Club Open Day

Romsey and District Railway Modellers’ Society has an Open Day on 18^th July 2026 11:00am to 4:30pm
at the Scout Headquarters, Braishfield Road, Romsey SO51 0PB
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(Map at the bottom of this message).

https://www.rdrms.com/july-open-day-2026.html

The Open day is part of the events for the Romsey Festival:
https://www.romseyfestival.org/genre/2026/7/18/
so there's something for non-modelling family members, too.

• The RDRMS Open Day line-up according to the draft programme I saw is currently:
• Lone Star – Member’s layout of Lone Star 000 products
• Somebody’s Snob – Member’s 009 layout
• Penzance – Club layout of Penzance station in 00
• Elderwood – Member’s layout under construction, N gauge
• Sadler’s Basin – Club N gauge layout, under construction
• Wire Liss – Member’s 00 layout, under construction
• Weeke End – Demonstration and layout featuring Scalescenes products
• Molendorp – Club H0e layout donated by a retiring member
• Club sales and information stand – come and buy something! So far I know of model products to be available in N, 00, H0, H0m, 0m, and books too
• Romsey Signal Box Preservation Society display and information stand - https://romseysignalbox.org.uk/visit-us/ The Signal Box is listed as having an Open Day on 18 July on the Romsey Festival listings, although I didn’t see it on their own site yet.
• Demonstration stand of modelling techniques – I’m told that the demonstration will be of making fences.
• NO ENTRY FEE – however a donations bucket will be available

   

 

It's this coming Saturday - come and say hello! I'm likely to be on the Molendorp layout.

Here are some pictures from the Romsey & District MRS Open Day.
In the order listed in the opening post:

Lone Star – Member’s layout of Lone Star 000 products - I only remember the push-along version of Lone Star. It was interesting to see this electric version set, complete with its vacuum-formed plastic base.






Somebody’s Snob – Member’s 009 layout






Penzance – Club layout of Penzance station in 00 - this layout was recently refurbished, and shown at the Romsey & District MRS exhibition in March 2024. It is being converted from DC to DCC, and the Open Day was the first opportunity to try DCC on the complete layout.






Elderwood – Member’s layout under construction, N gauge - the opportunity was taken to assemble and run both halves of hte layout.




Sadler’s Basin – Club N gauge layout, under construction - this is a large layout with several scenes depicted along the viewing side. The track and wiring have been completed; the scenic modelling is in full swing!

















Wyre Liss – Member’s 00 layout, under construction  - demonstration of wireless contol in 00. This demonstration operated without power to the track. Each locomotive contained a batter y and a receiver. Three operated under radio control, and one under infra-red. Note that by not requiring power to the rails, the layout demonstated a 'Y' junction and reverse loop.





Weeke End – Demonstration and layout featuring Scalescenes products - Here is the layout. The buildings are by Scalescenes, downloaded from the Scalescenes website then printed at home.





Molendorp – Club H0e layout donated by a retiring member - the village is imagined to be on the Netherlands-Belgium border





Club sales and information stand – come and buy something! So far I know of model products to be available in N, 00, H0, H0m, 0m, and books too





Romsey Signal Box Preservation Society - display and information stand




Demonstration stand of modelling techniques – the demonstration was of tree making




Our next exhibition will be the 47th Annual Exhibition on 6th and 7th March, 2027. I'll start a thread for that nearer the time.