Our first exhibition was held in 1981 in the Scout hut in Ebury Road, Rickmansworth. The queue of people stretched back to the High Street and the Police came along to see what the ‘trouble’ was. The success of this show prompted us to seek a larger venue. Thus we moved our exhibition to the Watersmeet theatre in Rickmansworth. The three shows held here were very successful but owing to circumstances beyond our control another move was required. By this time we had also outgrown our club “premises”. By chance we acquired the sole use of a rather dilapidated hut on the Lincolnsfield site in Watford.

Now: Membership is just under forty and we are always happy to welcome visitors and potential new members. We have access to the club room 7 days a week but our main club nights are Tuesdays and Thursdays 19:30 to about 21:30. We also open up on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 10:00 until about midday or later, depending on demand.

The club’s current ‘N’ gauge layout is called ‘Dudley Frey’, after a past member. It is a circuit, DC controlled, 16ft (5m) long and 3ft (0.9m) feet wide, with 4 running roads and automatic light signals.

Our ’00’ gauge exhibition layouts are called  Silverbury and Fudge Town. Our popular Tedburn St Mary layout is in semi-retirement undergoing repairs.

Silverbury is a modern image ‘00’ gauge DCC layout which was extended and improved to rejoin the exhibition circuit and is now our most popular layout for outside exhibitions.  It can be exhibited in a 35ft x 12ft (10.7m x 3.7m) circuit or end-to-end modes up to 36ft (11m) long.

Fudge Town is a late steam-era DC layout with a double loop – which makes watching the trains quite interesting!  The scenery is well worth studying – it includes a canal basin and a mine.

We purchased another ‘00’ layout that was under construction at the Bushey & District MRS when they had to disband at the end of 2007.  It will be renamed ‘Luffield Junction’ set in the late nineteen forties. We are modifying the interesting track layout and updating the electrics, then we will be focusing on the scenics to bring it up to exhibition standard. We plan that this will be operated in DCC modes to start with.

Another on going project is a 0-16.5 and O9 layout called ‘Jurassic Halt’ that,  achieved a ‘best in show’ last year. It features the entrance to a dinosaur park.

Our Annual Exhibition is held at the Queens School in Bushey in early May and attracts 20 or so layouts, a good number of traders and society stands, as well as an extensive club stand selling members’ pre-used stock and other items.

We are also organising another Autumn Exhibition at St Peter’s Church Hall in North Watford in October 2026.

Social events have included the Annual Dinner in January, a Barbecue during the summer and the odd visit – two years running we have organised a coach trip to the London Festival of Railway Modelling at Alexandra Palace.