Welcome to the website of The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Limited (Founded in 2007)
The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Limited is a private company limited by guarantee
Registered in England and Wales No. 6286353
Registered Office: 182 Butcher Hill, Leeds, LS16 5BG
Membership is recorded by inviting people to enter their name, address, email address and telephone number in a register. Details are entered in respect of each calendar year and the current annual subscription is £nil. The register is normally available at the Annual General Meeting in each year and at the New Year Steam-up, together with other shows such as Narrow Gauge North, Harrogate MREX and
Elsecar Garden Railway Show.
ROUNDHOUSE OPEN DAY SUNDAY 20 MAY
Harrogate Show on Friday video [click here ]
Harrogate Show Sunday video [click here]
and pics in NEWS
The MIDDLETON RAILWAY 200 years Celebration
click for a link to the Middleton website and go the 2012 event, then Other Attractions and click on Live Steam Model railways.
Information on Middleton 200 click here
Saturday 23 June and Sunday 24 June
We need lots of support because the aim is for 200 engine steamings over the weekend.
Please contact Andy Cooper at cooperslodgeworks@hotmail.co.uk if you are planning to run. The arrangements will be the same as for Harrogate.
Dixon Green and Mount Dowd are attending
Now the steaming season is here...Please send me pictures for Photo of the Week , and when you visit narrow gauge lines for Trains in the Landscape. Videos and your railway updates...Shed news...
Yorkshire Photo of the Week
Aireside Railway : Steve Smith who also features on National website!!!
Trains in the Landscape
From Andy Wilkinson newly returned from the FR Society AGM and celebrations marking the 30th year since the FR's return to running trains back into Blaeanau FFestiniog.
The former Harrogate Gas Works Peckett loco, currently named 'Harrogate' that was running over the weekend between BF and Tanygrisiau on 'shuttles' coupled to 'Palmerston'.
The loco was originally acquired by the FR in 1957 as a potential mainline loco. It was in need of a significant rebuild before it would be suitable. After some tests, it was finally concluded that the loco would not be suitable and in 1987 it was eventually sold. The loco's official name was to be Volunteer, but it was never formally named and carried no nameplates. It was eventually restored to running order on the the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway, but proved to be unsuitable for their line and was sold. It now normally resides on the privately owned Statfold Barn Railway, near Tamworth.
Member's 16mm Projects - wagons, coaches, buildings, bridges, kits built with reference to the prototype..all gratefully received..always take some photos, other members may well be inspired!!
Gerv Wright builds a Penrhyn coal wagon
Members of the company receive a copy of the Report of the Directors and annual Financial Statements, together with the Annual Open Day and Regular Running programme, and are entitled to vote at the Annual General Meeting. Butane Gas is also available to members at cost price: contact Andy Cooper for details.
The current directors are : Andy Cooper [ Secretary / Chairman ] Stuart Currie, David Hill, David Mason, John Orson, Phil Thompson [ Treasurer ] and Gerv Wright [ Exhibitions Manager ]
The main purpose of the Company is to organise Events and Open Days in Yorkshire and to oversee the running of the Elsecar Garden Railway Show.
These events included a number of shows and full-day garden railway meetings. In addition, members in both South Yorkshire and the Leeds area get together regularly on summer evenings – the “Sheffield Shed” and “Leeds and Bradford Shed” are a popular informal way to enjoy playing with steam (and battery) trains in the garden. Our open days are very sociable affairs.
The Elsecar Garden Railway Show normally takes place over two days, usually in the last weekend in September. One of the larger shows in the garden railway show calendar, visitors can expect to see at least six large layouts and over 20 suppliers of garden railway equipment. The show takes place at the Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley.
This venue has a number of other attractions, including shops, cafés and a standard gauge steam railway.
Mount Dowd and the Dixon Green Light Railway
The company owns two portable layouts constructed to 16mm scale, together with trailers used to store and transport the layouts.
Mount Dowd is a large layout that is ideal for operating a number of trains at once; Dixon Green is a large scenic layout more suitable for smaller and geared locos.
We are all involved in 16mm Narrow Gauge Modelling in or around Yorkshire. We have Yorkshire ex-pats working or living abroad, we also have friendships and activities that cross the boundaries of Yorkshire to adjacent counties.
Many members have their own garden railway. This is not a necessity, however, since there is plenty of opportunity to run trains on other members’ railways. Indeed, a good introduction to the hobby is to try and work your way around all the open days and other activities – but be warned that you will probably need around two years to fit them all in!
Disclaimer The opinions on these web pages are not necessarily those of the Board of Directors nor Company and should not be taken as Company policy. Further we have no connection with any firm mentioned herein. The Yorkshire Group of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Ltd as publisher and the Web Site Manager cannot be held responsible for any error that may occur in the text. Reliance placed upon the contents of these web pages is at the readers' own risk.