Welcome to the website of The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Limited (Founded in 2007)
The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Limited is a private company limited by guarantee
Registered in England and Wales No. 6286353
Registered Office: 182 Butcher Hill, Leeds, LS16 5BG
Membership is recorded by inviting people to enter their name, address, email address and telephone number in a register. Details are entered in respect of each calendar year and the current annual subscription is £nil. The register is available at the Annual General Meeting in each year and at the New Year Steam-up, together with other shows such as Narrow Gauge North, Harrogate MREX and
Elsecar Garden Railway Show.
SATURDAY 10 March 10-5
NARROW GAUGE NORTH in aid of WHEATFIELDS HOSPICE; BENTON PARK SCHOOL, LEEDS [ from Leeds on A65. Turn right on A658 at Rawdon traffic lights towards Leeds Bradford Airport. School is half a mile on left ]
Help needed to put up Mount Dowd on Friday 9th at 4.45pm ish and take down after the event.
Lots of support needed as usual.
If you want to steam please contact Ted Burdge 01423 359039
The next HRM Winter Indoor Running is Saturday 17 March
Huddersfield Railway Modellers. HD3 4NB Nant Mawr.
Open from 11am to 4pm All welcome
Contact Andy Wilkinson 01484 661041
Please keep sending me pictures for Photo of the Week , Trains in the Landscape, Videos, Members' Railway updates, project write-ups with photos...thanks Andy
Yorkshire Photo of the Week
No 8 pounds up the bank on the LLR
Rodger Schofield's HRM Winter Steaming
Trains in the Landscape
Vale of Rheidol Devil's Bridge No 8 rests!
Member's 16mm Projects - buildings, bridges, kits built with reference to the prototype..all gratefully received..
Barrie Farman builds a water tower using Jigstones
Members of the company receive a copy of the Report of the Directors and annual Financial Statements, together with the Annual Open Day and Regular Running programme, and are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. Butane Gas is also available to members at cost price: contact Andy Cooper for details.
The current directors are : Andy Cooper [ Secretary / Chairman ] Stuart Currie, David Hill, David Mason, John Orson, Phil Thompson [ Treasurer ] and Gerv Wright [ Exhibitions Manager ]
The main purpose of the Company is to organise Events and Open Days in Yorkshire and to oversee the running of the Elsecar Garden Railway Show.
These events included a number of shows and full-day garden railway meetings. In addition, members in both South Yorkshire and the Leeds area get together regularly on summer evenings – the “Sheffield Shed” and “Leeds and Bradford Shed” are a popular informal way to enjoy playing with steam (and battery) trains in the garden. Our open days are very sociable affairs.
The Elsecar Garden Railway Show normally takes place over two days, usually in the last weekend in September. One of the larger shows in the garden railway show calendar, visitors can expect to see at least six large layouts and over 20 suppliers of garden railway equipment. The show takes place at the Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley.
This venue has a number of other attractions, including shops, cafés and a standard gauge steam railway.
Mount Dowd and the Dixon Green Light Railway
The company owns two portable layouts constructed to 16mm scale, together with a trailer used to store and transport Mount Dowd. Mount Dowd is a large layout that is ideal for operating a number of trains at once; Dixon Green is a scenic layout that can be transported in two estate cars/large hatchbacks. The layouts are used both for members’ use and at public shows.
We are all involved in 16mm Narrow Gauge Modelling in or around Yorkshire. We have Yorkshire ex-pats working or living abroad, we also have friendships and activities that cross the boundaries of Yorkshire to adjacent counties.
Many members have their own garden railway. This is not a necessity, however, since there is plenty of opportunity to run trains on other members’ railways. Indeed, a good introduction to the hobby is to try and work your way around all the open days and other activities – but be warned that you will probably need around two years to fit them all in!
Disclaimer The opinions on these web pages are not necessarily those of the Board of Directors nor Company and should not be taken as Company policy. Further we have no connection with any firm mentioned herein. The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Ltd as publisher and the Web Site Manager cannot be held responsible for any error that may occur in the text. Reliance placed upon the contents of these web pages is at the readers' own risk.