Introduction: From time to time the club publishes a newsletter, here are a selection of articles from that newsletter written by members and guest contributors. We hope you enjoy reading them

Why I am Narrow Minded by Graham Ive

Graham Ive is one of the longest standing members of the club. Here he explains his fascination with railways with less than 4' 8½" between the running rails.

Why take up Railway Modelling? by guest contributor John New

John New is the Vice Chair of the Wessex Assn of MRCs. Here he explains how most of us get caught up in this fascinating hobby.

Track Laying (12" to the foot style) by Graham Ive

Graham is a regular volunteer on the PW crew of the Ffestiniog Railway. Here he describes how the big boys do it.

The early days of the F&DMRC by guest contributor Paul Stevenson

The F&DMRC was formed as a result of a notice placed in the modelling press by Paul Stevenson. Here he recounts some tales of those far off days when the club was housed in a disused radiator factory in the centre of Fareham.

Geodesic Baseboards by Elliott Cowton

Details of how we built the Geodesic Baseboards for Soberton.

Geodesic Baseboards - The Picture Gallery by Elliott Cowton

Continuing the construction story with pictures and diagrams

The works of Richard Trevithick by Junior Member Alec Cowton

Alec recently had to complete a shcool project on a personal hero. For reasons that become apparent as you read the article Alec chose Richard Trevithick, the father of the steam locomotive. Dad saw the article and converted it into a web page for the club site.

The history of railways in the Meon Valley by Elliott Cowton.

A large number of the projects of the club are based on what can be found on the railways in the Meon Valley (both real and proposed). Unfortunately, to make operation intesting we have had to make use of our "modellers liscences" quite a lot. This article sets out to give you the "facts" as far as we are able to discern them, and to tell you the "fiction" we have employed in building the layouts themselves. This article originally appeared on this site under the name of "Soberton".

The route of the Meon Valley Line

As a follow on to the last article here is a small gallery of pictures covering the route of The Meon Valley between Mislingford Yard and Droxford Station. This encompasses the supposed sites of Soberton, Southwick Junction and Mislingford Yard. There are plans to extend the gallery north towards Corhampton and Brockbridge, the supposed crossing point of extension of the Botley - Bishops Waltham line to Petersfield as well as to include some pictures of the site of The West Meon Viaduct.

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