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Mary and Steven judging the photo’s

During our Christmas Social the judging of our first photographic competition took place. Mary Nash, Chairperson of the Woodley Photographic Club, kindly agreed to be the judge and she was assisted by her husband Steven. There were several entries, Mary had a hard job picking the winning ones.

Mary giving advice on …

On Tuesday 20th December we held our Christmas Social Evening. We had a cryptic quiz on London Underground Stations (this was more fun than it sounds) the winning team were presented with a chocolate selection box. We  had plenty of eats with mulled wine and soft drinks, 3 wives joined us for the evening. The …

Ian Bishop is a member of our club and also MERG (Model Electronic Railway Group), he proposed setting up a Thames Valley Branch of MERG and contacted members along the Thames Valley. He asked our club if he could use the side room for their first meeting, to which we readily agreed. About 20 MERG …

Chris Marsh was invited to exhibit his layout at the Whitehouse Show, at Hampton on 26th November 2011. He was assisted by Mike Truslove and Andrew Nibb. The layout performed well, Chris is unable to erect the whole layout at home so was pleased with the performance. His main interest is Great Western goods stock …

Videos of some of our layouts have been posted onto You tube. To view them, simply log onto You tube then search for Loddon Vale Model Railway Club then enjoy watching videos of trains passing along our layouts.

Another successful show thank you to every one who visited and contributed to this show. This exhibition is held in conjunction with the Woodley and Earley Lions Club.

On the weekend 10th and 11th September Gaugemaster held their bi-annual show. We were invited to exhibit Loddon Bay, although this layout is now our oldest it performed very well and received many favourable comments. Andrew and David left Reading at 05:00 Saturday and arrived at Gaugemaster by 07:00, the layout was set up and …

On 30th August the club were given an interesting talk from one of the members. Keith gave a fascinating insight into the workings of British Railways during the his employment with them during the 1950’s. He gave several funny anecdotes on staff he had the pleasure of working with and explained how goods trains were …

We had our annual barbecue on Tuesday 5th July. The weather was wet and warm, despite getting damp the cooks produced well cooked sausages and burgers, at times I thought we were sending out smoke signals. The members remained in the hall had a good chat while enjoying the food and drink.

A successful and enjoyable day, for more details and pictures of this show look at “Our Exhibitions” page.