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--- public:courses [2019/11/02 22:27] – Update course dates for 2020 PeteB
+++ public:courses [2021/01/23 19:31] – Postpone and new provisional dates for March & April courses PeteB
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 Note that you do not have to be a MERG member to come on these courses.
+These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general.  Your booking is directly with the course organisers, not with MERG itself.
+**PLEASE NOTE** that all course dates are provisional and dependant on the Covid situation, and will not take place until it is safe to run them again. You will see that some dates for spring 2021 have already been put back by a month or two.
+All bookings for courses that have been postponed with be honoured for the re-scheduled course, or any other course if you prefer to come on a different one at that time.
+The dates below are all confirmed for 2021, with the venue already booked, but may be postponed if it is still not considered safe.
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 ===== Introduction to CBUS =====
-** 28th to 30th March 2020 (Rushden)**
+** 29th to 31st May 2021 (Rushden) **
+** (Postponed from 27th to 29th March 2021) **
-By popular demand, we have arranged another weekend course for those who want to learn about CBUS.
 The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
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 This course assumes no previous knowledge of CBUS.
-Bookings will open shortly.
 Click below for more details:
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 ===== More CBUS =====
-** 25th to 27th April 2020 (Rushden)**
+** 5th to 7th June 2021 (Rushden) **
+** (Postponed from 24th-26th April 2021) **
 This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further.
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 This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.
-Bookings will open shortly.
+Bookings are now open.
 Click below for more details.
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 ===== STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO =====
-** 30th May to 1st June 2020 (Rushden) **
+** 12th-14th June 2021 (Rushden) **
 The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
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 The course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI and takes you through from first principles.
-Bookings will open shortly.
+Bookings are now open
 Click below for more details.
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 ===== JMRI Part 2 – Blocks, Routing, Logic and Signalling =====
-** 12th-14th September 2020 (Rushden)**
+** 4th-6th September 2021 (Rushden) **
 This is part 2 of our three JMRI courses.
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 As a pre-requisite you should have attended our introduction to JMRI Panel Pro course, or be fluent with drawing a layout diagram in the Layout Editor, setting up turnouts & sensors, turnout feedback, linking from a Layout Editor Panel to the physical layout & the basics of train detection.
-Bookings will be open shortly.
+Bookings are now open.
 Click below for more details:
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 ===== JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher =====
-** Next course date/venue TBA **
+** 6th-8th November 2021 (Rushden) **
 This is part 3 of our three JMRI courses.
 This is a weekend course for JMRI power users who want to take it on to partial or full automation.
+The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
+Station, Northamptonshire.
 As a pre-requisite you should be a fluent JMRI user, having attended our Introduction and part 2 courses, or be comfortable with setting up panels in the Layout Editor, blocks and train detection, pathing and signalling.
-Course details will be published when the next course date is set.  In the meantime, here are the details for the last course to give you an idea:
+Click below for more details:
 [[public:jmripart3course|JMRI Part 3 – Automation with scripts and the Dispatcher course details]]
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+=====3D Printing courses=====
+[[public:3dprintingcourse|3D Printing]]
+None currently scheduled.
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 The Missenden Railway Modellers Weekends are workshops with expert tutors from MERG on hand. The Autumn weekend every October includes electronics classes that come with expert MERG tutors, covering all aspects of electronics for model railways including CBUS.
+At present, bookings for the Autumn weekend in October will not open until the end of July, when organisers will make a decision about whether it is possible to go ahead.
 Bookings and more details are via the Missenden Railway Modellers website.
 [[http://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/|Missenden Railway Modellers weekend]]
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+[[:public:start|Back to public pages index]]