Axminster Model Railway Exhibition
Sunday 27 July 2025: 10am - 3pm
A real feast of fun for all ages spread across Axminster Station. It may also be an opportunity to get your kids started on a rewarding new hobby that gives them a life-long interest. Last year’s inaugural exhibition proved very popular but this year’s will have even more going on.
Brought to you in a partnership between For the Love of a Railway and two businesses that operate on the station - the Railway Kitchen and the Ale Way.
Free entry - donations very welcome.
What’s planned?
- At least ten live model railway layouts
- Superb static boat, aircraft and other models
- Model making display
- Railway memorabilia
- Drive-the-line simulator
- Exhibition of one driver’s photos from the local line
- Classic cakes and sweets
- Light refreshments and ales
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE SOME LAYOUTS
For the Love of a Railway
Axminster’s Railway: The Station as it was in around 1960 plus some familiar town centre buildings
Craig Harwood
Jenton Quarry: Innovative quarry layout designed to fit into a metal cargo trunk.
Les Sanger
G-Gauge locos: Large scale continental locomotives displayed in static form
Harold Peach
Country Railway: A countryside scene with grazing farm animals and buildings, houses, pond and road crossing
Uplyme Model Dockyard
Wartime Boats: A selection of great British boats that helped to win the Second World War
Seaton Scale Modellers
VE Day Heroes: A wide selection of WW2 vehicles and aircraft celebrating VE-Day80
For the Love of a Railway
Stenson: A compact N-gauge layout with locos working at two levels. Kindly loaned to us by PECO
David Vanstone
Shobrooke Road: A fictitious preserved station on the what might have been the branch line between Crediton and Thorverton
David Vanstone
Shobrooke Road: A close-up look at a brilliant layout