Thamesiders MRG member Mike Meadows will be exhibiting his Terminal Belt Railroad – Industrial District layout at the Bury St Edmunds Model Railway Club 2017 exhibition on September 9th at Thurston Sixth, Beyton Campus, Drinkstone Road Beyton Bury St Edmunds…
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Esex Belt Lines – First operations Day
The EBL team held the first formal operations session at the June meet. The team used the recently commissioned CTC signalling system, a full suite of prototype style train order paperwork to authorise movements and for some trains car cards…
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Alexandra Palace 2017
The Thamesiders MRG attended the London Festival of Model Railways at Alexandra Palace with the Essex Belt Lines in its largest setup so far. The EBL was setup as an 38′ x 15′ oval with a 75′ long branchline which…
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Alexandra Palace 2017 – EBL invited
The Thamesiders HO scale layout, the Essex Belt Lines has been invited to attend the London Festival of Model Railways at Alexandra Palace on 25th and 26th march 2017. This is the first public outing with the new signalling system…
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Signalling Project Update
Since late 2014 the Essex Belt Lines has been upgraded to incorporate a full CTC signalling system, with dispatcher control of mainline turnouts using JMRI installed onto a Raspberry Pi 2. In addition to the signalling upgrade this also provides…
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2015/2016 Meet Dates
2015/2016 Meet Dates 21st November, Frating, Work and operating session, first operating session under dispatcher control. 12th December Hatfield Peverel, Christmas Social (AGM and Lunch) 16th January, Frating, Layout Maintenance session
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Module details updates
Details of Boyd French’s Essex Ethanol module updated. Details if Tom Fisher’s Peverel module and Patrick Grace’s Warner module added to the Essex Belt Lines. Further photos to be added when these are available.
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2015 Meet Dates
The meet dates form January to April 2015 are: 17th January 21st February 21st March 25th April (corrected 11th February) All of these meets will be held at Frating.
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Website Update – published to thamesidersmrg.org.uk
The new site has been published to our main URL, www.thamesidersmrg.org.uk this evening, completing the replacement of the old e107 based website. Pages for the Terminal Belt Railroad (TBR) and the TBR Industrial district are complete with other module pages…
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Website Update
Welcome to the Thamesiders MRG’s new and upgraded online presence. The website has moved from the e1097 CMS to the much more popular and easier to use Woordpress system. The site will be tweaked and upgrade over the next…
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