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South Hants Model Railway Club

About the Club Location Club Layouts Cricketer's Green Hope under Dinmore Meon Ogden Fold Member's Layouts Culm Great Bardfield Great Shefford Hemlock Down Lee-on -the Solent Otterbridge Westcliff Layout Archive Midsomer Norton & Welton More Layouts... Events Members

Exhibitions

Our next exhibition will be on 13^th March 2010 at Admiral Lord Nelson School

Our last exhibition was held on 7^th March 2009

The previous exhibition was held on 1^st March 2008

The one before was held on 4^th March 2006

To view the layouts at our exhibition held on 5^th March 2005 click here

To view the layouts at our exhibition held on 6^th March 2004 click here

To view the layouts at our exhibition held on 1^st March 2003 click here

To view the layouts at our exhibition held on 2^nd March 2002 click here

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About South Hants Model Railway Club

The South Hants Model Railway Club was formed a few years ago from the Portsmouth and South Hants Railway Circle after its move to new clubrooms at Fort Widley, to the North of Portsmouth. Fort Widley is one of a line of red brick forts situated on Postsdown Hill built to defend the city from Napoleonic hordes arriving from the North (a line of forts in the Solent exist to defend it from the South). Deep within its bowels, near the entrance to one of its extensive underground passages, are our clubrooms.

Our club is a very active one with a continuing programme of layout construction, operating club layouts and demonstrating at exhibitions around the country and, of course, holding our own annual exhibition every March.

The club currently has 30+ members from a wide geographic area with members from Romsey, Southampton and West Sussex, as well as the odd one or two from Portsmouth! We have three working exhibition layouts:

• Meon, a pre-grouping LSWR terminus in EM Gauge.
• Hope-under-Dinmore, an EM Gauge loop layout.
• Cricketer's Green, acquired from the Winchester club and refurbished, this is a double track "looped eight" in EM gauge which allows continuous running.

There are also three layouts under construction, in EM Gauge, Scalefour and O Gauge.

The normal club night is Thursday from about 8pm although the clubrooms, where we have exclusive use of two large rooms, are available for members to use at other times. The club is very friendly and we like to feel it is easy for new members to quickly "feel at home". There is the chance to contribute to any project (or projects if you wish) and the opportunity to learn (or to teach!) and to exchange ideas with other members. Club meetings usually end with a visit to a local pub for those who are that way inclined - generally most of us!

We feel our club is something special. We don't expect all our members to be expert modellers (although some certainly are) but we constantly strive to improve our own standards and try to encourage everyone to "have a go".

If you think our club would suit you, why not come up and see us one Thursday evening. We are always quite happy to entertain guests and prospective members.

If you would like more information about us please contact our Secretary:

• secretary@shmrc.co.uk

Ray Hodson (Club Chairman)

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Last updated: 26 March, 2009