EMGS Society News
New Manual Sheet Addition
A new Manual Sheet has been added to the to the database under the heading “Approved Manual Sheets awaiting Printing” sub-section:
3.2.6.19 Converting the Bachmann J72 (2019 version) to EM – Pete Hill
This will be included in the April mailing.
DCC and the Test Track at expoEM Bracknell May 2024
Following the successful trial of DCC at the AGM, the Society has purchased an NCE PowerCab for the Test Track and this will now form a standard part of the Test
track functionality for both the EM and P4 tracks.
All members wishing to test their DCC locos are invited to do so at the Spring expoEM at Bracknell.
If you wish to try out your loco’s momentum and braking settings without it plunging off the end of your home based test plank then you are welcome to do so safe in the knowledge that at Bracknell it will just keep going round !
Also if you are interested in the potential of DCC but wary of spending serious money just on the off-chance that it might suit you, then it is quite possible there could be a DCC sound equipped loco on the test track for you to try out to help you make up your mind without any pressure to buy.
John Simpson
Urgent – Newsletter
Some members do not appear to have received their July Newsletters.
If you have not received your copy by Monday afternoon 17th June can you
advise me please. Send an email to editor@emgs.org giving you name, post code
and your membership number.
Thanks – Steve Young Newsletter Editor
July 2023 Newsletter was mailed on 3rd July
Just to advise that the July mailing was completed early Monday 3rd July and mailed late the same day. Overseas mailing is by Royal Mail and to some of the more remote locations within the UK. The bulk of the UK mailing is handled by ‘The Delivery Group’. This was not a financial decision but logistical as ‘The Delivery Group’ collect their postage in plastic trays and not in mail bags. This means there is less chance of damage in shipment. However, in the UK the Royal Mail still do the last stage of the delivery.