Nottingham MRS Spring Show Diary Details

Saturday & Sunday 1st & 2nd March 2025

Nottingham Model Railway Society Spring Show 2025. Come by tram: nearest stop Butler's Hill. Featuring - Norman Colliery. Top quality layouts plus trade support. Saturday 1st March 10.00am - 5pm. Sunday 2nd March 10.00am - 4pm. St John's Church Hall, Nottingham Road, Hucknall, NG15 7QN. Admission £6. Accompanied under 16s FREE, www.nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk. www.facebook.com/NottinghamMRS. Major debit cards accepted. MasterCard Visa.

Opening Hours

Saturday 1st March 2025 10:00 – 17:00

Sunday 2nd March 2025 10:00 – 16:00

 

Venue

St John’s Church Hall, Nottingham Road, Hucknall, NG15 7QN

Admission

Adults £6.00. Card payments are available. Major credit and debit cards (MasterCard/Visa) accepted.

Accompanied under-16s FREE.

Venue amenities: refreshments.

Free parking on street. Check here for parking options.

 

Br-style totem: Layouts

Norman Colliery – 7mm scale O Gauge, award-winning layout depicting an NCB Colliery in the 1970s, towards the end of its working life

Britannia Mill – 4mm scale OO Gauge BR-served industrial site in the east of Nottingham in the 1960s

Drabford – 4mm scale OO Gauge 1970s & 1980s BR Blue in the north of England

Dyffryn Hardd – 4mm scale OO9 Gauge showing the great little narrow gauge trains of Wales in the late Victorian period

Northern Industrial Town – 4mm scale OO Gauge 1960s/1970s industrial steam and diesel

Oxthorne – 2mm scale N gauge BR in the 1960s

Sutton Bridge – 7mm scale O Gauge Hornby tin plate with Meccano engineering

Tamaro – 2mm scale N gauge Swiss

Wouldham’s Chalk Pit – 7mm scale 0 Gauge industrial railway with a working excavator

More to be confirmed.

Rob Law/Skog Carriage and Wagon Works – 3D printing – Rob will be demonstrating how he makes O gauge wagons

 

NMRS Club Secondhand Sales – The NMRS club’s secondhand inventory, members’ surplus items, and more, all offered for sale as seen – grab yourself a bargain!

Anoraks Anonymous – Specialists in pre-owned stock, at bargain prices

A2B Model Railways – Model shop based in Matlock, catering to all needs at good value prices

Malc’s Models – Traditional model railway and model shop, one of the leading shops in the East Midlands, based in Ilkeston

Map of Hucknall showing the location of St John's Community Hall

Public transport:

If you are travelling by tram – Nottingham Express Tram (NET) to Butler’s Hill tram stop, then a nine-minute walk

If you are travelling by train – East Midlands Railway to Hucknall, then a fifteen-minute walk [1.57 miles]

If you are travelling by bus – Trent Barton 3A, 3B or 3C to Broomhill Yew Tree (see their journey planner), This OnBus link may help.

If you are travelling by car – Take the M1, leave at Junction 26, take the A610, A6002, and A611, all towards Hucknall, then onto Nottingham Road at the Nottingham Road roundabout. (Check Open Street Map, Google Maps, or Bing Maps for driving directions.)

Check here for the What3words link

A full show guide will be available online shortly before the show. Please note that there will be no printed copies of this show guide. If you’d like to advertise in the Spring show guide, please contact exhibadmin@nottingham-modelrailway.org.uk.