Victorian Model Railway Society

Prototype Modellers Forum 2025

  • Phil Jeffery shows how incorporating prototypical Victorian Railways advertising could improve your
    layout
  • David Foulkes demonstrates the use of lower melting point solders to assemble small parts on brass
    locomotives and rolling stock kits.
  • Lance Cross covers the early sleeping cars on the Victorian Railways
  • Adrian Ponton explores the logistics of changing from fixed wheel vehicles
    to bogie wagons for grain transportation on the VR in the 1970s
  • Fraser Brown traces the development of open wagon design and construction in Victoria from 1855
    to 1905
  • Peter McLeod uses step-by-step pictures to enhance the instructions for the SEM X class loco tender
  • Matt Turner covers aspects of safety in our railway modelling
  • David Powell shares some ideas about layout design, especially from a viewer’s perspective
  • Phil Dunn will cover the genesis, design and operation of the Victorian Railways D3 Class 4-6-0
    locomotive.

Some models by club members at the 2025 Forum

Phil Dunn’s proposed Victorian Railways pacific loco, based on a R class kit.
David Foulkes HO wagons with added etched brass detail.
Adrian Gunzburg’s 3/16” scale WAGR loco
Andrew Maddicks O scale IA wagon
Brett Mason scratch built structure, HO scale