Map of Model Railway Clubs in the UK

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Doug

Discussion Starter · Nov 9, 2008 (Edited by Moderator)

We are putting together a list of popular UK model railway clubs. If you are a member of a model rail club and would like your club to be listed, please send me a PM, email or post the club details in this topic and I'll add it to the list. Clubs in other countries will be added at a later date.

Model Railway Clubs in the UK

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mike reed

· #2 · Mar 15, 2009

Hi from Portsmouth
Please add to the club directory the Victory Model Railway Club. We meet every Tuesday at St James church hall in Milton, Southsea from 7pm till late and anyone who wants to come along is more than welcome. We've just done the Basingstoke show with our layout 'Milton Junction' and our next outing is the Festival of Steam in Portsmouth Dockyard.

Doug

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 16, 2009

Hi Mike, please give me a postcode so that I can locate you on the map. If you have a website, I can link to that too.

1ngram

· #4 · Mar 17, 2009

I sent you direct an email about a month or so ago listing a pile of clubs here in Scotland with details of websites email addresses etc. Did you get it?

Jonathan Williamson

· #5 · Mar 20, 2009 (Edited by Moderator)

hi all
can you please add the Hemel Hempstead railway club to the map
http://www.hhmrs.org/
regards
Jonathan

26power

· #6 · Mar 22, 2009

Please can you add Dumfries and District Model Railway Club? Details are:

Website: http://www.dumfriesmodelrailway.org.uk/

Meeting place postcode: DG1 4DF

Full meeting place details on website. Any potential members please PM me.

Thanks,

26power

Doug

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 22, 2009

I've added those sites.

To add a link, it is best to send a postcode or a means to physically locate the club. A link to the website or club info is also good.

Eagle1711

· #8 · Apr 26, 2009 (Edited by Moderator)

Hello

please add mine,

Rambottom Model Railway Club

Next to 3 Bury New Road
Ramsbottom
BURY
BL0 0BT

If you go on google maps its the building just behind the house looks like a giant shed

Doug

Discussion Starter · #9 · Apr 27, 2009

Stafford Railway Circle club added to the map. If anyone else would like their club added, please PM me with your club info including a postcode so that we can position you on the map.

pacman

· #10 · May 26, 2009

Hi,

Can you add my local club, the East Bedfordshire Model Railway Society (EBMRS).

Website: www.ebmrs.org.uk
Located: The Roundabout Club, Sandy, Bedfordshire.
Map: EBMRS Location
Meet: Tuesday nights from 7:30pm until 10:00pm
Exhibition Layouts: Sutton and Cheriton Bishop
Currently Building: Finchley Road

New members are always welcome.

Cheers,

Paul.

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Doug

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 27, 2009

QUOTE (pacman @ 26 May 2009, 22:45) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Can you add my local club, the East Bedfordshire Model Railway Society (EBMRS).
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OK, no problem. Quite a nice collection of clubs. Publicly searchable of course so if people are looking for a club, yours may just come up. If anyone else wishes to add theirs, please send along the details.

Mainthreadmartin

· #12 · Aug 1, 2009

Hi,

Can you add the Leamington & Warwick MRS

www.lwmrs.co.uk

Can you use postcode of CV31 3NS‎ to fix us on the map ( not our real postcode as we are out in the country but we dont advertise that address to the public for security reasons)

I have added our Jan show at Stoneleigh to your calendar.

Thanks.

TimP

· #13 · Aug 1, 2009 (Edited by Moderator)

Hi Doug,

there is a club in inverness (which i sometimes attend, work permitting)

http://www.freewebs.com/invernessmrc/

address is not published for certain good reasons, but meetings are held within a couple of miles of inverness centre on Tuesday nights 7.30pm to 10pm.

Tim

Doug

Discussion Starter · #14 · Aug 1, 2009

Sad state we are in if we can't say where our clubs are and have to keep the addresses secret (at least from the public).

I've added links to the two clubs.

bangerblueed

· #15 · Aug 1, 2009

Unfortunately publishing the details of the address of our clubhouse is not permitted since it is located in a rural area and would be very vulnerable to thieves but I am a member of the Market deeping model railway club which covers the towns of Stamford,Bourne and Market Deeping as well as being easy reach of Peterborough with quite a few members resident there
http://www.marketdeepingmrc.co.uk/

leicester thumper

· #16 · Aug 1, 2009

this is a good point, we should be able to, in this day and age, to safely give the address of the clubs, but we cant because thieves still target railway collections, it's mad. and so much for the police, most of the time they do something after the crime has happened, and this happens in all types of crime, not just burgulary!

goedel

· #17 · Aug 1, 2009 (Edited by Moderator)

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QUOTE (bangerblueed @ 1 Aug 2009, 21:05) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Unfortunately publishing the details of the address of our clubhouse is not permitted since it is located in a rural area and would be very vulnerable to thieves but I am a member of the Market deeping model railway club which covers the towns of Stamford,Bourne and Market Deeping as well as being easy reach of Peterborough with quite a few members resident there
http://www.marketdeepingmrc.co.uk/
That's fascinating bangerblueed! Do new members get escorted there blindfolded and searched for tracking devices on their first trip to the club?

I like the idea of a secret organisation for model railways! Or was that what SMERSH stood for all along

(Secret Model Electric Railways Secretly Housed)

The situation that you describe is apparently the same as at the Redditch Model Railway Club: exact location classified, but this is the building you can expect to see when the blindfold is removed:

This is all so exciting!! MI5 and MI6 are as we speak scanning their spy satellite footage for a warehouse with the same roof design and car parking space outlines so that missiles can be locked on...

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7113

· #18 · Aug 3, 2009

QUOTE (goedel @ 1 Aug 2009, 22:38) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is all so exciting!! MI5 and MI6 are as we speak scanning their spy satellite footage for a warehouse with the same roof design and car parking space outlines so that missiles can be locked on...

I told them not to run a Bulleid with those LNER coaches...

Regards

bangerblueed

· #19 · Aug 4, 2009

No not quite but it is difficult to find so its easier to take prospective new members to see the clubhouse although directions are freely given to any prospective new members wanting to see the facilities . There is very little of worth at the clubhouse but its the damage thieves cab do and I believe it did happen in the past at a previous clubhouse

Mainthreadmartin

· #20 · Aug 29, 2009

Our clubhouse is also rural, so we are cautious about publishing the address.

Saddly the world is not an honest place, so we have to protect ourselves whilst balancing the need to make ourselves known to those interested in the hobby. Our website has contact details and we try to get an idea of someones "level of interest" from the initial contact.

You make light of and mock our choice to be "secretive" but if you have ever suffered the devastation of a burglary at home or work you will know how this changes your attitude to being open about information.

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