WE are a group of dedicated railway modellers interested in mainly British railways & landscapes. Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, we’ve been together in one form or another since the mid 70’s, first as the Calgary Chapter of the BRMNA (British Railway Modelers of North America), then since 1993 as the CBRM, although still affiliated with the BRMNA. In 2021 we incorporated as a a Not-for-Profit Society to formalize our club. We are the ‘go to’ group in southern Alberta modelling British Prototypes in N, OO, OO-9, and O & G scales. Our older layout ‘Much Muddling” needs major restoration work, so was retired in 2019. Our interim Branchline layout was shown at Supertrain & at Heritage Park Railway Days until fall 2024. As we don’t have a ‘home’ for a permanent layout, in 2024 we started to build a new dedicated exhibition-only layout called ‘Chuffingham‘. Although incomplete it displayed at Supertrain and Heritage Park in 2025. We also have a new-to-us N-gauge layout called ‘Havant’ that will also be exhibited. We host a regular “Social Night” on the last Tuesday evening of each month at a friendly pub, and there is an open invitation to anyone interested in railways, modelling, or seeing what the fuss is all about.
NEWS-IN BRIEF for April
Here we are at the end of April. The month was full of getting things ready and running for Supertrain. It was a very successful show for us, and we talked to a lot of people interested in how we created our British look, and how we control our points (turnouts). There’s still one board join that needs some work, but on the whole the layout ran well. Of course having the mimic panel is still a goal, as is getting trains running through the canal section. Our N scale layout Havant was a success, but still needs a lot of work to get it running smoothly.
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In January we unwrapped an N gauge layout that was generously offered to us by a donor who received it as a bequest from the British owner. ‘Havant’ is a fully landscaped 6′ x 3′ layout complete with vehicles and rolling stock. It has been repaired and is running, albeit needing a lot of track cleaning. The Club has adopted it, and will display it at Supertrain on April 25 & 26.
More info and photos of ‘Havant’ are in the ‘PROJECTS’ tab.
For Membership information and application for see our Membership Page (link here)
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Up-coming events:
May 26th Social Night will be held at 7:00pm at ‘Limericks Pub’, 7304 Macleod Trail, downstairs this time for those with stair issues.
June 30th Social Night will be held at 7:00pm Kampus Brewing Co. at 3630 Brentwood Rd. NW behind Jameson’s & HomeSense
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CHUFFINGHAM is our new dedicated exhibition layout. It is a modular layout, 12′ deep & 24’long, with two main lines, a branch line & industrial shunting yard at one end and a town at the other. For construction details & photos, and exhibition albums. (link here)
Chuffingham’s first exhibition at Supertrain 2025
The BRANCHLINE was a single line end-to-end layout put together during Covid to replace Much Muddling.
MUCH MUDDLING was the first layout that developed & grew over many years. It was retired from exhibition after 2019.
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Membership
The annual membership dues are $25, due on Dec. 31st. Membership is open to all those interested in participating with or supporting our club.
The application form is on the membership page
Images
All images marked ‘LnL Junction’ are courtesy of and copyright by D. Luckman of LnL Junction
Contact us:
mailto:infocbrmc@gmail.com