Model railway clubs and groups in our area

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Feel free to share your local model railway club and its activities in this thread.

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Beckenham and West Wickham club: http://www.bwwmrc.co.uk/

 

Bexhill Model Railway Club http://www.bexhillmrc.org.uk/index.html

 

Bognor Model Railway Club http://www.brmrc.co.uk/

 

Brighton Model Railway Club  facebook www.facebook.com/brightonmodelrailwayclub

 

Burgess Hill Model Railway Club  http://www.burgesshillmrc.org.uk/

 

Canterbury Model Railway Club - http://www.ccmrs.ic24.net/Page_1x.html

 

Carshalton & Sutton Model Railway Club - http://www.csmrc.co.uk/

 

Chatham and District Model Railway Society: http://www.chatham-mrc.com/

Crawley Model Railway Society http://www.crawleymrs.org.uk/

East Grinstead Model Railway Club http://www.egmrc.org.uk

 

East Kent O Gauge Group (meets in Faversham) - www.ekogg.org.uk

 

East Surrey Area Group of The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers (meets at Merstham near Redhill) http://www.eastsurrey16mm.org.uk/

East Surrey N Gauge group (meets at Earlswood between Redhill and Horley) http://www.esng.co.uk/

Epsom & Ewell Model Railway Club http://www.eemrc.org.uk

 

Erith Model Railway Society: http://www.ukmodelsh...co.uk/erithmrs/
 

Folkestone Model Railway club - http://www.folkestone-mrc.com/

 

Guildford O Gauge Group - www.guildford0gaugegroup.org.uk

 

Hampton Court Model Railway Society - http://www.hamptoncourtmrs.com/

 

Horsham Model Railway Club http://www.horshammrc.org.uk/

 

Liphook and District Model Railway Club http://www.millandvalleyrailway.co.uk/welcome/liphook-district-model-railway-club-contacts-details/ (meets at Milland)

 

Newhaven & District MRC http://www.newhavendmrc.com/

Orpington and District Model Railway Society: http://www.orpingtonmodelrail.org.uk/

 

Pevensey Bay Model Railway Club: www.pevenseybaymrc.co.uk

 

Rusper Model Railway Club (Bromley) www.ruspermrc.co.uk
 

Seaboard Southern. http://www.seaboard-southern.org.uk/ (North American modellers)

 

Sompting & District Model Club (Worthing)  http://www.somptingdistrictmrc.co.uk/

 

South Coast O Gauge Group http://www.southcoasto.co.uk/p/welcome-to-south-coast-o.html

 

South East Gauge O Group - meets in Bromley, please contact bbishop on RMWeb for more information.

 

Southwark Model Railway Club http://southwarkmrc.wordpress.com/

Surrey Area Group of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association http://surrey.7mmnga.org.uk/

Surrey Narrow Gaugers  http://www.narrowminded.org.uk/

 

Thanet O Gauge Group - meets in Birchington (no contact details known)

 

Tonbridge Model Railway Club: http://tonbridgemrc.com/

 

Uckfield Model Railway Club http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/

West Sussex Area Group of the N Gauge Society (Sompting) http://www.wsng.co.uk/

 

Welling and District Model Engineering Society. http://www.wdmes.co.uk/

 

Worthing Model Railway Club http://www.worthingmrc.co.uk/mrc/

 

Worthing and District Society of Model Engineers http://www.worthingmodelengineers.co.uk/  *triple gauge (5, 3½, and 2½ inch) live steam railway track of approximately 440 yards)

Edited August 12, 2015 by cromptonnut

[Dave Searle 706]

Hi,

 

There's our club - Epsom & Ewell MRC: http://www.eemrc.org.uk/

 

Cheers,

Dave

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Added, thanks

[AndrewC 15,780]

Throw a few more into the mix.

 

Beckenham and West Wickham club: http://www.bwwmrc.co.uk/

Erith Model Railway Society: http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/erithmrs/

Orpington and District Model Railway Society: http://www.orpingtonmodelrail.org.uk/

Chatham and District Model Railway Society: http://www.chatham-mrc.com/

Tonbridge Model Railway Club: http://tonbridgemrc.com/

 

You can also use the UK Modelshop site to get lists of clubs by region. http://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/other/clubsHeader.php

 

For us North American Modellers there is also Seaboard Southern. http://www.seaboard-southern.org.uk/

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Added, thanks, and now sorted into alphapathetical order.

[The Nth Degree 1,515]

Thanks for adding our club Andrew. For anybody in the Worthing and surrounding areas and models 0 gauge, you simply can't beat it!

[Claude_Dreyfus 3,513]

Right on the Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire border is our club; Liphook & District...

 

http://www.millandvalleyrailway.co.uk/welcome/liphook-district-model-railway-club-contacts-details/

 

Our club room is in Milland, so just fits into West Sussex!

 

Also, you have the Bognor Group,

 

http://www.brmrc.co.uk/

 

Uckfield

 

http://www.uckfieldmrc.co.uk/

 

A small group at Sompting - near Worthing

 

http://www.somptingdistrictmrc.co.uk/

 

Worthing club themselves..

 

http://www.worthingmrc.co.uk/mrc/

 

...and finally the group who share the Sompting village Hall with the Sompting club...

 

http://www.wsng.co.uk/

[hayfield 6,324]

Entered in error

Edited April 24, 2014 by hayfield

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Watford and District Model Railway Club   http://watfordmrc.org/

 

Club house on the Watford Bushey border

 

Hi Hayfield, this area group is predominantly for Kent, Surrey and Sussex based members - Watford is a bit "out of district" sorry.

[hayfield 6,324]

Hi Hayfield, this area group is predominantly for Kent, Surrey and Sussex based members - Watford is a bit "out of district" sorry.

  Sorry

 

I saw South East (as we are in the South East) without looking at your map, cannot remove reply so changed the message. 

[AlanRogers 15]

You've already got Surrey Area Group of the 7mm Narrow Gauge Association, so well done!

 

We've got fabulously elastic borders, currently stretching to include members in Kent, West Sussex, East Sussex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and ... Cornwall!

[Shadow 2,695]

There's also the Worthing and District Society of Model Engineers who have an elevated triple gauge (5, 3½, and 2½ inch) live steam railway track of approximately 440 yards

 

http://www.worthingmodelengineers.co.uk/

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Thanks for that Shadow - duly added to the list.

[PaulRhB 15,346]

Might be worth suggesting as a topic in itself, expanding beyond this area and organising in regions or counties to make searching easier?

Edited April 24, 2014 by PaulRhB

[cromptonnut 2,537]

I don't know if it's worth fully duplicating the information already available via UKModelshops (although I can understand why some would prefer to stay on one site rather than going elsewhere) or a simple Google search but it may be a useful feature to the site.  The difficulty of course is maintaining it as invariably contacts change and clubs come and go, and they forget to or simply don't know everywhere it is mentioned.

 

However, one thing is fairly apparent from our three south eastern counties - there are many active model clubs and it is a very healthy scene.

[Brian 188]

Here's one - Faversham MRC .... http://www.favershammrc.org.uk

[nest 600]

there's the Brighton club

 

our website www.brightonmrc.com

our facebook www.facebook.com/brightonmodelrailwayclub

 

Nestor

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Brighton MRC duly added to the list, thanks Nestor.

[dasatcopthorne 1,767]

Brighton MRC duly added to the list, thanks Nestor.

No one seems to have mentioned Carshalton &Sutton MRC.

 

Find them at www.csrmc.co.uk

 

Dave

[60526 239]

Newhaven & District MRC http://www.newhavendmrc.com/

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Thanks guys, Carshalton and Newhaven now added to the list.

[Smiffy2 10,053]

Carshalton is http://www.csmrc.co.uk not csrmc.co.uk.

Edited May 30, 2014 by Smiffy2

[cromptonnut 2,537]

Carshalton is http://www.csmrc.co.uk not csrmc.co.uk.

 

Oops, changed

[RJS1977 2,690]

Although I'm slightly off your patch, here are a few others which are in your area:

 

 

Astolat Model Railway Club http://www.astolatmrc.co.uk/

 

Surrey Narrow Gauge Modellers http://www.narrowminded.org.uk/

 

Surrey 7mm NGA http://surrey.7mmnga.org.uk/

 

Greenwich & District Narrow Gauge Railway Society: http://www.gdngrs.com/

 

North Downs Model Railway Circle http://www.ndmrc.info/