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I don't think that there are any available at the moment. However the Welsh Railways Research Circle recently launched a range of transfers for Cambrian Railways' stock see http://wrrc.org.uk/online_sales/transfers.php and it is proposed to extend the range to other Welsh railways including the B&am...

Chris,
For a meal I can recommend the The Seven Stars in Dinton a few miles outside Aylesbury http://www.sevenstarsdinton.com
Rod

Thanks for the link to the pics Danny and your kind comments John, glad you could visit.

Our report on the day can be seen here https://www.newportmrs.co.uk/2018-open-day

Rod

Update on the Open Day We have a further attraction! Richard Evans (of CamKits 4mm Cambrian Railways Transfers and Etched Kits) will also be in attendance with part of his new EM Layout Three Cocks Junction. Further information and up-to-date details can be found on the NMRS website at http://www.ne...

Update on the Open Day As a consequence of postponing the Open Day Bwthyn y Rhosod (O Gauge) and Fred Lewis, the Welsh Wizard, will no longer be able to attend. Further information and up-to-date details can be found on the NMRS website at http://www.newportmrs.co.uk/2018-open-day . Rod

billbedford wrote:Anyone checked the tide tables?

Well, high tide will be at 08:58 but it's all changed since you abandoned us Bill. Millions of pounds have spent enclosing Crindau Pill with the sole purpose of preventing Little Mill's baseboards being swept away on an ebbing tide.

The Newport MRS / NAGNAG Open Day has been re-aranged for Sunday 29th July 10:30 to 16:00 at Shaftesbury Community Centre in Evans Street, Newport, NP20 5LD. We hope, and early indications suggest that, the line-up will be as previously planned. Further information and up-to-date details can be foun...

Sorry to miss you both chaps but we had planned to bring in three layouts' from peoples houses as well as set up LMJ (and ABB too but that's a doddle) on Saturday evening and it was all looking like too much. we're already looking at alternative dates and will update everyone as soon as I can.

Due to the weather conditions we have decided to cancel the open day planned for 4th March.

We will look at alternative dates and post information here.

Rod

Hi John

We're setting up on Saturday night (if we can get there!) and I'll post a note then on what we find. \

Rod

With the prospect of inclement weather over the next few days we had seriously considered the idea of cancelling the open day but having looked at the current forecast for the 24 - 48 h preceding the Open Day and the fact that we have distributed flyers and we don't want people turning up to a close...

Unfortunately lots of the BS4 & Glevum area group members will be at Warwick (with Clutton & Sheep Pasture respectively) - but there are only 52 weekends to choose from, & I'm free so will pop along! And you will be very welcome Pete. We tried to avoid as much as we could, even moving f...

philip-griffiths wrote:My head is doing summersaults trying to work out where Blackbrook would be in the town.

If you can work that one out please let us know.

WRT the service from ABB to Llanastr, now that is a thought! Are you listening Bernie?

Rod

Good question Philip, In our history the good burghers of Abergavenny were dissatisfied with the N&W line being so far from the centre of the town and pressed for a town-centre station. Wishing to ward off the LNWR the GWR responded by promoting a nominally independent company to build a short b...

Update 20th February Richard Evans (of CamKits 4mm Cambrian Railways Transfers and Etched Kits) will no longer be able to attend as he will be promoting the modelling of Welsh railways in England with the Cardiff 4mm Group taking their superb Ynysybwl layout to Preston. The Admiral City of Newport H...

Newport MRS in association with NAGNAG (the Newport and Gwent Neighbourhood Area Group of the Scalefour Society) are holding our third biennial* open day on on Sunday 4th March 2018 10:30 to 16:00 at Shaftesbury Community Centre in Evans Street, Newport, NP20 5LD The open day isn’t meant to be an ex...

Croeso i Gymru Justin

Thank you all again I must admit that differential thermal expansion is something I hadn't considered. Gauge widening doesn't really concern me - i reckon that 20 degC temperature rise would only increase the gauge to 18.86 mm, similarly absolute length increase isn't a concern. Differential expansi...

Terry

Thanks for your your suggestion (and the spur to look at SN176 again), i'm a bit worried though that I'll be heavy-handed and turn my nice flat aluminium angle into a roller coaster.

Rod

Thanks John - something like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ultratape-Rhino-Double-Sided-Multi-purpose-Strong-Carpet-Tape-Heavy-Duty-Room-/121987584774?hash=item1c6706d306:g:enAAAOSwxfNXOMPQ?

We need to attach aluminium angle to acrylic base plates to make up some fiddle yard cassettes (á la Chris Pendlenton vide MRJ Issue 27 1988) so I'm looking for recommendations for a suitable double-sided adhesive tape. Ideally one that isn't going to fail after a few years.

Have you tried J.H.Russell's Freight Wagons and Loads in Service on the Great Western Railway and British Rail, Western region pub OPC

David, i've looked at mine and the spacers are soldered to the frames but it wouldn't in itself be an insurmountable task to replace them with wider ones of course.

Prompted by a member of NAGNAG I exhumed from my attic a Samhongsa GWR OO Pannier, which I bought in 1981 for the huge sum of £69 thinking that it would appreciate and I would be able to spent my retirement in clover. However, since the real value of the little beasties is less now then when I bough...

Why is anyone using copperclad for main steam track work ? In planning the new NAGNAG/Newport MRS layout, Little Mill Junction, http://www.newportmrs.co.uk/littlemilljunction.htm which is set in 1954, we starting off blithely selecting which form of construction we would use for our bullhead track ...