Monthly Club News
July 2024 : This
month is significant as this website is 25 years old.
Launched in 1999 initially hosted as a freeserve site
iit became a .com in 2001 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.
