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Thanks to Richard for capturing more of the flavour of expoEM Summer yesterday - we’re open again today from 10 - 4 with free parking - at Kettlethorpe High School. Come and enjoy some great modelling #expoEM youtu.be/GFMMv_Ydxpw
expoEM Summer 2025
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August 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A busy first morning at expoEM summer - the layouts are even better in real life. We’re open to 5 this afternoon, and again from 10-4 tomorrow. If you want a bit of inspiration, or to chat to modellers this is the place to come 📍WF2 7EL 🎟️ £11 on the door, £9 for members #expoEM
August 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A busy first morning at expoEM summer - the layouts are even better in real life. We’re open to 5 this afternoon, and again from 10-4 tomorrow. If you want a bit of inspiration, or to chat to modellers this is the place to come 📍WF2 7EL 🎟️ £11 on the door, £9 for members #expoEM
August 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Wantage Tramway” in P4 in the early 1920s on market day with full freight and passenger service. It’s at expoEM Summer this weekend just off the M1 near Wakefield along with other layouts, demonstrations and trade stands.

Doors 10.30 Sat, 10 Sun

£11 weekend ticket #expoEM
August 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
expoEM Summer is this weekend with “Swan Street Goods” set in N Liverpool in the final decade of the 20th century. The track plan and idea was adapted from a design by Iain Rice and was featured in British Railway Modelling in Nov 1997. Follow link in bio for full details of the event #expoEM
August 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
With less than a week to go, our layout preview continues with ‘Steeple Bumpleigh', a small essay depicting a station + yard in the WR of BR sometime in the 1960s. A small cement facility provides extra traffic. Come and see it and 10 other lovely layouts on 30/31 Aug just south of Wakefield #expoEM
August 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Orfe Quay” is well worth a look - a harbour wall and water, but avoiding cliches: fishing boats, nets, lobster pots, sou’westers and so on; also no short sidings, instead relying on view blockers and ‘endless' sidings to look as if it is part of something bigger.
#expoEM 📆 30/1 Aug 📍WF2 7EL
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
expoEM Summer is less than a week away - and our layout preview continues with Merthyr (Riverside) a post-grouping layout set in the valleys of South Wales. If it's not raining yet, it soon will be by the look of that sky. Appearing at a 'northern expoEM' for the first time #expoEM 30/1 Aug WF2 7EL
August 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hartley Bank Screens by John Burgess is based on the empties yard of a small West Yorkshire colliery and is set in the late 1960s. It is built to 4mm scale, EM gauge and is DCC operated - and you can see it at the expoEM Summer 25 on 30/31 August📍WF2 7EL 🎟️ £11 on the door #expoEM.
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our layout previews for expoEM Summer continue with “Halifax King Cross”, based on the Halifax High Level Railway which was a short branch line opened in 1890 to carry coal and goods traffic to the higher regions of the town. 🗓️ 30/1 Aug 📍WF2 7EL 🎟️ £11 on the door #expoEM
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Layout Premier 1 at expoEM Summer 25 is 'Chop Gate', a NER through station in the North York Moors, by Paul & Nicola Gallon. Come and see it in the flesh - 10.30-5 Sat 30th and 10-4 Sun 31st - just south of Wakefield. ℹ️ emgs.org/mc-events/ex... #expoEM
August 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Minories is one of the 11 layouts you can see at expoEM Summer on 30/1 August in Wakefield - alongside demonstrations and 13 trade stands - showcasing some of the best in 4mm scale modelling. ℹ️ emgs.org/mc-events/ex... 📍WF2 7EL #expoEM
August 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨 less than a fortnight to go until expoEM Summer 2025 - back in Wakefield on 30/31 Aug. See you there…?
August 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Couple of EM Gauge layouts to see at the Salisbury and South Wilts Railway Soc exhibition this weekend at Thruxton - “Chiltern” and “Horsebridge Wharf”. Plus plenty of trade including @Bachmann and @westhillwagonworks
May 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thanks to everyone who visited expoEM Spring this weekend, and of course those who ensured it happened. Some pics of the layouts, showing the range of modelling on display.
We’re back same weekend & place in 2026, and if you can’t wait join us in Wakefield last weekend in August for expoEM Summer
May 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Our membership and sales stand is at the EM Gauge Society Expo EM South exhibition in Bracknell this weekend.
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Come along and say hello.
May 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Bracknell Leisure Centre - expoEM Spring is now open.
May 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
A bit of 1980s NE suburbia is in Bracknell this weekend for expoEM Spring - "Roundtrees Sidings" is based on Fawdon on the Tyne & Wear Metro.

Come and see it along with 11 other layouts, and plenty of trade support too. ℹ️ on our website see bio

Opens 10am, weekend tickets £11

#expoEM 📷 S Flint
May 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
expoEM Spring is this weekend - featuring "Tiverton". The prototype layout has been followed as closely as possible and the overall atmosphere of Tiverton station in its heyday comes through.

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🎟️ £11 on the door
🕤 10-5.30 10/5 & 10-4.30 11/5
📍 RG12 9SE

#expoEM
May 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
expoEM is this coming weekend - here’s a preview of what you can see. Full details emgs.org/shows-exhibi...

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#expoEM #EMgauge
Upcoming expoEM Spring Model Railway Show at Bracknell Leisure Centre
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May 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We’re at the Bristol Model Railway Exhibition from today until Sunday with our stand - come and find out more about modelling in 4mm scale and EM gauge at our stand on the upper level (Hall 4) - ℹ️ www.rmweb.co.uk/shows/bristol/
#ThornburyLeisureCentre
May 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
expoEM Spring is approaching fast - 10/11th May at Bracknell Leisure Centre. "Janes Creek" brings a #Medway dockside to life, with a great combination of detail and operation, and it's one of a dozen layouts on show #expoEM #exhibition #EMGauge
April 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our membership stand is once again at the York Model Railway Show this weekend, alongside the layouts "Barrowfleet" & "Minimis" in EM gauge. The show opens today from 10 and runs until Monday at the racecourse - details: yorkshow.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Herefordshire, over a century ago, is the setting of "Hope under Dinmore" beautifully captured in EM gauge. Come and see it in person at Bracknell Leisure Centre for expoEM spring
🎟️ £11 with accompanied U16 free

🕤 10.30-5.30 Sat 10/5, 10-4.30 Sun 11/5

📍 RG12 9SE

#ModelRailways #expoEM
April 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The south coast is heading to Bracknell on 10-11 May - for expoEM spring 2025. "Bright East" is one of a dozen finescale layouts showing inspiration but achievable modelling in 1:76 scale. Plus demonstrations and trade ℹ️ emgs.org/shows-exhibi... #EMGauge #EMGS #Bracknell #modelrailwayexhibtion
April 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM