Written by Brian Dawson. Photos by Brian Dawson [singlepic id=688 w=300 h=233 float=right]It was allegedly the largest Swap Meet EVER held in South Africa! 67 tables were set out in the Northmead Mall on Saturday 25th March 2017! ALL the major traders were there, as well as many new smaller traders and individuals… A large …
Category: Club News
Feb 27
Tribute and Appreciation Award for Colin Tanner-Tremaine
Editor’s Note: Here, verbatim, is the tribute speech that Glynn made at the AGM, to honour Colin’s sterling work as club chairman and numerous other contributions to EMRIG over the past years. Afternoon folks, I hope you are all well. I will hopefully not take much of your time before the festivities start… I was …
Jan 29
2017 AGM Report
Written by Brian Dawson [singlepic id=664 w=300 h=233 float=right]I arrived at ColinTT’s home about five minutes before the AGM was due to start. But I had one of the braais and a required gazebo (to shade the food table), so things were delayed a bit while many hands made light work of offloading and successfully …
Jan 28
2016 AGM feedback
AGM feedback By John Henry [singlepic id=625 w=300 h=233 float=right]EMRIG AGM Sunday 17 January 2016 Folks if you are still waiting for this year’s AGM then you have missed it. So let me brief you on some of the details. The weather was very kind to us. Indeed no El Nino hot weather patterns as …
Dec 21
Letter from the Chairman, 16 December 2015.
By Colin Tanner-Tremaine This time last month we had just been given notice to vacate our “Paddington Station” which we did so. Since then not much has happened on our model railway front. Although we had been offered another “box” there was much to do in planning our new layout and more importantly to get …
Sep 28
Emrig Workshop / Clinic
By Kevin Chamberlain On Sunday 27th September, the club held the first of hopefully many model railroad clinics in one of the vacant rooms upstairs at the Northmead Mall. To say the least, the turnout was fantastic with approximately twenty or more members in attendance. The topics covered were wide and varied with Colin starting …
Jun 17
Church Visit to EMRIG
[singlepic id=327 w=300 h=233 float=right]On Sunday the 24th May, EMRIG was asked by member Noel Stoddart, if a church group could visit and see what model trains was all about. The group that visited EMRIG’s were the Pathfinders from the Atlasville, 7th Day Adventist Church. The Pathfinders normally meet every 2nd Saturday after Church at …
Apr 19
A new lease of life again
[singlepic id=295 w=300 h=233 float=right]The EMRIG club again has a new lease of life for the foreseeable future after a good 4 months of nothing!. The owner and management of Northmead Mall have allowed the club to move into the old “Paddington’s” bookshop after they unfortunately moved out about 2 months ago. Last Sunday (12-04-15), …
Oct 26
Another move
Well, just over two weeks ago, our Chairman, Colin TT, received a phone call from the centre management with bad news!!! and then some good news!!! Bad news was that we had to move out of the space we were occupying as soon as possible as they had secured a new tenant for the shop. …
Oct 08
Website downtime
Apologies for the website being out of action. There are some issues at the web hosting service provider. They are currently working on the fault. The web site is also very slow due to this. Please be patient and we are sorry for the inconveniance.
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