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TRACKWORKER (Incorporating the Signal) Model and Miniature TRACKWORKER (incorporating the Signal) MRC eld from the members of Uck Articles and Features News, The journal of Uckeld Model Railway Club. Published on an occasional basis December 2000 December Cover.indd 1 31/12/2008, 04:45 Model and Miniature TrackWorker December 2000 Editor: John Pollington. Email: [email protected] CONTENTS Next Issue: 2001 CLUB DIARY Deadline for the next issue will be determined by the Meetings and other events: 2 amount of material submitted to the Editor. Submission of any item which may be of interest EXHIBITION REPORTS to our readers would be welcome, including good quality colour or monochrome photos or diagrams Holland - Rail 2000: 3 for inclusion on the front and rear cover, or to Colchester ‘MM: 3 complement written articles. Club Exhibition 2000 - a review 4 All contributions are gratefully received but PROGRESS REPORT publication cannot be guaranteed and material may Bentley Miniature Railway Progress: 5 have to be edited, split or held over for future issues. Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily FEATURE those of the Editor, the Management Council or the Adventures of K.C. the Engineer (2): 6 Board of Directors. LAYOUT REPORTS Kennet 10 Leysdown 10 Buckham Hill 10 The Test Track 10 “Mini-Bentley” 10 Cover photograph 4-8-4 P36 class loco on tour train in the Ukraine photo by Andrew Else (see the article inside) CHRISTMAS GREETINGS! Back Cover The Officers, Directors and Council wish all members the very best for Cristmas and the new year. 0-4-0P/H loco “Rachel” coupling-up to “Fowler” at the Bentley Miniature Riy, prior to a double-headed run. photo by the Editor Uckfield Model Railway Club Limited is a Company Limited by Guarantee, incorporated on 13 August 1999. Registered Company No.3824818. Registered Office: The Courtyard, River Way, Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 1SL Company Officers and Board of Directors - Year 2000 / 2001 Company Secretary: Company Treasurer: Directors: Derek Williamson David Clifford Barry Miller, Geoff Billington, John Quick, Keith Nock Management Council President: Chairman: Secretary: Treasurer: Management Council Members: Keith Nock John Quick Derek Williamson David Clifford Barry Miller, Alan Morris, Richard Pearson, Peter Southern, Geoff Billington - 1 - December Contents-2.indd 1 01/01/2009, 01:40 December 2000 Model and Miniature TrackWorker Editorial This is the second issue in the new A4 format. With the time available to me to produce it, plus the amount of contributing articles at their present levels it is likely to be another 12 months to the next one (prove me wrong, please - the more I receive, the shorter the time before the next issue). May I remind you that this is a journal of reviews and report articles on what we have done. The Club Secretary will continue to publish separate short Newsletters giving advance notice of forthcoming events. CLUB DIARY CLUB MEETINGS are held in our rented HQ building in Uckfield, every Monday and Thursday evening. Open from 7:30pm. Members also meet at wekends for the maintenance of our miniature railway in the grounds of Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum, on Thursday evenings during the summer months and every Sunday outside the operating season. During the operating season, from April to September, members attend to operate the railway on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Bank Holidays, plus Wednesdays in August. DECEMBER 2000 19th Christmas Party. Tickets, £1, available from Derek Williamson. FEBRUARY 2001 9th, 10th & 11th Brighton ModelWorld - Club Portable 71⁄2” gauge passenger track in use again 24th & 25th EM Gauge Layout, “Treyarnon” goes to the Carshalton & Sutton show, Leatherhead. MARCH 3rd & 4th Sussex Model Rail 2001, at Crawley Leisure Centre. “Treyarnon” chosen to represent the Club 24th & 25th British Railway Modelling Festival, at Alexandra Palace, London - “Leysdown” is going APRIL Easter Start of operating season at Bentley Miniature Railway MAY Wednesday running days at Bentley Miniature Railway, volunteers please SEPTEMBER 8th & 9th Bentley Fire Show - Busy days for Miniature Railway. volunteers please contact Geoff. 21st - 23rd Weald Wood Fair at Bentley - Busiest weekend for the Miniature Railway, volunteers please. OCTOBER 20th & 21st U.M.R.C. Exhibition 2001, at Uckfield Civic Centre. - 2 - December Contents-2.indd 2-3 01/01/2009, 01:40 Model and Miniature TrackWorker December 2000 Holland – RAIL 2000 After the disappointment of being turned down in 1998, in October this year we eventually went to Den Bosch with ‘Kennet’, our 7mm scale GWR layout. The journey out was uneventful until we landed at Hook The accommodation was a little unusual. We stayed at of Holland. A few miles out and we hit a traffic jam that a sort of holiday village a few miles from the exhibition makes the M25 in the rush hour a pure joy. Colin, driving site and had a 3 bed roomed wooden chalet. Frank’s the van, got lost and that was nothing to do with Frank’s room was ‘en suite’ (how does he manage it?) but it was map reading.! ! ! very comfortable. A couple of members had a whinge because they had bunk beds but surely they wouldn’t It really is an amazing model exhibition. Not only are expect the C.M.E. to suffer such indignity. there trains but also, ‘planes, cars, lorries, boats and ships, army vehicles, cranes and even on the stand The chalet was well fitted out with everything we needed selling ‘Smart’ car models, a full size real car. If you and even had a satellite T.V. with Channel 37. (Use your can model it, it was probably there. Many models were imagination) We had to prepare our own breakfasts but radio controlled and they were actually flying ‘planes in were provided with a “breakfast box”. This contained tea a dedicated hall. Static model ‘planes really had to be and coffee, toast, jam, cake etc and a bottle of red wine. seen to be believed – they were superb. Sad to say, that did not last until the first breakfast. We didn’t find out the total number of visitors but it was The journey home was slightly different. The ferry was reckoned to be in the order of 35,000 over the 3 days. like a drunken rocking horse and once in England it rained and rained. Almost as much water fell on the van Our evenings were very enjoyable. We commissioned as the ferry had used to float across the North Sea. Keith Harcourt to determine the best restaurants and he did a first class job. We ate (and drank) very well. As But we were home in good time having had a very to drink, on the Saturday evening we were invited to a enjoyable weekend. So much so that ‘Treyarnon’ has Happy Hour. Frank queried why a Happy Hour lasted for been put forward for 2002 but we hear that the chance two hours and was asked why at 28 pence for a beer of acceptance is slim because the halls were almost fully was he watching the clock? booked before we applied. Still, there is always 2004. Colchester MM Much has been written by earlier scribes about our visits to Colchester exhibitions and it is difficult to add anything about the show. The Saturday evening was a bit different and this is a report as accurate as the hazy brain can recall. We were taken by ‘bus to the dinner venue and that together a collection of the 12 programmes that John would not have been too bad except we had to wait in had written. These were bound into a Red Book and a torrential downpour. It is not only our home town that after a suitable speech Frank was able to end with “… can get a little wet. By the time the ‘bus arrived, the and it gives me much pleasure to say ‘John Doyland, this water was 3 feet out from the gutter. No problem, even is your life’.” The joke seemed to go down quite well. in his decrepit state, Frank can leap a 3 foot puddle. Pity he didn’t see that there were also a couple of feet over That should have been the end of it but you know us the pavement. Oh how he grumbled because he had his better than that. As it was Frank’s last exhibition as shoes full of water. C.M.E. of ‘Kennet’ he decided that a little end of term drink was in order so took a litre of Scotch with him During dinner, certain gentlemen at our table seemed expecting to take half back home. Can five people drink to forget their married status and did their utmost to a whole litre.? Well our boozy lot can. What happened woo the young nurse who was sharing our table. The on Sunday is only a matter of conjecture and very hazy vegetables included young carrots and said nurse lost memories. one off her fork and it may have fallen into her c******e but offers from certain gentlemen to retrieve it were What we do remember is a very wet ride home, much turned down. the same as the journey from Holland. We must have done something terribly wrong in an earlier life to have After the dinner, there were two presentations to John the Heavens so angry with us. Doyland the Exhibition Manager for the past 12 years. At times, God’s Wonderful Railway can provide Frank (the one with the wet feet) had helped to put wonderful times. - 3 - December Contents-2.indd 2-3 01/01/2009, 01:40 December 2000 Model and Miniature TrackWorker Club Exhibition 2000 Two days after the great flood, which was broadcast to the world, on Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2000 we held our 16th model railway exhibition at the Uckfield Civic Centre.
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