Hillingdon Railway Modellers meet regularly on a Thursday Evening at the Yiewsley Baptist Church Hall in West Drayton.

They have available a 4 track 0 Gauge test track which has recently undergone a significant upgrade to accomodate DCC as well as having additional boards made up to turn it into an exhibition layout.

On occasional Saturdays the club have Open Days for the public to attend view the O Gauge and OO Gauge Test Tracks, and bring their own trains to run if they wish. The Church hall underwent a large renovation in 2010 so there is plenty of room for both layouts and other displays, in addition we have access to kitchen facilities where our members will be on hand to provide tea, coffee and bacon rolls etc.

The images below were taken during an open day in February 2011, my main intention was to capture the LNER stock built by my father. I had also captured some video clips but these did not come out as well as expected and I will aim to get down to the club on another occasion to try again.

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From Right to Left;

  A3 Class 4-6-2 "The White Knight

  Bulleid Pacific 4-6-2 "Lynmouth"

  Pullman Coaches and Mk1 Stock "Bournemouth Belle"

  Unidentified Castle Class 4-6-0

  Unfinished Merchant Navy Class 4-6-2

As above but we can see how well laid out the O Gauge test track is here, 4 lines diverge into 8 for the fiddle yard and can easily accommodate an 8 coach train.

HRM are installing DCC and at least one of the lines is currently dedicated to that method of control.

A3 Class 4-6-2 No. 60077 "The White Knight" at the head of it's rake of LNER Gresley Teak Coaches.

West Country Class 4-6-2 34001 "Exeter" now ahead of the Bournemouth Belle Pullman.

Behind "Exeter" is an unidentified Castle Class from the GWR and further back in the shot we have an as yet unfinished Merchant Navy Class together with a Type 24 Diesel hauled parcels service.

[Front] A3 Class 4-6-2 No. 60077 "The White Knight" ex-LNER shown in BR livery before being scrapped in 1964.

[Behind] West Country Class 4-6-2 34001 "Exeter" -- the first of this class to be built in 1945 and scrapped in 1967.

Bulleid Pacific 4-6-2 34099 "Lynmouth"