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Latest News from the club, for its members and guests


Gallery Updates - 18th August 2010


Added a new Medway Queen gallery to the Media page. Richard Halton had this to say:

 

"New wagons just received from Dapol, no doubt you have already read about them in N Gauge Journal.Naturally, I hope to be able to tempt at least some of you into adding one (or more) to your collection, so I will bring some along to the next B.A.G. meeting (September).
Our fundraising priority is now the refurbishment of the main steam engine. "New Medway" ventilated vans and conflats and a range of "Albion Dockyard" wagons for N are currently available. See our web site for details. This year's Kew Festival of Models will be on October 2nd/3rd."


Webmaster


Calendar Updates - 26th July 2010


During the month of August the Church will be inaccessible due to construction work. All meetings are cancelled. Please check back for updates.

 

The running afternoon on September 18th clashes with a new booking on the evening of the same date. This requires the club to be out of the Church by 4.30pm.


Webmaster/Chairman


Website Updates - 14th July 2010


New link added to the "Layouts" page - Yorkshire Area Group Modules


Chairman


Members Updates - 8th July 2010

 

After an unfortunate burglary ealier in the year, I have been informed by Peter that following a tip off on eBay, two of his cases of rolling stock have been recovered by Thames Valley Police and should be back with him soon. This is a an excellent development that should see over 80 items of Peters collection returned (I hope) is unchanged condition!

 

Webmaster


Website Updates - 28th June 2010

 

Some elements of the Website have been updated after communication with the N-Gauge Society (nothing major). We also have some new iamges to check out on the media page and finally the Calendar has been updated again with the latest details of remaining events this year.

 

Webmaster


Winnersh fete - 22nd June 2010


Congratulations to Guy and Adam, who against all the odds managed to complete the diorama of Hurst/Winnersh Halt, it looked fantastic, we hope to have some pictures available soon, but it will be on display at the club meeting on the 23rd June for all to see.


We also enjoyed having our large modular layout to play with, so a great time was had by all, thanks to Peter D for the invitation and to all that helped on the day.


Chairman

Links Update5th May 2010

Added link to David Mitchells 'Kidmore layouts' website.

 

Webmaster


Wagon Modelling competition - 15th April 2010

Neil will be offering members (on the 28th April) a wagon to build, ready to be judged on the 26th May.

Chairman

Link added for Model Railway Insurance - 15th April 2010

Chairman

Media Update - 13th April 2010

Images from the recent Club open Day have now been added to the Media page. Also included are some images of the first meet for the LMS 'Mini' group operated by members of the Berkshire Area Group.

Webmaster


Open Day 2010 - 12th April 2010

Congratulations and thanks to you all for your support and help on the day, although we outnumbered the visitors at various times during the day!

Special thanks go to all our Ladies who provided and delivered the lunches and cakes etc, and of course to the champions of the Tombola, who not only out sold their previous record but kept us entertained all day.

We will have the draft results for members on Wednesday, but expect a poor result as the attendance figures were very low and we only had two traders in the Medway Queen and the Bring & Buy sales to provide additional donations to our results, but our thanks to Richard and Roger for their continued support.


The Chairman

Media Update - 23rd February 2010

Images from the recent Kenavon Exhibition have now been added to the Media page. A video is currently being compiled.

Webmaster


Calendar Update - 22nd February 2010

*IMPORTANT*
21st August Running Afternoon has been cancelled due to the Church holding a Wedding.

As the 21st August is now free, it has been suggested that we hire a larger venue to create the largest modular layout possible. This would be accompanied by a brunch/buffet/BBQ free of charge. If you could please let the committee know if you think this is a good idea for our 10th anniversary and if you have modules available on the Saturday 21st August. Any suggestions of a suitable venue would be very useful.


Photo's of Peter Dunsterville winning entry for the 2009 Chairman's Challenge have also been added to the Chairman's challenge page.
Well done Peter.

The Chairman


Kenavon Exhibition - 20th February 2010

Thanks to everyone who helped on Saturday at the Kenavon show, we all had a great day running our stock.

The Chairman

Calendar Update - 4th February 2010

More details of events and club meetings has been added to the Calendar. Always check the Calendar page to ensure you are update to date on all that is happening.

Webmaster


Marketing - 2nd February 2010

A flyer advertising the Club Open Day has been added to Exhibition page, please print a few out and take them to any local exhibition you might be attending.

Chairman

Calendar Update - 7th January 2010

Some more event details have been confirmed on the Calendar.

I have also recieved word that the Maidenhead & District Exhibition on the 9th January has been cancelled due to the recent adverse weather conditions.

Webmaster