Tauranga Model Railway Club Inc.

28/05/2026

Mike’s class 50 with a rake of Chris’ MK1 coaches

28/05/2026

And over on Stourbridge some diesel action pulling a decidedly ‘odd’ train formation. It was just a pulling test they said…..

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

Thursday night is club night- anything might happen. Such as club member Ethan landing his US Bigboy on katikati to the alarm of the locals…
Painted in US Navy colours by its American manufacturer ( why??)
Here’s a few videos of it/ her in action.

17/05/2026

Sunday- several TMRC members travel to Putāruru Woodman’s museum and site of the emerging trainworld model railway display.
The development of this exhibition is ongoing but it started with rescuing and renovating parts of the old Lilliput/ Trainworld exhibit in Napier, trucked to Putāruru and then added to with other new layouts based on European theme and NZR themes.
Worth a look next time you’re travelling SH1.

15/05/2026

Today (Friday) we welcomed Just Blokes, a men’s fellowship group based in Bethlehem, Tauranga for a morning visit.
Over 20 of their members came by and we shared the story of our club and our current layouts;
Katikati/Stourbridge, Raurimu, DriverTrain, new European, N Gauge English and a recent older English layout we are renovating.
Thanks to the visitors for showing good interest in our little club and for our members who ran the layouts and answered queries.

If you have a group who might like to visit and see model trains and how we construct the layouts please contact our secretary Trevor- via our web page or this FB page.

02/05/2026

Sometimes you just wish your day could be better..!

05/03/2026

Thursday night- club night. Interloper into katikati. Ethan’s Durango and Silverton 2-8-0. Is lost! Or has the Goldfields Railway got new stock?
Either way, TMRC caters for everyone.