The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales.
Lacey Dale on the road at the NEC National Festival of Railway Modelling
November 22nd and 23rd was the weekend that Lacey Dale emerged back onto the exhibition scene with a short trip North to Birmingham and the National Exhibition Centre. This was a special trip to exhibit with only team leader Rob having brought any layout to an exhibition before. That’s right the other three of us …read more.
Dec 31, 2025
Lacey Dale prepares for the NEC
Preparations for The NEC for the weekend of 21st and 22nd November are well under way, frantic painting, glueing, cutting, tweaking and general fettling taking place in the Centenary room. With a short 21 days from setup in Keen House to setup in the NEC the improvements were targetted at the big impact items that …read more.
Nov 15, 2025
Lacey Dale lives
After a few years of quiet existence Lacey Dale – our N gauge layout – has sprung forward. A set of new team members, Nic, Danny and Jon have joined existing team members and layout leader Rob to renovate and improve the already impressive LD layout. Initial work focusses on the mimic panels for the …read more.
Sep 28, 2025
Minories at expoEM Summer
Minories made its first exhibition outing of the year to the EM Gauge Society event in Wakefield at the end of August – expoEM Summer. These events focus on quality 4mm scale modelling – with EM and Scalefour Layouts on show, alongside demonstrations and a range of the smaller traders who generally manufacture quality 4mm …read more.
Sep 6, 2025
Golden Mile goes racing
“Golden Mile” is a modern day 2mm finescale layout. Originally constructed as part of the 2mm Scale Association’s Diamond Jubilee competition, it is built to a specific sized scenic section. The layout has been around for a while (its first show was in Feb 2020), very much as a side project, and it is always …read more.
Jun 6, 2025
Orchard Wharf – Traverser Revamp
This is taken from our Members’ forum – where the progress on Orchard Wharf and other club projects are documented, and members can engage. Join us online today to get full access. The traverser on board 4 (the “Rest of the World” RoW traverser – left hand end as watching the layout) of Orchard …read more.
Dec 22, 2024
Copenhagen Fields – preparing for the big 4-0
I hope you have all had a relaxing & productive summer. My modelling has been a bit patchy, following the very intense work prior to the Buxton show. The Raven 4-6-2 class has had some work on the cab roof and front running plates. The layout now has three extra signals on it, with a …read more.
Sep 7, 2024
Kit building brass Mk1 coaches – before the RTR versions arrive
The Great Northern (King’s Cross) suburban services in the 1950s-70s were characterised by the ‘short’ Mark 1 non-gangway coaches – normally hauled by Class 31 diesels. The majority of coaches and trains were formed of compartment third/second class coaches, as manufactured for several years by Bachmann in OO, and these would have formed the bulk …read more.
Dec 28, 2023
Santa’s Sleigh
As usual the MRC held its pre-Christmas mini exhibition in earlier this month. The York Road tube diorama had its first outing with a working train for the show with certain features such as this little 3DP of Santa in his sleigh with four reindeer out front. They had landed on the YR tube station …read more.
Dec 22, 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
Weathering Green Diesels
Since John completed work on EM gauge converting my class 16 (thank you, John), I have been working on weathering/detailing it and two more class 15s whose weathering I had not previously completed for our layout Orchard Wharf. The class 16 (D8405) was factory weathered, so there was not much weathering to do, but I …read more.
Mar 10, 2023
A new home test track
One of the great benefits of MRC membership is access to the test tracks, allowing us to run our models on a decent sized circuit to run them in, and identify any niggles. Many of us will also have a short section of track at home and if we’re lucky maybe a ‘rolling road’ to …read more.
Feb 25, 2023