Stacks of sleepers and logs in the Redbridge works yard, with a steam locomotive shunting behind

Yellow engineers' crane and Network SouthEast locomotives at the Lockton Lane depot

Our quarterly newsletter

Chairman’s Chatter

News from the club room: progress on the layouts, exhibition reports, trophies, trips and the occasional terrible pun.

Gangers at work among timber stacks and a shunter in the Redbridge works yard

October 2026

Chairman’s Chatter: October 2026

AGM season, a rethink on stocking Redbridge Wharf, eleven of twelve Eastleigh boards built and the new test track takes shape.

Network SouthEast Class 50 with a rake of oil tanks, an NSE diesel unit crossing the bridge behind

July 2026

Chairman’s Chatter: July 2026

Network SouthEast turns 40 at the club room, Redbridge Wharf at the NEC, Bratton Fleming joins the L&B and eight Eastleigh boards built.

Steam train at Redbridge station above the sleeper works, crane and timber wharf

April 2026

Chairman’s Chatter: April 2026

The annual dinner aboard the SS Shieldhall, this year’s trophy winners, Redbridge Wharf heads for the NEC and the Eastleigh baseboard kits arrive.

Fuelling point and oil tanks beside the depot shed at Lockton Lane

January 2026

Chairman’s Chatter: January 2026

Lockton Lane at Southampton Central for the Rail 200 Inspiration Train, another best in show for Redbridge Wharf, and the first plans for Project Eastleigh.