The January general meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 29th at the usual time of 8pm. This is two weeks later than usual — due to illness and absence of the club secretary. Apologies for any inconvenience!
January General Meeting
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Midland Workshops Heritage Day, Sunday 8th September
Experience a taste of Western Australian history at the FREE Midland Railway Workshops Heritage Day on Sunday 8 September from 10am to 4pm.
Take a journey through the most intact example of an early 20th century railway workshop anywhere in Australia, where steam locomotives, carriages, wagons, tracks, signals and station furniture were constructed and maintained until 1994.
Bring your family along and enjoy:
- Guided site tours
- Musical entertainment including big bands
- Midland Atelier designers on show
- Vintage family photo booth
- Children’s activities including mini train rides and train model making
- Demonstrations of working vintage machinery
- Historical displays and photographs
- Dress up competition and prizes
- Food and drink available
Hashtag #MidlandWorkshops to share your experience at Midland Railway Workshops Heritage Day.
Auction
The Midland Workshops Auction will take place on Tuesday 10 September. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to take home a piece of WA’s industrial heritage. Auction items can be inspected at the Heritage Day and on Monday 9 September.
Silent Auction
The club will hold a Silent Auction on the night of the General and Annual General Meetings (17th July).
The items for sale are club stock which are no longer required for club running nights.
For sale will be various American outline locomotives and rolling stock.
A reserve price of $10 for powered items (i.e. locos — whether running or not) and $5 for non powered item (i.e. wagons, passenger cars or anything else) applies.
Come one, come all — and bring cash!
Is that the time?!
The clubrooms have a new BIG clock — now easily read from anywhere in the main layout room. It has a flat glass cover which doesn’t result in light reflections like the old small clock which made it hard to read.
Free to the club — saved from a rental house clear out where it was destined for the tip!
Branchline addition
Recently a crossover was added to the Yoting branch. This allows a train to reverse direction back onto the mainline, It also makes for easier running to the industries in and around Yoting.
Disaster at Yoting
As most regular visitors would have seen Yoting and Shotts container Terminal was recently devastated by Tropical Cyclone Rowan.
Rebuilding will commence as soon as possible
Christmas Party!
‘Tis the season for using “’tis” and “’twas” excessively — so congruent with tradition we are holding a Christmas party! This Wednesday night at the club (19th December) — come early for tea (Subway platters) and/or bring some goodies to share. Oh and play trains. 🙂
December AMRA Branchline
The December issue of the AMRA Branchline newsletter is now available: 
December AMRA Branchline.
Modelling the Railways of South Australia
At the last general meeting (September), member Darren Thomas passed on some interesting information he gathered on his recent trip to the 2012 Modelling Railways of South Australia Convention in Adelaide. Darren’s passion is modelling the railways of South Australia and he presented the following for anyone interested:
— “Broad Gauge Bodies” (click on the logo to go to their website). A useful source of modelling materials — particularly those modelling broad gauge prototypes, both South Australian and Australian in general.- http://railwaykits.net/ — Web site for a variety of electronic kits for model railways available for purchase from Aztronics.
- http://www.mrsac.com/ — Web site for the “Modelling the Railways of South Australia Convention”
Image: Early SAR open wagon, 4mm, scratch-built by Frank Kelly (2009 MRSAC)
Open Day — South-West Rail & Heritage Centre
