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 Please use the contents entry on the right or scroll down to see details and agenda for our next and recent meetings.
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+====== October 2026 East Midlands face to face area group meeting ======
+**Saturday 17th October 2026 from 10:00**
+** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE FROM THAT ORIGINALLY ADVERTISED **
+Here is the agenda for our next meeting on Saturday 17th October 2026 from 10:00.
+This meeting is Kindly hosted by the The Bassetlaw (North Notts) Railway Society at their clubrooms on Retford Railway Station.
+Thanks to MERG and Bassetlaw Railway Society member Julian Pratt for arranging the venue for us.
+The Bassetlaw Railway Society are not charging us for the use of the room, but we will ask for a donation of £5 per head to cover the cost of teas & coffees and biscuits, and make a donation to the Society.
+Access is step free, but the entry door to the clubrooms is probably not wide enough for a powered wheelchair.
+For those coming by train, there are reasonable arrivals from east (9:59), west (9:17 and 10:18) and north (9:06 and 9:41). From the south, there is one from Kings Cross and Grantham arriving at (8:43) and one from Kings Cross and Peterborough arriving at (9:11), so you may be waiting a while before the meeting starts, but as railway enthusiasts you can of course enjoy watching the trains pass by during your wait. :)
+Please check your own train times, as things might change due to engineering works, and there is no guarantee I have got it right!
+For those coming by car, paid parking is available at the station, at Victoria road car park or at Cobwell Road, DN22 7DD, 3 mins walk.
+There is a Costa Coffee on the station, a convenience store 2 minutes walk away and Retford has many excellent eating places, just 12 minutes walk away, or you may bring a packed lunch.
+There is no Wi-Fi at the venue, so a Zoom connection may not be possible, I will try it using my mobile phone hotspot but the quality of the connection may not be great.
+More details of parking, including prices and car park locations, as well as how to find the clubrooms, will be included in your confirmation email, which I will send out to those who have booked a place during the week before the meeting.
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+AGENDA
+The meeting will be informal and flexible, so these are approximate times:
+  * 10:00 - Arrival, Informal chat and get to know the other members
+  * 10:30 - Welcome, group news and Introductions
+  * 10:40 - The Bassetlaw (North Notts) Railway Society - Julian Pratt
+  * 10:45 - FCU update, new bug fix release 1.6.2 - Julian Pratt
+  * 11:00 - Update on the CANARD - Pete Brownlow
+  * 11:30 - Tea/coffee break
+  * 12:00 - Soldering is for wimps - Julian Pratt
+  * 12:10 - CANDCCADR - An Arduino CBUS application using CANARD - Stan Owen
+  * 13:00 - LUNCH BREAK
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+  * 14:00 - 16:30 ish - Demonstrations and practical problems help clinic.
+Subject to availability of club members, the Bassetlaw Railway Society modelling rooms will be open, where the main 00 gauge layout may be operated by society members and other layouts will be on display.
+We will of course have our usual problem clinic providing General help on problems with kits or other electronic projects, building, testing, problem solving etc.
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+If you would like to come, please send an email to eastmids@merg.org.uk or post a message in the East Midlands Area group section of the MERG forum. I will add you to the list and, a week or so before the meeting, you will get a reply with full details, directions to the venue and parking information. Even if you are not sure yet whether you can get along, please let us know anyway so we can plan for likely numbers.
+(Those who have already let me know that you are coming, I will be sending out confirmation emails in the week before the meeting).
+Please book a place and don't just turn up on spec, as we need to know how many members to cater for, and there is a fire limit for the meeting room.
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