While we welcome any other Australian or International models on our layout the majority continues to be NSW orientated trains. Commodities can range from bulk trains such as coal and grain, which still run to this day but you can see examples of traffic lost to road many years ago including milk, fuel and produce. There are of course the "departmental" traffic with sleeper and ballast trains demonstrated from the eras as the wagons and traffic has evolved as well. As mention

While the majority of operations we see these days are diesel hauled, steam is definitely still seen on the Sydney Model Railway Society layout. While regular steam service on the NSWGR ceased in the 1970's there continues to be immense public interest in heritage steam operations but they have specific needs which makes operation logistically challenging. The same applies for models as they can be challenging as well as generally more expensive but also have components the m

Following on from our previous post today we are featuring many of the private freight operators who are now common place across Australia. Many started from former government owned and operated systems and have evolved over time for example National Rail which was a consortium of NSW, VIC and the federal government but once sold became Pacific National with several owners since. Other were started by companies with roots in other logistics to assist in a complete ship to cus

This is a common question often raised by visitors or prospective new members. When the club was formed it was exclusively NSW, in fact we recently found a copy of the "club rules" from the mid 1960's which prohibited anything that wasn't NSW. While you can understand this in that era but the rail railways have changed especially when standard gauge was extended to most mainland capitals in the mid 1990's but prior to that bogie exchangeable rollingstock would leave it's sta

It's been a very busy year for Sydney Model Railway Society we've seen many great and varied trains operating on our club layout. Today we are featuring passenger train operations so please have a look at our videos and images and feel free to contact us if you would like to know anything further.