Stockport & District Railway Modellers

24/06/2026

We are very much hoping the scout hut where we meet will be nice and cool for this evenings meet, we're hoping to continue with our new layout Harpur Hill plus sort any other repairs etc to Middleton Road

We are a friendly inclusive club open to anyone with an interest in model railways, we meet every Wednesday evening 7.30 - 10 at The Scout Hut, Cartwright Street, Newton, SK14 4FH

13/06/2026

Great day today at Shrewsbury Show. Lots of nice comments. The new 03 performed really well too.

13/06/2026

All set up at the Shrewsbury show in St Mary’s church SY1 1DX. Open 10-4.

12/06/2026

We’re at the Shrewsbury Festival of Model Railways tomorrow only with Middleton Road. If you’re there come and say hello. Right in the centre at St Mary’s Church. SY1 1DX.

10/06/2026

Busy and very successful night tonight.

Testing Middleton Road went well ready for the Shrewsbury show on Saturday. The new acquisition Bachmann 03 from Sawyer Models performed brilliantly. Promises to be a great exhibition looking at the list of attendees. This is its last outing until the big Doncaster show in February.

Harpur Hill has now got all its back scene pieces cut and fitted, a little scenery shaving was required in places. These will get painted in the next couple of weeks. The wiring gremlin that has had us tearing what’s left of our hair out has finally been solved, a wiring diagram ‘anomaly’ was to blame. A connection that showed as a continuous actually wasn’t. Kevin found it tonight and now the route LED’s work correctly on the board.

10/06/2026

At this evenings club night we will have Middleton Road up for final testing and any repairs ahead of its appearance at Shrewsbury Festival of Model Railways on Saturday. We'll also have Harpur Hill up for further back scene/scenery works plus electrical fault finding

We are a friendly inclusive club that's open to anyone with an interest in model railways, we meet every Wednesday evening 7.30 - 10 at The Scout Hut, Cartwright Street, Newton, SK14 4FH

07/06/2026

Our Spring Open Day is this weeks Well Chuffed Video!

Our next Open Day event is the 3rd October!

Check it out here:

In this video, we head down to the Stockport & District Railway Mod...

03/06/2026

Simple but a big deal tonight as we’ve been prepping the back scene for Harpur Hill. Even though it still needs a coat of paint it’s made a big difference to how it looks.

We’ve also had Middleton Road out for pre-show testing ready for the Shrewsbury Show on Saturday the 13th.

03/06/2026

At this evenings club night we will have Middleton Road up for test running ahead of its visit to Shrewsbury in a couple of weeks, further work will also be taking place on our new layout Harpur Hill, both scenery and electrics

We are a friendly club open to anyone with an interest in model railways, we meet every Wednesday 7.30 - 10 at The Scout Hut, Cartwright Street, Newton, SK14 4FH

27/05/2026

After a very successful weekend in Scotland we’re back to work on Harpur Hill with wiring and scenery. The new layout planning took a step forward with a 1:1 scale mock up on some tables with some track we have already. We’ve also been cleaning and servicing the loco’s and rolling stock ready for Middleton Road to go to Shrewsbury show in 2 weeks.