New Zealand Model Railway Guild

The New Zealand Model Railway Guild is an Incorporated society in New Zealand that exists to provide "...a link between model railway enthusiasts with a focus on modelling the New Zealand prototype."^[1]

History

An NZ120 scale DG class locomotive.

The Guild began as the model railway section of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society in 1947.^[2] Originally known as the New Zealand Model Railway Association, it was renamed as the guild and incorporated as a separate incorporated society on 28 July 1967.^[3]

Publications

The Guild publishes the New Zealand Model Railway Journal (ISSN 0028-8470) twice a year.^[2] The entire archive of the journal is now online.^[4]

Interest Groups

Several special interest groups exist within the guild, usually specific to model railway scales, such as the NZ120 group,^[5] and the 9mm scale group.^[6] The most popular scale for modeling New Zealand's railways is Sn3.5.^[7]

See also

• New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society