Australian Model Railway Association Victorian Branch Inc
A0016975R ABN: 24 066 992 397 www.amra-vic.org.au
AGENDA - July 2013 - January 2014
Issued July 2013
Monthly Social Meetings are held at the
clubrooms on the Second Thursday
each month, commencing at 20:00 and finishing at 22:30. The clubrooms are open at 19:30 for operation
of HO trains on the club layout prior to the meeting.
·
Timetable operation on the “Stonnington
Valley” layout is held (unless the Note**
below applies) on the First Sunday
of each month commencing at 13:30 and finishing at 17:30, on the Saturday Following the Social Meeting of
each month from 12:30 until 17:00, on the Second
Friday Following the Social Meeting and the Last Friday of each month from 19:30 until 23:30. Waybill
Sessions are held on the Last
Saturday of each month from 11:30 until 17:30. DCC Running
is held on the Fourth Sunday of
each month from 13:30 until 17:30. UK operating sessions are held quarterly
on the First Friday from 19:30 until
23:30.
·
DCC Themed Running Sessions will be held on
the Second Saturday Following the Social
Meeting after the afternoon session from 18.00 to 22.00.
·
Junior running days are held on the Second Saturday Following the Social Meeting
(except August) during school terms, or on Wednesdays during school holidays, from 10:00 until about 15:00.
·
Work nights on the club layouts are held each Tuesday at 19:30.
·
Daylighters are retired people and anyone else
interested in week-day attendance and operating the HO club layout. They meet
each Monday, or the Tuesday following a
public holiday, from 09:30 until 15:00.
·
If you wish to operate
your own HO rolling stock at these operating sessions it must be fitted with functional
Kadee couplers and all goods trains
must have a caboose, guard’s van or working flashing device indicating the rear of the train. You must be at the clubrooms at least 1/2
hour before starting time and, if there is an excess of rolling stock
available, each member is limited to two trains on the layout.
·
Large Scale Train Running on the Garden
Railway is held on the Sunday Following
the Social Meeting each month from 10:00 until 17:00.
**Note – Regularly scheduled activities (unless specifically
mentioned) are not held on Public Holidays or during Holiday Weekends. Changes from the last Agenda, Special
Activities or Variations from the standard operating sessions are shown overleaf
in bold
italics.
·
Entries in the Photographic and Modelling Competitions are judged at the Social
Meeting each month. There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit,
however only the print gaining the
highest number of points on a given night or the model gaining the highest number of points in a "standard
subject" will be credited to your annual score. Trophies will be awarded annually in both
competitions – Photographic (1) with
the winner being the entrant with the highest score over at least 3 different
photographic subjects – and Models (2),
Beginner and Open, with the winners being the entrants with the highest
aggregate score over at least 3 different “standard subjects” within a
Division. Models are Judged in 2
Divisions – Beginner and Open
– and 2 Sections – Scratchbuilt
(% of 100 points) and Kit or Modified Commercial
model (% of 75/100 points). There are 5 Standard Subjects for Models – Goods Rolling Stock (Feb &
July), Maintenance of Way (Mar & Aug), Passenger Rolling Stock (April &
Sept), Structure / Permanent Way / Diorama (May & Oct), Locomotive (June &
Nov), Open – any of the 5 Standard Subjects (Dec).
·
Changes to this Agenda will be announced at
Social Meetings and will be printed in State News in Journal. You may telephone
Ron Polistena (Secretary) on (03)97987609, or the organiser of the specific activity
as listed below. The Agenda is published
on the AMRA-VIC web site at www.amra-vic.org.au and changes on
the blog site at http://stonningtonvalleyrailway.blogspot.com.au/
·
Monthly Social Meetings,
unless otherwise stated, are held at the clubrooms at 92 Wills Street, Glen
Iris 3146. (Melways ref 59 H7) and there is adequate parking in the railway car-parks
alongside and opposite the clubrooms. For
Layout Operating Sessions access is from the rear of the clubrooms via Kerford
Road (200 metres North of clubrooms) and the lane to the rear of the
property. Note Only limited
parking is available at the rear and alongside the clubrooms with two marked No
Parking areas.
ACTIVITY ORGANISERS TELEPHONE
Bereavement Assistance Scheme Registrar Geoff
Brown (03) 9367 6203
Clubroom Telephone number / answering machine (03) 9885 7034
Competition Organiser Geoff
Brown (03) 9367 6203
Exhibition Manager Ronnie
Hansen 0400 394 969
Garden Railway Co-ordinator Bill
McKenzie (03) 9731
0364
Journal Sub-editor Tony
Hough (03) 9802 4438
Librarian Bill
Secker (03) 9888 1399
Layouts Manager Denis
Kahl (03) 9820 9013
Stonnington Valley Layout Co-ordinator Bill
Secker (03) 9888 1399
Australian Prototype
Convenor Alan
McKenna (03) 9547 6864
Daylighters Convenor Michael
Formaini (03) 9803 3085
DCC Operation Convenor Sunday Paul
Campbell 0402252 412 Saturday PM
USA/UK ) Mark Canavan 0432 969 901
AUST ) Wayne
Armstrong 0401 221 732
European Prototype Convenor John
Gilmour (03) 9974
1481
Junior Running Day Convenor Gary
Danson (03) 9795
4160
Saturday Running Day
Convenor John
Brown (03) 9807 1291
U.K. Prototype Convenor Stuart
Westerman (03) 9583 8655
U.S.A. Prototype
Convenor Gary Danson (03) 9795 4160
Waybill Session Convenor Denis
Kahl (03) 9820 9013
Open Weekend Manager Vince
Battiato 0418 544
700
Willsland Sales Manager Leigh
Sargent 03) 9434
2836
Note the DCC on Saturday nights after the General -BYO timetable has a new starting finishing time
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