Barry and Penarth Model Railway Club

Penarth Model Railway Show

The next Penarth Exhibition will take place
on Sunday 17th July 2011,
in the Paget Rooms, Victoria Road, Penarth,
(CF64 3EG).

This exhibition will be part of the 2011 Penarth Summer Festival
with full approval from Penarth Town Council.

  • Opening times from 10.30am until 4.30pm.

  • Admission - Adults: £2.00, Children/OAP: £1.50

    Download your own poster
    for display in your clubrooms or elsewhere.

  • There will be ten layouts from N-gauge to O-gauge, including at least two guest layouts and personal layouts of club members.
    The event will be supported by some traders and plus preservation groups.

    Layouts due to appear:

  • Snake Bend N-gauge american outline modular layout from Worcester 'N' Gaugers. With nearly 40 modules to choose from, this layout looks different each time it is exhibited.

  • Ardingley . A new portable N gauge modern image layout with a small preservation line built by club member John Harding

  • Penthar Bay, an OO gauge layout depicting a sea-side terminus. This layout is run in the 1970's period. Some simplification of the station layout by BR is evident. The old semaphor signals are being dismantled, since two aspect colour lights are in operation.

  • Holm A OO-gauge GWR branchline terminous with a twist. Set in the 1930's, this branch line imagines South Wales and Somerset being joined in the area of Flat Holm and Steep Holm. It was featured in the the February 2011 edition of the Railway Modeller.

  • Porthiain. This O-gauge layout was built by a former club member, who tragically died of cancer at a young age shortly after this single board was completed. The layout has been completely refurbished with new scenics and motorised points. It operates as a shunting puzzle layout and you can test your own skills, re-sorting the six wagons with a little four wheel tank engine or diesel shunter.

  • Fearny Bank, the latest small fun layout from our artist member, David, who will also be present with his paints and paintings.

  • Abbeywood, the O-gauge layout from club member Mike Curtis, which is a small make-believe GWR branch terminus, with plenty of shunting opportunities.

  • Sip & Switch A small american shunting layout, built by former club member Keith, who died last Summer of cancer. It was acquired by another member who has now donated it to the club as another memorial layout.

  • Tawford A new OO-gauge layout from our new member Nick, who has joined us from Plymouth North Road Club.

  • Bogdore Regis A small N-gauge layout exhibited by our friends from the Pontypridd Club.

  • The Quarry Layout This former club layout, now owned by club member Tony, makes a fresh appearance after many years in storage.

  • Thomas and friends Mike and his son Simon are bringing their own portable layout to allow members of the public, especially the children to run Thomas and co.

    Details of the other layouts will be added shortly

    Preservation and other Groups include the the Talyllyn Railway, Cardiff Trolleybus Project and DEMU (Diesel & Electric Modellers United)

    Traders include Amberley Services, Lord & Butler, and Rickocraft

    In addition, club member David Dacey will be selling some of his Dapol limited edition South Wales private owner coal wagons.


    The Club's last biannual exhibition took place on 19th July 2009 in the Paget Rooms, Penarth.

    For further information contact me david@murky.net