An introduction to our local clubs

Whether you are a beginner or an experienced modeller one of the best ways of sharing and enjoying the hobby is to join one of the local model making clubs.
This will enable you to meet people with the same interests and exchange ideas.
We have listed below some of the local clubs which are well worth considering joining, so have a look and make the contact.

Anglia Marine Boat Club

Northampton & surrounding area.

Every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month @8.00pm.

Information

The Anglia Marine Model Boat Club was formed in 1994 by a few boat enthusiast since which it has grown in strength to over 80 members. We meet twice a month on a Tuesday evening to discuss club business and to sail our boats. We build and sail most types of craft from the smallest dingy to the largest battleships but only sail electric, steam, and sail in any scale. We are a very relaxed club and welcome both single and families alike but because of safety reasons we do have a few rules and regulation which are for the benefit of all members and the enjoyment of the hobby. 

We also take great pleasure in displaying our boats at local rallies and gatherings during the summer. During these events we allow the general public to 'have a go' on our mobile pool using our club boats. We also have the use of a local pond where we gather most Sunday afternoons subject to the weather.

Club Name:

Town:

Corby, Northamptonshire

Meeting Place:

Corby Boating Lake, Cottingham Road, Corby.

Meeting Time:

For more details please phone John Ives or email Ian Robins or Chris Larsen

Thursday afternoons & Sunday mornings

Northants Military Modelling Club

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Working Mans Club,  Lower Street,  Great Doddington, Northants

Every 3rd Tuesday evening of each month @ 7.30pm.

Put simply, we’re a group of like-minded individuals who enjoy scale modelling.

Our membership covers a wide range of interests and skills, including military modelling, figure painting and collecting, scratch building, sculpting, etc. Some of our members have enjoyed success at many of the local and national competitions and all are more than happy to discuss their techniques with others.

British Model Soldier Society

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Old Grammarians Club, Oxford Street, Wellingborough, Northants

First Tuesday evening of each month @ 7.30pm.

Wellingborough Scalextric Club

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Mill Road (Corner of Strode Road)

Thursday evenings @ 7.30pm

We offer a warm welcome to anybody wishing to join our club, or just visiting

Racing for the first time at KMCC

When you arrive, you'll probably find a number of people busily laying out the track and everyone else getting their cars ready - so you might find no-one takes any notice of you! 

Don't worry: we're a friendly lot, so if you go to Race control (the place with the computer, and where the race co-ordinator sits) you'll find someone there who can let you know what's going on.

Peterborough & District Model Railway Club

Peterborough

Hall Farm, Washingly, Peterborough

Friday evenings @ 7.30pm.

Camp Hill Community Centre, Mereway (Near Tesco), Northampton.

We urgently require secure premises in the Wellingborough area where we can meet every week and store our models railway layouts. They are currently meeting in each others houses. 

Wednesday evenings.

Olney Model Railway Club

Kettering & District Model Railway Society

Kettering, Northamptonshire

Henley Centre, Saunders Close, Kettering.

Information

The Kettering and District Model Railway Society meets every Wednesday evening at the Henley Centre in Kettering (behind the bus garage). We usually gather at about 7.45pm and leave at about 10.00pm with a break for tea halfway through.

The club members have a wide range of interests, from 'N' gauge to 'O' gauge, through to 'TT' ,HOm and '00' gauges, covering locations from Britain, America and Continental Europe.  They also cover differing skills such as wood-working, rolling stock construction, electrics and electronics, track construction and track laying, construction of buildings, either handmade or from kits and scenery (trees, bushes, grass areas, rock faces, rivers, etc.). You may, however,  prefer to set up your railway straight from the box; we cover all tastes.

On the last Wednesday of each month we hold a 'running night'. We have a large circular layout with track in 'N', 'TT/HOm', HO/OO', and EM gauges,  where you can run your own rolling stock and/or watch your fellow club members trains run by.

Once a year, usually in the late spring or summer we have a club outing of railway interest, usually a preserved railway on standard gauge or narrow gauge track and sometimes on open days when there may also be a model railway exhibition.

If you are interested in railway modeling or any of its aspects come along and see us any Wednesday evening.  You can talk about your interests with any club member and look at our layouts and projects.

Kempston & District Model Railway Club

Kempston, Bedfordshire

Monday evenings at 7.00 pm

Information 

The Milton Keynes Model Railway Society was formed in July 1969 after a group of local modellers provided a static display of locomotives on a model of a large motive power depot at the Bletchley Arts & Crafts Festival. This generated a considerable amount of interest and it was decided to form a club.

The first two meetings were held in the briefing room of the local fire station. A club room was obtained in the basement of a local school and served the club until replacement accommodation was obtained in the former outbuildings of the old Council Offices in 1975.

In 1994, MKMRS were asked to move to Bletchley Park, the former wartime headquarters of the intelligence services, then being established as a museum complex.

Since then, the club has worked to provide a permanent exhibition of model railways. In addition there are numerous displays on the role of railways in wartime and military railways. A display case containing models from the World War Two Railway Study Association gives an insight into some of the models built and used during the 1939 - 45 period both at home and in mainland Europe.

MKMRS celebrated its 30th Anniversary in October 1999.

Affiliations

MKMRS joined the Chiltern Model Railway Association in 1970 and have been active members since, participating in many exhibitions organised by member clubs.

MKMRS is also affiliated to The Model Railway Club and is a member of The World War Two Railway Study Association.

MKMRS also has close links with the Bedford Branch of the Historical Model Railway Society whose Milton Keynes meetings are held bi - monthly in the MKMRS club rooms (see Club Diary page for information)

Club nights

Main club night is on a Tuesday (from 1930) with a construction evening on Fridays (from 1930). On club evenings, members work on various projects and socialise. In addition members staff the open days and operate layouts for visitors when the Park is open to the public. A roster system is in operation.

All activities take place in our extensive club rooms at Bletchley Park.