Ingatestone Summer progress report.

The last few weekends have seeen further progress on both tracklaying and making handholds. All boards have now had the handholds routed out, which will be a major safety and comfort feature on the layout, enabling a firm grip to be kept when manoeuvering the boards around.  The first track on boards 5 and 6 …read more.

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This is the download area for MRC printed materials.  Click on the link to download the relevant document.   MRC Trip to North Kent Twickenham MRC Open Day 25th July Flyer Article – Twickenham MRC Open Day showcases new layouts

MRC Open Thurs 6th August as usual despite Tube strike

Keen House will be open as normal despite the London Tube Strike this Thursday – and we’ll be open a little earlier than usual from 6pm if you wouild like to avoid the worst of the rush.  

A number of buses stop close by, and rail services in an out of King’s Cross and St Pancras (including Thameslink) are working normally.  Note that parking on the streets around Keen House is free after 6:30pm, and there is a Santander cycle hire docking station outside.

The demonstration on building and painting stone buildings by Eric Sainte will start at about 7.15pm.

A busy weekend for Ingatestone.

A gloriously sunny Saturday June 27th saw Mo, Bob, Tom, Kevan and Chris head for Ingatestone to take measurements for the next stage of the 4mm layout: The buildings.  After checking in with the Station Manager, we measured the footbridge piers, the station buildings before turning to the level crossing. With the assistance of the …read more.

Ingatestone on track !

  Progress has continued on tracklaying on Ingatestone, with most of the running lines now down and soldered securely to screws at the board ends. In the pictures you can see work in progress last Thursday night. Improvements made to the baseboards have seen additional bracing added to remove some of the twistability from them. …read more.

Tim Watson’s epic trip to Brighton on Frederick

Our President, Prof Tim Watson, has successfully completed an 80 mile road-run with “Frederick”, a coal-fired, steam-powered, 1/3rd size Burrell Showman’s Road Locomotive, to raise funds for Parkinson’s UK. Now he has recovered he writes:   We set off from St Albans at 0600 (delayed an hour by a leaking HP valve chest gasket) in the …read more.

New in the Library

The MRC’s library is one of the largest libraries of its kind, with a wealth of information for modellers. It is open on most Thursday evenings from 7-9pm, unless there is a lecture. Some of the new titles that have recently been added to the library are listed below.   The Longmoor Military Railway – …read more.

Progress on Ingatestone’s corner boards !

Today was a day of progress for the layout: A working party including Tom Slade and Lawrence Robbins worked on Boards 5 and 6 (the corner boards) to core the stretchers and prepare them for reinforcement. In the pictures, Lawrence is seen at work with the corer fitted to the power drill.  If anyone is …read more.

Baseboard Joints

Baseboard joints are a necessary evil if you ever have to move your layout. Scenically they create what is often an obvious rift line across our otherwise beautiful handiwork, but operationally they can be a major cause of unreliability. So I try to make the joints as unobvious as I can, but robust enough to …read more.

Ingatestone Away Day !

On Saturday June 27th, the Ingatestone team will be heading to Ingatestone (where else!) for a measuring, drawing and photographing session. From the station area to the Cricket Pavilion, we’ll be busy getting the detail as accurate as possible for our layout. If you are in the area from mid-morning onward, come by and see …read more.

Welcome to the Ingatestone Blog!

This is the first blog by the team that will be bringing Ingatestone to life in 4mm scale. The team are: Chris Ibbotson, Tom Slade, Bob Allaway, Maurice (Mo) Beanlands, Lawrence Robbins and Kavind Patel. We are at Keen House most Thursday nights from 19:00 and also have Sunday working sessions from 11:00 that will …read more.

Empire Mills post Ally Pally 2015

Yesterday we had our first official layout group meeting. Probably should have done it sooner, but better late than never. In this we discussed follow up from Ally Pally, things that went well and things that didn’t. We also covered what needs to be done before our next outing (Portsmouth in November) and who is …read more.