Model Electronic Railway Group

FUTURE MEETINGS - 2009
The majority of meetings are held at Keen House, headquarters of
The Model Railway Club.
Keen House is located at 4, Calshot Street, Kings Cross, London N1. About 10 minutes walk from Kings Cross station or 15 minutes from the Angel if that suits you better. Meetings start at 13:30, (doors open from 13:00) prospective members will be welcome.

Occasional meetings may be held at other venues away from London.

Planned Meetings
Saturday 28/2/2009	Keen House	Nigel Cliffe Remote control of loco and rolling stock couplings	Alan Kettlewell (provisional) Sound add-ons to Railroad & Co.
Saturday 4/4/2009	Keen House	Paul Durell An update on MRCCC and the future of Horton
Saturday 4/7/2009	Keen House	tba
Saturday 12/9/2009	Keen House	AGM	Matt Peddlesden Talking to your Railway & TrainSim
Saturday 7/11/2009	Keen House	tba

Howard Watkins will be interested to hear from members who would like to contribute to the 2008 & 2009 meetings.

PUBLICITY - FLYERS Updated.

Members are invited to download and print these flyers for display at exhibitions organised by their clubs, or where they may be showing or assisting with layouts. As the subscription and contact details on the flyer are subject to change please download and print out when needed rather than keeping stocks. The current version is issue 13, dated Nov. 2008. Please do not hand out old flyers as the membership rates will be out of date.

The flyers are intended to be printed on both sides of A4 paper, and folded in half to make A5 leaflets. Use the 'print current page' option for each page pair in turn, printing on landscape. The flyer now includes the 'What is MERG' pages making an eight page leaflet. Download them here: Flyer-13
The front page of the flyer is in colour, and as such is the more eye-catching. However, it will print in black and white if needed.

Your help in publicising the Group and its activities is appreciated. Should you be unable to print flyers off, or require more than you feel able to produce, please contact the Publicity Officer at least a month before the event for which the flyers are required.

5/11/2008

NEW ARCHIVIST
Rodney Hills has agreed to be the MERG archivist. Anyone with material they would like to donate to the archive please contact Rodney, contact details in the members pages.
21/1/08

MERG celebrated its 40th anniversary at the meeting at Keen House on April 28th. 2007. A full house of 50 or so members enjoyed talks by Simon Kohler of Hornby and by member Howard Amos. Member no.1, John Down added some reminiscences of the early days. Simon Kohler cut the cake shown above and members raised glasses of champagne to the next 40 years. Additional photos via this link.
7/5/07

SUBSCRIPTION RENEWALS

Please help the Treasurer by stating your membership number when you pay your subscription.
eg. 2467smith
Over two thirds of the payments by standing order and BACS do not have this detail. With 900 members, it adds a huge amount of work especially when there is more than one member with the same surname.
Nic Griffin
6/4/2007

Electronics for Modellers at Missenden Abbey.
For details of the 2009 course see the website www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk

Presentation on the 2006 course here: On line presentation.
Additional information here: Electronics weekend report and ideas.

THE JOURNAL (formerly NEWSLETTER)
Our Journal Editor, David Osborne will be happy to receive contributions.

THE COMMITTEE & OFFICERS (Elected at the 2007 AGM)

Paul King - President
John Ferguson - Chairman
Frank Hewlett - Deputy Chairman
Howard Watkins - Secretary
Martin Perry - Kitmaster
Nic Griffin - Treasurer & Publicity

Brian Martin - Membership Secretary
David Osborne - Journal Editor
Archibald Campbell - Technical Editor
Brian Johnson - Copymaster
Keith Norgrove - Webmaster
Roger Nicholson - Exhibitions

FORTHCOMING SHOWS with MERG REPRESENTATION

Chatham, 14/15 June 2008

Warley National at the NEC, 22/23 November 2008

OR WITH MERG Member's participation

Items will only appear here if members let me know of them.
KN 29/7/07

MAILING LIST
The group has an email list on 'Yahoo', the list currently has around 580 members and hosts some interesting discussions. The facility also includes a calendar and a file storage area that all members may access. For details on how to join etc. see the "Mailing List" page.