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 March
The last March weekend here, we just finished another weekend clinic/work session on Chuffingham. We set up the entire layout. On Saturday we had a ‘ground-cover/grassing’ clinic and covered all painted wood and foam landscaping, creating the start of our field and woodland landscape. We ran a few trains making sure that track and wiring were all ready for Supertrain, & also because that’s what we enjoy. It was great to set-up the entire layout in a clean well lit warm space to do this work with many thanks to the staff at Mid-Sun Community Centre.
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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:
March 31st Social Night will be held at 7:00pm at ‘Limericks Pub’, 7304 Macleod Trail, downstairs this time for those with stair issues.
April 25 & 26 SUPERTRAIN 2026, ‘Chuffingham’ and ‘Havant’ will both be exhibited. Visit us at the Olympic Oval. Link here for times & directions!
NEW LOCATION April 28th Social Night will be held at 7:00pm Kampus Brewing Co. at 3630 Brentwood Rd. NW behind Jameson’s & HomeSense
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In November we participated in the Alberta Childrens Hospital’s “Candy Cane Lane’ annual fundraiser. We built a 1950’s authentic Hornby Dublo 2 loop layout with period track and rolling stock, set in a winter wonderland. Children were given the opportunity to drive the trains. More info and photos are in the ‘PROJECTS’ tab.
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