Club Ferroviaire Grangeois

The C.F.G. 07 was born in 1985 from the meeting of 2 model railroad enthusiasts. Joël Lecointre de Belleville in Beaujolais where he had founded the club of this region, the AMOF (Friends of Model Railroads) and Paul Soulleys, modeler from Grange.

A few meetings and newspaper articles later, the club was formed. It was made official in early 1986. From the outset, although the premises in Saint-Péray were crude and cramped, the quality and passion of its modellers made it possible to undertake a modular, and therefore expandable, network, to the standards of the F.F.M.F., scale 1/87th (HO), with as its theme, the S.N.C.F. line on the right bank of the Rhône and its flagship module, the Crussol site with the ruins of its castle.
Over the years and thanks to its installation further out to sea in the Espace Rémy Roure in Guilherand-Granges, the members of the club have been able to complete this first part of the network and to build the second part: the valley of the Doux and its "Mastrou", rail and equipment in HOm, metric track.
In this configuration, this modular network of 16m by 4.50m develops a length of 120m of rails. An extension of 6m by 1.50m with its loop of reversal evoking the beautiful village of Aubignas, can be embedded in the network and represents the Ardèchois du Teil depot at the end of the 60s, beginning of the 70s. This realization can be presented alone. In use, it is this last formula which is then chosen.

The club, led by its 23 members, has set itself several objectives:
- To share a common passion for model railroading.
- To transpose a local environment to the HO scale on a modular model.
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- Evolve existing networks.
- Building new modules.
- Passing on their knowledge.
- Learning and perfecting construction techniques to new members.
- Showing their know-how at exhibitions.
- Organising and participating in model railway exhibitions.