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Mid-West Model Railway Club members Ed O'Leary, John White, and Evan Kelly discuss running orders and train compositions for their layout The Junction which will be unveiled at the Club's exhibition over the weekend of Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st in the Castletroy Park Hotel Mid-West Model Railway Club members Ed O'Leary, John White, and Evan Kelly discuss running orders and train compositions for their layout The Junction which will be unveiled at the Club's exhibition over the weekend of Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st in the Castletroy Park Hotel

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Mid West Model Railway Club hosts first exhibition for June Bank Holiday Weekend

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Mid West Model Railway Club hosts first exhibitionMid-West Model Railway Club members Ed O’Leary, John White, and Evan Kelly discuss running orders and train compositions for their layout The Junction which will be unveiled at the Club’s exhibition over the weekend of Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st in the Castletroy Park Hotel

Prize-winning designers, engineering experts in miniature, and skilled craftspeople will join the Mid West Model Railway Club for their debut exhibition this June Bank Holiday Weekend

At first glance, Earlyton is a deceptively simple design. Its delight lies in the fact that the operators specialise in renditions of the very earliest locomotives and rolling stock- both passenger carriages and cargo wagons.
At first glance, Earlyton is a deceptively simple design. Its delight lies in the fact that the operators specialise in renditions of the very earliest locomotives and rolling stock- both passenger carriages and cargo wagons.

There’s a lot of nostalgia, reminiscence, and generational wistfulness in the line “Santa will bring them what they want, the train set is from me”- and the Mid-West Model Railway Club is on track to bring a taste of such memories to life with its First Annual Model Railway and Hobbies Exhibition over the June Bank Holiday weekend. The venue being the Castletroy Park Hotel in Limerick City.

Prize-winning designers, engineering experts in miniature, skilled craftspeople, and artistic wizards, will be bringing their layouts and displays to Limerick from all over the island of Ireland for the June Bank Holiday Weekend. Rathmichael, which depicts a rural halt in the south-east, is one creation that has been viewed at shows in England and further afield.

Earlyton specialises in running rolling stock from the earliest years of railway history in Britain.  Other exhibitors will be displaying their layouts showing scenes from Germany and Austria, such as Under the Swan Rock set in the Bavarian mountains. A total of 20 layouts will be on display.


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Limerick, and the region around, is the ideal location for both an active modelling club and a model railway exhibition as it was the subject of the first Act of Parliament to provide for a railway in Ireland- the line being designed to link with Waterford and the south-east.  Club Chairman Evan Kelly says “We are delighted that we are opening our exhibition on the exact 199th anniversary of the signing into law, on May 31, 1826, of the legislation that provided for connection the mid-west with the rest of Ireland through steam power”.

The Mid-West Club will be displaying its own recently constructed layout, named The Junction. However, as Exhibition Manager, Tom Cassidy puts it “Any direct resemblance to a certain railway station on the road to Tipperary town might be seen by some as entirely fortuitous”.

The Exhibition, which also caters for other hobbies, and suppliers of materials and kits, will be open to the public in the Castletroy Park Hotel from 11.00 to 17.00 on both Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1. Tickets are priced at €5 for Adults and €3 for those aged between 5 and 18.

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