Canute Road Quay is this Easter Weekend at the York Model Railway Show from Saturday 4th to Monday 6th April at York Racecourse, Racecourse Road, York. YO23 1EX If you are visiting the show please say hello, Canute Road Quay is stand 56 located on the first floor mezzanine.
Category: Exhibitions
Happiness is the road… or… Canute Road Quay hits a lot of road…
2026 will be a record year for Canute Road Quay, travelling many more miles in a single year than ever before, making exhibition appearances literally up and down the United Kingdom. Having already be at the Alton Model Railway Groups Febex show in Hampshire, its next appearance will be at the renown York show this … Continue reading Happiness is the road… or… Canute Road Quay hits a lot of road…
This train is my life, Canute Road Quay on the road again – FebEx 2026 Alton Show 7/8th Feb
Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at the excellent Alton Model Railway Group's Febex 2026 show on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February. The show features a wide range of high quality and inspirational model railway layouts, in a wide range of familiar scales and gauges: N, 3mm , H0, 00, … Continue reading This train is my life, Canute Road Quay on the road again – FebEx 2026 Alton Show 7/8th Feb
The quay to Bexhill… Canute Road Quay is visiting the South Coast this Saturday
Bexhill is a seaside town on the South Coast, in the heart of Southern Railway territory, but has neither a quay, wharf or harbour, until this Saturday 9th August when Canute Road Quay is appearing at the Bexhill Model Railway Club Model Railway exhibition. The exhibition is being held at St Richard’s Catholic College, Ashdown … Continue reading The quay to Bexhill… Canute Road Quay is visiting the South Coast this Saturday
Happiness is the road, two shows with Canute Road Quay in two weeks…
Canute Road Quay is on the road again and appearing at two exhibitions the next two consecutive weekends. As part of this year’s Railway 200 celebrations, Alstom’s historic Derby Litchurch Lane Works is ho0sting the largest temporary gathering of trains and rail-related exhibits in a generation – The Greatest Gathering – between Friday 1st and Sunday … Continue reading Happiness is the road, two shows with Canute Road Quay in two weeks…
Opportunity to own an 00 gauge 4-Vep EMU 3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’, and support its preservation.
As I reported here Kernow Model Rail Centre have, along with Gaugemaster, The Winchester Railway Modellers and exceptional EMU Modeller Dan Havlik united to help raise funds for the ongoing preservation and operation of Southern Electric Traction Group (SETG) heritage 4-Vep EMU 3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’, the only preserved and mainline-registered Electric Multiple Unit in the UK, by producing unique 00 gauge models … Continue reading Opportunity to own an 00 gauge 4-Vep EMU 3417 ‘Gordon Pettitt’, and support its preservation.
Canute Road Quay to appear at Alstom’s The Greatest Gathering as part of Railway 200 celebrations
The Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) opened on September 27, 1825, connecting places, people, communities and ideas, and ultimately transforming the world. Railway 200 is a year-long nationwide campaign an wide range of events to celebrate 200 years, based whether you agree or or not, on the opening of S&DR being the birth of the … Continue reading Canute Road Quay to appear at Alstom’s The Greatest Gathering as part of Railway 200 celebrations
Canute Road Quay steps in – High Wycombe MRX25 Spring – Saturday 12th April
Canute Road Quay is stepping in to appear at the High Wycombe and District MRS MRX25 Spring exhibition on Saturday 12th April. This show is very local to me being organised by my own Model Rail Society. Wycombe MRX25 Spring is the first of two friendly model railway exhibitions organised by the High Wycombe and … Continue reading Canute Road Quay steps in – High Wycombe MRX25 Spring – Saturday 12th April
Picture of the Month – March 2025
This Month's Picture... Drummond M7 Class 0-4-4 tank No. 30676 simmerts in the coal road at Fisherton Sarum, she was outshopped from Eastleigh works December 1947 in SR lined malachite and was soon after lettered 'British Railways' in Gills Sans style. Salisbury shed resident Maunsell Z Class 0-8-0 tank No. 957 tanks a break from … Continue reading Picture of the Month – March 2025
Canute Road Quay at the end of the Metropolitan Line in the Chiltern Hills – Chesham MRC Exhibition
The first exhibition appearance for Canute Road Quay in 2025 is next Sunday 2nd March at the Chesham Model Railway Club exhibition at the White Hill Centre , Chesham, Bucks, HP5 1AG. The White Hill Centre is conveniently close to the delightful Chesham Station at the end of the Metropolitan Line, which is well worth … Continue reading Canute Road Quay at the end of the Metropolitan Line in the Chiltern Hills – Chesham MRC Exhibition