Paul Hopkins with Redford Junction in the news!

This month sees one of our long-standing member's many layouts appearing in Hornby magazine. Paul Hopkins has an interesting and well written article with superb pictures about his TT layout "Redford Junction". Our Club, of course, gets a deserved mention.

So, if you are not a subscriber, rush out to W H Smith or your local news agent and get a copy of  NOVEMBER 2013 - ISSUE 77. 

You will find it a generally interesting and often useful magazine, although, of course, Paul's article shines above all else.

Well done Paul and thanks for sharing one of your superb layouts in this minority but lovely scale with many other enthusiasts.

Chris
Vice-Chairman

BRMRC in the news

http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/top-stories/latest/celebration-set-to-be-fun-for-everyone-1-5410445
Reference to Aldingbourne Alive 2013 and our own Open Day in this weeks Observer, click on link to read.

Well done to everyone for making our first 'running night' for a long long time a success on Tuesday. I look forward to seeing the Junior section of the club having lots of fun in the new building on Saturday afternoon (31st August, 2-4pm) and to seeing as many of you reporting for duty on Sunday morning (1st September) in readiness for our 1st Open Day - in the new building.

Full Steam ahead thanks to SITA trust award.

Thanks to an award from SITA trust we are now able to proceed to insulate and clad the Barn, Work will begin in the week of 24 July and hopefully we will have a lovely looking/insulated building by  our target date of 1 September, to coincide with the Aldingbourne Alive 2013 event and our club open day.

This project has been supported through SITA Trust's Enhancing Communities Programme. SITA Trust provides funding to community improvement projects through the Landfill Communities Fund.

The members of Bognor Regis Model Railway Club, who will benefit primarily from the award granted to Aldingbourne Community Sports Centre Trust, are extremely grateful for the award and this will now allow renovations to be completed to what was a redundant community building.

OPEN DAY - 1 Sept 2013

OPEN DAY
Bognor Regis Model Railway Club wish to invite you to our Open Day

at our new club premises on the 1^st September 2013.

Our new club building is located at -

Aldingbourne Community Centre,
Oliver’s Meadow,
Westergate,
Nr Chichester.
PO20 3YA.
(Next to Barnham Signal Box)


Open between 10am to 4:30pm.

Admission on the day is via the Aldingbourne Alive 2013 event 

There will be up to 6 club layouts in operation, including the Children’s operated layout ‘Aldingbourne Central (shown below) and there will be trade support via ‘Brian’s Trains’. There will be refreshments and other community activities on site during the day as the community celebrate Aldingbourne Alive 2013.
 

A Frontier Too Far?

Dear All,

You will shortly receive a questionnaire from Cliff asking for details about your specific interests, skills and what you are looking to get from our club. I would urge you to complete this simple form as soon as possible and return it to one of the committee members, though ideally Cliff.

Your committee can then;

1. Ensure we are giving members what they want, within reason!

2. Find the right skill sets to assist the club with its current Page Mountain project and future projects.

3. Determine what we need to be doing going forward so we continue to grow as a club

The information will not be shared with anybody outside the club.

Thank you in advance

Adrian
Chairman.

The Barn - April 2013 Update

As Chairman of the club it is very pleasing to see real progress having been made on the Barn this last 6 months.

The building now has a very useable first chamber for layout repairs and model making, with walls insulated for heat and sound, plastered, painted and floor renovated. In deed the first beneficiaries of the new space have just moved in and are currently working hard on making the Little Bognor extension ready for Shepton Mallet in 2014.

There is still plenty to do of course, with the rear storeage chamber having changed appearance with insulated walls we still have a stair case to build so we can fully utilise the newly created loft space.
Both the stores room and changing room need completing and tidying and with members support we should be on schedule for an Autumn 2013 completion date.

We do of course have to clad the exterior of the building and we have chosen to use Cedral Weatherboard for this purpose, using as far as possible matching colours to that used on Barnham Signal Box. The attached link will show you how wonderful a building can look using this material.

http://www.guybutcher.co.uk/?cat=4

It is a very exciting project and I'm really proud to be leading our club into the next phase of it's life, with the wonderful prospect of this building and the wonderful Barnham Signal Box next door. We will be be very lucky people to have these fascilities to allow us to enjoy our hobby and at this stage I must put on record my thanks to the following (the main participants) for all their hard work in helping the club to achieve its goal.

Thank you: Norman; Dave; John (M); Julian; Duncan; Steve (S); Jock; James and Doug. 

January-February 2013

Another somewhat belated news entry. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a few extra hours in the day? Even now, I'm afraid, this is going to have to be fairly brief.

In any event, this has been a very busy period. Obviously the biggest event for the Club was helping to run Bognor Regis MRC Ltd's Exhibition in mid-January at Felpham and, of course, running several of the layouts that attended. All in all this was another successful show with a wide range of very different high quality layouts and good trade support. Certainly the visitor's seemed to enjoy themselves.

I am looking forward to receiving our Exhibition Manager's report to publish here for you, but in the meantime, we have just implemented a new video gallery which you can see here and which includes video of the exhibition and of some of the recent exhibitions run by BRMRC.

On the premises front, work has continued apace on the Barn, thanks to the indefatigable efforts of our Chairman, Adrian and his small band of workers. Similarly work has progressed on the Signal Box despite problems with erecting the external stairs due to the extremely wet weather.

Slowly but surely, both are taking shape, and it is now becoming really apparent how fortunate we are going to be with our new premises.

On the layout front, Page Mountain made its debut at the Felpham exhibition albeit as a work in progress. The degree of completion was such that visitors could see what the "bare-bones" could become and this proved to be of interest. The completion of this layout is our current highest modelling priority. There are very few large HO USA layouts around at present (they seem to have been usurped by On30) so this, with its spectacular scenery will be well worth watching out for at exhibitions in the not too distant future.

We have had a number of new members join over the last few weeks, both junior and adult. I would like to welcome them on behalf of the Committee and the Club members as a whole. We hope that we can provide the friendship and modelling opportunities you want and look forward to the contributions you can make. I am sure that there is a lot we can learn from each other.

Finally, a reminder that it is time to start thinking about our AGM and who you would like to see on the Committee, steering the Club and looking after your interests over the following year. As ever, all the Committee posts are up for grabs, but we KNOW that we will need a new Club Secretary - could this be you?

Chris
Webmaster