The Club was formed in 1973 by a group of like-minded model railway enthusiasts.

In the early days work on constructing layouts was done in a school woodwork room, but a substantial 00 gauge layout was created, called Fordley Park, and this layout appeared on the exhibition circuit for a number of years until the track wore out!

In 1981, the Club was fortunate enough to rent substantial premises in Heath Town and this enabled a very productive phase to begin. A new larger layout was constructed, called Leighford, to replace Fordley Park. Like its predecessor, this was set around 1958-60 in a fictional area using both Eastern Region and London Midland Region stock. 

It appeared successfully at many exhibitions all over the country. 

At the same time, some of the older members of the Club constructed an 0 gauge terminus to fiddle yard layout which was also exhibited a number of times, while there was an N gauge layout called Oxendale based in the Cotswolds which also attended many exhibitions.

Around 1994, thoughts were turning to a replacement layout for Leighford and the decision was made to base it on a prototype location on the East Coast mainline. Thus Stoke Summit was born; it was set in the transition period between steam and diesel. Although there was no station on the layout, it proves sufficiently interesting operationally to receive much acclaim. So much so that it was thought to have attended over 80 exhibitions during its life.

There was yet another large layout in the offing in the shape of Charwelton. This also was based on a prototype location, but this time on the former Great Central mainline. This enabled both Eastern and London Midland Regions' stock to be used with occasional visits from Western and Southern Regions. This layout also appeared on the exhibition circuit for a number of years, enabling full use of the growing quantity of members' locomotives and stock. As many as 38 trains could be accommodated.

Unfortunately at this time the Club lost the use of its premises and moved to smaller headquarters in the Horseley Fields area of the city. The premises in the Crown Nail Works in Commercial Road is where the Club is presently 

operating and while the larger layouts were disposed of, smaller layouts are still exhibited in the shape of Moretonhampstead (00 gauge) and Merthyr Riverside (EM gauge) while work is ongoing to create new layouts.