This Month's picture... Adams B4 No.89 'Trouville' in Southampton's Docks lined brown livery shunts towards the quayside at Canute Road Quay past a visiting Adams B4 No.82 in SR Livery arriving with a SR Bogie B Van. Canute Road be seen this month at the Salisbury & South Wilts Railway Society's Railex show on 23rd … Continue reading Picture of the Month – May 2026
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Canute Road Quay at the York Model Railway Exhibition this weekend
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.
Picture of the Month – April 2026
This month's Picture... USA Tank No. 68 crosses the access road to Canute Road Quay. Canute Road Quay will be at the York Model Railway Show - Sat 4th-Monday 6th April 2026 at York Racecourse, Racecourse Road, York. YO23 1EX
Picture of the Month – February 2026
This Month's Picture... Adams B4 No. 96 'Normandy' now in black but still named in SR Sunshine lettering (a re liveried Dapol model) shunts some banana traffic (kit built D1478 wagons) whilst USA tank No. 72 (yet to receive modified cab and coal bunker) on docks shunting duty 4 heads towards the quayside. Canute Road … Continue reading Picture of the Month – February 2026
Happy New Year – Picture of the Month – January 2026
Welcome to 2026 - Happy New Year - This Month's Picture... An industrious start to the New Year as B2 0-6-0t Peckett 'Leader' waits as W4 0-4-0t fellow Peckett passes at Canute Road Quay. . Both models are based on Hornby models.
Picture of the Month – November 2025
This Month's Picture... For this Month's Picture we have moved to the South East with ex SECR motive power being utilised. Due to Canute Road Quay having very few visual references to either period or location it allows me to change the location and era with different rolling stock, vehicles and details. For more details … Continue reading Picture of the Month – November 2025
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
Rapido Trains UK LBSC E1 class 0-6-0T arrives and renumbered
The Rapido Trains UK ‘00’ gauge LBSC E1 0-6-0 tanks were originally announced way back in 2018 as being a commission by Model Rail magazine with Rapido Trains UK. Following the magazine's decision not to proceed the project was finally confirmed as going ahead, by Rapido Trains UK alone, in January 2022 and eventually 14 … Continue reading Rapido Trains UK LBSC E1 class 0-6-0T arrives and renumbered
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…
Picture of the Month – July 2025
This Month's Picture... By July 1969, I was born on the 4th, although the Class 07 diesels have taken over the Southern Region's work, steam is still evident at Canute Road Quay by way of the various industrial users serving their docks and wharfs alongside the River Itchen.