Twickenham & District Model Railway Club


Creating model worlds

Welcome to the Twickenham & District Model Railway Club.
Thanks for visiting.

We open at 19:30 most Friday evenings, visitors are always welcome.

We will be closed for site construction work, Fri 3rd April & 10th April

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

In addition to our layouts, our multi-gauge DC/DCC running track is usually available for use on the first three Fridays of each month.
The tracks are able to accommodate all popular gauges, from ‘N’ to G’, plus half a dozen other gauges, including: ‘TT’, 14mm, ‘S’ …. If you are making a special trip, check with us first.

Out and about

After a great weekend at the Isleworth steam amd Water Museum, the Club will next be making an appearance at:
St George’s Day Fair in Whitton High Street on Saturday 25th April plus two more local events in May. Full details of these shortly.

Meanwhile, Club members will be busy exhibiting our multi-award winning 1920’s ‘0’ layout ‘Kensington Addison Road‘ at The Festival of Model Railways , Alexandra Palace, 21st & 22nd March. Click link for details

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

Also at the Alexandra Palace show will be our club secretary’s layout. ‘Beijao’. This is a large H0 scale Chinese outline layout, set at the demise of the steam era.

‘Beijao’ H0. Screenshot from video. Thanks to ‘western signalman’ for the great video

Plus! ‘The Whiteleaf Railway’, G scale. Owned by the Buckinghamshire Garden Railway Society, and always a favourite at shows. Our ‘G scale’ minded members will also be found on this stand.

Courtesy BGRS https://bgrs.org.uk/

Seen in the Clubroom:-

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!