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Risborough and District Model Railway Club
Club details
We meet on Friday evenings at 7pm till 10pm at the St Mary's Church Hall in Princes Risborough. This is located opposite St Mary's Church and near the main car park in Stratton Road. Click here for a map.
The club calendar is here: Google Calendar (opens in a new tab).
The club celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. A brief history of the first fifty years of the Club can be found in the attached document: r_dmrc_-_the_first_fifty_years.pdf
Club talk by Andrew David
An Illustrated Lecture on:
‘Uppingham (LNWR) - Rutland’s only passenger branch terminus: the first 130 years’
hosted by the Risborough and District MRC November 29th 2024, 8.00pm
St Mary’s Church Hall, Church Lane, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9AN.
Admission FREE – non-members welcome (contribution of £3.00 requested towards tea and coffee)
Haddenham 28th September 2024
On Saturday 28th September 2024 we hosted a small exhibition in Haddenham featuring half a dozen layouts, traders and our secondhand stall. For details of the event, see our promotional video:
Layouts included:
- Okement Quarry - this is our club's new O gauge project based loosely on Meldon Quarry.
- Shadwell - High Wycombe MRC Juniors - OO 1960s+ steam, diesel or modern day.
- Loughborough Road Engine Shed - Roger Noble RDMRC - Pre Grouping: LNWR & Midland.
- Tedburn St Mary - South West Herts MRS - OO SR.
- East Wittering - Kelvin White RDMRC - O gauge (Selsey tramway).
- Leatown - Kevin Wood RDMRC - OO E.London 1980s blue diesels.
- Freedles - Ric Lee RDMRC - N gauge freelance.
Traders included:
- Boddington Postcards
- Quainton Railway Society Books
- R&DMRC second hand
Railex exhibition - Saturday 24th May, Sunday 25th May 2025
Railex is our large finescale exhibition, where the quality of layouts is paramount, along with a great selection of traders for our visitors to buy their next models from.
The exhibition is held at the Stoke Mandeville stadium in Aylesbury.
Look out for details of our forthcoming exhibition at the Railex website:
Railex 2023 Awards went to Old Parrock for Best Layout, and the Wantage Street scene won Best Model.
Risex exhibition at the Risborough Community Centre Feb 17th 2024
On Saturday 17th February 2024 starting at 10am we presented our family model railway exhibition in Princes Risborough featuring ten layouts, some traders and our secondhand stall.
Full details are here: Risex
Layouts included:
- Loughborough Road - OO gauge LNWR pre grouping
- Tremierten - N gauge, ex GWR Country branch Terminus. Many 3D printed items of rolling stock
- Glenridding Lane - OO gauge, 1960's Industrial Steam
- Whipsnade Central - 009 gauge depicting the narrow gauge railway at Whipsnade Zoo
- Shadwell - OO Gauge East End 50's and 60's steam terminus with goods reception yard
- Silverbury - OO Gauge modern image of what the GCE line to London would have looked like, if it survived
- All cars stop here - Honk Kong based tram layout
- Pentrefan - EM Gauge pre grouping GWR set in Wales
- Melin Parva - O 16.5 narrow gauge
- Tamzynowo Wlk - HO Polish layout
Traders included:
- Sunningwell Command Control for all that's best in DCC
- Keith's model railways
- Quainton Railway Society Books
The Club
Our layouts
Trips and outings
Affiliated to The Model Railway Club
Member of the Chiltern Model Railway Association
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