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.
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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. |  |
Don't forget our scale day, Sunday 9th of August. .Click here for printable poster for your club house. (PDF)
Urmston Society has a New Website
It was announced at the Comrie AGM that the 2009 AGM will be hosted by Leyland SME. This is a very prestigious event and we are honoured to be selected for next year.
For those people unfamiliar with the track we have produced a promotional DVD. If you haven't seen it (we gave out 60 copies at Comrie) please email us at info@leylandsme.co.uk.
Most of the old condemned chestnut tree near the footbridge has now been felled. This necessitated removing two large sections of the raised track. This has being replaced on firmer foundations and extra drainage has been installed.
The old truck shed is no more. It was demolished in under an hour by contractors! The building work of the new shed is now finished and we are now fitting out the inside and relaying the connecting tracks. 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.
Another site I have recently discovered: Steam Fittings. Manufactures and suppliers of valves and injectors etc.
This organisation has a new website with a new address. I have updated the link on the links page. Apologies to those affected.
Sad news: Bahn TV is no longer available via satellite. You have to watch it via the Internet now. :-( Therefore ignore the next bit about FTA and Astra1.
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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