Model Railway Show on May 17th-18th 2025 at 10:00 – 16:00 (both days) at Y Ganolfan Community Centre, High Street, Porthmadog, LL49 9LU.
Tickets will be priced as follows; £6.00 for adults, £2.00 for kids and £12.00 for of a family of 2 + up to three kids.
Have you admired detailed model railway layouts at shows or online? Wished you could create your own layout at home, but aren’t sure where to start?
Come along to our Model Railway Show. You’ll not only see a host of marvellous railway layouts, but you’ll also be able to speak to experienced modellers and watch their demonstrations that range from creating buildings to tracks and even wagons!
Giving aspiring modellers the skills to take home and create a simple model railway layout of their own.
If you are inspired to start your modelling journey right now, there’s an excellent selection of modelling products at our nearby shop at Harbour Station – all available online here.
And if all this makes you peckish, why not pop into our popular Spooners Café & Bar for a coffee and one of our delicious cakes. Or sit down for a cool beer and a tasty meal from our extensive menu while watching heritage trains steam by!
Below are details of the amazing model railway layouts and demonstrations you can expect to see during your visit…
Layouts
Jo Vincent – Llandyrau in 009
John Wooden – The Vicarage – multi gauge layout in 4mm scale
Chris Featherstone – Melinau’r Abaty in 0-16.5
Mike Shaw – 16mm finescale models of Minffordd from the Merionethshire Railway
Brychan Watkins – Tan-y-Bwlch, Festiniog 1900 in 009
Paul Holmes – Esgairgeiliog, Corris Railway in 016
Carol and Dave Roberts – Colwyn Valley Light Railway in 009
Martin Jones – Stonehouse St James – EM gauge
Robert ‘Whizz’ Shrives – part of the venerable Aire Valley Light Railway in 009
Craig Owen – Penorwic in 009
Martin Hallett – Llanfarthyn in N gauge
Glenn Williams – Dinorwic in 009
Thomas Williams – layout in 009
Mark Herbert – Nantmor in 009
Demonstrations
Paul Martin – Etched chassis and 3D printed modelling
Phil Traxson – Kit building 7mm scale wagons – both narrow and standard gauge
Tom Mallard – Advanced scratchbuilding techniques
Paul Holmes – Building track from scratch, based on Templot
Ken Vine – Building Brandbright 16mm scale vehicles
Martin Jones – Building S scale wagons
Jo Vincent – constructing buildings from card kits
Opening times:
Saturday: 10:00 – 16:00
Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00
Refreshments available including cakes from popular local baker CelEmmabration Cakes.
Why a Model Railway Workshop?
Perhaps you just don’t know how to start or, when at an exhibition, you saw these masterpieces of model engineering and felt you could never produce anything like that. Well we are here to encourage you to start building a simple layout that doesn’t have to take up much space.
The first thing that you have to decide what type of railway you want:
One big decision you have to make is the scale – i.e. how many millimetres you are going to have to represent a foot in real life; and gauge (the distance between the rails). For instance the gauge of the all the main railways is 4ft 8½ in and that of the Ffestiniog Railway is 2ft. To help you with this we have models of differing scales and gauges here.
If you are interested in modelling a narrow gauge line you can do no better than in 009. If you are tempted to purchase anything now, the shop at Harbour Station has a fine selection. These can also be found on the webshop.