Immingham 2025 (& now 2026)

[Graeme King]

Apologies for an entry relating to a mere local show, rather than a specialist gauge society event, a finescale event or a "biggy", but it's a friendly and inexpensive event to visit which has consistently featured some good layouts in its short history so far. If it's convenient for you to get there, please give it try:

I thought it only fair to do my bit to publicise a show whose manager has been kind enough to invite my own layout for its baptism of fire. LNER 1930s in Lincolnshire theme. OO gauge, with much of the stock either hand-built or significantly modified by me, rather than just tipped out of a red or blue box.
Four or five of us will be trying not to make a complete mess of operating it convincingly in front of the public...

Fuller details of the show on UKModelshops events pages.

 

[Flaxfield]

I think you'll find that WT is very supportive of the smaller shows. They're often the best to attend and can offer the opportunity to actually see the exhibits, chat to the exhibitors and normally provide good value for money in terms of catering etc.

Rob

 

[Graeme King]

I think you'll find that WT is very supportive of the smaller shows. They're often the best to attend and can offer the opportunity to actually see the exhibits, chat to the exhibitors and normally provide good value for money in terms of catering etc.

Rob

I'm glad to hear that others on here see the value of local shows and support them, or perhaps the good ones at least. I know they are not all of the same calibre.

 

[Mercator II]

I'm going to be one or the four/five hoping not to make a mess of it....thankful for the invite to play

Looking at the list of other exhibitors it looks like a very good show. Some good trade too, hoping to get some time off to go shopping

I try to get to as many of the Lincolnshire shows as I can but never ticked this relatively new show off

Please do stop by and say hello if you do attend

 

[steve1]

It’s a good little show. They have even invited a couple of my layouts in the past.

steve

 

[ColPeake]

I have to say, this is a show that has been consistently good, it’s a 50 mile drive for us but is visited more often than a lot more local shows!

Colin

 

[Graeme King]

One 13' 8" x 9' 6" layout more or less ready to go, in two cars. Good job it's only 8.3 miles down the road.

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[Graeme King]

A very enjoyable and largely snag-free first exhibition with Thelnerby, if almost inevitably rather tiring. Big thanks are due to show manager Steve Richards and his volunteer assistants for inviting me, also to all of those who provided ideas and information before/during the construction of the layout, and not least to friends who helped with the long job to set up the layout, to operate it, to take it down again and to get it out of the hall and back home at the end in the necessary quick time.
A good show in so many ways, well received by the public - by the look of those who visited.

 

[Graeme King]

This year's event 9th & 10th May. Fuller details to follow shortly but for those sharing my own interest in matters LNER, this year's show includes Lincoln MRC's 1930s Five Mile House and Immingham Museum's usual resident Immingham Loco Depot steam era depiction.

 

[Graeme King]

Currently correct 2026 show details:

Civic Centre & Immingham Museum, Pelham Road, Immingham, Lincolnshire DN40 1QF, Free parking. No5 bus from Grimsby station.
Saturday 9th May 10:00 to 17:00, Sunday 10th May 10:00 to 14:00
Entry £7 with accompanied children FREE. Refreshments available. Disabled access to exhibition area, but not museum layouts upstairs.

Vising Layouts;

Bawdsey – East Suffolk branch line set in the 1930’s - EM
Colinton – Caledonian Railway’s Balerno branch in the 1960’s - P4
BSC Orgreave – Orgreave Coking Plant in the 1970’s to 90’s – 00
Helenington – Yorkshire country terminus station in 1960/70’s – 0
Weedram Distillery – based upon typical distilleries in Speyside in 1960’s/1970’s – 0
Millicent Street – Freight only railway in the back streets of Hull in 1967/8 – 0 fine scale
Five Mile house – the Lincoln to Boston line from 1930’s on – 00
Buxthorpe – Terminus station based upon Buxton - N
T’Inglenook – Industrial 1960’s layout combining inglenook shunting puzzle – 00
Lego trains – modern image trains made with specialist lego – LG
Cherry Tree Halt – Greensand narrow gauge railway imagined in 1948 – 009
Red Wharf Bay – Anglesey Central Railway in the 1920’s – N
B.A.Cookes Engineering – small narrow gauge industrial layout – 7mm NG
Seagull Street Station– modern image terminus station – 00
Effingham Street – run down Midland freight yard north of Manchester – 00 + 009
Rymer’s Siding - fictional layout set on the imagined Thirsk & Sowerby Light Railway - 0

Museum Layouts

Immingham Shed - Scale 1950's Shed Scene in OO
Barnetby to Wrawby - Modern Image in N,

Traders

Caistor Loco, Elaine's Trains, CM3 Models, Mike Fish, Historical Railway Maps, Paul King books

Societies

Great Central Railway Society (historical study group, not the Loughborough and Ruddington organisations) , Lincolnshire Wolds railway, Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway

 

[Graeme King]

Not long now...