**NEW DATES**
Modern Image O gauge Exhibition 2025 

Opening Times

Saturday 25th October 2025 10:00 until 16:00
Sunday 26th October 2025 10:00 until 15:30

Admission Prices -
*All profits made donated to Prostate Cancer UK*

Adults - £10
Children 0-15 - Free with accompanying adult 
£5 Charge for any child un-accompanied by an adult - Please note a minimum age of 12 years old will be permitted entry

Why?​

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​1 in 8 men get prostate cancer. Together, we're supporting our dads, brothers, partners and friends by raising awareness, funding lifechanging research, campaigning for change and providing much needed support.

After loosing MIOG Member Colin Burgess in June 2024 to a short but aggressive fight with Prostate Cancer, we've turned our attention to fundraising for a cause that has suddenly for all the wrong reasons been a cause close to our hearts. We're arranging multiple events over the next 13th months running up to our Exhibition on the 24th/25th October 2025 - This was one of Colin's many passions together (Model Railways & the real railways) We hope to raise a pot of cash which hopefully will mean that other peoples loved ones and families wont have to experience the traumatic journey that we had to endure with Colin. He was a well loved Dad, Husband and man of his family, so help us do him proud and even if you pledge just £5 we'd greatly appreciate it. We've set ourselves an ambitious target of £20,000 but even if we raise just half of that it would be an amazing achievement. To donate to our cause please donate via our Just Giving page - Or by turning up to our event. 
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Click the Logo above to donate now!

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;

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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
- Easy-build **Returning for 2025**
- Ellis Clark Trains **Manufacturer**
- Footplate **Manufacturer**
- Greenwood Model Railway Supplies
- GM Transport Books
- Heljan **Manufacturer**
- Intentio
- Made in Manchester 
- Northumbrian Painting Services
- Peter Clark Models
- Primo Trees
- PRMRP
- SBT Developments
- Skytrex
- Squires  
- Tower Models **New Trader for 2025**

Trader List Updated 11/01/2025

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

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Layouts

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

Barnes Green TMD

A TMD in the main years of BR’s sectorisation era, based in the south of England. Having recently undergone a full refurbishment, this layout is now back on the exhibition circuit and features the best of southern region diesel and electric locomotives.

Era: Late 80s-Early 1990s
Theme: TMD
Power: DC

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Elm Engineering

An outpost of the British Rail research department, ELM engineering showcases a wide variety of kit and scratch built rolling stock during BR’s sectorisation era

Era: 1986-1993
Theme: RTC research / military / wagon repair
Power: DCC

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Hardwick Bridge

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The North West of England was famous for its loco hauled service trains in the 1990s, and these are recreated on Hardwick Bridge. Appearing for the first time on the exhibition circuit this year, the layout combines a busy terminus with an urban freight yard, similar to those seen in Preston and Blackburn, and a variety of traction to suit both levels of layout.

Era: 1995 - 1998
Theme: North West Terminus and freight yard
Power: DCC with sound

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Johannesdorf

Modelled to Oe scale and representing a 760mm gauge, Johannesdorf recreates the once common site of an Austrian Narrow gauge railway, serving a tourist resort at the end of a valley in the 1970s. Occasional steam services still run but modernisation has taken its hold on the fleet. Previously featured in Railway Modeller magazine.

Era: 1970s Austrian Narrow gauge
Power: DCC with sound

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Knype Bridge Parcels Depot

Located to the side of Knype Bridge station, Knype Bridge parcels depot sees a constant level of traffic powered by BR Blue diesels, whilst a regular passenger service and occasional engineers traffic makes an appearance too.

Era: Late 70s early 1980s
Theme: Parcels Depot 
Power: DCC with sound

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Loch Dubh

Recreating the halcyon years of BR blue in the Scottish Highlands, Loch Dubh is a terminus ‘north of the border’ with a steady stream of Sulzer type 2s serving both the passenger station and whisky distillery. Other classic Scottish loco types may well make an appearance too!

Era: Early to late 1970s
Theme: Scottish highland terminus 
Power: DCC with sound

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Napier Road

Napier Road is a fictious layout set in the early 1960s in the North Eastern Region of British Railways.  With the demise of steam, new diesel locos were appearing on the nation's railways. This makes the layout quite distinctive, as we run only 'green diesel era' locos.

​Era: 1960s green diesels
Theme: Diesel depot
Power: DCC with sound

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Win Street Engineers Sidings

A former station on the edge of the privatisation era, Winn Street features a variety of engineers and departmental rolling stock as seen across Britain's railway network throughout the 1990s.

Era: 1990s sectorisation into privatisation
Theme: Engineers Sidings, ex station 
Power: DCC with sound

Please check back as we add more layouts to our list...

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Societies 

Please check back as we add more layouts to our list...

Locomotive Services Ltd

Pictured was last years guests - 20132 / 20118 in Railfreight Grey - waiting to depart the Heritage Centre back to their home depot

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? 

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;