Poole & District
Model Railway Society07579 822464
GWR 2999 Lady of Legend and a green diesel multiple unit side by side under the footbridge at Sterte Bay
Sterte Bay, our club OO layout, in the clubroom

Poole & District Model Railway Society

The friendly model railway club in Poole · Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7.30pm · 20 Lagland Street

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Club nights every Tuesday and ThursdayFrom 7.30pm

Our next showSat 16 & Sun 17 October 2027 · Corfe Hills School, Broadstone

Our layouts stay up all week, so on club night we just walk in and run trains.

We have a clubroom of our own in the middle of Poole, so nothing gets packed away between meetings. There are OO and N gauge layouts where members run their own trains, British or North American, on DC or DCC, and a test track for trying out new locomotives.

Come to watch, have a go, ask questions and have a cup of tea. Whether you have never owned a train set or have a loft full of boxes, you will be welcome.

When
Every Tuesday and Thursday, from 7.30pm
Where
20 Lagland Street, Poole BH15 1QGJust off the High Street, behind Boones Ironmongers and Lloyds Bank.
Who
Visitors and new members. Just turn up.
Questions
Steve 07579 822464
How to find us Joining the society
Members laying track on the club OO layout under construction
Laying track on the club's OO layout
Two volunteers at the tea counter, one holding up a jug, at the 2016 show
Tea at our 2016 show. The kettle is on at club nights too.
The clubroom test track: concentric loops for OO, TT and N gauge
The test track: OO, TT and N on one board

Our next show

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 October 2027

Corfe Hills School, Higher Blandford Road, Broadstone, Poole BH18 9BG

Thank you to everyone who came to our 70th anniversary show in October. Next year we are back at Corfe Hills School over two days. Opening times, layouts and traders will follow here.

Best in Show 2026

Janes' Creek, by Andrew Browne

  • Free parking on site
  • Everything on the ground floor, with excellent disabled access
Look back at the 70th show Watch films of the show
Engine 167 crosses the girder bridge over Janes' Creek, below the signals, with the warehouses and the wagons on the quay beyond
Janes' Creek, Best in Show at our 70th anniversary show.

In the clubroom: one test track, four sizes of train

The test track sits in the middle of the clubroom: two OO loops that switch between DC and DCC, a TT loop, and an inner loop for N and OO9. Members use it to run in new locomotives and check their stock before it goes on a layout.

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Tap a loop to start or stop its train.

Also in the clubroom: layouts for members' own OO and N stock, big permanent layouts being built by members, our N-Trak modules, and Hawthorn Dene, the N gauge layout we bought in June 2026.

See what's in the clubroom

Seventy years: founded in 1956, and still meeting every week

A few of the layouts that have come to our shows.

  1. A stone viaduct curving through pine forest on a continental N gauge layout
    2014Altenholz, a continental N gauge layout
  2. A narrow gauge general store with an old red car and figures outside
    2015A narrow gauge general store
  3. Scratchy Bottom signal box with a tiny signalman at the window
    2016Scratchy Bottom signal box
  4. A pottery works with a bottle kiln beside a canal and railway
    2017A pottery works, bottle kiln and all
  5. A Southern Railway Bulleid Pacific passes Bournemouth West signal box
    2018A Bulleid Pacific at Bournemouth West
  6. Brixham Bay, the 2019 Best in Show: a seaside town seen from above
    2019Brixham Bay, voted Best in Show
Seventy years of the society

Noticeboard

All notices

  • The 70th anniversary exhibition on film

    Two YouTubers filmed our 70th anniversary exhibition at Corfe Hills School and have put their films on YouTube: three parts from Keith Tucker, who has filmed our shows since at least 2017, and two parts from theghostontheline, filmed on Saturday 17 October. Thank you to both of them for filming the show and sharing it. Press play on any film below to watch it here.

    More films of our shows

  • Janes' Creek wins Best in Show

    Janes' Creek, Andrew Browne's EM gauge model of the creek at Strood, by Rochester in Kent, as it was around 1920, won Best in Show at our 70th anniversary exhibition. Congratulations to Andrew, and thank you to every exhibitor, trader, helper and visitor who made the show.

    See 3 pictures About Janes' Creek

  • Open today: the second day of the 70th anniversary exhibition

    The exhibition is open today, Sunday 18 October, from 10am to 4pm at Corfe Hills School, Broadstone. It is the last chance to see this year's layouts and traders, and to vote for your favourite layout on its page. Adults £8, accompanied under-16s free.

    See 5 pictures Layouts, hall plan and times