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Risborough and District Model Railway Club
Club details
We meet on Friday evenings at 7pm till 10pm at the St Mary's Church Hall in Princes Risborough. This is located opposite St Mary's Church and near the main car park in Stratton Road. Click here for a map.
The club calendar is here: Google Calendar (opens in a new tab).
The club celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021. A brief history of the first fifty years of the Club can be found in the attached document: r_dmrc_-_the_first_fifty_years.pdf
Showing Aylesbury LNWR at Quainton
The iconic Aylesbury LNWR layout can be seen most weekends over the summer at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton. Please check our Facebook page for dates (R&DMRC Facebook). To find it, go into the museum and then to Platform 4 where you'll find a coach containing the layout. Operators from the club will be on hand to show you the model, run trains and answer questions. Bob Williams' book on the layout will be available to purchase.
Railex exhibition - Saturday 23rd May, Sunday 24th May 2026
Railex is our large finescale exhibition, where the quality of layouts is paramount, along with a great selection of traders for our visitors to buy their next models from.
The exhibition is held at the Stoke Mandeville stadium in Aylesbury. We will, once again, be in the Main Hall
Visit the Show's home page for more details
Put the date in your diary
Risex exhibition at the Risborough Community Centre Feb 22nd 2025
On Saturday 22nd February 2025 we held our family model railway exhibition in Princes Risborough featuring nine layouts, some traders and our secondhand stall. Full details are here: Risex
Layouts included:
- Achalraj - 009 Himalayan
- Pacific Crossing, Birkenhead - 00, Wirral Heritage Tramway
- Astonbury Junction - 00 BR steam
- Burton Bradstock - EM BR 1950's
- Quarry Lane End - 4mm narrow gauge
- Brief Encounter, 00 based on the David Lean film & modelled in black & white.
- Mothecombe - 00 BR
- Marybridge Goods - 0 gauge
- Long Sibford - 009 modular layout
- Roadwater - EM, GWR 1920/30s
Traders included:
- Sunningwell Command Control for all that's best in DCC
- Keith's model railways
- Quainton Railway Society Books
Demos & Displays
- Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Society
- Princes Risborough Signal Box Preservation Group
- Great Central Society
- R&DMRC demo tables
Club Open Day - 12th July 2025
With our Open days we allow the public to visit on a day where we can show prospective members what we get up to. In support of the Risborough Festival, we hosted our Open Day on Saturday 12th July 2025, at St. Mary’s Hall, Church Street in Princes Risborough. Our Open Day is an informal event where you can talk about railways, models, and modelling techniques. It featured one of our club layouts as well as demonstrations and displays of club member’s projects and a second hand stall selling rolling stock, scenic accessories, books, and magazines.
See our promotional video: Open Day 2025 YouTube Video
Haddenham 27th September 2025
On Saturday 27th September 2025 we had our small exhibition in Haddenham featuring half a dozen layouts, traders and our secondhand stall.
Layouts:
- Okement Quarry - this is our club's new O gauge project based loosely on Meldon Quarry.
- Shadwell - High Wycombe MRC Juniors - OO 1960s+ steam, diesel or modern day.
- Inchyra Mill - EM Gauge Tony & Graham Bucknell RDMRC.
- Mellin Parva - 0 16.5 Gauge RDMRC.
- Long Sibford - 009 Gauge Oxford Narrow Gauge Modellers).
- Freedles - Ric Lee RDMRC - N gauge freelance.
Traders:
- Boddington Postcards
- Quainton Railway Society Books
- Sunningwell Command Control
- R&DMRC secondhand
The Club
Our layouts
Trips and outings
Affiliated to The Model Railway Club
Member of the Chiltern Model Railway Association
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