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SDMRC MODEL RAILWAY AND HOBBIES EXHIBITION 2023

SDMRC MODEL RAILWAY AND HOBBIES EXHIBITION 2023

Our biennial exhibition will take place in Blackrock College over the October Bank Holiday weekend each day from Saturday 28th to Monday 30th. The exhibition will be open from 11am to 5pm each day and will feature railway layouts from clubs all over Ireland north and south as well as stands featuring other hobbies and trade stands.

This is one of the biggest exhibitions of its kind in the country and not to be missed.

Admission prices will be: adult €10, child €8, family (2 adults +2 children) €20.

Belle Eclaire the new SDMRC French layout

Belle Eclaire the new SDMRC French layout

Already exhibited at the North Down and Wexford model railway shows this year, Belle Eclaire has drawn quite a bit of attention from the visiting public. This new layout from the club is a digitally operated (DCC) HO scale French rural station. It features various types of French (SNCF) rolling stock with realistic sounds including their distinctive two tone horns.

The SNCF stock includes a two car EAD Caravelle and some classic autocars (railcars).

Among other items shown on the layout were an operating track tamping machine, a Robel track maintenance machine with operating crane and an operating heavy duty crane.

KILDARE ON SHOW IN RAHENY

KILDARE ON SHOW IN RAHENY

The club’s Kildare Station was one of the highlights of the MRSI show in Raheny over the October Bank Holiday weekend. Club members were delighted with the attention it received. With its large fiddle yard eight rakes of trains were to be seen running on the layout together with a working crane in the station yard. Thanks to the organisers for a very successful show.

MODEL RAILWAY SHOWS ARE BACK!

MODEL RAILWAY SHOWS ARE BACK!

As society has opened up post Covid so too have the various model rail shows and exhibitions. The club attended and exhibited layouts at the Wexford Model Railway Club Exhibition on 17th/18th April in Wexford Town and the North Down Model Railway Society Exhibition in Bangor County Down on 23rd/24th April.

The club exhibited its Kildare Station layout at the open day marking 175 years of Inchicore Railway Works on Saturday 7th May.

The club will be attending further exhibitions throughout the year and a list of upcoming shows can be found on the events page.

Adavoyle Update

Adavoyle Update

Work has started on installing a turntable on this famous layout. As originally built a location for a turntable was allowed for next to the water tower at the ‘southern’ end of the layout. This site has been excavated out to reveal a pre-existing pit below the baseboard surface. The photos below show the progress of the work. The new turntable is in kit form and produced by London Road Models.

Club Reopens

Club Reopens

The South Dublin Model Railway Club clubhouse reopened to members on Wednesday 29th September. For the time being the Covid-19 restrictions and precautions put in place in the clubhouse before the last lockdown remain in place.

A BIG THANK YOU

A BIG THANK YOU

The Board of the South Dublin Model Railway Club would like to thank all of the exhibitors and traders and especially our sponsors, Irish Railway Models, who took part in our biennial model railways and hobbies exhibition held in Blackrock College over the October bank holiday weekend. We would also like to thank all those members of the public who came along to the exhibition and hope that you found it to be interesting and that it stimulated your interest in the hobbies on show. Finally we want to thank our own members for the work they put in in setting up and running the show over the three days; that work helped to make it the success that it was.

Photos of the exhibition can be found in the Gallery section of this website.

IRM CIE A CLASS LOCOMOTIVE PREVIEW

IRM CIE A CLASS LOCOMOTIVE PREVIEW

Irish Railway Models previewed a working prototype of their CIE A Class Metro Vickers locomotive in the club recently. The model is finely detailed and an exceptionally fine runner. The model will come in both Crossley engined and GM engined body formats and will be available in 17 liveries. the locomotives can be seen at our Model Railways and Hobbies Exhibition in Blackrock College over the October Bank Holiday Weekend.

MURPHY’S MODELS 121 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE PREVIEW

MURPHY’S MODELS 121 CLASS LOCOMOTIVE PREVIEW

The preview of the new Murphy’s Models CIE Class 121 locomotive was shown in the club on Wednesday 3rd July. The unmotorised prototype drew plenty of praise from members. It is hoped to have production models available by the end of October in time for the clubs biennial show.

ADAVOYLE JUNCTION’S 10th ANNIVERSARY IN THE CLUB

ADAVOYLE JUNCTION’S 10th ANNIVERSARY IN THE CLUB

July 2019 marks ten years since the Adavoyle Junction layout arrived in the South Dublin club rooms. To mark the occasion the club held an open day for invited guests on Saturday 22nd June. The day was a great success with not only Adavoyle but four other layouts in operation.