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.
Best wishes to everyone for 2010.
"No Trains Today" The scene on the 22nd of December.
After clearing the rails we ran on Boxing Day
Work is proceeding apace with the construction of the new raised track trucks. These are based on the "Advanced Passenger Truck" concept as described in Model Engineer some time ago. The first two rolling chassis were pulled round by the "Ranger" on Tuesday and are amazingly steady, quiet and free running.
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The good news is that, thanks to the sterling efforts of our President, we have received a substantial grant from the National Lottery's "Awards for All" scheme. This is going to fund a special riding car for disabled passengers and some extra general purpose riding cars for the increasing traffic that we now carry. |
Update: The disabled truck now has a fully operational braking system and is proving a big success with wheelchair bound visitors.
The AGM at Leyland was judged "Best Ever". Thank you to every one, visitors and members, for making the event such a tremendous success.
The new shed is proving of great benefit to operations at the track, particularly with the cold weather we have been having. See Recent Developments. (Needs Broadband because of big pictures)
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.
BahnTV 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. It is only available on line now (the Satellite service has been discontinued): Click here.
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.
Contact Leyland SME: Send mail to "info at leylandsme dot co dot uk"
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