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Home | Train Enthusiasts | Funnies | Trips | Memorial I put an add in the Morning Bulletin Sat 25 Sep 1982 calling for anyone interested in forming a miniature train club. We got about 30 interested people to turn up at the Adult Education building in Bolsover Street on the following Monday night. (Sep 27 1982). I was elected the president for the first three years and then I went overseas and another person took that position. I asked the mayor of that time and I think it was Jim Webber for permission to put down a miniature track in Leichhardt Park which is on the corner of Kent, Cambridge and Campbell Streets. (The same park where the Indoor Bowls and the Table Tennis have their halls). I'm still a member, but I don't hold any office in the club now. This club still holds monthly meetings at 7.30pm on the first Monday of each month and the track is used on a monthly basis at 2pm until 4.30pm on the first Sunday of each month to entertain children giving rides for those wish to do so. We
took the name from the Maryborough Club and they told us they
took the first letter from the following:
This Train of Merv's goes on trips with him all over the state, he has been on trips out to the western area of Queensland and he has traveled northern Queensland for different shows and he has also been south to any neighbouring clubs that have special events. Just some of the memorabilia that has been collected by Merv over the years, it is a very good collection and it would have been collected from all parts of the country and overseas as well.
This
is some of the memorabilia collected, and the signals used to
work until a couple of years ago
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