Welcome to the home page of the Leyland SME. The Society caters for all tastes in the ME world. We meet once a fortnight at the Farrington Conservative Club for talks, lectures or just a chat, and on Sundays and Tuesdays at the track which is located in the beautiful Worden Park on the outskirts of Leyland.
At the Park we have an extensive (1617ft) continuous raised track in 3½ and 5 inch gauges. The ground level seven and a quarter track has been redeveloped. The complete circuit (1 kilometre), station and sidings are now open. Come and have a run!
There is always a warm welcome and a cup of tea waiting for fellow model engineers, prospective new members and interested visitors.
If you would like to run your Loco, please bring a current club membership card, boiler certificate and Spark Arrestor.
The new Ground Level track was officially opened by the Mayor of South Ribble, Mrs Kath Beatie, on Sunday the 19th of August.
The Mayor unveils the new station name board.
Steve and Bill leave the staion with the first official train, carrying Chairman Barr, the Mayor and her Consort together with David Boyd and John Nicholson (Seven and a Quarter Society Chairman and Secretary)
My attention has been drawn to The Railway Channel. There is a daily video to watch (beware if you have download limitations!) and lots of DVDs for sale and other general info.
This organisation has a new website with a new address. I have updated the link on the links page. Apologies to those affected.
Since buying a FTA (Free to Air) Satellite TV box I have discovered this brilliant German Channel. It is run by German State Railways and features railway programmes all the time! Some programmes are professional and some are "Hobbyfilms". All are in German but a lot of the time this doesn't matter. Recent films have featured the Wuppertal overhead railway, the Silverton and Durrango, the Hartz Mountain region railways and the "CopperCanyon" railway in Mexico. Point your dish at "ASTRA 1" at 19degrees east. Note this is not the "SKY" satellite. If you have unlimited broadband you can watch it on you computer.
This is a free dowloadable on-line railway magazine. Arrives as a PDF file. Go to Railway Herald web site You don't actually have to register, you can just download the files.
Due to huge amounts of SPAM coming via the web site I am removing all "Clickable" e-mail addresses. To contact us please send your e-mail to info at leylandsme dot co dot uk. Replace the "at" and "dot" with the correct symbols.
Ribble Valey Live Steamers have a new web site.
Southport Club now have a web site.
Burnley & Pendle Miniature Railway Society now have a new site.
There is a new site for advertising model engineering items to replace the advert section of Chris Heapy's site which is "resting" :-).
Contact Leyland SME: Send mail to "info at leylandsme dot co dot uk"
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