A Model Railway Exhibition by Alton Model Railway Group
Author: Paul
A & B Models
Pre-owned locos, stock and accessories
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ADORR
Aldershot and District Omnibuses Rescue and Restoration Society
ADORRBusesSociety
Alton Model Centre
Alton’s very own model emporium
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Announcing FebEx 2024
FebEx, returns to its regular venue of Eggars School in Alton on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024.
FebEx2024
Announcing our demonstrators and societies for FebEx 2024
Including the return of Elliott Cowton, Simon Thorn, Gary Faulkner and Roy Hickman
FebEx2024News
Announcing our demonstrators for FebEx 2023
Our final announcement of the exhibitors for FebEx 2023, highlighting the demonstrators that will be at the show.
FebEx2023News
Announcing our final layout, and the groups and society stands for FebEx 2023
Announcing FebEx 2023’s final layout Waalhaven, and some of the societies represented at the show
FebEx2023News
Another 6 exhibitors announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing further layouts and traders for FebEx 2024
FebEx2024News
Another four layouts announced for FebEx 2023
Next four layouts announced including Bärental and Dorf, and Freshwater
FebEx2023News
Another four traders announced for FebEx 2023
More traders announced for FebEx 2023, including Neil Cresswell Model Railways & Toys, and JB’s Model World
FebEx2023News
Another ten exhibitors announced for FebEx 2025
We are pleased to announce further layouts and traders that will be attending FebEx 2025
FebEx2025News
Arcadia Pennsylvania
A fictitious, small industrial railroad freight terminal
1:48/O GaugeAmericanFebEx2023
Arun Quay
A small quayside yard on the River Arun, near Littlehampton in West Sussex in the 1950s
BritishFebEx2024O Gauge
Ashwood End
A layout built with Peco track and Metcalfe buildings within a small space to demonstrate the possibilities of the modelling hobby
FebEx2026N Gauge
Bachmann Collectors Club and additional parking for FebEx 2024
Announcing our final trader and information on significant additional parking for the show
FebEx2024News
Bamfylde
A fictional station set somewhere on the borders of the Midland and Western regions of British Railways
BritishFebEx2025N Gauge
Bärental and Dorf
A view of the Rhätische Bahn metre gauge railway in Switzerland
FebEx2023LayoutSwiss
BEIJIAO
Industrial China in the 21st century
FebEx2024
Best of FebEx
Video highlights of layouts from the last 4 years of FebEx
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Best of FebEx video
Video highlights of recent ‘FebEx’ exhibitions
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Bicsdale
1950s steam in the Forest of Dean
1950sBR(W)FebEx2020OO
Big-Day Halt
Big-Day Halt is part of the T&B Railway Co. est 2016. The Heads of the railway, who are a married couple, wondered “How hard can it be to run your own railway?”
FebEx2026OO
Bigbury-on-Sea
A 4mm 00 gauge layout representing what might have been if the branch to Yealmpton, Devon had been extended to the nearby seaside resort
BritishFebEx2024OO
Blackmoor
The layout is a near scale model of the intermediate station along the Lynton and Barnstaple railway
009BritishFebEx2025
Bramble Lock
An N Gauge layout designed to be as interesting as possible in a small space
FebEx2026N Gauge
Bridport Town
Headquarters of the fictional narrow gauge Marshwood Vale Railway
BritishFebEx2023Narrow GaugeO-16.5
British Transport Police
Promoting safety on Britain’s railways
FebEx2026
Brixcombe
A South Devon terminus of the Great Western Railway
BritishFebEx2023GWRP4
Broken Creek
Broken Creek is at the end of a truncated branch-line in granger country in HO
AmericanFebEx2026HO
Bus service and parking for FebEx 2026
Details of the vintage bus service and additional parking at FebEx 2026
FebEx2026News
Cancellation of FebEx2022
It is with regret that Alton Model Railway Group announce the cancellation of our model railway exhibition ‘FebEx2022’, originally scheduled to take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022.
News
Canute Road Quay
Canute Road Quay is a dock / quayside layout located somewhere around the Canute Road area within Southampton Docks operated primarily by the Southern Railway between 1946 to 1949.
BritishFebEx2026OO
Coastal DCC
Providing friendly advice, services and supplies to cover you DCC needs
FebEx2026Trader
Collingwood
A fictitious layout heavily based on Fareham Station
FebEx2024OO
Commodore Studio
Design and make laser cut scenery items, as well as have a range of second-hand rolling stock
FebEx2026Trader
Copper Wort
Edwardian period brewery. Burton on Trent. Hexagon shape with all round public viewing.
BritishFebEx2025OO
Cyril Kennett
Second Hand clearance
FebEx2026Trader
Drws-y-Nant
Drws y Nant is a passing station on the GWR Ruabon to Barmouth route, situated between Bala and Dolgellau in a wooded valley in Mid-Wales
FebEx2025GWR
Enwins 3D Models
Designers of 3d printed products, from ickle drones to OO scale locomotive bodies
FebEx2026Trader
Express Daisy Sidings
Found at the end of a siding, off the main line and quite hidden away we find a small hive of activity as the Express Dairy creamery goes about its business of processing milk
BritishFebEx2026Inglenook
Fairden
Small Great Western Branch terminus set within the 1950/60s with china clay traffic
BritishFebEx2026
Fareford Depot
A OO gauge traction depot
BritishFebEx2026OO
Fareport Diesel Depot
A medium sized O gauge layout to display and run O gauge diesels with DCC fitted sound.
DieselsFebEx2026O Gauge
FebEx website goes live
FebEx online model railway exhibition website goes live
News
FebEx2023 is coming
First four layouts announced for FebEx2023: Old Elms Road, Wickwar, Seven Ash, and Gideon Postlethwaite & Sons
FebEx2023News
Fence Houses NCB
Fence Houses is a busy National Coal Board (NCB) shed in the coalfield area of the Industrial North East to the south west of Sunderland.
BritishFebEx2026
Final Exhibitors Announced for FebEx 2025, and Updates
Final exhibitors announced, including our demonstrators and additional traders
FebEx2025News
Final roster confirmed for FebEx 2026
Announcing the final line-up for FebEx 2026, arriving at Eggars School, Alton on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February
FebEx2026News
Final traders announced for FebEx 2023
For our final ‘Trader Tuesday’, we are announcing seven further trade stands for FebEx 2023
FebEx2023News
First 10 exhibitors announced for FebEx 2025
We are pleased to announce the first four layouts and the first six traders that will attending FebEx 2025
FebEx2025News
First exhibitors announced for FebEx2026
We are please to announce the first exhibitors for FebEx 2026
FebEx2026News
First traders announced for FebEx 2023
First 4 traders announced for FebEx 2023, including Frome Model Centre and Greenwood & Pring
FebEx2023
First traders announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing our first four traders, Coastal DCC, Invicta Model Rail, Railroad Trading and Squires Tools
FebEx2024News
First two layouts announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing our first two layouts attending FebEx 2024
FebEx2024News
Folly Lane
Folly Lane is based somewhere in the Southern Region – Wessex, Sussex or Kent but loosely based upon Halsmere
FebEx2024OO
Four further traders announced for FebEx 2023
Our third ‘Trader Tuesday’ for FebEx 2023, announcing ‘DIngo Servo Mounts’, ‘P&G Engineering Supplies’ and more
FebEx2023News
Four more layouts announced for FebEx 2023
Further four layouts announced, including Hembourne and SHWT
FebEx2023News
Four more layouts announced for FebEx 2023
Another 4 layouts announced for FebEx 2023, including ‘Mannin Middle’ and ‘Brixcombe’
FebEx2023News
Freshwater
Based on the western terminus of the Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway on the Isle of Wight
BritishFebEx2023Isle of Wight
Further exhibitors announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing 2 further layouts, and four more traders for FebEx 2024
FebEx2024News
Further ten exhibitors announced for FebEx 2025
We are pleased to announce further layouts and traders that will be attending FebEx 2025
FebEx2025News
Garreg Wen
Snowdonia in the Victorian period, in 009
FebEx2024OO9
Gauge 3 Class 121 Bubblecar
Group member Mark Pretious builds a resin Bubblecar in Gauge 3
Gauge 3
Gideon Postlethwaite & Sons
A 15″ narrow gauge layout with an industrial setting
BritishFebEx2023Narrow GaugeO9
Harlyn Pier
The O Gauge 2018 Best in Layout Show winner
1960sBritishFebEx2018O
Harton Gill
The P4 winner of ‘Best Layout in Show’ 2015
FebEx2015P4
Hembourne
Great Western Railway in Herefordshire in EM
BritishEMGWR
Hinksey Yard
An N Gauge model of real place, Hinksey Yard, which is just south of Oxford, set in 2010
BritishFebEx2026N Gauge
Hoath Hill
Hoath Hill is loosely based on a gypsum mine near Mountfield in East Sussex, built to 3mm finescale standards
3mmBritishFebEx2025
Horsebridge Wharf
Horsebridge Wharf is a fictitious location at the end of a branch line from Plymouth to Callington
BritishEMFebEx2024
Hungerford
An EM model set around 1928-35 and is a representation of Hungerford station on the Great Western Railway main line to the west of Reading
BritishEMFebEx2026
Introducing Pine Bluffs
Enter the world of the
Pine Bluffs & Ceda Falls Railroad
AmericanLayoutPine Bluffs
Invicta Model Rail
One of Kent’s premier model railway shops, catering for everyone from novice to professional
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Joe Lock Model Railways
Pre-used railway locos and stock
Trader
K Street Yard
A Milwaukee Road HO switching layout set between the late fifties to early seventies
AmericanFebEx2025HO
Kaninchenbau
Set in the Bavarian/Swiss/Austrian Alps
ContinentalFebEx2023
Kinlochlaggen
N Gauge layout set in an imaginary location somewhere in Scotland, as featured in Model Rail Magazine August 2021.
BritishFebEx2024N Gauge
Kleine Albula
Kleine Albula is a representation of a fictitious passing loop station in South-Eastern Switzerland
FebEx2025HOmSwiss
Last minute change to FebEx 2024
We regret to announce that the layout ‘Underpass’ is no longer unable to attend this year’s show due to ill health
FebEx2024News
Launceston
A recreation of the real life narrow gauge railway
BritishFebEx2023OO9
Leicester (Belgrave Road)
The OO gauge ‘Best Layout in Show’ winner 2020
BritishFebEx2020OO
Lockdown Sidings
4mm OO gauge micro-layout. Small goods yard in rural Kent, set in the 1950s.
BritishFebEx2025OO
Lower Exbury
Inspired by the real Exbury village area in the New Forest in Hampshire and its military importance to D-Day preparations, ‘Lower Exbury’ was created in 2009 by Jo Palmer as a Scalefour challenge layout for the 2011 ‘Railwells’ exhibition.
BritishFebEx2025P4
Lulworth Castle
A small branch line terminus connecting with the LSWR/SR at Norden on the Swanage branch
FebEx2026OO
Mannin Middle
A ‘what if’ Isle of Man layout
FebEx2023Isle of Man
Meldon West
An N-Gauge trip into the blue diesel era
BritishFebEx2024
MERG – Model Electronic Railway Group
MERG South Hampshire Group Cbus demonstration unit and pocket money projects demonstration unit.
FebEx2026Society
Model Railway Bits
Scenics, model kits, paint, glues, brushes, track ballast, printed and cast resin accessories
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More layouts and traders announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing further layouts and traders for FebEx 2024, including Garrag Wen, Folly Lane, Model Railway Bits and Buggleskelly Station
FebEx2024News
Much Murkle
Much Murkle was exhibited at FebEx2020
FebEx2020GWR
My Life on the Buses
Ray Le Mesurier-Foster from ADORR recalls his times as a bus driver
ADORRBiography
Neil Cresswell Model Railways & Toys
New and second-hand railway models
Trader
New Wagon for 2021 from MHWG
The Mid-Hants Wagon Group have released a new limited edition wagon
News
Next 6 exhibitors announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing further layouts and traders for FebEx 2024, including Collingwood
FebEx2024News
Next four traders announced for FebEx 2023
Second ‘Trader Tuesday’ announcement, adding another four traders to #FebEx2023 including The Wagon Yard, and Squires Tools
FebEx2023News
Nine further exhibitors announced for FebEx 2025
We are pleased to announce further layouts and traders that will be attending FebEx 2025
FebEx2025News
Old Elms Road
A OO Western Region secondary mainline
FebEx2023OOWestern Region
Organised Octopus
Pre-Printed Buildings for 4mm Scale railway layouts.
FebEx2026Trader
Part 1 Decline & Rebirth
Steve Cook on the restoration of a long forgotten line
Garden Railway
Part 1: Tools of the Trade
Elliott takes readers through the essential tools for weathering
Weathering
Part 2 Revival Phases 4 & 5
Track laying and ballasting begin in earnest
Garden Railway
Part 2: Applying Washes
Highlighting the groves between planks and the gaps around doors
Weathering
Part 3 Onwards & Outwards
Preparing the motive power
Garden Railway
Part 3: Airbrushing
Continuing the process with an airbrush
AirbrushingWeathering
Part 4 Bridge and Wye Track
The Wye track and SCRR Forks Creek bridge (Phase 6 et al.)
Garden Railway
Part 4: Pigments and Powders
Using a Filbert brush and weathering powders, aka pigments
PowdersWeathering
Part 5: Conclusions
Looking after your newly weathered model
Weathering
Part 6: Elliott Cowton
More about the author of ‘The Art of Weathering’
Biography
Pine Bluffs Freight Yard
An element of the Group’s HO American layout
AmericanHOPine Bluffs
Pontesbury Sidings
A model of an unusual British prototype in 4mm narrow gauge
BritishNarrow Gauge
Railroad Trading
Books, periodicals, timetables and more
BooksTrader
Redbridge Wharf
Redbridge Wharf depicts a layout based on the area of Redbridge, Hampshire
BritishFebEx2025OOFS
Richard’s Spares
Railway parts
FebEx2026Trader
Roger Jones
Wide range of second-hand locos, stock and railway items
Trader
Rolvenden
A Colonel Stephens’ light railway, modelled in P4
Colonel StephensFebEx2025P4
Ron Neal
Ron will be demonstrating the art of building whitemetal and brass OO locomotives.
DemonstratorFebEx2026
Ropley
Ropley is based on the preserved railway ‘The Watercress Line’, modelled in 2010 to 2012 time era
BritishFebEx2023Preserved
Roxley Models
Model railway supplies
FebEx2026Trader
San Maria Gandia
A fictitious Spanish narrow gauge line, and winner of the 2017 ‘Best Layout in Show’ award
1960sFebEx2017HO/HOeSpain
Santa Maria (RhB)
An HOm/12mm model showing the RhB station serving the settlement of Santa Maria
FebEx2026HOmSwiss
Shwt
A small station stop and goods yard in EM
1960sBritishEM
Simon Thorn
Simon will be demonstrating etched kit soldering techniques, discussing the pros and cons of different solders and fluxes, soldering irons, resistance soldering units and soldering torches, plus bending and forming of brass and nickel-silver
Demonstrator
Six further exhibitors announced for FebEx 2024
Announcing further layouts and traders for FebEx 2024, including Horsebridge Wharf and Underpass
FebEx2024News
Southern Electric Group
The Southern Electric Group is the only group covering all aspects of the Southern Electric System past, present and future.
Society
Squires Tools
Suppliers of Model and Craft Tools
FebEx2026Trader
St. Mary’s
A notional extension of the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway to the town of St. Mary’s, located close to the real life town of Meifod in Montgomeryshire.
BritishFebEx2024Narrow Gauge
Stedham Mill
A ‘what could have been’ of a planned extension to the Chichester to Midhurst railway line to connect with the LSWR at Haslemere
3mmBritishFebEx2026
Sundown Lane
Sundown Lane is a fictitious layout modelled in EM, depicting a Southern Region based cross London line, set in the late 1960s early 1970s before the decline of freight on the line.
BritishEMFebEx2025
Tan-y-Bwlch
A “Bygones Weekend” at Tan-y-Bwlch Station, Ffestiniog Railway in 009.
BritishFebEx2026Narrow GaugeOO9
The Children’s Layout
Getting children in to the hobby
Layout building
The EM Gauge Society
The EM Gauge Society is a UK based international society created to promote and cater for railway modellers working to a scale of 4mm/ft with a track gauge of 18.2mm.
FebEx2026Society
The LSWR fleet
Mark Pretious on completing his Grandfather Peter’s loco kits
LocomotivesLSWRSR
The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust
Society
The Story of Whitedown MPD
A layout 30+ years in the making
Layout building
Titherleigh
A typical Southern Railway branch terminus somewhere in Devon
FebEx2023OOSouthern Region
Tony’s Forest
A narrow-gauge railway built to move timber in a forest
BritishFebEx2026Narrow GaugeO-14
Trader changes for FebEx 2023
Changes to the FebEx 2023 line-up, with new trader ‘Invicta Model Rail’ added, and ‘Masterpiece Figures’ and ‘Greenwood & Pring’ dropping out
FebEx2023News
Trinity Dock Street Bridge
A layout, based on the lines around the town docks area of Hull
1930sFebEx2024
Vale of Oxbury
An N-gauge BR Western Region layout set in the 1960’s
BritishFebEx2018N
Waalhaven
“Waalhaven” depicts a Strukton Rail depot based in the Rotterdam Europort
DutchFebEx2023HO
Wantage Narrow Gauge Tramway
A 009 ‘what if…’
FebEx2024OO9
Watercress Line
The N Gauge ‘Best Layout in Show’ winner from 2016
FebEx2016N Gauge
Watercress Line Wagon Group
The Watercress Line Wagon Group sales stand support the restoration and maintenance of the freight train which operates on most gala days and on certain other days
Society
What’s on my worktable
AMRG friend David Cole on building a Rotary Snow Plough
AmericanOn30Scratch building
Wheels of Southsea
New and second-hand model railway items
Trader
Why join a model railway club
Member Paul Gembidge describes his first layout
Layout building
Wickwar
West country 1950s in N, winner of Best in Show 2023
1950sBritishFebEx2023N Gauge
Wickwar wins best in show 2023
Wickwar wins Best in Show 2023
FebEx2023
Wiveliscombe
Wiveliscombe is a stunning representation of the station of that name on the Devon and Somerset Railway
BritishFebEx2026OO
Wood Street
Wood Street is a minimum space Industrial Layout inspired by typical urban shunting yards that could be found in many towns and cities in England
BritishFebEx2025O Gauge
Woodbury Wharf
A OO9 canal side warehouse somewhere in England in the 1960’s
BritishFebEx2025OO9
Wykeham Junction
An ‘N’ gauge exhibition layout based in Winchester, Hampshire
BritishFebEx2025N Gauge
Zeedijk
An HO layout based on Netherlands 1990 to the present, featuring Dutch double track mainline south of Utrecht. Winner of the 2024 ‘Best Layout in Show’ award, judged by Bachmann.
