MPTT: M-Park T-Trak - an after-school club at Monkton Park Primary School.
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire
The club, founded in 2017, is open only to pupils in Years 4 to 6 at the school. Pupils learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) by designing, building and operating a T-Trak modular model railway.
Up to twelve pupils enroll for ten after-school sessions per term, each lasting an hour. The club has a set of twelve straight modules, four corners and two junctions, all built by the club members since September 2017. Each term, we maintain our modules and look for ways to improve them. We have used our layout to learn about a range of topics; it is both a chance to learn about full-size railways (e.g. earthworks, signalling, track, famous engineers and accidents) and a product in its own right (e.g. building to standards, evaluating performance, suggesting improvements, using different tools and techniques, electrical circuits, computer programming).
T-Trak Standards: 33mm Spacing. No sky boards.
Club Events and Modules
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MPTT Events
- 201712 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 201812 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 201901 Calne Model Railway Show
- 201904 Trainwest
- 201912 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 202003 MPTT Module Building Competition
- 202212 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 202303 Swindon MODRAIL 2023
- 202306 NGS WorldWide Group Annual Convention
- 202309 The Swindon Railway Festival
- 202312 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 202403 Swindon MODRAIL 2024
- 202409 The Swindon Railway Festival
- 202411 NR Careers Festival 2024
- 202412 Monkton Park School Christmas Fair
- 202503 Swindon MODRAIL 2025
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MPTT Modules
- Bridge To Nowhere
- Castle On The Hill
- Coconut Palm Forest
- Cutting Corner
- Double Cross
- Drayton Green
- Hurricane End Cap
- Inglenook Shunting Puzzle (Signal Module 4)
- MPTT Demonstration Module
- MPTT's Balloon Loops
- MPTT's Countryside Modules (10)
- MPTT'S Desert Modules (4)
- MPTT's Farm Corner
- MPTT's Junction Modules (2)
- MPTT's micro:bit Modules (2)
- MPTT's Snow Modules (5)
- MPTT's Tunnel Modules (2)
- Power End Cap
- Signal Module 5
- Signal Modules 1, 2 & 3
- Somerset & Dorset Snow Single