Amersham and Chorleywood Model Railway Society

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Chesham MRS 50th Anniversary Exhibition

Another outing for Quarry Halt this time to support Chesham Model Railway Society's 50th Anniversary Exhibition on March 2nd 2025.

We are a small group who meet in our own club room in Chorleywood and always welcome new members. Most of our members model UK railways from various parts of the country.

We are always looking to recruit new members, so if you live in Amersham, Little Chalfont, Chorleywood or areas nearby and want to get involved with model railways, contact us by email - aandcmrs@gmail.com and come along to a running session.

The club has layouts in gauges "O", "OO" and "OO9". The test track has "OO", "EM", "3mmFS", "N/009", "HOm" and "TT:120".

The '0' gauge layout has been undergoing some relaying and rewiring. Scenic work still remains to be completed, but the trackwork is ready for running as required.

The '00' gauge layout has also been undergoing major works, particularly to the station area. All the trackwork is now laid and is ballasted. There remains plenty to do still, especially on the scenic side!

There is a second 'OO' layout primarily designed for exhibiting, Quarry Halt. It has had several successful outings, the most recent as noted above, at Chesham MRS 50th Anniversary Exhibition. More pictures here.

John brought the 009 layout out of storage and it has been run successfully for sessions in the club hut.

Some members have a layout at home, and our chairman has a magnificent "OO" layout in the garden.

Most of us buy ready-to-run models and enhance them to varying degrees, others prefer to build from kits. The ready availability of R-T-R in 4mm and 7mm means most of us use them at running sessions.

If you are already a railway modeller, want to pick it up again or are just starting out, then come along and see what we do. Contact us using our email address: aandcmrs@gmail.com

● Our twice weekly sessions are back at the Club room. The latest sessions are listed here. We decided to stay on twice weekly sessions so we could prepare Quarry Halt for the Chesham Exhibition at the beginning of March. We built a lightweight frame with polythene around the layout so we could heat a smaller area.

● Quarry Halt had a successful outing to the Chesham Model Railway Society 50th anniversary exhibition on 2nd March. Pictures here.

● And now after that outing we continue the refurbishment of Quarry Halt with a new traverser at one end and the remaining couple of points to be motorised ready for Amersham Heritage Day in September.

A recent running session had a Class 52 approaching the bridge over the canal on the '00' layout