Welcome to the Nailsea and District Model Railway Club Website

Here you will find the latest information regarding the Club’s activities, including exhibition dates and club layout updates.

Club meetings are held every Tuesday evening in our club room near Clevedon in North Somerset, with a range of activities to all comers, including monthly talks, running evenings and modelling sessions, and a quiz and modelling competition in December.

Navigate the website using the menu above to find out more about the Nailsea and District Model Railway Club and it’s members, see photos from past exhibitions and how to get in contact with us.

Thank you for visiting our website and we hope to see you at an exhibition soon.

Latest News

Last Updated Thursday 7th May 2020

We’ve not had an update on the website for a while, but despite being unable to hold our usual weekly meets, the Nailsea and District Model Railway Club have continued to support our members in their hobby during this time.

Since the lockdown due to the Corona Virus, we have set up a virtual meeting online using Zoom, held each week during the times our normal Club evenings would take place, and also made use of a members only Facebook group, to keep in touch and continue to share our hobby with each other. Although it isn’t the same as physically meeting up, we have however seen more progress on Club Members’ own layouts than we usually see at the Club room, where the layouts wouldn’t be able to be physically transported to. A selection of these are shown below.

Kit building has continued, with one member completing two 7mm scale nuclear flask wagons, which now just require painting, while another member has begun adding some extra detail to some N gauge Kestrel Designs shop kits using 3D printed parts.

Running model trains has also continued, with upgrades done to another member’s own multi gauge test track with the addition of some Märklin catenary equipment. The test track caters for gauge 1, 0, 00 and 3 rail with gauge 3 behind. Shown in the photos below is a Deutsche Bundesbahn 144 Class electric locomotive making use of the newly erected catenary and a 3-rail 2-6-8-0 BR53 from German manufacturer Märklin, which has revolving fans, lights, sound and smoke. The prototype for the latter, despite being designed, was never actually built due to war constraints.

For other members, work has continued on building layouts. Some of these have been the continuation of previous projects, while others have been new layouts only started since restictions were put in place. Working up through the scales, we have photos of three N gauge layouts, one OO-9 layout, one OO gauge layout and one EM gauge layout.

A new project started in March taking shape.

Track being laid on a previously planned layout housed in a shed 10 feet by 8 feet in size.

Electrical work beneath another recently started layout.

Continuing scenery work on the Morella Light Railway.

Tree planting and additional scenic work alongside a depot yard.

The beginnings of EM gauge layout, Supping Hole.

We’re all looking forward to seeing how the various projects progress and will shaer more photos in future updates.

For previous updates, click here to view the update archive