2025
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Simon Hall — Strawberry Line – Exhibiting at The 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show
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Simon Hall — author of 5 children’s books set on heritage railways, will be exhibiting his Strawberry Line books and providing a treasure-hunt map and activities for families. Look out for his pet giraffe Boo on the day. Event…
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GRES Wagon celebrates 50 years of model railway exhibitions
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The Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts Society (GRES) celebrates its 55th birthday in 2025, having started in 1970. While the Society has held model railway exhibitions in and around Gravesend from that time, there have been a few gaps, the last being…
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Club Talk – Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 – Christmas Meal (venue tbc – not Emmanuel Church)
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Club Talk – Tuesday 2 Dec 2025 – Christmas Meal (venue tbc – not Emmanuel Church) Regular meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday and the second to last Thursday of each month. Meetings start at 7.45pm at:…
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Club Talk – Thursday 20 Nov 2025 – Fastrack – Isobel Hedley-Jones
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Isobel Hedley-Jones will be visiting to tell us about Go-Ahead’s operation of Fastrack as well as the new Kent Country brand. So, join us at our usual venue of the Emmanuel Church Hall, 55 Windmill Street, Gravesend (from 7.45pm). Regular meetings…
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Club Talk – Tuesday 4 Nov 2025 – Chatham Traction and GKE68 – Both unique – Gordon Mackley
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Club Talk – Tuesday 4 Nov 2025 – Chatham Traction and GKE68 – Both unique – Gordon Mackley Regular meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday and the second to last Thursday of each month. Meetings start at…
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Simon Kohler to Open the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show
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Simon Kohler to Open the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show The Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts Society (GRES) is proud to present the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show, taking place at Northfleet School for Girls, Hall Road, Northfleet, Kent DA11 8AQ on:…
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Club talk – Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) by Robin Heaps Thursday 23rd October 2025
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Thursday 23rd – Robin Heaps from the Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) will be visiting to tell us about the Society and the many projects that they have ongoing. If you visited Rochester Cathedral during August to see the restored Floatplane, that was the…
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Club talk – Tuesday 7th October 2025 – ‘How the railways changed our lives’ by Henry Harryman
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Tuesday 7th – Henry Harryman will be taking us back two hundred years to consider how the railways changed our lives. This promises to be an interesting evening and I encourage you to join us at our usual venue of the Emmanuel Church Hall, 55…
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Folkestone Model Railway Exhibition Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October 2025
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Organised by Folkestone, Hythe and District Model Railway Club Venue: Leas Cliff Hall, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2DZ Opening Times: 10:00am – 5:00pm both days Prices Adults £8.00 Children £4.00 Family £22.00 Event Website folkestone-mrc.com
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Beckenham and West Wickham Model Railway Show Saturday 18th October 2025
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ONE DAY Beckenham Model Railshow 2025Forest Hill Boys School, Dacres Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 2XN.Saturday 18th October 2025 10am – 4:30pmBIGGER VENUE – Beckenham & West Wickham MRC are proud to announce we moved to bigger venue which will…