44th Annual Exhibition – Saturday 9th May 2026

 

Nearly 500 visitors with 110 children came to our Exhibition and enjoyed a great selection of model railway scenes ranging from the US outback to Whipsnade Zoo plus a working gravel pit and a dinosaur park. Plenty found exciting models and accessories to buy at our traders’ stands and the Society’s sales and information stands attracted lots of interest.

We are already planning a follow-up in 2027.

There is a fabulous video on YouTube showing all the layouts  – just search for South West Herts MRS online. There is a taster with some stills below. (In preparation)

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Fen End Pit

Loading the wagons.

Tan-y-Coed

Selected as Best In Show by the Committee

Shirebeck in Elmswell

Glenridding Lane

Thomas Town – raised £50 for charity

Whipsnade Central

Jurassic Halt – look out for the dinosaur

Low Tide

Staffordshire Potteries – live smoke!

Fire Creek – in the USA

Sorrento Park – only TT rep – USA scene

South Greenford

Nethernoller

Willowbrook Marsh – O gauge

Selborne

Autumn Exhibition 2025

We had a very successful show with some of the club and member’s layouts at our Autumn Exhibition at St Peter’s Church Hall, Bushey Mill Lane, Watford on Saturday 11th October 2025 

It was so well supported that we plan to hold another Autumn Exhibition in October this year.

On show were: –

  • Silverbury – modern era  ’00’ gauge, straight through format – fully DCC and electronic control of signals and points.
  • Tedburn St Mary – ’00’ gauge 1940’s to 50’s based steam to diesel, very popular manually controlled layout – lots of cameos on the model.
  • Thomas Town – a fun scene from Sodor inviting kids to have a go at running Thomas and his friends (for a small charity donation)
  • Jurassic Halt – prizewinner at the recent SilverFox show.
  • Lincolnsfield (part) – an ‘N’ gauge layout under construction.
  • Our ‘N’ gauge ‘test track’ – a small layout in construction to allow stock to be run in either DC or DCC modes.
  • Two mini N gauge layouts from one of our members.
  • Possets Yard – a mini ’00’ shunting layout from another of our members.
  • Black Ridge Sidings  – a mini ‘N’ gauge layout exhibited by another of our members.