Archive

Photographs and descriptions of the Club’s old layouts and other archived material can be found here. Use the navigation panel on the lower left hand side.

Links and affiliations

Model Railway Clubs (links to websites underlined) 2mm Scale Association 3mm Society Adur Valley MRS Amersham & Chorleywood MRS Andover MRC Barking & District MRS Barnet MRC BBC Railway Society Beckenham and West Wickham MRC Bexhill MRC Bexley MRC Biggleswade & District MRS Birmingham MRC Bracknell Railway Society Braintree and Halstead MRC Brambleton MRC Brighton …read more.

HO – Putnam Division

Putnam is The Model Railway Club’s American based layout, originally inspired by the Putnam branch of the New York Central Railroad, which ran north from New York. This line was single track and mostly ran through a semi-rural landscape of small towns and small farms. The layout is HO scale (1:87) with control via DCC. It is a work in progress, designed to grow gradually. The yard has been exhibited several times as an end-to-end layout, but we have recently completed work to turn it into an oval and can now run much longer trains. Work is under way to add scenery to the new boards. The big curve at the right hand end is the first to be tackled and, in contrast to the semi-urban nature of the main yard, will be rural in nature featuring a considerable number of hand-made trees.

We try to operate the trains with New York Central locomotives, both steam and diesel as befits a model set loosely around 1950, although locomotives from other railroads are used at times. Rolling stock represents the huge number of different railroads that existed at the time.

Work continues on the layout, including making the fiddle yard wider to enable a wider variety of trains to be run at exhibitions.

Happisburgh Goods – Retired

The Great Eastern Railway had planned to build a line from North Walsham to Happisburgh (pronounced Haysboro) on the Norfolk coast, then south east towards Great Yarmouth. Unfortunately the line never got built but for the purposes of our model we have assumed that it did.

Copenhagen Fields: Frequently Asked Questions

Copenhagen Fields: Frequently Asked Questions The Real ThingWhy Copenhagen Fields?The layout is named after the park that sits on the top of Copenhagen Tunnel, the second tunnel, about a mile North of Kings Cross. The name Copenhagen Fields is from the Ambassador of Denmark’s residence in the 18th Century. This was a public meeting area …read more.

Bow Junction

Bow Junction is the Model Railway Club’s new 7mm scale layout to be constructed in finescale Scale 7* gauge. After much research and planning new members are welcome to join the group with the opportunity to be there at the start of this new venture. The layout will be true to scale and depict a historic important slice of London around 1900.

Bow Junction shows the North London Railway’s junction from Bow Road following the line towards Poplar and the Docks and the diverging line to Fenchurch Street. In the midst of this unique junction is the North London Railway’s locomotive works, the erecting shop, forge and workshops, “Bow Works”.