Welcome to the modelling page of the Swiss Railways Society website. 

This page has two initial purposes:

 - Somewhere to place background material for articles in Swiss Express;

 - A place for extra information that our members would like to submit.

  Your Webmaster does not do very much in the way of railway or tramway modelling, so any content needs to be supplied by you, the membership.

Whilst our name implies an interest only in railway, many of our members have wider interests in modelling things Swiss, so the main constraint will be 'Swiss', so articles on modelling tramways, buses, boats and scenery are all welcome.

If there is any information that you think should be on this page, submit it to the Webmaster.

Report from the 2011 Nuremburg Toy Fair

Photographs from 2011 Nuremburg Toy Fair

News

News from Ontracks- some Roco models that are usually only available in Switzerland

Members may be interested in a twin pack model release by Rivarossi -
Two BLS Re 4/4 brown HO locos - 171 Darligen and 179 Bern.
Tim Mulhall at Ontracks has notified that he has managed to obtain some for sale in the UK
http://www.ontracks.co.uk/index.php?page=product&prodID=145184&catID
Either pre-order from the website or contact Tim at Ontracks to secure yours...

Directory of Swiss Model Railway Shops (and some in other countries!) - the official Society list giving locations and directions, types of models sold, whether or not credit card facilities are available and if English is spoken.  Updates from members requested!

NOTE - this opens an Excel spreadsheet.

There are also links to model related sites on the website links page

NEWS - The Eisenbahn Center Zurich has moved to Freienbach, about 25 Kilometers away along the lake Zurich.
Freienbach is reachable by Train from Zurich in 20 Minutes by S8 direction Pfäffikon SZ, last stop before Pfäffikon.
The Shop is open Wednesdays and Thursdays, or on demand.
See also www.eisenbahncenter.ch
which also has information on railway & steam events in Switzerland as well as product news.

Swiss layouts being shown at future exhibitions

Maloja (see also http://wwww.maloja.co.uk)

October 29th and 30th Birkenhead - Merseyside Model Railway Society
http://www.merseysidemrs.co.uk/events11.htm

November 19th and 20th Warley Model Railway Club at the NEC
http://www.thewarleyshow.co.uk/
 

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