash - OO - Steve Pike Mutton - OO - Rob Gunstone York Gardens - OO - SVMRC Wheal Imogen - P4 - Rich Pedder Queen Street Yard - O - Gerald Maher Somerset Lane - O - SVMRC Tony's Forest - O14 - Robin Edwards Gare De Brindille - 16mm NG - Chris Hopper Traders Amberly Services Aspire Models Brunswick Railways Keith's Bits N Pieces Lord & Butler 813 Preservation Society Societies Avon Valley Railway Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Yate Heritage Centre Demonstrators Laurie Griffin - Working Inside Model Valve Gear Jerry Clifford - 2mm Finescale Modelling Refreshments available.

Here is the train at Gloucester. Was it really over 30 years ago......

Look forward to seeing you down the club Rich, its changed a bit since you were last there. The gang might have to do some modelling instead of building works this year. Callum - PM sent.

Many thanks to those who supported the show, visitors and exhibitors alike. Despite the weather, we had a very good turnout. I've made a bit of a mistake in delegating to someone else to take the show photographs as it means I have none to post - D'oh! However, Callum's video above is a great record of the layouts. Thanks again.

All set for the weekend. A few preview shots below. Chewton Mendip (EM) by Tim Tincknell Oxford Road (OO) by Rich Papper Derwent Road (O9) by Bill Flude Frampton (P4) by Rich Eason Ramma Woods (O9) by Simon Andrews

Sodbury Vale Model Railway Exhibition 3 February 2018 St Mary's Church and Church Hall, Church Road, YATE, S. Glos, BS37 5BG Sodbury Vale Model Railway Club's 34th Annual Model Railway Exhibition will again be held in the fantastic setting of St Mary's Church and the Church Hall, right in the centre of Yate. An easy walk from the Yate Shopping Centre Car Park where there is plentiful free parking (max stay 4 hours). Please note that there is only disabled parking adjacent to the Church. Open: 10.00am to 4.30pm Admission: Adults £5 and accompanied children FREE. Layouts City Basin Goods – N – Stephen Dance Winterwell – TT – John Thomas Bitterfeld – HO – Eric Bird Abbots Morton – OO – Paul Fogg (SVMRC) Oxford Road – OO – Richard Papper Chewton Mendip – EM – Tim Tincknell M Shed – EM – John England Frampton – P4 – Rich Eason Bwthyn Y Rhosod – O – Steve Neill Derwent Road – O9 – Bill Flude Ramma Woods – O9 – Simon Andrews Angell Creek – On30 – Paul Davies & Co Snowdon – 8mm NWNGR – Peter Booth Traders Amberly Services Aspire Models Brunswick Railways Keith's Bits N Pieces Lord & Butler 813 Preservation Society Societies Avon Valley Railway Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Yate Heritage Centre Demonstrators Dave Murdoch - 7mm Loco Construction Laurie Griffin - Working Inside Model Valve Gear Jerry Clifford - 2mm Finescale Modelling Refreshments available. Website: http://sodburyvalemrc.co.uk

Good to see you and Simon at Yate on Saturday. I hope you had a good day and from the feedback I received, I know you stole the show. Sitting on the door in the porch all you could hear were your guns - the church acoustics picked up your normally quite subdued ambient soundtrack and worked some magic. Oh, and thanks for look after John on Hollow Fosse who was on his own, he appreciated it. Hope to see you around. Cheers, Tim

I haven't done much RC conversion wise over the past 2 years. Though, my three lorries have covered a decent mileage on Giles's old layout 'The End of the Line' - 18 Shows (27 exhibition days) over 2015/16. There is a chap from the Newport MRS who has started to get into 1:43 RC and has already converted his own Morris Commercial and an Austin K8 van. If you saw Frecclesham at Warley, you may have seen them. Steve is working on an RC Austin 7 (van, I think) and a tipping lorry at the moment - they should both be worth keeping an eye open for. He uses a different motor gearbox (something like this) but I'm not sure how much torque they give. We are both at Bristol O Gauge Show in a few weeks so I'll get him to drive his vehicles around TEOTL and we'll see how they handle the gradients. The motor gearbox Steve uses is a lot smaller than the ones Giles and I use. Steve's K8 took my fancy and I've have had a Thames 400e van kicking around for a while too so they have come on to the workbench. I'm waiting for some more steering blocks from Shapeways before I can go much further (and there are a few other distractions around at the moment) but I'll try to get them running for Bigglewade (18 February). They are both Oxford Diescast models. There is plenty of room in the Austin K8, in fact it is quite a big van and the normal set up should just about squeeze into the 400e. Though, I'm going to have a play with a linear servo for the steering on the 400e (like these). I'm looking forward to adding these two to the TEOTL stock boxes. Now, another matter. One of things I'm watching at the moment are the batteries in my lorries. I use the same battery as Giles - one for the iPod Nano first generation. All three of my lorries were converted between November 2014 and January 2015. I built my own charger (it was a self build circuit kit sold on eBay - sadly, it is no longer available to my knowledge) and I fitted an ammeter to it so I could see what was going on. I've noticed that the charging characteristics of my batteries are starting to change. Typically, a lorry will be used for 4 hours and then I'll swap it out for another (I forgot once and the lorry was still merrily chugging away after 6 hours). On charge it would take 250mA initially which would decay steadily and the charge cycle would be complete in about 45 minutes. I've noticed that batteries are now only taking 150mA initially and taking longer to charge (about 90 minutes). I've had iPhones since they first come out and never had one last more than 3 years before I've had to change the battery so I'm guessing that my lorries may be no different. Though, I've not noticed any decrease in charge capacity yet. No big issue as its a simple job to change the battery over but I'm certainly using new battery stock on the van conversions I'm currently doing.

That is going to be 'fun' to reverse!

Earlier today, I stumbled across these time lapse exposures I took at Gloucester station probably around 1986/7. Scary - 30 years ago

There is a photo of 37270 crossing the road by the (then closed at the time) Fountain Inn leaving Marsh Sidings on 7 May 1976 in 'Rails through the Forest - The Severn & Wye Railway (etc)' by Silver Link Publishing. It's working to Marsh Sidings was to bring in GWR Autocoach No167 to the Dean Forest Railway which then had its base at Parkend. I'm also sure that there is footage of 37270 both bringing in the Autocoach and leaving with the last revenue train on a DVD (B&R Vol 120?). I don't have access to my DVDs at the moment to check but I also seem to remember that the Class 37 is seen leaving Parkend to dubbed in Class 25 sound! (or maybe there is a class 25 leaving Parkend to Class 37 thrash earlier on the DVD, its one or the other).

Thanks Steve. I'm afraid I'm a bit of Luddite when it comes to social media - I spend too much time on modelling forums as it is [Edit - given my efforts here, joining facebook wouldn't help my spelling either!]