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Location

The Tudor Inn, Box Hill

 

Accommodation on site with Special deals for Convention Attendees. Click here...

Location is 5 mins by car to the Eastern Freeway and 15 min walk to Box Hill Metro Station, Trams, Restaurants and Box Hill Central Shopping Centre.

 

Programme of Events - Friday 20th October

Morning - Optional layout tours.

Afternoon - Modelling demonstrations on various subjects.

Programme of Events - Saturday 21st October

Convention topics include:

·         Building downloadable structures

·         Weathering techniques.

·         Semaphore signals in the 60's & 70's

·         Modelling signals of the UK railways

·         Design of kits using etches and castings

·         Loco Kit Construction.

·         Model photography.

·         Research for a layout

 

The Second hand stall will run all day

The AGM will be at the conclusion of the day’s activities.

 

·         Dinner

·         After dinner speaker

·         Presentation of Awards

 

Programme of Events - Sunday 22nd October

Layout Visits

You will have the opportunity to run your own OO and G scale trains on large layouts during the Convention, so you may wish to bring those long trains you do not normally get a chance to run at home.

Layouts will also be available for viewing before and after the convention (prior arrangements required). A list will be provided in the Welcome Pack posted to all delegates after enrolment. A layout tour to Inverloch and Phillip Island is being organised for Thursday 19th. This will be an all-day event. More about this later in the next TCH.

A scene on Glen Jones Catherwood Layout

 

Programme of Events - Thursday 19th October

Bass Coast and Phillip Island Layout tour

A day Coach trip along the Bass Coast and Phillip Island has been arranged for Thursday the 19th October.  There will be visits to several layouts in the area including a visit to the Phillip Island and District Model Railway Club clubrooms in Cowes to view their new club layout which is under construction.  The Coach has a limited number of seats and will be available on a first come first served basis, if we do not get sufficient interest the trip will not go ahead. Expressions of interest would be appreciated as soon as possible to determine if we should go ahead. Please contact us on:

Other Railway Attractions in Victoria

 

·         Diamond Valley Railway

·         Puffing Billy Railway

·         Yarra Valley Tourist Railway

·         Box Hill Miniature Steam Railway

·         Mornington Railway

·         Victorian Goldfields Railway

·         The Steam Locomotive Society of Victoria

·         The Bellarine Railway

 

Overseas Guest Speaker

Melbourne Convention 2017 Overseas Guest Speaker, DEREK MUNDY

We are pleased to announce that the overseas guest speaker at this year’s convention will be Derek Mundy. Derek is an elder statesman of the British railway modelling hobby and has a wealth of experience to pass on to us.

Derek has had a lifelong interest in the Railways of Britain and cut his teeth watching trains on the East Coast main line from Kings Cross to Edinburgh during the latter days of the LNER, so can recall Gresley's A4s with chrome letters and numbers! But he is not just an LNER man, periods living in Wales and on the South Coast of England have also given him a great appreciation for the GWR and Southern Regions. He has also lived in the midlands, so the LMS has not been forgotten either!

For Derek, modelling followed the usual pattern, starting with Hornby Dublo trains and with metalworking skills gained in school; this provided a foundation for the hobby to flourish later.  Over the years, his skills and experience increased and this reached a notable point when he joined the EM Gauge Society around 1965. A long period of scratch building in 4mm scale ensued.

Realism in operating exhibition layouts was becoming more important and experiments were made with a form of hook and bar coupling, made from wire and brass sheet, activated by magnets in the track bed. The laborious method of manufacture of this by hand, led to the thoughts of etching the parts required. So was born the Sprat and Winkle Line autocoupling, in the mid 1970s. 

In the same way, nothing suitable was available in the market to make high quality signals and this lead to the production of signal components by the etching method. In time this was commercialised and the business Model Signal Engineering was formed.

Derek’s next move was in to O Gauge where, as always, he became heavily involved, including membership of the O Gauge Guild’s technical committee.

More recently, Derek has retired from the commercial aspects of the hobby and his businesses have been passed on to other owners. But he has not retired from modelling and certainly not from efforts to pass on his knowledge to others. Derek still takes his demonstration table to a good number of shows in the UK each year and as this piece is being written, he is currently “doing his thing” at his 40th consecutive York Easter Exhibition.

Derek has told us that he can “talk for England” and he has offered us a broad range of topics that he can present. So we are really excited about the prospect of having him with us, hearing what he has to say and tapping in to some of his vast knowledge!

Melbourne Convention 2017 Accommodation

A special convention rate has been arranged with The Tudor, Box Hill, for phone bookings only. When booking by phone please quote BRMA to get the convention rate.  Please see Table below...

For members who wish to indulge themselves The Tudor have higher priced rooms with additional features.

 

The Tudor Box Hill

1101 Whitehorse Road

Box Hill 3128

Phone (03) 9898 9581

Fax (03) 9890 2238

 

Special Accommodation Rates

Standard Room	1 queen bed	$108.00 per night
Twin Room	1 queen bed & 1 single bed in one room	$126.00 per night
Family Room	1 queen bed in main room & 2 single beds in a second separate bedroom	$175.00 per night