Model Electronic Railway Group

FUTURE MEETINGS - 2010
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 13:45, (doors open from 13:00) prospective members will be welcome.

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

Planned Meetings
Saturday 27 February 2010	Keen House	"An Update on the CBUS Layout Control System" by Mike Bolton
Saturday 10 April 2010	Keen House	"Modern Technology to Control your Model Railway" by John Ferguson
Saturday 19 June 2010	Keen House	"PC Configuration & Diagnostic software for At-Bus" by Roger Edwards
Saturday 11 September 2010	Keen House	AGM
Saturday 13 November 2010	Keen House

Howard Watkins will be interested to hear from members who would like to contribute to the 2010 meetings.
HW 14/12/09

FORTHCOMING SHOWS with MERG REPRESENTATION - 2010

East Bedfordshire MRC Show   (Biggleswade) 13 February
Watford Finescale Extravaganza 20 - 21 February
Scale (0) Rail Bolton   20 February
Abrail 2010 Abingdon    6 March
The London Festival of Railway Modelling, Alexandra Palace 27 - 28 March
Bristol (Thornbury) 30 April - 2 May (includes Bank Holiday Monday)
Nene Valley MRA 6 June
Chatham (Historic Dockyard) 12 -13 June
Manchester Model Railway Society   2 - 3 October
National Festival of Railway Modelling (Peterborough) 16 - 17 October
Warley National (NEC Birmingham) 20 -21 November
RN 14/12/2009

Electronics for Modellers at Missenden Abbey.

The “Electronics for Railway Modellers” weekend, run in conjunction with MERG, will be on the 7th-9th of May 2010. Booking are open, and there are places on this course. For beginners and those with little experience of electronics, you will be taught the basics of wiring and will be shown how to build an electronic circuit to enhance the realistic operation of any layout.

For the more experienced there will be Layout Control (CBUS) and Digital Command Control workshops, PCB production and PIC programming.

To book a place on the course please call 01296 383582.

Presentation on the 2006 course here: On line presentation.
Additional information here: Electronics weekend report and ideas.
CJL 14/12/09

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 15, dated Jan 2010. Please do not hand out old flyers as the membership rates will be out of date.

Non-members are free to download these flyers for their own use.

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-15
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.
11/4/2009

MERG FORUM
The group has a forum as part of this website. News items not of general interest but intended for members will, in future be placed on the forum, not here. Members can register for the forum at http://www.merg.org.uk/forum/.
KN 27/12/2008