Member postings for Patrick Astill

How are your Meccano skills? Ever have a set?

Here's one that's going to do well at auction.

Just a shame it was never played with - perhaps it was more a connoisseur's edition?

Hi Jason, of course there's no hostility!

You wrote: "the exclusive content I won't miss"

I agree with you that our facebook page is perhaps not for you.

Hi Michael,

No one here has ever said that forum members would be expected to log in via facebook.

OMG, I am not sure where you got that impression. You are wrong. Having said that, these forums can be browsed around the world without logging in, so if you have any sensitive content or anything confidential, this isn't the place to post it.

Jason, our facebook page is for sharing news from around the clubs, articles from this website and for marketing purposes. If it offends, please avoid!

Patrick

If Carlsberg did ME Clubs..., Niloch!

1. Hornsby Model Engineers Co-Op Ltd
2. Roxbourne Railway - Harrow and Wembley Society of Model Engineers
3. The GEC Coventry MES
4. The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers
5. East Herts Miniature Railway Society Ltd
6. Rhyl Miniature Railway
7. The Ten and a Quarter Inch Gauge Railway Society
8. Bedford Model Engineering Society
9. Chingford & District Model Engineering Club
10. Maxitrak garden railway
11. swindon model boat and engineering club
12. Chichester District Society of Model Engineers
13. Guildford Model Engineering Society
14. Garden railroading

Still here, plugging away!

I wanted to share with you a number of model engineering groups which use facebook.

There are many more than this, and a vast number of tourist narrow gauges that anyone can find anywhere online if they want to.

But these are some of the more active/enthusiastic ones just FYI.

Patrick

1. Cardiff Model Engineering Society
2. Rugby Model Engineering Society
3. Bradford Model Engineering Society (OFFICIAL)
4. City of newport model engineering society
5. Bristol Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
6. Isle of Wight Model Engineering Society
7. Lincoln & District Model Engineering Society Ltd
8. Reading Society of Model Engineers
9. Merseyside Live Steam & Model Engineers
10. 5 inch gauge railways and trains
11. Strawberry Minirail 5" gauge railway, Avon Valley Country Park, Keynsham
12. GL5 the Ground Level 5 Inch Gauge Main Line Association
13. Castlehill Highland Railway ( 7 1/4 inch gauge )
14. Steeple Grange Light Railway ( SGLR )
15. Cheltenham Society of Model Engineers
16. Handforth model engineering society
17. Worthing & District Society of Model Engineers
18. MCSME - Mid Cheshire Society Of Model Engineers
19. Leyland Society Of Model Engineers
20. Canterbury & District Model Engineering Society

Edited By Patrick Astill on 04/10/2013 14:56:22

No news as yet, CB.

Is that good news?

Patrick

Hi there,

Bearing in mind what was said before I'm only posting links to picture galleries or interesting inages that you won't have to login to see. I'm looking at newspapers online and magazines too.

The fact these today were on facebook is incidental - it's the content I'm sharing, and hope it's of some interest.

Cheers!
Patrick

Their weekend events and latest news

This weekend's public running

Some pictures of their charity day this weekend

You can click on them for a closer look without having to log into facebook.

Just wanted to draw your attention to these two great photo albums.

The first is The Set-Up

The second is a little more active, it's the Working Area and Displays

Nice little video in the Peterborough local paper including interviews with members and footage of their show + working engines.

Ken Ellwood has spent a lifetime making his locomotives which means a lifetime of making others happy: Read about him here

Edited By Patrick Astill on 27/08/2013 09:10:42

Edited By JasonB on 27/08/2013 15:40:38

Dear Springbok Bob,

I think that's a little uncalled for and very rude in any public forum.

There is no automatic link to social media outside this forum or outside of the photo albums. My advice would be that if you are suspicious of something, then please don't post.

I'm sorry you don't feel that I can conduct my business in a professional way - such a shame when I am working to promote the hobby that you all love so much.

Patrick

Hi Jason,

I've checked for you and all the content both from our side and from the members will be safe in the changeover.

Hope this helps
Patrick

Hi JasonB - good to see you're getting bitten by the bug and venturing onto twitter.

You missed some of the updates with your edited version, of course.

They can be quite informative and with links to news articles (not just our own), events around the UK - or this website.

VOLUNTEERS from the The North Wilts Model Engineering Society miniature railway at Coate Water recently held a...

If you or your club are organsing a special event this summer, why not publicise it on our events page? This...

A day out? Remember: tickets for the 2013 Model Engineer show are on sale via Myhobbystore

Get involved - contribute to our library of machine tool manuals and help an engineer who's bought second-hand...

Model Engineer has news of the St Albans and District Model Engineering Society annual exhibition being held on...

I posted 6 photos on Facebook in the album "Highlights from the Club News pages"

My new Model Engineer magazine arrived today! Have you got yours yet? on sale at the newsagents from this...

Remembering the Great Train Robbery and those who were affected by it 50 years ago today.

Rail fan? This new publication celebrates every British railways diesel class locomotive issued with a TOPs...

Great news! A new 127-metre model railway on Llandudno's West Shore, run by the North Wales Model Engineering...

Thanks again for your responses.

I think some of you have hit the nail on the head:

It's an ageing interest group and as such we need to get more people interested rather than shutting them out. As a business we're looking for ways to do that, and this is one of the ways - as is updating the website.

Springbok: One of our PR people? Yes, there are banks of us here tap-tapping away on press releases!

Hairy Pete - people share and join in!

John McNamara - Exactly! The forum comes first.

CoalBurner - Point taken.

The forum here is, of course, what you make it.

The new social stuff is simply another way to help US share YOUR enthusiasm of this hobby, because each time we post, it reaches new people who might just be enthused enough to enjoy it as you do ... people who may never have thought of taking it up until they saw one pictures of one of their workmates - or a friend of a friend who goes out every week to volunteer at a railway circuit.

There are already around 350 twitter followers of our news, and 40 or so on facebook. We’re posting hobby images on pinterest too and that’s starting to take off with 125 followers, despite only a few images posted so far. Youtube will also be tweaked in due course...

It’s about sharing, friends of friends, like-minded people and new audiences who will find us – and keep the hobby alive – via our varied channels. We can all take it or leave it. If we enjoy what you get out of ME through the channels you already use, that’s great news but I’d still like to help new people find us here.