Twickenham & District Model Railway Club


Creating model worlds

A warm welcome to the Twickenham Model Railway Club.
Thanks for visiting.

Visitors and new members will receive a warm welcome to the clubroom, come along one Friday evening and meet us. In addition to our layouts, Our five, multi-gauge DC/DCC running tracks are available most weeks. These are able to accommodate all usual, from ‘N’ to G’ plus half a dozen ‘unusual’ gauges, including: ‘TT’, 14mm, ‘S’ ….

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

Twickenham & District MRC are delighted to be supporting the February Steam Up at the London Museum of Water and Steam

We will have Two fun layouts. The ‘G’ scale ‘River St. Gas Works’, and the, new, small ’00’ ‘Kerswell lane’, together with the Club information stand, and some used model railway items for sale.
This is a really impressive museum with something for the whole family to enjoy. Click the pic to visit the website.

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 apeared 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.
More details and pics 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 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.
Thre 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!