About Us
The Model Road steam club
Our members benefit from professional grade boiler inspections to PSSR2000 standards from a qualified engineer, a quarterly newsletter, and help and advice from other members. We also hold gatherings for members and meet up at shows and private functions, and arrange steam up days and film shows throughout the year
Our history
The club was founded in 2021 after a brain wave by two friends during lockdowns., to offer something not many clubs could and to allow for like minded people to get together in the absence of shows and to allow the easy testing of members engines. Since lockdowns ended, the club has gained in strength, and is proving popular among model road steam engine owners, that included showmans engines, road locomotives, traction engines, steam tractors, road rollers steam lorries and wagon. We also cater for many members who own associated trailers and machines, such as wagons and trailer, water carts, threshing machines, balers chaff cutters, flour mills, stone crushers, saw benches. We also have members who model portable and stationary steam engines, and collect model steam toys.
Our mission
It was decided to concentrate on road and stationary steam, because many model engineering clubs are centred around model railway locos. We also decided to offer professional standard boiler inspections, carried out to the same standard as a commercial inspections, something not many engineering societies offer We decided to offer and supply high quality boiler inspections and quarterly newsletters and get togethers and steam ups. Our membership is priced at £30 for a FULL member, and £15 for Associate membership, and £40 for a group membership and membership is open to all adults (18+) with a interest in model road steam, engineering, and associated interests, regardless of whether you own a steam engine or not. Print off a form and join to day, or email eemrsclub@hotmail.com for more information.
Membership rates are £30 for full, £15 for Associate
Join Us Today!
Print off the form below. All Memberships get the quarterly newsletter, and invites to club gatherings. Full members also have access to boiler inspections and technical help and advice, as well as voting rights at club meetings. We also over group membership for £40, which includes 1 full and 1 associate member.
Rally Time
A poem by J C Rivett
Rally time has arrived, our enforced hibernation we have survived.
We've got our gate pass, and we have to polish all our brass.
We need to sweep all the fire tubes, and fill up the oil pots with the correct lubes.
We have paint to clean, and at the show we'll be part of the team,
We need to sort out our tools, cos if we breakdown we don't want to look like fools,
There'll be whistles to blow, trundling around the ring as we go.
we await the raising of steam, in the engines, black, blue, red and green, t
he smell of Bacon & Eggs fill the air, until we get enough steam to engage a gear.
Our friends we look forward to having a natter, catching up with all the gossip and chatter.
There'll be gallopers to ride, and helter skelter to slide.
We'll have to shovel the coal, through the door of the fire hole
smoke and steam wafts into the air, as the music drifts from the fair,
Tractors and cars by the engines are dwarfed, this once empty field into a show has morphed.
There's Machines for threshing, while our nostalgia gets a refreshing T
he blade through the log comes sawing, whilst the artist the scene he is drawing.
dynamos a humming, powering the lights and organs, with their beats a drumming.
Stationary engines popping away, people in the beer tent being led astray.
Prizes for winners of the race who is the slowest and those who's brass is the most glowest.
In the morning Raking out the cinders and ash, at night the striker the hammer does bash.
Round and round goes the Ferris wheel, coming off the waltzers that horrible giddy feel.
Enough fish and chips to feed an army, magnificent heavy horses shown by people who are hardy.
Spectators by the thousand flood through the gate, in their diary for months, has been this date.
weeks of waiting leads to suspension, how we wish the weekend could have an extension.
Its been a wonderful bash, just a shame its gone by as quick as a flash.
The show seams to end so very fast, no matter how many days its actually does last.
But never or less, people get loaded up, and by end of the show the place is a mess.
queues of exhibitors waiting to leave, tired from a fantastic show I'd like to believe.
The show has been so much fun, may the wait not be too long, before its time for the the next one