Exhibition

Overview

Saturday 31st October 2026, 10:00 – 16:30

St. Bartholomew’s School, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 6JP

Pay on the door using cash or card. No advance tickets.

Secondhand Stall Form

If you would like to sell items on our Secondhand Stall at the exhibition, please download and complete the following form (PDF and Word formats are provided below). Note that the club will take a 10% commission on all items sold! Please ensure you bring a printout of your completed form with you as we do not accept emailed copies. Full instructions on completing the form can be found at the top of the first page. No books or magazines please, these just do not sell, unfortunately.

Please bring your items and completed form to a Friday NMRC meeting (but not the immediate Friday before the exhibition) or on the day of the exhibition by 9am. We need it all in advance so that we can check everything over and setup the stall.

NMRC Exhibition 2026 – Secondhand Stall Form – (PDF)Download
NMRC Exhibition 2026 – Secondhand Stall Form – (Microsoft Word)Download

Details for 2026

The following sections list the confirmed layouts, charities, demonstrators/educational, and traders at our upcoming show. However, it should be noted that these are subject to change (hopefully not too much now) before the show and without notice. Feel free to check back here regularly for any updates.

Layouts

  • Fence Houses NCB (OO Gauge)
    • Ian Forsyth
    • Set in the coalfield region of Northeastern England in the 1950s and 60s, this layout depicts a National Coal Board terminal and all its shunting operations as empty trains arrive and are reloaded for departure.
  • Albert Street Parcels (OO Gauge)
    • Stu Davies
    • A condensed snapshot of the parcels operations which once occupied the larger stations on the Southern Region (heavily inspired by Margate). This layout is set in the 1960s and features a variety of 3rd rail rolling stock typical of the region and era.
  • Lostanbodge (ON Gauge)
    • Brian Hempsted
    • A narrow gauge layout heavily based on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways. Buildings, bridges and signal boxes on this layout have all been designed based on real locations from along the route. The layout is fully DCC and is controlled by an iPad.
  • Egdean (O Gauge)
    • Jim Edwards
    • Edgdean is a real village located near Fittleworth in Sussex, however, it never had a rail connection. This O Gauge Southern Region layout depicts a fictitious piece of railway (uniquely in the thick of winter) to a passenger branch line terminus with associated goods yard built primarily for goods traffic but later used for experimental testing and development of electric traction.
  • Newbourne Vale (OO Gauge)
    • Loddon Vale Model Railway Club – David Morton
    • This layout is fresh from an extensive refurbishment and enlargement having been conceived by Loddon Vale Model Railway Club way back in 1999. The layout is set in the 1960s and depicts a terminal station somewhere in England with rail connection to the adjacent military establishment.
  • Warton Road (Gauge 3)
    • Roger Salisbury
    • This ginormous layout demonstrates the mixture of passenger and freight traffic on a branch line revived by a preservation society after facing the axe in the 1960s. A frequent service is operated using a mixture of Great Western Region, Southern Region and British Rail steam and diesel rolling stock.
  • Poison Street Parcels (HO Gauge)
    • Alan Monk
    • Based loosely on the parcels bays at Worcester Shrub Hill and Oxford, Poison Street Parcels Depot represents the parcels facility to the side of a major city station in the Midlands. Parcels trains come into the depot, either loco-hauled or as Diesel Parcels Units and are shunted and reformed Set in 1968, many quirky and interesting pre- Nationalisation parcels vehicles are still in use, along with British Railways-built types.
  • Klein Schmalitz (HO Gauge)
    • Tony Dean
    • Translating as ‘Little Narrow Place’ this layout is set in central northern Germany, on the banks of the middle River Elbe in the so-called ‘Wendland’. Deliberately, there is much ambiguity over which bank of the River Elbe Klein Schmalitz is located, such that it may be seen being exhibited and operating rolling stock from a number of geopolitical areas and eras (such as DR – the East German Railways or DB – the West German state railway).
  • Avebury (OO Gauge)
    • Martin Axford
    • Depicting the Midland & South Western Junction Railway’s north-south route closed during the widespread scaling back of the UK railway network in 1961. The layout depicts the piecemeal convergence of the branches from Calne and Marlborough set among picturesque Wiltshire lowlands scenery.
  • Red Post Lane (OO Gauge)
    • Ian Driver
    • A more modern depot shunting layout based on the Southern Region of British Rail somewhere west of Andover at the junction with the branch line to MOD Ludgershall to provide locomotives for military trains and ‘thunderbird’ locomotives to act as rescues in case of failure of a train on the Basingstoke to Exeter Mainline.
  • Penna Lane TMD (OO Gauge)
    • Colin Batchelor
    • A modern image layout depicting the hive of activity in a modern train maintenance depot. To the rear of the layout is a heritage centre that acquired the remnants of the railway works that once served the location. Also to be seen is the hustle and bustle of a busy modern era passenger railway and mixture of modern image heavy rail traction and light rail/tram vehicles.
  • Lambourn (OO Gauge)
    • Newbury Model Railway Club
    • Built by members of Newbury Model Railway Club, Lambourn represents the terminus of the Lambourn Branch from Newbury in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Besides serving the communities of the Lambourn Valley the station handled significant horse racing traffic.
  • Portishead TMD (OO Gauge)
    • Jack & Charlotte Butler
    • This layout is based on the Portishead Branch which ceased operation in 1964. This layout takes modellers licence to the line and what might have become if it had remained open and developed into a modern Deutsche Bahn (DB), English, Welsh & Scottish (EWS) and Direct Rail Services (DRS) Depot to serve Portbury and Portishead Docks. Note that the real Portishead Branch is due to be revived for passenger services sometime around 2028.
  • Millburn (OO Gauge)
    • John Gowan
    • Millburn is a fictional industrial town in central Scotland. The layout portrays a small branch line terminus serving the town, as well as associated diesel depot, wagon repair facility, rail served scrap yard and civil engineers siding. A variety of classic British Rail blue and white 1980s motive power can be seen.

Charities

  • Great Western Society: Didcot Railway Centre
    • The local heritage railway centre at Didcot, which also contains the Swindon Panel signalling simulator. A new addition will be a shunting layout, so try your skill.
  • Lynton & Barnstable Railway
    • Rebuilding the Lynton and Barnstable railway in North Devon, the members in attendance will keep you up to date with developments there.
  • Pendon Museum
    • Nationally recognised for its outstanding landscape and transport modelling in 4mm scale. Based in Long Wittenham, the museum captures the social life, scenery and railways of the Vale of White Horse in the 1930’s

Traders

  • Secondhand Stall
    • Newbury Model Railway Club will once again be running a secondhand stall. Please see instructions above if you wish to provide items for sale.
  • Neil Cresswell Model Railway & Toys
    • A local trader who has attended the Newbury MRC Exhibitions for many years offering high quality pre-owned and new ready to run rolling stock.
  • Model Railway Bits – https://modelrailwaybits.com
    • Another regular trader at our exhibitions. Stocking an ample variety of model railway scenery accessories.
  • A&B Models
    • Hampshire based vendor of pre-owned rolling stock and model railway accessories.
  • Scale 3D Models (1/32 Scale Models) – https://www.scalesceneryandfigures.co.uk
    • Resin miniatures and scenics available in various scales to create realistic model scenery for model railways, architectural layouts, dioramas, wargaming, fantasy and military models! You may even wish to have yourself scanned and printed in a scale of your choosing!
  • Southern Model Railway – https://www.southernmodelrailway.co.uk
    • NEW for 2026! Founded in 2025 from years of ideas, thoughts and plans. Southern Model Railway was launched. Southern Model Railway specialise in trading lower value, older model railways items to the general public via our vast online store (with UK postage) and in person at model railway shows & exhibitions across the South.
  • Wheels of Southsea
    • NEW for 2026! New and second hand rolling stock and die cast models as well as scenery items, model railway associated hardware and accessories.
  • Paul Gembridge
    • NEW for 2026! A private vendor scaling back on their collection of rolling stock and model railway accessories.

Previous Exhibitions

2025

Video from our exhibition in 2025 by our club member Martyn Ruks.

2024

Video from our exhibition in 2025 by our club member Martyn Ruks

Video from our exhibition in 2024 by Gordon Sutton.

2023

Video from our exhibition in 2023 by our club member Martyn Ruks.