Suffolk & Norfolk Group?

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Eleven met on Wednesday evening for our April meet.

Four of the challenge layouts were present:

Graham brought the prize winning Raven Gill

Chris had Ashfield Green on display but I understand he's still constructing the controller!!

Alex was running Upton End and test his open day purchase, a Minitrains Gmeinder diesel loco.

Jim brought Old Chapel End.


Bertie was showing some of his 009 locos under construction and a Backwoods C class pacific awaiting construction.
Well under away were a Backwoods Fowler 0-4-0 and Backwoods Garrett and now have the bodies in primer with running chassis. A Chivers large Hunslet Cackler was also in primer. Chassis construction for a Darjeeling & Himalayan Railway 0-4-0 seemed to be near completion.

Andrew brought along a Railway Modeller article from 2007 featuring his 009 layout Newton Halt. The layout had won a prize at the Chelmsford MRC for a small layout challenge.

Phil gave his new Bachmann bo-bo diesel chassis a test run which will be a donor for a Langley Fairlie which he also had with him.

Neville brought one of the books from a series about the Rio Grande Southern railroad.

Richard was testing his open day purchase, a new Minitrains Zillertral Boehler 0-4-0 which was purchased form the Society stand at the open day and a couple of Minitrains tank wagons.


We had a chat and we all agreed we were very pleased with the open day.
We are aiming to do one in 2016.

Alex suggested a Modular layout challenge for the next year. There seemed quite a lot on enthusiasm for this but maybe for a ongoing project and perhaps the 2016-2017 challenge.

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To avoid the Bank Holiday our next meet is on:

Wednesday 6th May

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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Six of us attended the May meet at Barsham, with a variety of projects too show.

Alex brought his yet to be named 009 layout which features a country station with sidings and a continuous circuit.

Alex is also progressing with the scenics and has been scratch building structures using Wills kits and embossed plasticard. He also had a selection of rolling stock running.

Chris had a 009 Backwoods Miniatures Single Fairlie 0-4-4T kit on show. Some of the body and chassis has been assembled.

Richard had some 009 works in progress with him. A Minitrains Bohler tank loco now lettered and numbered for the fictitious Beccles & Bungay Railway. He also had a Peco flat wagon painted up and a couple of Parkside freelance brake vans built and painted for the railway.

As a group we also gave Richard's recently acquired 009 TGW TU Koppel 0-4-0 chassis a test drive at only 4.5V we gave it just a small amount of juice with a bit of weight assistance from Chris's Mashima motor from the Fairlie kit. It ran quite nicely!

Refreshments were served and a short chat about various up and coming plans for the group and plans for the next open day concluded the meet.

Next meet is Monday 1st June 19.00 - 22.00,

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Our next meet is on:
Monday 1st June

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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http://nsngm.org.uk/

Our next meet is on:

Monday 3rd August

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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12 attended the August meet.

Stewart brought along a Z scale Marklin railbus/railcleaner which will be used for the basis of his 2mm Southwold Railway railbus for the new group Challenge.
Graham was showing his completed 009 Chris Ward side tank loco.
Geoff was demonstrating one of his scratchbuilt 0.16.5 radio controlled locos. A Bachmann OO chassis was used for it. The batteries and electronics are in a coach that connects to the loco.
Jim was running in a new N scale Bachmann Plymouth loco on his 009 layout Hubbards Halt. The loco chassis will be a donor for something in the future.
Alex brought along his Industrial shelf layout and was also test running a Bachmann N scale Plymouth loco whch will be used for a future 009 project. He was also showing progress with his 009 Brian Madge Hunslet. Alex is turning it into a freelance version and has machined a handbrake and chimney for it.
Neville had three boards of his HOn3 layout to test fit the new middle board which features a large wooden trestle.
James had a couple of recently completed Oe locos. The first is a Faur-L45H Romanian diesel. The body is a resin kit by KS Modelleisenbahnen running on an Athearn HO chassis. The second loco was created by using the left over parts of the Faur diesel and runs on a Piko HO chassis.
Richard brought along a couple of recent 009 loco body kits. First is a Narrow Planet Hunset 'Pamela' and the other a Tyne models produced by Narrow Planet Kerr Stuart 'Wren'. He also had the beginning of a micro layout that will be MOD themed and will utilised Ammunition cans to support the layout.


The Next meet is Monday September 7th 19.00- 22.00 at Barsham Village Hall

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Our next meet is a Saturday 'Running Day'.
As the evening meets don't really leave enough time for anything other than the smaller layouts we are repeating last years running day to give members more time to set up and run their layouts. Last year saw around seven layouts and I think there will be more this time.
We will be having a fish n chip lunch.
The meet is open to anyone to attend and is free to get in.

Saturday 10th October

10.00 - 16.00
Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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we had eight layouts for our running day.

Six were 009 and there are some pics now on the website.
There will be some video clips going on the website soon.

http://nsngm.org.uk/?q=node/43

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Graham Watling's son Alan took some film at our running day a couple of weeks ago and has now added it to the website and on you tube.

Alan and Graham run the website for the group, please find link to video below

https://youtu.be/a634LRDjLBY

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http://nsngm.org.uk/

Our next meet is on:

Monday 2nd November

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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http://nsngm.org.uk/

Our next meet is on:

Monday 7th December

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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http://nsngm.org.uk/

Our next meet is a Saturday 'Running Day' on the 6th February

The evening meets don't always allow enough time for layout operating so we are having another one of our running days.
We usually have a round 6-7 layouts on show.
We will be having a fish n chip lunch.

The meet is open to anyone to attend and is free to get in.
10.00 - 16.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask

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http://nsngm.org.uk/

Our next meet is on:

Monday 4th April

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask


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Cheers

Richard

Norfolk & Suffolk Narrow Gauge Modellers - http://nsngm.org.uk/

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Graham Watling has updated the website with some photos of Monday nights meets

http://nsngm.org.uk/?q=node/59

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Our next meet is on:

Wednesday 4th May

19.00 - 22.00

Barsham & Shipmeadow Village Hall,
Bungay Road,
Barsham,
Suffolk,
NR34 8HA

Follow B1062 from Beccles or Bungay
Turn into hall car park by phone box.

Please feel free to bring a layout, works in progress or items to show etc.

All scales welcome

any questions please feel free to ask