Layouts – North Shore Railway Modellers' Association, Inc

Blue Mountains heads for the Hills!

On the weekend of the 18th and 19th of May the club’s Blue Mountains layout will be visiting the Hills Model Railway Society exhibition at the Blacktown Leisure Centre.

The North Shore Railway Modellers’ Association (NSRMA) was formed in November 1971 by a group of individuals who, in August that year, organised a model railway exhibition on behalf of the Hornsby Police Citizens Boys Club. The club, which in its first six months was called the Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Model Railway Association, had the original aim of demonstrating to the public, though further exhibitions, a higher standard of modelling than was the norm in Australia at that time. From this beginning, the club has held an exhibition every year except 1974, and the layouts displayed have been at the forefront of modelling standards.

The club caters for all modelling standards and prototype interests, and now numbers about 40 members who meet in in our clubrooms in Collaroy Plateau every Thursday from 7.30 pm onwards. A great deal of camaraderie and a depth of knowledge exists among the membership, who come from a wide cross-section of the community.

We have five operational club layouts at the moment. These are Blue Mountains in H0 gauge, Dungog in H0 gauge, our youth group layout Kidz Power Railway in 00/H0 gauge, Bullo Pill in 0 gauge and a new 00/H0 gauge U-Drive layout built by the youth group.

If you would like to know more about us, you can contact us by post at:

NSRMA Inc, PO Box 527, Forestville, NSW 2087

You can phone our Secretary, Bruce Walker, on 02 9417 4228 or our President, Stephen Buck, on 02 9417 3616.

You can also send us an email:

For general communications, including membership enquiries, click here.
For exhibition-specific communications, click here.
For Bring and Buy-specific communications, click here.

To download a membership application form, click here.