Membership

Australian Model Railway Association Incorporated

Current Competitions

Web Site Awards Renewal Awards Norm Read Perpetual Award Journal Author Competition

Web Site Awards

If you have a web site that is devoted entirely (or mostly) to Railways then you are invited to submit your site to be considered for one of our web site awards. Sites for consideration may be devoted to any aspect of railways whether model or prototype or both. Sites which specialize in a particular aspect of Railways are particularly encouraged to apply.

Check out our Web Awards pages for more info on how to submit your site. You don't have to be an AMRA member to win.

Renewal Awards

A contest for members where all you have to do is to renew on time. All senior and student members who are financial on 1st September of each year are entered in a random draw with one member receiving three additional years free membership.

• Honorary, Life, and Reciporocal members are excluded from the draw as they cannot benefit from winning.
• Family members are excluded from the draw - they will automatically receive an additional year of membership if the senior member they are associated with wins.
• If a student member wins who would be required to upgrade to senior membership in the following three years then they will be automatically upgraded.
• Those members who renewed for three years in either of the preceding two years are financial on the date of the draw and will therefore be included.
• Those members who have not renewed their membership in time for it to be processed by the due date will not be financial on the date of the draw and will therefore not be included in it.

Norm Read BEM Perpetual Award

Dear Members,
Your Federal Committee has decided to sponsor a perpetual award in memory and appreciation of our late Federal Registrar, fellow member and friend to all, Norman Read B.E.M. in recognition of his conscientious and untiring work, first as Federal Secretary and then Federal Registrar over the last 34 years. The Federal Committee would like this Award to be made at all AMRA State Branch Exhibitions, NSW, VIC, QLD. and W.A. for the Best and most appealing of an 'O' gauge layout, locomotive, rolling stock, line side structure or diorama that in the opinion of the judges would be worthy of the appreciation and memory of the late Norman Read.

The State Branch C.o.M's are respectfully requested to appoint an independent judge or judges, or alternately the State Branch Committee to perform the judging of the entrants. The Award would be judged on the usual Model Judging points system and should there NOT be any 'O' Gauge item that meets the minimum acceptable standard in the opinion of the judge or judges then NO award is to be made at that exhibition. The winning entry will receive an individual trophy to keep, and a monetary award.

The Perpetual Award plaque will have the winning award for every State, each year, engraved on an individual plate attached to the plaque. The 'Norman Read Perpetual Award' will be placed in the N.S.W. Branch clubrooms at Mortdale in respect of the memory of the late Norman Read.

Graham Larmour,
Federal President

Award Criteria

Journal Author Competition

Note that this competition has now been replaced. Instead of only the competition winners receiving a year's free membership the Federal Committee of Management has decided that everyone who contribes two or more pages of material actually published in Journal in any twelve months will recieve a year's free membership.