The Great East Anglian Cathedral Model Railway Show

Come and help us celebrate Bury St Edmunds Model Railway Clubs 75th Anniversary, with East Anglia’s biggest ever model railway exhibition in the unique setting of Bury St Edmunds Cathedral.

The exhibition is on Saturday 28th September and runs from 10am-4pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance or on the door. Adult tickets are £10 and accompanied children under 14 are free.

With thanks to the Dean and Chapter, we are taking over the whole Cathedral nave and cloister creating the largest exhibition space in the area. So far, we have booked 18 layouts including Purgatory peak an amazing USA logging layout in ON 30 scale, Beijaio Central, an unusual HO layout of industrial China and our own Cobbold’s Wharf, an S7 scale model of Ipswich Docks. 10 traders have been booked to attend including Coastal DCC, Orwell Model Rail and Great Eastern Models, and there will be demonstrations of airbrush weathering by Gary from Model Behaviour and laser cut model kit building by Intentio. A full list of models and traders is below, though this will be subject to change.

In addition, there will be a children’s interactive corner where the young can play with and run 3 different layouts in different scales and an opportunity to help the cathedral by buying bricks to add to the massive Lego model of the Cathedral.

Set in the heart of Bury St Edmunds on Angel Hill the cathedral is easy to find. Car Parking is available in any of the town’s municipal car parks, the closest being on Angel Hill itself (close but pricy and fills up early) or in Ram Meadow (lots of spaces, all day for £3).

LAYOUT EXHIBITS

(as of 1/6/24 subject to modification)

Bastogne Rue De Clervaux HO Belgian Modern image.

Beijiao HO 2001 Believed to be the only Chinese layout exhibiting in UK

Brief Encounter Monochr 4mm/ft Inspired by 1930s film – 32 shades of grey here!

Bury St Edmunds 4mm/ft Bury St Edmunds c 1955 – layout showing construction.

Cobbolds Wharf Scale 7 Ipswich Docks c 1955

Crikey – it’s a shed Tramway 1960- current.

Cratfield 7mm Mid Suffolk Light Railway early 1900s

Dark Lane 7mm London Transport Steam Depot

Little Colne 4MM/FT Late 1950s BR steam / diesel transition period

NCB Coronation Lane Sdgs 4mm/ft Early 60s industrial exchange sidings

Obbekaer 3.5mm FS Danish private railway 1950s

Obervaz NG Swiss Modern image Swiss

Pergatory Peak 16.5mm Narrow gauge SW USA c late 1930s – stunning and different.

Raven Hill O9 NG 1960 insp by N Yorks Moors

St Peters Square 4mm/ft New to display layout modern image

Stoney End NG Mid 30s (maybe!)

The Dunwich Tramway Tramway Local prolific exhibitor with excellent build quality – original

YORK 2mm/ft Probably the very best in class – York station LNER late 30s

INTERACTIVES

Thomas the Tank 4mm/ft Stowmarket Model Railway Club interactive

Thomas the Tank 2mm/ft Bury St Edmunds MRC Interactive

Tomy hands on Freelance Hands-on children’s layout

DEMOS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS

Intentio Laser cutting and high-quality model railway scenics.

Mid Suffolk Lt Rly Offering an understanding of just what MSLR are achieving.

Model Behaviour Demonstrating weathering and other artistic skills.

RCTS The original railway enthusiast’s society

TRADERS

Coastal DCC

Great Eastern Model Railways

Keiths Model Railways

ORWELL Model Railways

Pearman Books

P&D Marsh

Scograil

Squires Tools

Sudbury Model Railways

Host or Publisher St Edmundsbury Cathedral