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+====== September 2025 East Midlands face to face area group meeting ======
+**Saturday 6th September 2025 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 £3 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 (9:51), west (9:20 and 10:20) and north (9:39). From the south, there is one from Peterborough and Newark arriving at (8:45) and one from Kings Cross and Grantham arriving at (8:51), so you will 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. :)
+Paid parking is available: £6.75 at the station, £4.95 at Victoria road car park https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/retford-victoria-road/ or £4 at Cobwell Road, DN22 7DD https://parkanddonate.co.uk/permit/cobwell-road-pay-and-display/, 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. I will also use the mobile phone hotspot for my presentation on finding stuff online.
+More details of parking and how to find the clubrooms will be included in your confirmation email when you book your place.
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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 developments update - Julian Pratt
+  * 11:10 Kit locker news - Judi Rastall
+  * 11:30 Coffee break
+  * 12:00 The YAG modular layout standard, as adapted and adopted by Bassetlaw Railway Society - Julian Pratt
+  * 12:30 Interactive session on how to find stuff on the MERG website and knowledgebase - Pete Brownlow
+  * 13:00 Lunch Break
+  * 14:00 - 16:30ish  Demonstrations and practical problems help clinic.
+The Bassetlaw Railway Society modelling rooms will be open, where the main 00 gauge layout will be operated by society members and other layouts will be on display, including the modular layout being developed, as described by Julian in his talk
+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.
+If you would like to come, and have not already done so, please send an email to eastmids@merg.org.uk or post a message in the East Midlands Area group section of the MERG forum. You will get confirmation email in the week before the meeting with full address details and directions to the venue.
+If you have already emailed or posted that you are coming, I will send out confirmation emails, with full details of the address and parking information, in the week before the meeting
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 ====== Summer 2025 East Midlands face to face area group meeting ======