The Club builds and operates layouts in a variety of scales.
Lacey Dale prepares for the NEC
Preparations for The NEC for the weekend of 21st and 22nd November are well under way, frantic painting, glueing, cutting, tweaking and general fettling taking place in the Centenary room. With a short 21 days from setup in Keen House to setup in the NEC the improvements were targetted at the big impact items that …read more.
Nov 15, 2025
Lacey Dale lives
After a few years of quiet existence Lacey Dale – our N gauge layout – has sprung forward. A set of new team members, Nic, Danny and Jon have joined existing team members and layout leader Rob to renovate and improve the already impressive LD layout. Initial work focusses on the mimic panels for the …read more.
Sep 28, 2025Lacey Dale Report May 2019
The major activity for this period was operating the layout at the club’s open day in April. The layout performed very well throughout the day. An upgraded version of the automation software was in use, allowing trains on the down layby to be integrated into running sequence. A big thanks to Tim Watson for painting …read more.
May 12, 2019Lacey Dale Update March 2019
Following our sojourn in the Library over the new-year, Lacey Dale has had a busy couple of months, with outings to the Erith model railway club’s exhibition at Longfield in January, and a visit to Milton Keynes MRC for their 50th anniversary exhibition in February. The performance of the layout at Longfield was very good, …read more.
Mar 17, 2019
Scenery Update
As it has been some time since the last update, I thought I would post some images of the layout. This is more a pictorial update on the progress so far than a detailed account of what has been happening. This will be covered in future posts. To summarise, all the bare patches on the …read more.
Oct 9, 2017
Welcome to the Lacey Dale blog
Welcome to the blog for the MRC n gauge project ‘Lacey Dale’. Here we will be posting information and updates about the project. Please comment and/or subscribe to receive updates. If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section and we will try and respond as soon as possible.
Nov 30, 2014