The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales.

Making Tracks (for Chester) 3

For the third year I (and our treasurer Gus Paul) have had the opportunity to support Pete Waterman, and the Railnuts, installing their latest layout into Chester Cathedral earlier this week. “Making Tracks 3” is the most complex yet as it features Milton Keynes station with 6 platform faces and a bay. Two of the …read more.

Jul 27, 2023

Manufacturer Updates from 2023 London Festival of Railway Modelling

With the 2023 show now successfully behind us,  here are the updates from many of the UK’s leading manufactures they shared with us over the weekend, including details of brand new products announced. We kicked of with Accurascale with their latest launch, who also had their Mk1 Suburban coach prototypes on display on our test …read more.

Mar 25, 2023

Award Winning MRC

We were delighted to be recognised in the 2022 British Railway Modelling Awards – presented at the London Festival of Railway Modelling (LFORM) at Alexandra Palace on 19th March. The awards are nominated by and then voted for by the public, and there were string fields in every category Our 2mm layout Copenhagen Fields won …read more.

Mar 21, 2023

LFORM March 2023 – Steward and Volunteering request

We’re now looking for volunteers who can help out at the 2023 exhibition  – from 16th-19th March. Helping out at exhibitions is rewarding and generally fun, and we are happy to welcome not just members, but partners, spouses and children (over 18 ideally for most tasks); and of course welcome back members of the affiliated …read more.

Dec 8, 2022

200 Club – Q3 2022 winners

We’re delighted to announce that the Q3 2022 draw took place on 12th October 2022, and the results are as follows: 1st prize – Keith Reed – £131.25 – in his first draw – beginners luck…. 2nd prize – Nick Freezer – £42.50 3rd prize – Chris Lyons and Rob Noble – £26.25 each Congratulations …read more.

Oct 15, 2022

London Festival of Railway Modelling 2022

The London Festival of Railway Modelling is the capital’s premier exhibition, held every March at the fabulous Alexandra Palace in North London. The next show is on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March 2022, and we’re delighted to confirm that the following layouts, representing a wide range of scales and prototypes, have accepted our invitation to attend. …read more.

Jan 9, 2022

Bulletin 518 – Out now!

Edition 518 (Jan-Feb 2021) of the Club’s bi-monthly Bulletin is now available online in the members’ area of the website, with posted and email copies on their way over the next few days. It’s another 16 page edition – with space for Barry Witham to tell us why Sierra Leone is a paradise for modellers, …read more.

Jan 1, 2021

2020 Review – Cancelled Exhibitions and the birth of our on line shop.

2020 has been a very different year for The MRC. We started off with plans well advanced for the London Festival of Railway Modelling – the layouts were lined up, hotels booked, stewards and working parties had volunteered, vans and other logistics sorted. Then with less than a week to go, what we had feared for …read more.

Dec 28, 2020

AGM 2020 – Report

The 2020 AGM took place on 3rd December, by Zoom call. This gave the opportunity for several people who wouldn’t normally be able to attend to join the call. The formal minutes and summary of the issues discussed in the informal section will be issued in 2021, but here is a quick summary. Voting The …read more.

Dec 6, 2020

“Trains Around the World” – now on line to watch

In a brief window between lockdowns, we were delighted to welcome Chris Jackson, the Editor in Chief of the Railway Gazette Group to Keen House to present “Trains Around the World” – The travels of an international railway journalist.  We recorded the talk, and you can view it here: Please subscribe to the channel when …read more.

Nov 28, 2020

Club management meeting

We held a virtual meeting with many of the key Club leaders this evening. We held the meeting with Zoom, and it went surprisingly well! Although we await guidance from the government on when we can have formal meetings, and when it could be safe to travel to Keen House, we discussed some of the …read more.

May 20, 2020

LFORM 2020

So we’re not having a show in August. When the March date was cancelled we hoped things might be better by the summer, and the venue offered the hall on the dates in August. We had got most of the way in planning a revised show. However under the guidance issued over the past few …read more.

May 11, 2020

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