News
Autumn Exhibition 2026
Arrangement are well in hand for this year’s Autumn Exhibition at S Peter’s Church Hall in Bushey Mill Lane, Watford, on Saturday 3rd October.
There will be eight or nine club and member layouts on show plus the club sales and information stand. Drinks and cakes will be available too.
Members – please take some flyers from the clubhouse to spread around your neighbourhood. Last year’s show was a great success so we hope there will be plenty of visitors this year too.
Film Night
The Film Night postponed from August has been rearranged for Thursday15th October in the NAAFI hut. The programme will be announced soon – look out for some wintery scenes!
Annual Barbeque 2026
The annual barbeque was very well attended and everybody had a good chance to chat, enjoy the food ably cooked by Peter and Graham and have a lookout for the Night Sleeper from the back of the garden!
Annual Exhibition 2026
The Exhibition on May 9th was a success, with over 450 paying visitors accompanied by over 100 children enjoying the show. Thanks to all who attended and telling us what a good exhibition it was for variety of layouts, plenty of sales stands to capture their interest, and, of course, a well stocked snack bar.
For more information and some pictures of the layouts, refer to the Exhibitions page.
Next years’ Exhibition will take place on Saturday 8th May, again at Queens’ School, Bushey. We are in the process of inviting owners of layouts to exhibit and check that our faithful traders will join us again.
Lincolnsfield Open Days
The remaining Open Days for this year are on Sundays 27th September, 25th October annd29th November . We always hope to have at least two layouts up and running to show to visitors. Enquiries about our layouts and membership of the Society are always welcome.
Volunteers are requested to add their names to the attendance sheet on the club notice board for availability to help operate the layouts and welcome visitors.
Spring exhibition in North Watford
We took part in the Model Railway Exhibition at Christchurch, St Alban’s Road, North Watford on Saturday 23rd May. On show was our long-serving and recently refurbished Dudley Frey (N gauge with automatic signalling), and Jurassic Halt (with ‘live’ dinosaur!)
It was quite successful despite a low attendance – some membership enquiries were followed up and we sold a few of our available locos and rolling stock.
Outside Exhibitions
Where we are going with our layouts is listed on the diary page.
‘Back to Basics’ sessions
These are aimed at beginners who want to broaden their knowledge but as there are a wide range of topics (such is our hobby) many members may like to attend 1 or 2 of the sessions.
The format will be in groups of 3-4 and will include a ‘have a go’ section where attendees can ‘get their hands dirty’. Sessions can be repeated if numbers interested exceed the small group size, so no one will miss out.
Further sessions are pending but we intend to include one on ‘Scratch Building”.
AGM and Committee Meetings
The 2026 AGM was held on Thursday 26th March.
The elected Committee members are as below: –
Chairman and Exhibition Manager: John Davy
Treasurer: Peter Kaser
Secretary: Ken Halse
Exhibition Manager: P Chown
Layout Rep: Laurence Preston
Committee member: Peter Hodge
Committee member: Malcolm Calaby
*as contact to arrange layouts for 2027.
The next Committee meeting is on Wednesday 11th November.
Minutes of the last meeting will be have been sent out and posted on the club notice board shortly.
We continue to wish all our members and their families good health and happy modelling.