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    The London Festival of Railway Modelling- 21 & 22 March 2020

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    1 hour ago, GrahamB said:

    Option 1 – Free ticket to the re-arranged London Festival of Railway Modelling on 22-23 August, 2020

    Option 2 – Free ticket to The National Festival of Railway Modelling in Peterborough on 5_6 December, 2020 or The Festival of British Railway Modelling in Doncaster on 13-14 February, 2021

    Option 3 – We cancel your free ticket but add two additional issues of BRM to your subscription free of charge

     

    Please can Andy Y confirm that the show has been rebooked at Alexandra palace for August 22/23 2020? 

    Thanks

    John K

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    Gauge O Guild Summer Show Doncaster - Cancelled

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    The Events Team and the Management Committee are sorry to announce that the Gauge O Guild’s Summer Show scheduled for June 6th 2020 in Doncaster has been cancelled because of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak. 
    All traders (many of whom are not members of RM web or of the Guild Forum) will be notified by email tomorrow.
    John K

    Leamington & Warwick MRS Exhibition 7-8 March 2020

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    Posted · Edited by John K
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    18 hours ago, LWMRSNews said:

    Break-in at the Model Railway Exhibition at Leamington Spa. Friday 6th / Saturday 7th March 2020.

    The opening of the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society exhibition was delayed on Saturday....

    ....Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society club members expressed concern that there have been a number of similar incidents across the country in the recent past but are pleased to report that on this occasion the intruders have not touched any of the models on display and no further damaged was caused.

    May I thank you for a well written, clear and unsensationialised report of the incident.

    John K

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    Digitrax Radio Throttle Problems at Big Shows

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    On 25/11/2019 at 13:12, WIMorrison said:

    It may simply be necessary to use wired handsets as the public is not going to stop using smartphones and I suspect that most people wouldn’t know whether they have a live hotspot or not.

     

    what I did notice from the other reports of issues is that most people were having issues with 2.4Ghz radio and yet when using 5Ghz connections the problems were greatly reduced.

     

    this would make sense as 5Ghz is newer and devices that support this standard have better components and up to date firmware and software - but whilst 5Ghz might work now that will change as more and more devices use 5Ghz and you will be back to wired handsets.

     

    upping the power to ‘drown out’ other signals won’t help either as other exhibitors will simply do the same and once more you are back at the same place.

     

    temporary solutions include changing the channel to a less congested channel either manually, or by using a decent router which has automatic channel optimisation m, ideally with beam forming technology. You can get these from Hauwei and TP Link at reasonable cost.

    I fear you may have misunderstood.

    If you take your own router which is password protected and not connected to the internet, it matters not a jot how many thousands of people are using phones around you.

    I have twice operated at Warley successfully with JMRI and smartphones with no interference fro any other systems.

    Digitrax duplex is a waste of space in a busy environment.

    John K

     

    Telford 2020

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    Posted · Edited by John K
    Correction of typos

    I am afraid that there is a bit of misinformation being circulated here.

    All Guild members have recently been circulated with information about Guild Events and other matters.

    I note that Sir Douglas has correctly put some of that in his thread. 

    Any information not contained in the summary that went to members, or that is not available to members on the Guild website, is extremely likely to be incorrect.

    John K

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    55H 9f

    in 7mm+ modelling

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    9 hours ago, AdamD98 said:

    Thanks Hal and John.

     

     Out of curiosity what makes the Lee Marsh model a better buy? Excuse my ignorance here as I am very new to 7mm modelling. 

    Hi Adam

    It is just personal choice, and i have been around the 7mm world for a while.

    I just think the Lee Marsh stuff looks great and, I have never heard a single complaint about how it runs.

    Best

    John

     

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    55H 9f

    in 7mm+ modelling

    Posted

    10 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

    Incidentally in case you weren’t aware, Lee Marsh also do a 9F.

    And if I were wanting to spend that sort of money it would be the Lee Marsh one that I'd buy.

    John K

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    Track / Motor Voltage

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    Posted · Edited by John K
    Correction

    Hi Electron

    Can I ask about your initial premise.

    The modern O gauge world no longer uses heavy open frame motors, and does not run at 24V. Little maxon or canon motors driving high efficiency gearboxes are the order of the day.

    Are you running very old models?

    Except for a few, heavy drawing, twin motored diesels most O gauge DCC-ers, of which there are now very many, use standard OO/HO rated decoders.

    I have been running DCC in O gauge since the turn of the millennium.

    John K

     

    G.C.R Model Event 14/15/16 JUNE 2019

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    Posted · Edited by John K
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    I was at GCR all day yesterday with a club layout, and I have spoken to our team who are there today.

    As a major victim of last month's destructive event I would strongly urge against making unsubstantiated comments about details of the burglary at GCR.

    I don't think we should be commenting about security arrangements with hearsay information.

    John K

     

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    East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition June 8/9th 2019

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    This time next week it will all be over. Make sure you don’t miss out on the 2019 East Anglian Model Railway Exhibition on 8th& 9thJune in Kettering. NN15 6PB

    Here are five more layout previews:

     

    Bewdley is by Graham Heald & Chris Manners in OO gauge.
    Bewdley is based on the real location at the Severn Valley Heritage Line. To the credit of SVR, very little has changed since 1862 when it opened, to the BR Western Region days 
    and its closure in 1969. The layout depicts the station from 1958 to 1969, with three platforms providing loops to which trains could pass on the single line branches to 
    Shrewsbury, Kidderminster, Worcester, Tenbury Wells and Hartlebury.

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    Cameo Callaton by Mick and Yvonne Simpson in 2mm Finescale
    Mick says: “This little cameo was started with exhibition attendance very much in mind since while touring with my last exhibition layout, I was always being asked how easy it was to start in 2mm finescale. Enter the cameo layout which is usually quite small, very portable, doesn’t cost very much and enables the builder to exercise every discipline that building of a larger project might involve but,in generally a fraction of the time. This little project is based loosely on a prototype which existed close to the real Callerton, north of Newcastle upon Tyne, the story of which lies outside the scope of this little 
    description”.

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    Copper Wort by Peter Goss in OO gauge
    This is a working demonstration of a layout build in progress. The early 1900s represents the high point of the brewing industry in Burton on Trent, extremely busy with the bigger breweries establishing their potential with the Midland Railway network with the smaller breweries muscling in between them.  To add substance to what is essentially a little-known small brewery company I have given it a few of its own 0-4-0 locomotives to support the Midland Railway locomotives running through. The layout includes a track plan based on the much larger Worthington’s arrangement to accommodate the numerous Midland Railway and Great Northern open wagons and outside framed MR vans. 

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    Dock Green by Colin and Margaret French in O gauge.
    This layout is a fictional O Gauge, 7mm/foot minimum space with no points. It’s based on an imaginary Industrial locomotive depot somewhere in a docklands area of the United Kingdom. The layout consists of three parallel tracks two of which are the loco depot the third being a hidden siding. To save space, there are no turnouts on the layout hence the title. A short traverser is used in the fiddle yard to enable locos to change tracks. The period depicted is the early 1950s. Watch out for PC Dixon who is continuing with his enquiries. Photograph by Paul Bason

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    Frackingham by The Norfolk Joint Railway in 7mm Finescale.
    Frackingham was a sleepy Norfolk hamlet until the oil rush of the 1920s hit the district. Oil shale was being quarried and processed at Setch which prompted the English Oilfields 
    Company to open an exploratory pit at Frackingham. This proved to be no more successful than the workings at Setch but the crushing house and retort house were constructed with a conveyor to link the two. Oil from Norfolk shale proved to have too high a sulphur content for most purposes unlike the better-quality oil shales from Scotland but production continued until the 1960s on a small scale for cosmetics manufacture. West Norfolk has a long history of minerals extraction and in 2017 trainloads of high quality industrial sand were still conveyed from the Sibelco site at Middleton.

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