The UK based Nottingham Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Society was formed in 1929 and for nearly seventy years has attracted modelers of many disciplines. The current membership numbers about 120.

For almost forty years the Nottingham Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Society occupied a site within Nottingham City boundary and there operated a 7¼” gauge ground level track and a multi-gauge 3½” and 5″ raised track. A well-equipped workshop in separate premises was most useful for members without facilities at home.

In 1992 the Society decided to leave both track and workshop premises and transfer to a new site at The Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre sharing this with Great Central Railway (Nottingham) Ltd.

Since 1992 members of the Society have spent thousands of hours constructing brand new running tracks in 3½”, 5″ and 7¼” gauge together with workshop, storage buildings, platform, traversers, tunnels, steaming bays with inspection pit, turntable and numerous ancillary items.

The two smaller gauge tracks are aluminium rail on cast concrete supports and fully fitted with anti-tip rails. The 7¼” gauge track is of steel rail section with some very fine point work.
Both tracks have easy gradients, none more than 1 in 80 and their total running distance is approximately 700 metres (around 2300 feet) each.