The Model Railway Club
The Model Railway Club is the oldest in the world devoted to the hobby and since 1960 has occupied its own purpose built club rooms. Keen House is about four minutes from Kings Cross and St. Pancras main line and underground stations.
The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales. The S scale model of Thame Station, the 2mm scale Chiltern Green and Luton Hoo and the 4mm scale New Annington deservedly won renown at exhibitions throughout the country. The current 2mm scale layout is Copenhagen Fields which is based on our local railway, the lines out of Kings Cross. A new 3.5mm scale (HO) layout, following American practice is being planned and the 7mm scale (O gauge) layout, Happisburgh, represents a station on the Norfolk coast. A new OO layout is currently being built, based on the Leeds/Bradford area. The layout/project leaders welcome new faces, whether novices or highly skilled - one member even contributes buildings from the Far East to Copenhagen Fields! The layouts all work on one evening a week as well as the regular Thursday night meetings.
Meetings are held every Thursday evening from about 7.00 p.m. onwards.
During the autumn, winter and spring seasons, the second meeting in the month generally takes the form of a lecture or presentation connected with the prototype or model railways. The other Thursdays are 'track nights', when members are encouraged to bring in models to run on the test tracks, browse in the library, work on the projects or just gossip about the hobby.
The Club's video equipment is available for use in the library on track nights and to illustrate speakers' lecture presentations.
For more information on the club you can visit their website at:
or write to The Secretary, The Model Railway Club, Keen House, 4 Calshot Street, LONDON N1 9DA.
