The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales.
Santa’s Sleigh
As usual the MRC held its pre-Christmas mini exhibition in earlier this month. The York Road tube diorama had its first outing with a working train for the show with certain features such as this little 3DP of Santa in his sleigh with four reindeer out front. They had landed on the YR tube station …read more.
Dec 22, 2023
Award Winning MRC
We were delighted to be recognised in the 2022 British Railway Modelling Awards – presented at the London Festival of Railway Modelling (LFORM) at Alexandra Palace on 19th March. The awards are nominated by and then voted for by the public, and there were string fields in every category Our 2mm layout Copenhagen Fields won …read more.
Mar 21, 2023
Skittle Alley for Copenhagen Fields
Further to my progress over the summer holidays (see this blog) The Raven NER 4-6-2 class (AKA ‘Skittle Alley’) now has a running chassis. https://youtu.be/i16nnr6LEfk It will need some careful engineering to get it round corners, but should be OK. It certainly won’t be short of weight and traction when finished. The stepped running plate …read more.
Dec 26, 2022
Holiday Works
Hope you’re all enjoying the summer weather. Thought it was about time for a workshop update. The next loco from the Darlington works in St Albans will be a Skittle Alley, AKA a Raven NER 4-6-2 No. 2400. It will make a striking and exactly contemporaneous partner to Valour on CF. (Just needs someone to make …read more.
Aug 18, 2022
Would you like ice with it?
Bert and the horses have a quick nap and food break, whilst Will, the lad, has headed off to find where exactly the next ice delivery is to be made, on Copenhagen Fields Quite amazing to consider that the horses, wagon, driver & street lamp top were all 3D printed. Mike has recently designed and printed …read more.
Aug 28, 2021
Etched Canopies for Copenhagen Fields
The latest development is some etches for the canopy to go across the end of the goods sheds. These made up very well and are quite remarkably rigid, considering the fineness of the etches. The canopy has had six legs made for it, which will be magnetically retained on the layout, as I suspect this …read more.
Aug 18, 2021
Copenhagen Fields – a summer retreat for some detail work
After fairly frenetic activity over the last few months I did a bit of grotty modelling in the camper van in Cornwall. The hut under the arch really was a grade 1 bodge! It really shows off the clean lines of Jim’s steps and Matthew‘s signal box. There are a whole load of point rodding covers to place around …read more.
Aug 6, 2021
Raising a road, and lowering a roof
This was the state of play with the KX goods sheds up until two weeks ago. However, I have been in correspondence with Malcolm Tucker, who knows a great deal about the KX Goods Yards. A little bit of knowledge can be a bad thing for some, i.e. me, and one of the comments he made was that the …read more.
Jun 18, 2021
Casting Columns for a Copenhagen Fields canopy
The Handyside cast iron columns for the cart road canopy at the new potato market were originally 3D printed by Tom Everitt. These were then used as patterns for CoCr castings – that is the particularly tough alloy that partial dentures and artificial hips are made of. Locating them was going to be a bit …read more.
May 3, 2021
Potato Market – cart road canopies for Copenhagen Fields
The Potato Market cart road canopies in the KX Goods Yard have been progressing, albeit a little slowly. The frontage is quite tricky in the way it interacts with the warehouse behind. Nothing is simple on Copenhagen Fields A jig has been invaluable for assembling the roof, which consists of a remarkably complex set of …read more.
Apr 9, 2021
Brutal Warehouse modifications on Copenhagen Fields
The representation of the KX Goods Yard has featured some magnificent (and large) warehouses, based on some of the buildings at KX, that Mike laser cut and made to produce a critical structural mass. In fact, the warehouse had already been shortened at the front by a bay, before our MRJ photoshoot last February. The problem is that these …read more.
Jan 2, 2021
York Road – Permanent Way takes shape
As Young Timothy has been valiantly polishing lumps of coal dust for his latest green painted shunter, I have made a start on the crossover formation for the tunnels to the North of York Road station. The running rails for one of the turnouts are now in place, and I will start putting chair plates …read more.
Dec 30, 2020