Bodmin and District MRC
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The Bodmin & District Model Railway Club was established approximately 12 years ago, when a handful of local individuals decided to start sharing their modelling skills and experiences.

The club gradually grew in size and began the construction of a "OO" layout that would ultimately form the basis of "Trehayn".

Trehayn is still the club`s main layout and has appeared at a number of exhibitions around the country in recent years. The layout has undergone a great deal of rebuilding and refurbishment work during it`s life, in order to improve it`s appearance and performance and only around 25% of the original layout is still in use.

Trehayn`s extensive fiddle yard provide storage for approximately 40 trains and  gives us the opportunity to run a wide selection of stock from the 1958 - 1962 period, the era in which we currently model.

At present we are building a new station area to replace the last elements of the original "Trehayn". Once completed, a brand new layout will come into existance giving us even greater operating opportunities and provide us with additional stock capacity including engine-shed facilities, with a working turntable.

                                                                                      

Other Layouts
The club are also the custodians of "Nether Stowe" a highly detailed N gauge layout owned by Roger Webster, the former owner of Ratio Products. The club has exhibited the layout at a number of local exhibitions recently.
We have also obtained a very unusual but fascinating TT gauge layout from the 1960`s which we intend to modernise and make available for exhibition use.
Other projects currently under construction are an O gauge steam shed layout, as one of our members has built a superb collection of O gauge locomotives.

Time & Place.
Due to the threat of vandalism we cannot publish our address on the web page, but more info can be obtained from either Bob Hoskins e-mail BobHillcote@Aol.com    or   Phil Tombs e-mail philtombs@dsl.pipex.com   
We meet at our club premises in Bodmin every Wednesday evening and are always happy to see anyone who may like to join us, it does not matter how skilled you are, all we ask is that you are prepared to get your hands dirty, if you share our passion of model railways, then come along and have a look and a chat and see what our club is all about.  

Our Exhibitions & where we are attending.
 

A view of B & DMRC`s recent Exhibition.
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Photo Tim Gunn

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