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**How to Get There**

The old way round to the back of the Community Centre and the Car Park has been closed off with bollards. The Community Centre now shares its car park with a newly built Library which has provided a new access road of Vicarage Road.

Do Look at the Artfully Adjusted Aerial Photo, it all becomes clear then

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Whilst sponsored by the 7mm NGA this event is open to all

By Train

By Bus

Derby Station is served by trains from all parts of the country. The station is a little way from the City Centre but its about a 10 minute walk or there are buses that make the connection to the buses for Mickleover

Trent Barton buses run two regular services from the centre of Derby that pass the Community Centre. The service is "the Mickleover" and the two service loop around in Mickleover doing the loop in opposite directions. Both will get you there but the "Blue" is the most direct to the centre and the "Red" the most direct for the trip home. Ask the driver for the Tesco stop.

Displays

Henmore Dale	As usual the TVG's own layout will be present and available for visitors to play with. Do bring your own stock for a run
Resin Casting Demo	Phil from Port Wynnstay Models will be doing his usual demonstrations of resin casting and will be happy to answer questions.
Pipe Yard	by David Lenton
DCC Demo	EDM models will have their DCC demo layout along. Again people are encouraged to have a go. It'll have examples of all the latest models there to run
Layout or Demo	David Tillett
Yorkshire Group	A module or two?

Trade

Port Wynnstay Models	Phil will have his trade stand there with all the usual goodies on show and, maybe, some new ones.
EDM Models	Paul will have the usual van load of narrow gauge goodies on display.
Association Sales	All the Association sales departments will be present.
Avalon Models	Howard will have his range of models available in between playing with his new layout

Refreshments

Hot and Cold drinks, biscuits and crisps are available for a small charge within the Centre.

For something more substantial there is a chippy over the road, Tesco's on the corner and pubs close by.

Admission

Admission is by a small voluntary donation towards the cost of hiring the hall. Could we suggest £3

Do please be sure to sign the visitors book

Want to Join in

there is plenty of room so if you have a diorama, layout or demo you'd like to bring along we'd love to hear from you.

A Previous Years Open Day

All the previous Trent Valley Group Open days have been a great success. Thanks to all those who support us.

The theme for all these events is "have a go" and we had DCC demonstration tracks, soldering, plasticard & wood modelling exhibits. There was resin casting going on as well. The story below is from the aftermath of the 2007 event but I've left it here as a flavour for what goes on

Layouts available to run things on were

Henmore Dale

This is the Trent Valley Groups own exhibition layout that you may have seen at shows but this time you could see a lot more as we had the full layout including the boards were still building on display giving a run of about 48 feet from end to end, or if you run fiddle yard to fiddle yard via the terminus its twice that.

McMichael's Distillery

This small layout is a model of a narrow gauge industrial railway serving a fictional distillery.

The layout was brought along by David Tillet

DCC Demo layout

My DCC demo layout has a circuit of hand built 0n30 track, only finished the night before, operated by Lenz DCC and an 009 level operated by NCE digital.

Associated with this were demonstrations of programming with DecoderPro and LokProgrammer

Photographs

There will be two Albums of photos just as soon as I can get them sorted and on to the web

Click Here For Album 1

Click Here For Album 2 - The Henmore Dale Light Railway [still being worked on]

The Full Story

We're all glad that you enjoyed the day but its takes a lot longer than 10 until 4 on the Saturday. The true story goes something like this: -

Wednesday	The Derby part of the TVG meet at Tims house to lift all the layout sections downstairs from the back bedroom where most of them live into the passage ready for loading.
Friday - lunchtime	Van collected in York. EDM Models stock and demo layout loaded aboard and drive to Derby.
Friday - 5pm	Arrive at the hall. Some TVG on hand to unload van into hall.
Friday - 6pm	Empty Van departs for Tim's to collect layout. Back to hall at 6.30pm
Friday - 6.30pm	Start assembling Henmore Dale & EDM stand. Call it a day at about 8.30pm when the layout is proved running but as yet not all scenery in place.
Friday - 8.30pm	Go to the PUB
Saturday - 8am	TVG back at the hall to complete setting up and to welcome other traders/demonstrators/layouts and rush around to get ready for opening. This bit of the day is never long enough. Some early arrivals get press ganged.
Saturday - 10am	That's it were open. In truth this is a bit of an anticlimax as people arrived early and just joined in. the day flew by with lots of people chatting with the demonstrators or just chatting amongst themselves in the tea rooms.
Saturday - 4pm	Well its all over for another year, at least as far as the public are concerned. we're busy helping get our guests packed up and away. For Port Wynnstay, EDM and the TVG we have a great new feature for this year, we have the hall for Sunday so we just turn the lights out and walk away.
Sunday - 9am	TVG, PWM and EDM [truthfully we're all TVG really] meet back at the hall. The idea was that we could have a play with our own layout. What really happened was that we ran a few bits of stuff but spent an hour discussing how we were going to finish the scenery on the new boards.
Sunday - 10 am	Start dismantling Henmore - its a two hour task for the four us left by this stage.
Sunday - midday	Depart for Tim's with the layout in the van
Sunday - 1pm	Back at the hall loading EDM back into the van.
Sunday - 1.30pm	EDM depart for York via my Dads in Derby.
Sunday 5.30pm	EDM back in York and unloading the van

This is a personal view but the pluses for us this year in the TVG were: -

using the van to shift the layout was a major improvement on 8 or more trips with estate cars.
having the hall on the Sunday allowing the group meeting and an unhurried dismantling was much better than the usual mad panic to get done