Hampton Court MRS
The Society is a local group that meets at Tolworth Recreation Centre (in the Hunt Hall) in South West London every Sunday evening from around 8pm. New members are always welcome. We have five layouts in three gauges, although our members have a wide variety of interests and we try to cater for all aspects of the hobby.
Layouts.
Central (OO)
The Society's main layout. We have been working on this layout since before time began (or at least that's what it feels like) and we have recently finished enough to start taking it to exhibitions, so far we have been to; Southall '96 & '97, Western MRC's Exhibition at Greenford in March 98, Leatherhead 2000 and Basingstoke 2001
Millbridge Street (EM)
The Society's EM gauge layout is based on North of England.
Muckle Flugga (009)
Our new 009 layout has only just reached tracklaying stage. A coastal port is served by small ramshackle railway that run's along the dock front.
Edward's Junction and Thomas End (OO)
Originally built by a member, and the subject of a series of articles in the magazine Model Railways, the Society acquired the layout for use at our annual exhibition Showtrain as a crowd puller. This layout is home to a certain blue tank engine and his friends! Unfortunately due to space constraints we are unable to store this layout on site at Tolworth.
Our large OO layout Central has a very modern feel, so the steam era modellers felt that something more suitable was required. The Idea of modelling the S&D appealed as that had a wide range of trains from most regions, and we discovered that the trackplan from West Pennard could, with a few additions, fit the bill. Tracklaying has been finished and the scenery is underway.
Society Trips.
The Society organises a number of trips a year and we try to include at least one trip that would be dificult for an ordinary member of the public to attend, these have included:
Sir William McAlpine's Railway at Fawley
The Post Office Rail terminal at Willesden
This page is hosted by J. Hall mailto:jonhall@mcmail.com