Brighton Model Railway Club

Brighton Model Railway Club Brighton MRC was founded in 1971 We currently have around 20 active members and would love to welcome more. Come along for a chat and see what we do!

We meet on Tuesday evenings from 19:30 at in the old waiting rooms at London Road Station. Brighton MRC was founded in 1971 and celebrated its 40th birthday on the 7th of October 2011. We currently have around 20 members and always welcome more. Meetings are every Tuesday (except Bank Holidays and the Tuesday between Christmas and New Year) from 1930 to approx 2200 at London Road Railway Station,

Shaftesbury Place (off Ditchling Rise) in Brighton, East Sussex, UK. The clubrooms are in what was originally the Ladies waiting room. We have club layouts in OO, HO gauge and OO9. Our members have a wide variety of interests ranging from London Brighton and South Coast Railway in O gauge through London & South Western Railway in OO through to the Denver and Rio Grande in N scale and everything in between! Anyone aged 18 or over is eligible to join, details on the membership page

As well as building and operating our layouts, we run other events throughout the year such as film and slide shows, an annual competition for members models and of course our exhibition in November each year. Our club rooms are at London Road station which is the first stop out of Brighton on the line to Lewes, Train services are operated by the Southern Railway, with four trains an hour during the day, reduced services evenings and Sundays. Closest bus stops to the station are on routes 5,5A and 5B in Preston Road / Beaconsfield Road or route 26 in the Ditchling Road. Services are operated by Brighton & Hove, both bus stops are just a few minutes walk away from the station which is signposted. On street parking is available but can be at a premium during the evenings.

The 1st Tuesday of the month means running night at the club. Tonight's contributions are from Finlay McBride as well as...
07/04/2026

The 1st Tuesday of the month means running night at the club. Tonight's contributions are from Finlay McBride as well as Jake, who's nearly 9 years old and could visit because it's school holidays!

Running tonight on all assembled layouts with a bit of an NSE theme. DCC sound running on both analogue and digital layo...
13/01/2026

Running tonight on all assembled layouts with a bit of an NSE theme. DCC sound running on both analogue and digital layouts which, other than some dirty track, gave some interesting results

19/11/2025

🚂 Advanced Warning!! 🚂

Friday 12th and Saturday 13th December some steamers are due to pass us here at Ford!! 🤩🤩

Get those dates in your diary! We'll let you know timings nearer to the date.

For those that don't know, Ford Station has an open platform so we can go on there to watch the Steamers thunder past! We have free parking here.. just next door.. which you are welcome to use!

Coffee and mince pies on those days anyone? 🥧🍵

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14/11/2025

🤩 We recently interviewed Accurascale's Paul Isles and took a close look at the engineering samples for our EXCLUSIVE 'Electrostar' EMU in OO Gauge! Watch the full video and pre-order yours: https://tinyurl.com/njzdjacd

Address

London Road Station, Shaftesbury Place
Brighton And Hove
BN14QS

Opening Hours

7:30pm - 10pm

Telephone

+441273771929

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