The Festival

Llangollen Garden Railway Festival is a great day out for all the family especially with free admission for all accompanied children. It promises to be a real must for all large scale railway enthusiasts!

Our Traders

Meet over 50 of UK’s leading retailers in the Garden Railway hobby with a fantastic selection of outstanding layouts of the larger scale in railway modelling, catering for all tastes, showing railways from different periods and countries. Find everything you will ever need for your first steps into the world of Garden railways. A great opportunity for beginners and seasoned hobbyists alike to meet enthusiasts and share advice and tips.

Featuring…

  • Locomotives running on various gauges, live steam, gas fired, digital operation and analogue operation.
  • Fine scale and heritage exhibits of exceptional quality for the serious modeller, in conjunction with the Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers Ltd,
  • many other great layouts to appeal to all visitors to the show and demonstrations of modelling techniques.

See our full list of traders

Festival Layouts

A selection of outstanding large scale model railway layouts from around the UK, in a wide variety of scales and showing railways from different periods and countries. There’ll be fine scale and heritage exhibits of exceptional quality for the serious modeller, and also layouts to appeal to the wider public and particularly the children.

Also featuring…

  • demonstrations of modelling techniques.
  • larger scale and gauge societies,
  • preservation and heritage societies and railway specialist interest groups

See more about our Festival Layouts.