Sorry to have to inform you in this automatic way, but here is some sad news:

Chris Burch had emergency heart surgery (which was successful), but went on to have a major stroke in intensive care, and died on Sunday 6th November 2016 at 8.14pm.

If you need to contact his family, please email Chris' wife, Roz, on roz@burches.co.uk.

For Bridge Builders Ministries, see their website https://www.bbministries.org.uk/get-in-touch/ for other contact information.

For model railway enquiries, including the Braunstone Model Railway Exhibition, contact John Malpas through the Syston MRS by email on systonmodelrailway@gmx.co.uk.

Or you might want to contact the vicar of St Peter's church Braunstone through their website http://www.stpetersbraunstone.org.uk

Chris' funeral was on Monday 21st November 2016 at Leicester Cathedral. Donations were invited on the day to 4 charities instead of flowers.

Please remove Chris from your databases, unsubscribe him from your newsletters, and stop sending him emails - thanks.

What follows is the rest of this website as Chris left it.

Welcome to my imaginary world of model railways!

I started modelling in N Gauge in 1990 (having had Tri-ang OO Gauge trains in my childhood). I have been a member, as I've moved around, of the Model Railway Societies in Leeds, then Coventry, and now Syston near Leicester. I ran a Model Railway Exhibition at my last parish church, St Peter's Braunstone Park, Leicester, on the 1st Saturday of each November. I had a main line at home, with enough sidings for 8 trains, which I have now sold. Since then my largest layout has been Castle Brewery, which doubled as exhibition layout and home layout - so I can "watch the trains go by" of an evening. It has now been sold to make room for a new home layout which I haven't started building yet - watch this space! My current exhibition layouts are Herrenscar Harbour and the new Howling Moor Dam - both part of the Nivverwas Valley Tramway which is my "concept album" of layouts. But as well as the new home layout, I'm planning a Great Western branch line terminus, my first ever based on a real location, and a new challenge for me.