WELCOMEto the Summitelse Model Railway Group (MRG)

Summitelse MRG is a relatively new model railway group, formed in 2025, aimed at encouraging younger members to get involved in everything to do with the hobby. FREE trial sessions being followed with the option of monthly, quarterly or annual memberships. Light refreshments are available at most meetings thanks to the members themselves.

Running trains, building layouts and learning landscaping skills that can be used in gaming as well have all proved popular. Currently all layouts are N Gauge or 009 but subject to storage room a 00 gauge laout might not be far away!

"Just in Case" model railway is an N gauge built into a wooden case that was salvaged from a skip. ("It might be useful one day")

The track was laid using Japanese KATO for simplicity (and being available) during the Covid pandemic. The track level had to be built up from the bottom of the case hence the effect of looking down into a valley. More details can be found using the above link.

Summit Else an N gauge model railway which still requires some minor tweeks and finishing touches to both the scenery and background. It has been successfully been exhibited at the WAMRC Wimborne exhibition in September 2024 and at Wirkwsworth in early November 2024. It was very well recived and clips can be found from both exhibitions on YouTube by various visitors. Now comes with a CanAm option running American and Canadian stock for ssomething different.

Where's it at? is a 009 model railway.

Full information and photos can be found on using the button above.

The first public viewing for this layout was at the WAMRC FROME Exhibition over the weekend of the 4th/5th January 2025, by the end of the year it will have been across Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset and following modification has been invited back to Frome in January 2026!

Interest is already being shown for other exhibitions across the southern region and beyond.

Squirrels is the smallest addition to the Summit Else family. Starting life as a table decoration the squirrel and plinth are both from timber from trees on Brownsea Island. The addition of some very tight track means that small locos and sometimes trains can be run N gauge.

Eve Ventually is the latest addition to the Summit Else family as a bare board with a small simple track laid. This will be taken off and a new track and design will be put down and built up ready for display as 009 gauge.