Winston Churchill reads a newspaper on the platform while waiting for a train at St Andrews during a trip to Scotland to visit Polish troops, inspect coastal defences and tour a Naval Establishment in Fife on 23 October 1940.
War Office official photographer, Horton (Cpt)
Lee-on-the-Solent featured in Hornby Magazine
Lee-on-the-Solent was featured in full colour in the January edition of Hornby Magazine. The link below shows the cover (from the Hornby website), and the
Hope-under-Dinmore – write up in BRM Spring 2017
British Railway Modelling features Hope-under-Dinmore The latest issue of BRM has arrived in the newsagents and other magazine retailers … the Spring 2017 issue. Emblazoned
Brighton East wins best layout at Expo EM 2016
Congratulations to Dave and Matt Smith and the Brighton East operating team for winning best layout at Expo EM at Bracknell. A really nice friendly
The next Portsmouth Exhibition is on Saturday 18 November 2017
SHMRC’s next exhibition will be held on Saturday 18 November 2017, at the Admiral Lord Nelson School
Hope-under-Dinmore wins the Mike Cook Memorial Cup at York
At the York Model Railway Exhibition over the Easter weekend, the Mike Cook memorial cup was award to SHMRC’s ‘Hope-under-Dinmore. Mike Cook was for many
Hope-under-Dinmore wins Founders Cup at Southampton
Hope-under-Dinmore won the founders cup at the recent Southampton Exhibition. Tony Wright commented: ‘I also was invited to be one of the judges for the
Future South Hants Area Group meetings
On Tuesday 10 November we have booked Terry Bendall to give us a talk called “I did (do) it my way”. Terry has been at the
Three layouts at ExpoEM North!
SHMRC was out in force over the weekend of 12/13 September at ExpoEM North in Manchester. Eastwood made its first appearance with all five scenic
Westcliff wins ‘best layout’ at ExpoEM 2015
Against very impressive opposition, Richard Butler’s Westcliff won ‘best layout at ExpoEM in May 2015