Isle of Thanet Railway Society
© Isle of Thanet Railway Society - Author: Steve Costin IOTRS Secretary
Welcome
Meetings
The Isle of Thanet Railway Society meets once a week on Wednesday
evenings at Broadstairs Railway Station former Parcels Office. Usually there
are members at the club between 19.00 and 21.30. Some come before and
some leave later.
Our Club Rooms
We have spent a lot of time refurbishing the club rooms with a fresh lick of
paint, cupboards and re-arrangements. We have decommissioned our large
OO scale layout called Broadgate to give new energy to the building of some
new layouts.
There are currently two N Gauge layouts under construction, one being fine
scale code 55 and the other is code 80. One based on Minister Thanet in the
50’s and the other is a modern image Power Station, Industrial and small
TMD.
Lyndenthorpe is the name of our OO layout. This being rebuilt with a much
larger run round that includes a rise and fall to the two different levels. New
tunnels and buildings are being created with a lot of care and attention.
A new Clay Pits and Lime Quarry Layout is just beginning. This will be either
DC or DCC depending upon the connected controller. Based upon an East
Sussex Museum.
We also have three completed layouts. These include Bramleigh N Gauge,
Sherholton N Gauge and Uppstares O gauge. Uppstares is a 24 foot End to
End layout that features DCC Sound.
Our Web Site
The purpose of this web site is to provide
information about our society and activities in which
we are involved. We aim to give details about our
club and various layouts that are under
construction, as well as exhibitions that we will be
attending to display our progress. For information
about changes to this web site select Blog.