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Monthly Club News

October 2024 : We started the month by running the first 9mm gauge stock on our new test track. Starting with some 009 stock followed by some N scale locomotives. Work is also progressing on a new additional slimed down fiddle yard that can be used behind the layout without having to set up main 16 road fiddle yard. We had a great weekend exhibiting our Dagnell End layout at the the new Warley and Statfold Barn event over the weekend of 12th and 13th October. As usual the layout was well received by the visitors.

September 2024: This September would be the first time for 20 years that Redditch Model Railway Club would have not staged a model railway exhibition now the permanent date for the events has moved to the first full weekend of March each year. We started the month with the sad news on Friday 6th September with the death of Richard Periam. Richard was a long term supporter and former member of the Club and will be missed by many Club Members. On Sunday 15th September we staged our Summer Club get together where club members had the opportunity to run a number of our layouts and enjoy a buffet lunch. A further test track circuit of 9mm gauge track suitable for N scale and 009 narrow gauge trains has been added to the club test track.  We had a great weekend over the 28th and 29th September at the Stafford show with our club display stand. We managed to give out many leaflets for our 2025 show to the event visitors.

August 2024: We begin the month preparing our Smallwood layout for its outing latter in the month and work continues on the buildings for our Norgrove layout. We had a greet weekend over the 10th and 11th August exhibiting our Smallwood layout at the Battlefield Railway in Leicestershire. We ended the month taking the Auch Ae layout to the Avonvale MES miniature railway in the grounds of Hillers Farm Shop for their bank holiday event where the layout was well received. We also ended the month with the Club's Annual General Meeting that took took place Tuesday 27th August and once again provided few surprises and the Committee where re-elected without change for a further twelve months.

July 2024 : This month is significant as this website is 25 years old. Launched in 1999 initially hosted as a freeserve site it became a .com in 2002 when hosting as transferred to 123reg. Work has continued on the rewiring of our Arrowmouth layout which has reached the testing stage. Work also continues on making building for our Norgrove layout.

June 2024: Saturday 1st June 2024 marked the 57th anniversary of the formation of the Redditch Model Railway Club. On the evening of Thursday 1st June 1967 a meeting was held at the White Hart Public House in Headless Cross in Redditch which resulted in the Redditch Model Railway Club being formed. We started the month on the 1st by taking our Smallwood layout to the Ludlow Model Railway Exhibition. As usual the layout was well received by the visitors. The Club also received a bequest of a number of a number of model railway items from a local supporter. This included a Mamod Traction Engine which gave us fun getting it to work.

May 2024: We start this month with The exhibition of our Temple Bridge layout at the Severn Valley Railway model railway event over the weekend of the 4th & 5th May 2025. Again this month we continued work on the rewiring of our Arrowmouth layout and the scenery and construction of building for our new Norgrove layout.

April 2024 : We start this month with continued work on the rewiring of our Arrowmouth layout and the continued work on scenery and construction of building for our new Norgrove layout. We ended the month by taking our Dagnell End layout to the new Key Model World Event at the NEC over the weekend of the 27th and 28th April. The layout was well received by the visitors.

March 2024 :  We started the month by staging the 51st Redditch Model Railway Exhibition over the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd March. Taking the brave decision to move the show from September to March was vindicated in terms of the increase in visitor numbers when compared with our shows in recent years. The exhibition also proved to be successful for our trade support as well. We will definitely be back on the 1st and 2nd March next year.  Back on club nights we are continuing to make building for our new Norgrove layout and are starting the rewiring of our Arrowmouth layout to make the operation of it more flexible.

February 2024 :  We started the month with the continued construction of a number of buildings for the Norgrove layout. These include a block of flats, a cinema,  a memorial hall, a supermarket  and a elevated bridge for the dual carriageway road at the one end of the layout. This month we also spent preparing for our 2024 Show on the 2nd & 3rd March with our layouts that were to be on show being tested and items being catalogued for our club sales second hand stand.

January 2024: We started the new year on the 1st January with a club running session of the Temple Bridge layout. Back at club nights we have continued making the buildings for our Norgrove layout. Towards the end of the month we started to make some alterations to the track alignment on our generic fiddle yard ready for its outing to the Model World event in April with our Dagnell End layout. The changes should improve the running of the fiddle yard and turn the layouts that are attached to it.