Update April 2025: the layout has been sold.
The club (well Mike really!) has built a lovely little 8′ x 4′ tabletop N Scale layout over the past year at the club and it is now available for sale. We are asking $1000 for it (plus $300 complete with rolling stock as pictured).
If it is not sold prior, it will be displayed and sold at Rail Fest on 6th October.
RailFest returns on Sunday 6th October! As in past years we’ll be doing behind-the-scenes tours, sausage sizzle, sales table, and all our layouts will be running.
See you there!
For your interest, a recently received link to a light hearted web site about all things railways and modelling.
Hi there,(From East Midlands, UK)
I have recently launched my own, not for profit, light hearted website called Train Mad Grandad after a comment from my grandson to distinguish which grandad he was talking about.
I have found retirement a bit difficult to adapt to as I enjoyed being useful. I am a railway modeller (RM MAG Oct 2014) and was a guard on the Kent and East Sussex Railway for some ten years.
I would be grateful if you could tell your members about me and my website.
Many thanks in anticipation
Trevor Powell
The annual Perth Model Railway Exhibition is on again at the Silver Jubilee Pavillion at the Claremont Showgrounds on the weekend of the 22–23 June 2024 (8am — 4pm both days).
Tickets are available from TryBooking: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1186940
Perth’s largest Model Railway Exhibition
This year’s Annual event is in the Silver Jubilee Pavilion, at Claremont Showgrounds.
There will be exhibits of Model Railways, Traders and like minded and similar organisations.
Familiar ones like Maylands Model Railways, Perth Hobby Centre, Hobbytech and Tinkering Tools to name a just a few traders.
Rail Heritage WA, Perth Electric Tram Society, Hotham Valley Railway and Bennett Brook Railway will also be there.
Come along and have a great day out being a child.
Ticket prices (from TryBooking):
| Family | 2 adults & accompanying children | $45 |
| Adult | 18 years and over | $20 |
| Concession | Any concession card holder | $15 |
| Children | 6 to 17 years old | $10 |
| Youngsters | 5 years and under | free |
| Companion card holder | Any companion card holder | free |
The club has a couple of new train speed measurement gadgets — one permanent and the other portable. Why is measuring the speed of your model trains important? And what speed should they be running at anyway? Read more to find out.
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Watco Australia liveried class mates DR1564 & DR1565 paid a visit to the UGL works siding next to the club yesterday. The day crew were even treated to a glimpse under the hood!
Photos courtesy of Garry West.
The club is located right alongside the access siding to UGL’s Bassendean loco workshops and as such we are often treated to the rumble of some big locos slowly making their way past the clubrooms.
Such a visit occurred today (28th Feb 2024) when NR91 and an unidentified class mate (both in Pacific National livery) were making their way from the workshops back in to service.
Photos courtesy of Garry West.
Long standing club member Garry Newman passed away last month. Life member Don Finlayson has written a lovely memorial for him and has included the photo above from 8 years ago.
Club life member Alan Porter passed away a couple of months ago. Life member Don Finlayson has written a lovely memorial for him and has included the newspaper clipping above from 16 years ago featuring Alan as a lead up to the 2007 Model Railway Show — the 2023 version of which is on this weekend at the Claremont Showgrounds.