It was a great pleasure to be invited to take Chitterne to Salisbury RailEx in Thruxton on the 17th and 18th May. This was the first year that this new expanded show had been run at Thruxton and we were keen to see how it would work out. We –… Read More »Chitterne at Salisbury Railex 2025
New rolling stock has been put to one side for the last few months as efforts have concentrated on getting our two EM layouts ready for future exhibitions. The test track has been dismantled and the group room tidied – producing a quite amazing increase in space. Both our EM… Read More »March 2025 Report
Wagons have been much in evidence on the test track. Chris B was unable to resist the temptation of Rapido’s D88 LNWR covered wagon and brought in three different versions in LNWR, LMS and BR livery all destined for EM conversion. Joe, our “King of Wagon Brake Gear”, has been applying… Read More »December 2024 Report
An invitation to take Chitterne to a show in the spring, has prompted thoughts of possible improvements and extensions including a safer fiddle yard. We are considering a turntable to replace the current cassette system which would allow us to store and turn trains without any need to handle or… Read More »September 2024 Report
Expo EM in Bracknell is relatively local for us so subsequent meetings often consist of members showing off their various purchases on our test track and this year was no exception. A particularly impressive find came from Clive H in the shape of an entire Ian Kirk Quint-Art set. There was some… Read More »June 2024 Report
We were delighted to be able to take Navigation Road to the Festival of British Railway Modelling held in Doncaster in February. Members who attended reported that the exhibition was both well organised and very well attended with crowds three deep around the layout for much of the first day.… Read More »March 2024 Report
Jeff, who sometimes assembles new kits of buildings for PECO, as part of a video or as a diorama to publicise forthcoming products, showed us his latest work. He recently completed a laser cut wooden kit of Rannoch station; part of their new Highland range. We were most impressed by… Read More »December 2023 Report
We are delighted that our EM steam era exhibition layout, Chitterne, has been featured in the January issue of British Railway Modelling. We are grateful to the staff at BRM for choosing to include Chitterne and making the drafting and proofing process so painless. We also want to express our… Read More »Chitterne in January issue of BRM
Sarum Finescale were thrilled by the appearance of our layout Navigation Road in the September issue of British Railway Modelling. It is some months since Jamie Warne came to photograph and video the layout and we have been eagerly anticipating the results. We were most impressed with what he and… Read More »September 2023 Report
A few weeks ago, Chris H had the brilliant idea of holding “Running Evenings” on some group nights where we would all bring our stock of a particular “category” and see what trains we could run on our test track. This evening was the first of these events with the… Read More »NPCS Running Evening