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Brighton Model Railway Club
Affiliated to The Model Railway Club
Clubrooms:- London Road Station, Shaftesbury Place, Brighton, BN1 4QS
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Page last modified 09 March 2010.
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Welcome to the Brighton Model Railway Club home page. I hope you enjoy the variety of layouts and features we have on this site. I try and keep the website accurate, clear, simple, quick to load and easy to use. If you find any missing or broken links etc please let us know via the email link at the bottom of this page.
I am currently updating the photos and moving them to our fotopic image store so there maybe some broken links to a few photos as this is being carried out.
Click on any picture within the website for a larger image.
Photo of the Month: March
One of a small lot of slides recently purchased on eBay included this rather interesting photo of my local station Preston Park. The wooden station buildings are being demolished. These were replaced by wooden SR CLASP prefab buildings, of which only the booking office and part of the downside waiting room survive today. Two trains can be seen in the sidings a Cig or Vep on the left and Ceps on the right which suggests a weekend date for the photo which appears to be taken from an all blue 4Cig. Photographer unknown.
After some research on the interweb the date of the photo is some time in 1972.
The latest update to the website includes:
2010 exhibition - Page updated 16/11/09. Pictures of the 2009 exhibition.....you've missed it.
Club Layouts updated 16/11/09 NEW PAGES
Club members layouts updated 16/11/09. NEW PAGE
Diary of Events updated 3/22/10 for the 2010 season HMRS, LCGB, STIG.
Our home London Road station in Brighton, which has now had a major renovation.
This is the before ......................... and this is the after.
Brighton MRC was founded in 1971 and celebrated its 36th birthday in October 2007. We currently have around 20 members and always welcome more.
Meetings are every Tuesday (except Bank Holidays and the Tuesday between Christmas and New Year) from 1930 to approx 2200 at London Road Railway Station, Shaftesbury Place (off Ditchling Rise) in Brighton, East Sussex, UK. The clubrooms are in what was originally the Ladies waiting room. We have club layouts in 00 gauge and O-16.5 as well as a test track which has N, OO coarse and finescale, EM and O gauges. Our members have a wide variety of interests ranging from London Brighton and South Coast Railway in O gauge through London & South Western Railway in OO through to the Denver and Rio Grande in N scale and everything in between!
Anyone aged 18 or over is eligible to join, details on the membership page.
As well as building and operating our layouts, we run other events such as film and slide shows, quiz nights, an annual competition for members' models and an exhibition in November each year.
London Road station is the first stop out of Brighton on the line to Lewes. Services are operated by the Southern Railway and run 4 times an hour throughout the day, reduced services evenings and Sundays.
Closest bus stops to the
station are on the 5, 5A and 5B route in Beaconsfield Villas /
Preston Road or the 26 route in Ditchling Road.
Services are operated by Brighton
& Hove Bus company.
Both stops are just a few minutes away from the station which is
signposted.
Click here for a map of the area.
If you need more information, please contact either:
Dave Clements (Secretary) on 01273 771929 or use the email link below.
Email to brightonmrc(AT)fsmail.net, please substitute @ for (AT) of course.
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Webmaster Andy Gibbs.
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