Modern Image O gauge Exhibition 2024

Where is the exhibition?

Our exhibition is located at the Crewe Heritage Centre, in Crewe. With direct links by Rail & Road. To facilitate people arriving by Rail we will be running a free shuttle bus from the Railway Station. (Please note we will post more details of this in due course)

The address is;

​Crewe Heritage Centre
Vernon Way
Cheshire 
CW12DB

Postcode for Sat-navs is CW1 2DB

Please note that there will be no parking on-site.

We offer a number of spaces on a first come, first served basis for those who have a Blue Badge identifying a mobility issue. Our disabled parking is located at the main entrance to the museum next to our Booking Office, spaces can fill up fast so we recommend getting to the Heritage Centre early.

For normal parking Pay & Display parking is available less than 100 metres away on Oak Street. Alternatively their is free parking on Tesco's carpark for 3 hours. How-ever we recommend if possible for people to use our free Shuttle Bus from the Railway station.

This map shows the exact location of the show;

Opening Times

Saturday 23rd March 2023 10:00 until 16:30
Sunday 24th March 2023 10:00 until 15:30

Admission Prices

Adults - £10
Children 0-15 - Free with accompanying adult 
£5 Charge for any child un-accompanied by an adult

Heritage Centre Attractions

As part of your ticket price you will gain entry into the Crewe Heritage Centre site and all of its attractions.

​For more information on the Heritage Centre please click the totem below;

Free Shuttle Bus Service from Crewe Station

Please see the timetable for this years Shuttle bus from Crewe Railway Station to the Heritage Centre. Please note that our bus will depart from Stop A outside the front of the Station. And will have 'MIOG Shuttle Bus' Displayed on the destination blinds.

Locomotive Services Ltd

Pictured was last years guest - 47712 'Lady Dianna Spencer' at the head of our loco cavalcade waiting to depart the Heritage Centre. 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' & 88001 were also present for our event courtesy of Direct Rail Services.

Locomotive Services Ltd are intending to provide us with a locomotive, but this will be subject to confirmation and availability and for this we thank them. So why not use our full size exhibits as some modelling inspiration? 

Traders 

Please note a confirmed traders list will be added 1/2 weeks before the exhibition. Please check back regularly for updates.

- Buzz Models
- Coastal DCC
- Connoisseur Models
- Greenwood Model Railway Supplies
- GM Transport Books
- Intentio
- Made in Manchester 
- Northumbrian Painting Services
- Peter Clark Models
- Primo Trees
- PRMRP + Dave Lowery Demonstrating
- Realism Redefined *New trader for 2024*
- SBT Developments
- Skytrex
- Squires *New trader for 2024*
- TTC Diecast 
- Trainsporters *New trader for 2024*




Please note that all traders are subject to availability & change.

Manufacturers 


​- Ellis Clark Trains
- Footplate Models *New trader for 2024*
- Heljan
- Peco

Societies 

​- Telford Steam Railway
- Avocet Travel 
- Locomotive Services Limited


Layouts

Photo credit to all used photos, they are not the property of MIOG

Netherwood Sidings

This layout represents the Woodhead line in its final years. The layout is based on a set of exchange sidings near Sheffield. The track plan is freelance but based on features taken from Rotherwood and Wath. The bridges, in particular, are based on the real ones in the Rotherwood-Orgreaves area. The layout has taken around ten years to build.

Norman Colliery

The premise is that the colliery is at the end of its life, in the 1970s/1980s, with the lower screens closed down and only the top screens in use. The only problem is that the feeder road to the upper screens has been closed by subsidence, so a link line has had to be made to the lower line. The engines are all kit-built, from various manufacturers, except one 03 from Brassworks. The wagons are all kits, mainly Parkside Dundas with a couple of Slaters and Piercy.

Hillport Goods

The layout is set in North Staffordshire in the period of the late 70s and represents a small urban yard of the type that was soon to disappear. The yard handles mainly commodities and sundries traffic in vans and open wagons which are bought in on trip workings.
Also to be seen is domestic coal traffic along with tanks of heating oil to the Knype fuels siding. Traffic to Midland steel and Albion cement terminal also come into the yard to run round or drop wagons off to be shunted out.

Glasshouse Loan

Glasshouse Loan depicts a simple setting with two sidings and a run round loop which serve the adjacent brewery and bonded warehouse as well as handling some military trip traffic from Bandeath on its way to Alloa yard. Set during the early to Mid 80's

Love Lane

Love Lane Stabling Point based in the Western Region, home to a variety of traction showing the everchanging scene of the western region during the 70's/80's

Ballan Road

Ballan Road is set in a fictitious village on the Cumbrian coast line during the late 1950s. The nearby station has remained open to allow workers to reach the local chemical works, which also provides some freight traffic. The engine shed is still operational to provide shunters for the works. Some modernisation has appeared in the form of diesel traction but, otherwise, it is a scene unchanged in many years.
It’s the sort of place that would disappear within a few years as traffic dwindled and the ‘Beeching axe’ took effect.

Lowery Lane WRD

A brand new layout that is being built purposely for our MIOG show, set in the current day, this layout shows what can be done with O Gauge to model the current Rail scene. Why not pop along to our show and see what the finished product looks like?

New Croft 

Set in the transition years of the mid 1990s, Newcroft is a large town in the heart of North West England. Whilst second generation DMUs are starting to dominate the scene, a variety of classic traction can be seen on both local passenger and freight duties. All models are sound fitted and customised to their mid 1990s guises.

Wheal Demelza

Images and Description coming soon...
Please check back as we add more layouts to our list...
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