The Gold Coast Model Railway Club Inc is open on Wednesdays & Saturdays for members.
We have held Open Days twice a year in the past, however our next one may be some time in the second half of 2026 to allow us time to make some changes to a few of the layouts.
09/07/2026
Over the coming months, the track on various parts of the layout will be inspected.
Please take extra care if you see this one anywhere on the layout, as there may be GCMRC Permanent Way staff nearby.
07/07/2026
Some more views of our On30 layout, from the western side
Here's an ex-LMS ‘Jubilee’ class 4-6-0 named ‘Achilles’ in British Railways livery hauling British Railways ‘C1’ Coaches. It was the daily ‘Thames-Forth’ express ex. London St.Pancras - Edinburgh Waverley via the Settle-Carlisle line during the 1950’s and 1960’s in the UK.
01/07/2026
In honour of our Commonwealth cousin, Canada, whose 159th anniversary is today, here are a few locos and rolling stock from Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP).
See these links for more info:
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/canada-day/about.html
https://www.cn.ca/en/
https://www.cpkcr.com/en
29/06/2026
Boris has been busy repainting the sky on the backdrop to the Eastern Yard. It's mostly complete, just a few touch-ups to be applied.
This video completes the set of videos that Blake took on his trip to Japan
Somewhere in regional Queensland....
19/06/2026
GCMRC Passenger Services are proud to announce that the Shinkansen is now stopping at NScale North station*. Please see you local ticket office for timetables.
* if the stations on our N scale layout actually have names, please let me know...
Coal - brought to you by Union Pacific....
15/06/2026
Here's some recent shots of the new yard at the back of the On30 layout. When completed, it will allow some shunting operations to be carried out along with continuous running.