Thamesiders Physical Meet – Saturday, 27 August 2022

Thamesiders' Physical Meets

The HO modules got off to a head start thanks to an early starting team, but it was quickly caught up by the N Scale when both groups balanced out after some late arrivals.

The HO focused on recording electrical setup and how more members can get the modules sufficiently powered so trains can be run. Then the focus turned to troubleshooting a dead spot on Ethanol’s crossover, and repairing some of the damaged buildings on the Ethanol plant itself.

The N scale was set up as a straight end to end with the return loop on one side and the reversing loop on the other. The group performed some needed maintenance as well as serving as the entertainment for our guests throughout the day.

Besides our much welcomed guests, one other highlight of the day for me was not realising I had not completely stopped my Chicago and North-western commuter train when I went to pick up the food for lunch… Whilst I was away it had completed a full lap, continuing to increase the tally as we ate, slowly ambling around the Essex Belt Lines without a single issue besides the leading cab car temporarily decoupling at a hump in the staging yards.

Good times!

Neal K

Alexandra Palace 2017

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The Thamesiders HO scale layout, the Essex Belt Lines was invited to attend the London Festival of Model Railways at Alexandra Palace on 25th and 26th march 2017.

This was the first public outing with the new signalling system operational.

We were joined by modular model railroading friends with some Freemo modules operating as a branchline from the EBL layout, and formed one of the largest layouts exhibited.Ally Pally2017

Above: Modules from Patrick Grace (pictured) connected to Essex Belt Lines figure 8 layout as seen at Alexandra Palace.

Coronavirus – Virtual Meetings

Meets

Due to the restrictions put in place as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak the Thamesiders Group has had to suspend our regular meetings until the controls are relaxed and we’re allowed to gather again.

In the place of those meetings, we’ve started a programme of virtual meetings – please contact us for more details.

Be well.

Thamesiders Essex Belt Lines attending Bishop’s Stortford Model Railway Exhibition on 17th August 2019

Exhibiting

The Thamesiders Essex Belt Lines HO layout will be attending the Bishop’s Stortford Railway Society Exhibition on 17th August 2019.

The HO modular layout will feature the modules for Peveral, OH and Peach Meadows, amongst others – more detail about the modules can be found by following the links below.

Peveral, OH

Peach Meadows

We will be running a range of prototypical trains representing the USA transition period between steam and diesel operation.

The exhibition is being held at Birchwood High School Sports Hall, Parsonage Lane, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 5BD on Saturday 17th August 2019 between 10.30am – 4.30pm.

For more details about the full exhibition follow this link: Bishop’s Stortford Model Railway Exhibition

Thamesiders EBL attends the 2018 NMRABR Convention

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The Thamesiders Essex Belt Lines modular layout was shown at the recent 2018 NMRA British Regions Convention held at the Derby Convention Centre on the weekend Friday 26th to Sunday v28th October.

The convention successfully showcased the EBL and hard work the team put into building and testing the new signalling system.

Members David Ammon and Boyd French uploaded videos of the layout to Youtube

Terminal Belt Railroad – Industrial district at Bury St Edmunds 2017 show

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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
IP30 9AA

Please come and say hello to Mike and the operating team.  We are always open to new members, please ask the team for more details of our current projects.