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.

Happy Mallard Day everyone!
03/07/2026

Happy Mallard Day everyone!

🚂💨 Today (Friday 3rd July 2026) marks 88 years since the LNER Class A4 4-6-2 steam locomotive made its now legendary run down Stoke Bank, achieving 126mph and becoming the world's fastest steam loco - a record never to be surpassed!

Browse all Mallard/ A4 items at Rails: https://go.railsofsheffield.com/wJ28j9

We thought we'd celebrate this momentous record and phenomenal piece of British engineering today by showcasing our diverse range of LNER Class A4 and Mallard related models and paraphernalia!

As one of the world's most iconic, beautiful and fastest steam locomotives - it surely deserves a place somewhere within your collection!

CLUB LAYOUT FOR SALE!Our club layout Swanage, has served us well over the past 10+ years, but it’s now time to move on, ...
30/06/2026

CLUB LAYOUT FOR SALE!

Our club layout Swanage, has served us well over the past 10+ years, but it’s now time to move on, with a couple of new projects. Rather than break up the layout, we feel that there maybe someone who would like to take the layout on and acquire it.

Details: It is 4mm OO gauge, built on four baseboards, three are 4ft x 3ft the other is 3ft x 2ft giving an overall size of 15ft x 3ft. All the track is PECO code 100 with electrically operated points from a control panel that is included in the sale. No controllers are for sale, it is wired for Gaugemaster hand-held units. No rolling stock is included.

The layout is scenically complete with Swanage station building the highlight, along with the Goods yard and carriage sidings. The club are looking for £450 o.n.o. Buyer would need to collect from our club rooms at London Road Station. Pictures of the layout are below. For further details please contact the club by phone 01273 771929 or [email protected]

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

Address

London Road Station, Shaftesbury Place
Brighton And Hove
BN14QS

Opening Hours

7:30pm - 10pm

Telephone

+441273771929

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