Milton Keynes model railway society announces varied 2026 exhibition lineup

Milton Keynes Model Railway Society turned its 6 June 2026 exhibition into a proper day out, not a modest club hall meet. Moving to Walton High Brooklands Campus gave the show room for 29 layouts, 18 trade stands, demonstrations, preservation societies and local railway-group displays across a 10:00am to 4:30pm opening window.

The venue was Walton High Brooklands Campus, Fen Street, Milton Keynes, MK10 7HE, with free parking, refreshments and disabled access listed for visitors. Adult admission was £8, under-16s went in for £2 and under-5s were free. The society also warned that layouts and traders were subject to change, which is standard exhibition reality but still worth bearing in mind before setting out.

What made this line-up stronger than a routine one-day club exhibition was the spread across scales and operating styles. The confirmed layout list reached from N and OO through P4, HOm, OO9, SM32, O, HO and 009 micro layouts, so the show had something for finescale pointwork, narrow gauge and more conventional main line modelling in one place. Among the named layouts were Castleton Junction, Church Hill Road, Daisy Lane TMD, Dentdale, Elcot Road, Furka Oberalp, Gracetown Bank, Harefield West, Hedges Hill Cutting, Hobbs Warren, Klein Schmalitz, Loch Syd, Lydd On Sea, Mynydd Y Ddraig, Parrot Hall, Phoenix Road, Rugby Central, Santa Barbara, Scarborough North Bay, Southgate Park, St Genny’s, Stodden Hundred Light Railway, Tanners Hill, Tellindalloch, Tetbury, Tombridge Junction, Warmsley, Wharf End, Whinnit Halt and Whitehall.

The trade end of the show was just as busy, with AGR Model Railway Store, Buggleskelly Station, Checkrail, Cheltenham Model Centre, DCC Model Railway Signalling, Elaine’s Trains, Ian’s Trains, Keith’s Model Trains, Mawson Models, Old Time Workshop, P T Models, S-Kits, Saddletank Books, Thunderbolt Models, Trainsporters and Transport Treasury Publishing all listed. One trade listing said the 2026 event would also mark the 40th anniversary of Network SouthEast, which fitted neatly with the mix of BR blue-and-red nostalgia and modern exhibition buying.

That scale mattered for Milton Keynes Model Railway Society, which said it has operated since 1969 and has regularly drawn big crowds to its annual show. The society reported more than 2,750 visitors in 2018, 2,860 in 2015 and more than 2,600 in 2016, and a vintage Routemaster bus once ran between Milton Keynes Central station and the exhibition to help handle demand. After the move to a larger Brooklands site, the 2026 show looked built for the same purpose: lots of layouts, plenty of traders and enough room to make a long Saturday feel worthwhile.