Welcome to the South Australian Railway Modeller’s Association website.
Coming Events
The 30th SARMA Toy and Model Swapmeet will be held on Sunday 17 Sept 2017 at Windsor Gardens Secondary College Gymnasium (Cnr Danby and McKay Avenues). Doors will be open from 10am til 1pm.
Admission is $4.00 (inc GST) and accompanied children under 12 are free. As well as the stalls there will be a sausage sizzle and cold drinks available.
Click on the ‘Coming Events’ link above for further upcoming events!
About SARMA
Currently, SARMA has over 100 members including some interstate. Visitors are welcome to attend our work/modelling nights which are held on every Wednesday evening of the month (from 7pm). Work nights currently involve building our exhibition layout, building various models either from kits or from scratch or a combined club project. Another occasional activity, and one which is expected to increase, is the installation of DCC decoders. Visitors are welcome to attend several meetings to determine whether SARMA is the club for them, before being expected to join.
We hold our monthly General Meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (except December) at 7.30pm. The formal part of the meeting is followed by some sort of activity, frequently a visiting speaker who speaks and shows pictures on a particular topic. Members are invited to bring models pertaining to the speaker’s subject, where appropriate, or simply models in general. The normal attendance is around 40 members but, occasionally, it gets closer to 60.
SARMA has two model railway layouts for exhibiting, the award winning DCC HO Scale Exhibition Layout, ‘Strathburn’, and an N scale modular T-Trak layout, ‘Rails to Morgan Wharf’. A new HO scale clubroom layout has been started and is progressing well.SARMA members also built and operate a layout at Wayville Showgrounds for the Royal Adelaide Show in September; this is the only time that this layout operates.
Social events include a birthday dinner held in May, a Christmas dinner held in November and a mystery event held on the second Wednesday in December in lieu of the General Meeting. See the Social page for more detail of these and other events. Don’t forget to check the Social and Events pages for upcoming functions, exhibitions and events that the club is involved or invited to!
Top banner image, showing our contingent of members who attended the 2014 Sandown exhibition in Victoria, by Maikha Ly