News Archive

December 2011

The clubs Christmas dinner was held on 12th Dec at the Toby Carvery Keighley and was most enjoyable. With 24 Diners it was the best attended of recent years.

November 2011

Aldington on Sea, Glen Bogle and GRASSINGTON appeared at Sedberg community centre (Our base) Christmas fare on Sat 26th Nov 2011.

Dalry Road appeared at the Hull exhibition 12th 13th Nov 2011

Aldington on Sea (N)appeared at the Padiham show on the 5th of November 2011

October 2011

Grassington looked absolutely stunning in the November edition of Hornby Magazine.

STOP PRESS - Another win for BMRC. - Oxenhope (O) won the shield for the publics choice at the L and Y DCC exhibition Rawtenstall where it appeared alongside Aldington on Sea (N)

Operations have switched to Aldington and Oxenhope to get them ready for the L and Y DCC exhibition 29/30th Oct 2011.

September 2011

Oxenhope appeared at the Halifax Exhibition 24th 25th Sept 2011

Mike Wild from Hornby Magazine visitited on 15th Sept to take photos of Grassington and Adlington on sea for future magazine features.

Work is concentrating on Dewsbury Midland fiddle yard which will hopefully feature a MERG CANbus 2 wire system to control and route set all the pointwork. See MERG on www.merg.org.uk/

August 2011

Dalry Road O appeared at Telford Gauge O guild on the 3rd/4th Sept 2012

GlenBogle appeared at the Harrogate event 29th August 2011

Exhibition flyers and posters have been added to the exhibition and downloads pages

Dalry Road appeared at the Leyland show on 13th 14th August.

Victoria Road wins once more. Victoria Road has been out on holiday in deepest Suffolk at the Southwold show 6th 7th August 2011 where it was chosen by the public as best layout.

Dewsbury Midland (N) has been brought out of storage with a view to completing the new fiddle yard.

Ian and Chris's new Scottish O gauge layout Glenbogle (14foot by 20") has been erected in the clubroom with an aim to taking it to the Harrogate show in lei of Adlington which is unwell.

July 2011

Ian Eddelestone has been filming now with goods yard completed Victoria road for his forthcoming video of Saltaire Grassington and Oxenhope.

Work continues on resurfacing Victoria Road Goods yard for the Southwold exhibition. Permanent magnets have been fitted under the cobbles to enable stock fitted with modified tension lock couplings (based on the Brian Kirby design) to uncouple (see www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWl4tAo6ls.).

The webmaster has been busying himself with completing a 3 car push pull set using O gauge Ian Kirk LMS Coaches as well as tinkering with repairing and modifying some DCC sound equipped OO locos:-
DCC update
Bachman Royal Scot LMS black (mine to sell) with burnt out Decoder. Added Loksound 3.5 SWD 2/4 cylinder and bass reflex speaker in tender. Sounds good but I am looking into how to make it have the correct 3 cylinder beat.
Bachmann Fairburn (Mine) - added a Howes Loksound 4.o with a 22mm speaker squeezed in the bunker. Sounds great and hope to add a working headlamp and possibly a firebox LED.
Class 47 Heljan with slipping drive shafts (my sons). Obtained replacement bogies and shafts from Howes (excellent value) and added a Zimo MX655 with bass reflex speaker in the fuel tank from Digitrain at the same time. Sounds great
Class 37 Bachmann faulty SWD sound chip(my sons). I have replaced the faulty South west digital Loksound 3.5 with a Zimo MX645 with Bass reflex speaker in the fuel tanks from Digitrains. With the addition of LED's from Express models it sounds and looks very well. I have altetred the various CV' s so the tail lights work on fubnction 8 so they can be off when hauling stock. Really getting into this DCC thing. Trying to fathom out how to make the fan rotate.
Just need a DCC layout to run them on.

June 2011

Oxenhope was well received at the one day Gauge O guild event at Halifax on 4th June

Work continues on resurfacing Victoria Road Goods yard. It is proposed to install permanent magnet under the cobbles to enable stock fitted with modified tension lock couplings (based on the Brian Kirby design) to uncouple see www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWl4tAo6ls.

May 2011

Victoria Road - For the Southwold show work has commenced on resurfacing the goods yard which was suffering from damp .

There is some talk of resurrecting the proposed Low Moor layout idea. See Club Layouts

Dalry Road and Grassington appeared at the Stockport show on 7th 8th May 2011

April 2011

Oxenhope O was very well received at the Bristol show on 29th April -1st May 2011

Our 2011 EXHIBITION was held on 16th 17th April 2011 see exhibition archive for details

The Layout voted by the public as best in show Pennock trophy) and also winner of the chairman's choice shield was January 68 from Graham Harrison/ Lee Baines of Fylde north MRC www.blackpoolandnorthfyldemrc.co.uk/index.html seen here accepting the cup and shield.

March 2011

Victoria Road does it again and won the Layout vote best by the public shield at Keighley Model Railway Exhibition Mar 19th 20th where Keighley club made us most welcome at a most enjoyable event.

Chris Towers newly adopted switch able analogue/DCC layout Queens Road Goods appeared at Settle Scout Rail on 12th March.

Work continues on the clubs new Seaside layout now named Aldington on Sea. with track wiring and ballasting almost complete with the aim to be ready for our April Exhibition.

February 2011

Work continues on the clubs new Seaside layout now named Aldington On Sea. with wiring almost complete with the aim to be ready for our April Exhibition.

January 2011

The AGM was held on 7th Feb 2011.

Another quiet month due to cold weather

December 2010

Exhibition 2011 - Exhibitors and layouts are starting to be listed in the exhibitions page

A quiet month due to cold weather

Dalry Road appeared at the Wigan exhibition 11th 12th December 2010

November 2010

Fry up appeared at the Padiham one day show 6h Nov 2010
Work continues on seaside layout Aldington On Sea.

October 2010

Victoria Road appeared at the Leeds Show 30th 31st Oct 2010

September 2010

Oxenhope appeared at the Leigh Exhibition 25th 26th Sept 2010.

Victoria Road wins again - was judged best in show at the Redditch exhibition 18th 19th Sept 2010

Oxenhope has been erected to prepare for the Leigh show 25th 26th Sept 2010

Work continues on no-name by the sea N gauge layout with new points and colour signals obtained.

August 2010

Victoria Road attended Skipton show over the August bank holiday.

Legs have are being made for the yet unnamed seawall N gauge layout.

Work continues on making Victoria Road ready for the Skipton show.

July 2010

A quiet month after the big Grassington push
Victoria Road has been assembled for test ready for the Skipton Exhibition Aug bank hol weekend.
An N gauge (currently unnamed) layout depicting a Dawlish type seawall and cliffs which was acquired by the club a few years ago has been brought out of store for assessment. Needs quite a lot of work including new track, a rewire and general tartup.

June 2010

Grassington, Dolly Hill and Fry up appeared at our mini show as part of the Grassington festival. Grassington as well as Peter Huffs display of Grassington Branch memorabilia which was extremely well received and consideration will be given for a "re-match".

Picture - Peter receives a picture of his late father working on the station.

And, a big thanks to Model Depot Leeds for rescuing us at our Grassington Mini show 19th 20th June when booked trader Keiths Model Railways had to cancel due to illness at short notice. www.modeldepot.co.uk

Dalry Road featured in the July 2010 issue of HORNBY Magazine

July 2010

May 2010

Dolly hill is out at a small exhibition at Kirkby Stephen Station Sat 6th June 2010

Work continues on refurbishing Grassington for the Grassington festival. Problems due to its long time in store revolve mainly around replacing the missing sections of backscene with matching, track repairs wiring and scenery. Becoming quite a task.
Peter Huff of Grassington will hopefully be exhibiting some of his huge collection of pictures and artefacts from the Grassington branch at the Grassington Mini show. Layouts expected to be on show are Grassington, Fry up, Dolly Hill and Bocstyn Sidings (00)Dave Burrows as well as Keiths Model Railways

April 2010

Grassington Festival mini show - Work continues on refurbishing Grassington for the festival 19th/ 20th June 2010.

March 2010

The annual show was held on 27 28th March 2010 and first indications are that it was favourably attended and received good feedback.
The Arthur Towers Shield (Chairman's choice) was the the awesome Scottish Highlands N gauge layout Loch Oran chosen

Presented by our chairman Ian Atkinson.

The Pennock Trophy for the layout voted best by the public was Wingfield Junction a large 00 layout with lots of lights, features and action.

Presented here by Our Chairman Ian Atkinson

Dalry Road featured at the Heywood Exhibition 20/21st March 2010

Dolly Hill appeared at the Settle Scout Rail exhibition 13th March 2010

Grassington (OO) is being refurnished as an end to end rather than a U to permit easier boxing up for transport and is due to appear at the Grassington Festival 19th/ 20th June 2010. This involves the construction of a new baseboard to replace the unwieldy curved one, renewal and re-alignment of the south points to give more reliable running, re-flock and scenery enhancements; hopefully working lights, working gates; new mains power pack and general tidy.

Feb 2010

Oxenhope appeared at the Bolton show Sat 20th Feb 2010 and is due to appear at our show 27 28th March 2010.

Oxenhope appeared at Oxenhope at the Keighley and Worth Valley Steam Gala Fri - Sun 12-14 Feb 2010 .

Grassington (OO) has been removed from storage with a view to refurbishment for the Grassington Festival 19th/ 20th June 2010

The AGM was held on 1st feb 2010 at 7.45. Welcome to two new members Mark and Geoff.

Jan 2010

Mike Wild from Hornby magazine attended the club to photograph OXENHOPE for a future issue of the magazine.

Dec 2009

Fry up is appeared at the one day exhibition at Mirfield fire station Sat 5th Dec 2009

Victoria Road has gone into store and Oxenhope set up to make it ready for next years bookings (see diary).

Nov 2009

Victoria Road was very popular at the Wakefield show

Work continues on Victoria Road ready for the Wakefield show. Enhancements include making the street lighting work and hopefully having some smoke available from "that" Chimney.

Fry up (009) and Bolton Woods (N) appeared at the Pendle Forrest exhib on the 14th/ 15th Nov 09

Oct 2009

Dolly Hill appeared at the L and Y DCC event 31st Oct/ 1st Nov 09 at Rawtenstall

Fry up appeared at the Huddersfield exhib (at Holmfirth) 24/25th Oct see

Downloads section with membership details flyers etc added to website Hit Counter reactivated

Victoria road is receiving attention to minor scenery damage incurred while at Salts Mill. Work continues on Daleside and Dewsbury fiddle yard.

Sept 2009

Victoria Road (Our version of Saltaire) has appeared at Salts mill during the Saltaire festival between 10th Sept and 20th Sept 2009 . It seemed well received and was visited by what seemed like a huge number of people. Interestingly the Adults seemed almost to not notice the trains but were impressed by the buildings and wildlife whereas the children inevitably focused on the 12 or so trains we had runnng.

August 2009

Fry Up appeared at the Skipton Exhibition on 29th, 30th 31st August 2009
Donald Swires new Layout Bolton Woods appeared at the Bilton Grange exhibition, Harrogate on the 29th Sept 2009
Work continues on Dewsbury new fiddling yard as well as New Daleside 00 and Castle Warren (009)

July 2009

A quiet month due to holidays etc.
Work continues on Dewsbury new fiddling yard as well as New Daleside 00 and Castle Warren (009)

We understand that Tomas, which was loaned out to the Halifax club, was well received at the Queensbury scout exhib and is available for loan to anyone else.

June 2009

A start has been made on procuring exhibitors and Traders for our 2010 exhibition. We are particularly interested in specialist quality traders. Details will be added to the Exhibition page as available.

Work continues on New Daleside 00 and Castle Warren (009) Dewsbury Midland (N) new fiddling yard

May 2009

18th May - Dewsbury Midland (the first version in N gauge as opposed to Manchester's 00 version) is up in the larger clubroom for completion of the new fiddling yard and a general tart up.
Tomas is also being spruced up as the Halifax club are borrowing him for the Queensbury Scouts railex on 6th June.

16th May - Our website is perhaps getting a bit too popular as it cost us £7.00 in excess bandwidth charges. Advertisers to spread the cost very welcome.

9th-10th May 09 - Victoria Road was at Stockport show and won the Shield for the best modelled item with the Mill and that Chimney (constructed by member Trevor Shaw).

2nd-3rd May 09 - Victoria Road along with Dolly Hill appeared at the Pickering Model Railway show and seemed to attract a lot of attention.

The main clubroom has received a much needed redecoration with lots of 'stuff' have been moved into our 2nd room. Not much modelling at the moment due to congestion.

April 2009

The annual Exhibition was held on 18th/ 19th April and first indications are that it was favourably attended and received good feedback.
The Arthur Towers Shield (Chairmans choice) was Ridings chosen by our chairman Ian Atkinson for its excellent buildings, innovative DCC trolleybus and Faller car system.
The Pennock Trophy for the layout voted best by the public was inevitably the awesome Rowlands Castle (Peter Goss) . The webmaster is of the opinion this is probably one of the best layouts on the circuit at the moment.

Work continues to get Oxenhope and Victoria road ready for the exhibitions as well as other arrangements with trader short notice cancellations

March 2009

Dolly hill attended a successful SETTLE (Scout Rail) on the 28th March

Bookings moved to diary page

The AGM was held on 2nd March and resulted in some change of officers:-
Donald Swires who with 31 years with the club was one of the clubs original members has decided to step down as Chairman. He was then unanimously elected as President a position last filled by the late Arthur Towers.
Ian Atkinson was elected as our new Chairman.
Keith Fell has decided to step down for a well earned rest after a successful stint as exhibition manager and will replaced with an Exhibition committee comprising the Secretary (main point of contact), Treasurer and Chairman.
Other officers unchanged.

February 2009

Work continues on readying Victoria Road and Oxenhope for the show.

January 2009

Ian Atkinson's O gauge layout Dalry Road appeared at the Huddersfield (Pennine) exhibition on Jan 17th 18th

Work on getting Oxenhope ready for the show along with work on Dewsbury Midland fiddle yard continues

December 2008

The clubs Christmas dinner was again held at the Brown Horse Inn, Coley and was most enjoyable.

November 2008

Victoria Road looked very well in the Dec issue of Hornby Magazine. Also is was popular at the Workington exhibition 22nd/23rd Nov and won the trophy for the most public votes. All Credit to our Chairman Donald Swires who's idea it was as well as the members who did there bit.

Chris Towers excellent small N gauge layout Dolly hill appeared at the Padiham and Pendle Forest shows and was requested for next years L and Y DCC event.
Work continues on the revamped Daleside (Sidedale?) and new Warren castle layouts.

October 2008

Club member Andy Jaggers GN15 layout Sunnyside mine was entered in the EXPO Narrow Gauge 2008 competition in Greenwich (long drive) and came close to winning.New 009 "rabbit warren" layout has been named Warren Castle. Trackwork is finished work continues with the electrics and scenery. Keith Fell continues with the electrics on revamped Daleside road.

September 2008

Next years exhibition date has been revised to 18th/19th April 2008 same venue.

Hornby Magazine photographed Victoria road with a view to it being in the December Issue (out early Nov).

A 009 "rabbit warren" layout has been resurrected from storage (name yet to be decided) to keep members busy over the winter.

August 2008

Work continues on Victoria Road to both get it ready for Hornby Magazine to photograph and complete the fiddling yard wiring.
Wiring of the revamped Daleside Road continues as does (time permitting) Dewsbury Road new fiddling yard

July 2008

The 2008 AGM was held on the 14th July 2008 the major items being minimal change to the elected members.

A new class of "Associate member" was agreed (cost £20 year) targeted as well as members wives etc at people who wanted to be loosely associated with the clubs social side, exhibition etc but not participate in constructing the clubs layouts. It was also agreed for the club to provide a limited selection of hauled stock for use be members on the club layouts.

Work continues on the reconstruction of Daleside Road and further enhancements to Victoria Road. Dewsbury Midland new fiddling yard waiting its turn when sufficient members available.

The Club trip on the KWVR 40th anniversary special from Keighley to Ribblehead was spoilt somewhat when Sir Lamiel (didn't like the northern hills!!) bent its reversing rod at Skipton and had to be rescued by a WCR 37. KWVR turned in there usual style turned crisis into success by giving us 2 round trips up the branch top and tailed by the Dub Dee and WCR 37 along with free trips to Hellifield the following day.

June 2008

The club held a most enjoyable trip in the Cotton Mill express.

May 2008

The club has procured an additional clubroom adjacent to the existing to cope with the ever increasing space required for the clubs layouts. A few more members are needed to fill this new are so why not call on a Monday evening and see for yourself.

Following exhibiting at our show the clubs latest prestige OO layout, based on Saltaire station (Victoria Road) has provisional invites to Workington 2008, Stockport and Wakefield 2009 exhibitions. It has also been requested appear in a future Hornby Magazine article. Work continues on further enhancements to the scenery to befit its newfound status.

April 2008

The 2008 Exhibition was most successful at our new venue.
Seabury Town (which is the webmasters fav layout too) was judged best in show by the public and was awarded the Pennick Trophy
The new Arthur Towers shield in memory of our late President was awarded to Outwell Village (Right)

March 2008

The proposed club trip on the steam hauled Cotton Mill express has been well subscribed.
The Scenery enhancement on Victoria Road progresses very well -

January 2008

A change of plan has seen the main effort moved to prepare Victoria Road in time the April Exhibition.

December 2007

The Club Christmas lunch was held be at the same venue as last year-The Brown Horse at Coley on Mon Dec 17th 2007 and was a good doo.

October 2007

Sidedale?? (replacement for Daleside road) and Dewsbury road new fiddling yard progresses.

September 2007

It has been decided to retire vintage layout Daleside Road. The station and baseboards is to be reused in a new 14ft one level exhibition layout (Sidedale??) for smaller shows. It may be DCC to cater for the growing interest in this..

August 2007

Dolly Hill was exhibited at Bilton Grange United Reformed Church Model Railway Club Exhibition, on Bank holiday Monday 27th August 2007. For out April 2008 exhibition our Exhibition manager has done a fine job and managed get the new Bradford Academy building now built at last years venue. HERE

July 2007

Dewsbury Midland (N) new fiddle yard baseboards have now been varnished ready for track laying.Victoria road continues with attention to Scenic's.Why not come and help.

May 2007

The AGM has was held on Monday 18th June in the Clubrooms at 7.45. There was no change of officers.
Dewsbury Midland (N) new fiddle yard has now been started, Victoria road continues - why not come and help.

April 2007

We exhibited Oxenhope (0) and Fry-up (009) at the Gresley Model Rail Show on April 28th/ 29th 2007 at Pickering in association with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Gresley event.
Very enjoyable event.

Our exhibition was successful and a big thank you to Northern Rail and Buckingham Bingo Bradford who provided sponsorship.
The Layout judged winner by the Public was Tickhill Wadsworth (EM) by which also won the Chairmans cup.
This was the last exhibition at the old Fairfax School which is to be demolished in August. Next years exhibition has been pencilled in for 5th And 6th April 2008 location to be decided.

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