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Going Big – Modelling to 3.5″ gauge with Live Steam
As you are obviously all well aware, our Covid 19 world has moved in to a very strange place in the last month. Many of us are is lockdown and people are allegedly going mad with nothing to do. Fortunately, most modellers have far too many incomplete projects in their stash drawers to keep them …read more.
Apr 4, 2020
Clubnight Suspension
In view of the current situation with the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, it has been decided to suspend the MRC club nights on Thursday evenings with immediate effect until at least May. The matter will be kept under review and we will advise as and when this changes. We regret having to take this …read more.
Mar 17, 2020
London Festival of Railway Modelling 2020 Cancelled
Warners Shows have decided to cancel the London Festival of Railway Modelling, that was scheduled for 21-22 March 2020. This decision was not reached lightly, but Warners and The MRC believe that the right one for the health, safety and wellbeing of all involved. Thank you to all layouts, societies and members for their …read more.
Mar 17, 2020
Copenhagen Fields getting ready for a photo shoot
The layout continues to develop, and its a good time for an update in one of the magazines, so we’ve got a photo shoot coming up this Friday 21st Feb which is a n added incentive to get some details completed. Before that we’ve got a running session on the Thursday evening from 7-9 – …read more.
Feb 15, 2020
Members’ Layouts – an Introduction to Golden Mile
As well as contributing to our Club layouts, many of our members have their own projects at home – and here’s an example of just one of them. “Golden Mile” is inspired by the 2mm Scale Association’s golden jubilee competition this year and a chance purchase of some wagons at a deep discount. The requirements …read more.
Feb 12, 2020
Bow Junction – ready for another busy year
Bow Junction is our 7mm scale layout, which is being built to Scale 7 specification. The main difference from standard finescale 0 gauge is that the track gauge is 1 mm wider and the back to back dimension is 2mm greater. Also the thickness of the wheels is less than finescale 0 gauge. It is …read more.
Jan 11, 2020
Busy on the Wharf
Inspired by the sight of us slaving away to get Orchard Wharf fit to show to the expectant public at the London Festival of Railway Modelling (usually known around here simply as ‘Ally Pally’ — we all know the mega life event to which we refer), one of our EM colleagues suggested it was high …read more.
Jan 1, 2020
Renumbering Coaches
Here’s a simple project to renumber coaches to avoid having duplicates on the layout or make them specific to your region. These are Bachmann Mk1 sleepers – for the ‘next’ project, and with 3 of both types (SLSTP and SLF) in the rake I needed to renumber at least 4. They’ve been converted to EM …read more.
Dec 29, 2019
Ingatestone – Christmas update
As we now come to the end of another year it’s time for an up date on our Ingatestone blog . This year has to some extent been dominated by remedial works which has lead to some improvements above and below the surface of the layout. There has been a programme of reorganising our power …read more.
Dec 21, 2019
Minories in Brighton
The final outing for us in 2019 was to the Brighton Model Railway exhibition in November. It’s an invite from our member Nestor that we’ve had to put off due to previous clashes with Tolworth and Wakefield, but it’s a reasonably quick drive down the A23 for a set up on the Saturday morning as …read more.
Nov 28, 2019
Minories at the Great Electric Train Show 2019
Minories made the trip to Milton Keynes in October for the Great Electric Train Show. It was a late evening set up on the Friday, and we only just squeezed between the layouts either side that were already up when we got there. A fault in the wiring on a board (that had worked fine …read more.
Oct 18, 2019
Copenhagen Fields wins at Fareham
Fareham exhibition had a couple of interesting firsts for CF. We had the fastest set up ever – within three hours – because if constraints of hall access. A major plus for the team who worked incredibly well together. Our take down & loading was also very efficient, only being marred by a fault on …read more.
Oct 15, 2019