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.
In addition to our layouts, we have a five circuit, multi-gauge DC/DCC running track that is usually available for use on the first three Friday’s 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.

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

Saturday Feb 28th & Sunday March 1st

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. Massive Victorian steam pumping engines, interactive educational experieinces, ride on narrow gauge railway….Click the pic to visit the museum website for full dretails.

Seen in the Clubroom:-

Northwick 00

‘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

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:

‘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!