Any member of The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers who is resident in or near the county of Yorkshire may register as a member of the company.
Membership is recorded by inviting people to enter their name, address, email address and telephone number in a register. Details are entered in respect of each calendar year and the current annual subscription is £nil. The register is available at the Annual General Meeting in each year and at the New Year Steam-up, together with other shows such as Narrow Gauge North, Harrogate MREX and Elsecar Garden Railway Show.
Members of the company receive a copy of the Report of the Directors and annual Financial Statements, together with the Annual Open Day and Regular Running programme, and are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. Butane Gas is also available to members at discounted prices: contact Andy Cooper or David Mason for details.
The
current directors are : Andy Cooper [ Secretary ] Stuart Currie, David
Hill, David Mason, John Orson [ Chairman ], Phil Thompson [ Treasurer ].
The
main purpose of the Company is to organise Events and Open Days in
Yorkshire and to oversee the running of the Elsecar Garden Railway
Show.
In 2008, we had four events and open days in North Yorkshire, ten in South Yorkshire and ten more in West Yorkshire.
These events included a number of shows and full-day garden railway
meetings. In addition, members in both South Yorkshire and the Leeds
area get together regularly on summer evenings – the so-called “Sheffield
Shed” and “Leeds Shed” are a popular informal way to enjoy playing with
steam (and battery) trains in the garden. Our open days are very
sociable affairs, so please feel free to bring a partner.
The Elsecar Garden Railway Show
normally takes place over two days, usually in the last weekend in
September. One of the larger shows in the garden railway show calendar,
visitors can expect to see at least six large layouts and over 20
suppliers of garden railway equipment. The show takes place at the
Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley.
This venue has a number of other attractions, including shops, cafés and a standard gauge steam railway.
Mount Dowd and the Dixon Green Light Railway
The company owns two portable layouts constructed to 16mm scale,
together with a trailer used to store and transport Mount Dowd. Mount
Dowd is a large layout that is ideal for operating a number of trains
at once; Dixon Green is a scenic layout that can be transported in two
estate cars/large hatchbacks. The layouts are used both for members’
use and at public shows.
We are all involved in 16mm Narrow Gauge Modelling
in or around Yorkshire. We have Yorkshire ex-pats working or living
abroad, we also have friendships and activities that cross the
boundaries of Yorkshire to adjacent counties.
Many members have
their own garden railway. This is not a necessity, however, since there
is plenty of opportunity to run trains on other members’ railways.
Indeed, a good introduction to the hobby is to try and work your way
around all the open days and other activities – but be warned that you
will probably need around 2 years to fit them all in!
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