Pendle Forest Model Railway Society is pleased to announce that its annual exhibition at Park High School, Venables Avenue, Colne, Lancashire, BB8 7DP, what3words/// relegate:awkward:prompt, will this year include a range of hobby interest as well as plenty of model railway action. Opening times are 10am-5pm on Saturday and 10am-4pm on Sunday.
 
Twelve+ layouts are expected to attend as well as eight+ traders, our Society second hand stall, demonstrations including 3D printing by Three Peaks Models, children's activities, wargamers, slot cars and drift cars.
 
Refreshments and light meals will be available along with plenty of free car parking.  A free shuttle bus will operate between the venue and Colne railway station and bus station, timed to connect with East Lancs Line trains. A free brew will be offered to anyone who has travelled by train!
 
Entry costs £7 for adults, £6 for concessions, £4 for children and £16 fora family of two adults and two children.
2025 exhibition bus timetable.pdf

Reminder for our upcoming exhibition.
Details as per the poster below with further details added periodically.

Our 45th annual exhibition
Sat 15th November 2025 Open 1000 to 1700
Sun 16th November 2025 Open 1000 to 1600
 
Patcham Community Centre, Ladies Mile Road, Patcham, Brighton BN1 8TA
 
 10 Layouts
Highcombe 4mm OO  BR 1960s Brighton MRC.
Fencehouses 4mm OO BR NE & NCB 1960s Ian Forsyth.
Orestone Quay 4mm OO 1948 Graham and Andrew Barnes.
Holmill 4mm OO BR SR Langley Modellers.
Neustift 2mm N Austrian Tirol Phil Gardner.
Hillside Park 2mm N  BR 1960’s Nigel Appleton.
Hursley Quay 7mm O Light Railway Andrew Knights.
Exbridge 3mm TT BR WR late 1960’s Paul Hopkins.
Sproston Green TMD 4mm OO 1970’s Tim Farmer.
Lower Budgett 4mm OO on a student budget, Chris Garland.
 
Traders:-
Andy Dean
P&E Fox
Julian Bowden
Brighton MRC 
 
Societies:-
Bluebell Railway
Volks Electric Railway Association 
Southern Electric Group
Double O Gauge association 
Tram 53
Lavender Line

Displays
Brighton and Hove Society of Model Locomotive Engineers
Meccano
 
 
Our world famous refreshments available throughout the exhibition.
Two floors of exhibits, lift available, step free access.
Free Parking on site and in the surrounding streets.
Close to bus routes 5, 5A and 52. The 5B bus route is a slightly longer walk.
Nearest Railway station is Preston Park.

Get ready for the UK’s premier railway modelling exhibition! The National Festival of Railway Modelling 2025 returns to the NEC, Birmingham this November.
For more information click here!

Our 57th Exhibition will once again be held at Turnberries Community Centre, Bath Road, Thornbury BS35 2BB over the week-end of 22nd & 23rd November 2025.
Opening times: Sat 10am – 5pm   Sun 10am – 4pm
 
Admission: Adult - £8             Child (5 – 16) - £3          Family (2 + 2) - £18
 
Refreshments will be available.
 
 
 
These are the layouts we have invited:
 
City Basin Goods                                  N Gauge                                       Bishops Castle Station             00 Gauge                                                 Iron Mould Lane            00 Gauge
Devils Bridge                                         009 Gauge                                   Memory Lane                            00 Gauge                                                 Lintor Town                    00 Gauge
Puffin Colliery                                       00 Gauge                                     Calderbridge                              N Gauge                                                   Wantage Town               P4 Gauge
Binegar                                                  N Gauge                                       Great Swilling                            4mm EM Gauge                                      Tyn-y-Coedcae               7mm Scale
Blagdon                                                 00 Gauge                                      Haybridge Wharf                      3mm gauge                                            Burnham-on-Sea            N Gauge
Nottingham Victoria                            00 Gauge                                     Thursley                                      O Gauge                                                   Hagbourne Road           00 Gauge
A Journey Through Time                     3mm gauge                                Trains in a Car                            N Gauge
 
 
 
 
Traders:                                                                                             Societies:                                                                                Demonstrators:
Tony Wilcox                                                                                        Dean Forest Railway                                                             John Beals
Lord & Butler                                                                                     Class 60 Preservation Group                                               Neil Walker
Trainsporter                                                                                       WC&P Railway Society                                
ABM Designs
Moor View Models Paul Baulsch  (Avon Valley Railway)