Eastbank Model Railway Club

Eastbank
Model Railway Club

Eastbank Model Railway Club consists of a small and informal group of widely dispersed friends who share an extremely diverse interest in railways, prototype and model, domestic and foreign.

The Club was originally based in Shettleston in Glasgow but due to the relocation of most of our member over the past years, the structure of the Club has had to be reformed and is now what could be best described as a virtual model railway club. We have no regular or formal meetings, we have no written constitution, we have no clubrooms, we have no tangible assets and no annual subscription. Our exhibition layouts are owned by our members but we all collaborate with our own individual skills and talents on the design, construction and the exhibiting of these layouts.

We presently have three layouts available for display at model railway exhibitions, "Magersfontein", our H0 scale representation of South African Railways in the 1980's and "Andersonville", representing in N scale the operations on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads in the present day. Our most recent layout is a Meccano commissioned, Hornby Dublo 2 rail layout from the 1960's that was rescued from a rubbish skip. We have now fully restored this demonstrator train set to its original 1960's condition. It is appropriately titled "Binns".

We also have another N scale layout with a North American theme under construction, "Maple", depicting the SOO Line in the 1970's.

Follow the links below for information on our layouts and just some of the interests of our members.

PLEASE NOTE All photographic images displayed on these pages are the property of Eastbank Model Railway Club except where stated otherwise.

Our Layouts.

ANDERSONVILLE	A present day representation in N scale of the BNSF and UP railroads in Texas.
BINNS	A Hornby Dublo 2 rail Meccano commissioned train set dating from the 1960's.
MAGERSFONTEIN	Depicting in H0 scale the operations on South African Railways in the 1980's.
MAPLE	An N scale layout based on the North American railroad, The SOO Line.
PREVIOUS LAYOUTS	Some of our layouts that we have exhibited over the past years.
PAST EXHIBITIONS	Listing of exhibitions where we have presented our layouts.

Exhibition diary.

WARLEY NEC	Binns	Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd November, 2009.
MODELRAIL SCOTLAND	Magersfontein	Friday 26th, Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th February, 2010.
WARLEY NEC	Andersonville	Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st November, 2010.

Some of our other interests.

GENUINE FAKES	Some Tri-ang Railways, Tri-ang Hornby, Hornby Dublo, Lima, Airfix & Jouef models that never were.
MODEL SHOPS	Nostalgia concerning shops in Glasgow that sold model railways.
NIGHT FERRY	The latter years of the "Night Ferry", Britain's first international passenger train.
DEERSTALKER	The Caledonian Sleeper overnight train, between Fort William and London Euston.
BLUE TRAINS	Clydeside's "Blue Trains", the Classes 303 and 311 units.
CLASS 21 & 29	The North British Type 2 Class 21 and 29 diesel electrics.

Links to other web sites.

SOUTHPORT MRS	All about our friends at Southport Model Railway Society.
UK MODEL SHOPS	The largest online resource for British Model Railway enthusiasts.
TRAIN COLLECTORS	The Train Collectors' Society, any make, any gauge, any age.
TRI-ANG SOCIETY	All about the products of Lines Brothers, the makers of Tri-ang Railways.

For more photographs of railways scenes, both historic and current, in the UK and overseas, follow the links below to our members' web sites.

DAVID

ALEXANDER

Last update: 17 November 2009