Club Events

Farnham and District MRC (F&DMRC) holds lots of regular events – see the diary of events on the home page.

Groups take it in turn to have priority on use of the hall: 1st Wednesday in month N, 2nd O, 3rd P4 and OO, 4th OO, the 5th if there is one is used for demos. In practice the hall is big enough that it is rare for us not be able to put up everything each group wants, and the real importance is it determines which group is responsible for tidying up at the end of the evening!

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Mince pie evening in the clubrooms, 2015. Beer courtesy of Wickwar Brewery (a good reason to model a brewery on your layout!)

There are well established social events during the year such at the annual dinner including partners.

Exhibitions

The most important during the year is our annual exhibition, held on the second full weekend in October each year. Most club members (and some family members) help organise, set up, and run the exhibition, as well as operating any club layouts exhibited that year (each club layout attends every 3rd year) and doing demonstrations. We also have open days in Autumn and Spring.

Our club layouts get invited to many exhibitions during the year – typically 2 to 6 a year for each layout – with members of the layout group attending and operating the layout, often with guest operators from other groups.

Open Days

We regularly hold open days, once a year for the whole club and in between for different groups. Check the diary on the home page for any dates.

Club Outings

Club members being shown round the Peco factory by Michael Pritchard.

We arrange club outings, for example we were invited by Michael Pritchard of Peco to visit Pecorama and have a tour of their factory. More recently we have visited Pendon museum.

Having lunch in Peco’s Pullman car

Presentations and Demonstrations

We organise presentations from time to time on Wednesday evenings – we will have them on the 5th Wednesday in a month whenever one occurs. Sometimes there is an external speaker such as the one we had on Tornado, more often club members giving a talk or demonstrating modelling techniques.

BenAndoWe had a presentation by Ben Ando of Revolution Trains on how they are going about about crowdfunding RTR models of prototypes that the main manufacturers do not consider viable, and he showed us early versions of the Pendelino and TEA tanker they are producing. We had over 30 attendees, and there were many questions and lots of interest.