Twickenham & District Model Railway Club


Creating model worlds

Welcome to the Twickenham & District Model Railway Club.

We open at 7:00 PM most Friday evenings. Visitors are welcome, but if you are planning a special trip, please contact us beforehand to confirm.

A selection of recently seen models on the MGRT. (‘N’, ’00’ ‘0’ and ‘G’).

Out and about

Thank you, everyone who visited our stand at St George’s Day Fair in Whitton High Street today, Sunday 26th April, we hope you enjoyed your visit, it was a fun filled day.
We are looking forward to attending:
Twickenham Green Fair on Monday May 25th,
Hampton & Kempton Railway weekend of the 30th & 31st May

Club Open Day

Saturday July 25th 10:00 – 16:00

Full details of our Open Day, to be held at our Club rooms in Wills Cresescent, will be confirmed on this page as soon as possible.

In the Clubroom:-

Kensington Addison Rd. starion,1925. 0 scale layout of Twickenham MRC
Kensington Addison Rd 0

Northwick – 00

With the layout now fully operational again, save for a couple of minor ‘snags’, attention is turning to building an additional baseboard for this well regarded 00 layout. This unusual train appeared the other Friday evening:

‘Northwick’, 00. Layout Group leader, Tim, with his outsize load train. Scratchbuilt boiler transporter wagon with a load for a Power Station boiler ‘Heat Recovery Unit’ as a load.
Click link in the picture to see more on the Northwick Layout page

‘West Brompton’ – ‘0’

Our new small ‘0’ layout, ‘West Brompton’, is proceeding apace. With track fixed and wiring complete, the team have turned to the the station buildings. Whilst some construction was done at home, a Friday evening work session provided an opportunity to see this building temporarily in place.

Model 1:43. District Ry Train Shed -West Brompton station. interior of roof and footbridge
Phone pic of the superb train-shed roof construction and footbridge.

Constructed using original drawings, walls of the building are several laser cut MDF layers, the right side continues beyond the building to form a high, arched, retaining wall. The bowed roof is formed of soldered brass wire and structural sections, overlaid with wood planking, except for the central glazed area that allows light into the otherwise dark structure.
An unusual footbridge exisits at West Brompton; it has a double stairway in the same direction from the overhead walkway to the platforms. The walkway connects to the ticket office and to the adjacent West London line station. Brass sections have been utilised for the construction, supplemented by custom brass etchings for the fine stairway balustrades.
There is a lot more to do on this layout, For more information and pictures, please visit the layout page, Here

Club Facebook Page

News and events can be found on our regularly updated Facebook page along with more photos from Club evenings
Click the pic to take a look!